The Prisoner remake does okay in premiere ratings

AMC’s The Prisoner remake premiered over the weekend and the ratings came back not too bad for a miniseries premiere, with around a 2.2 million pickup. The show is a reworking of the original 1960’s TV series of the same name. Back in the day the series starred Patrick McGoohan, the new miniseries stars Jim Caviezel as The Prisoner, aka Number 6.

Sadly the response from the blogging media hasn’t been great and I’d have to agree with them. The themes of the original, were - at the time - frightening within and of themselves, now we’re living in times where these things are ever present (surveillance, media lies etc) some of the enigmatic terror of the original is lost in translation. Still, it’s not all bad, Sir Ian McKellan puts in a good performance.