http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?c...=1&id=50711

...

Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. "So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively," he said. "It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue."

...

Quasi-ahem. (I didn't think the series necessarily merited a thread of its own until it had actually been produced, but I can go either way on this one. At any rate, the "ahem" links to the thread on the film.)

It sounds to me like that series might actually explore substantive issues that the movie wouldn't have had time to do--which I think was one of the weaknesses of the film.

The big question for me is what they'll do with the pregnant woman. The book and the film both follow an arc, at least, of establishing a world without children and then presenting the hope embodied in a woman who gives birth at the very end of the story. On one level, the original story ends very open-endedly, which could mean that there is a lot of potential there for a series to explore; on another level, however, the fact that the world is no longer devoid of brand-new babies at the end of that first story means any follow-up would take place in a very, very different kind of world. So will this series take place before or after the pregnant woman comes along? (And which pregnant woman will it be, the one in the book or the one in the film?) If it takes place before, will it work up to the pregnancy at some point? (And you KNOW how TV shows tend to go downhill after pregnancies and new babies come along.) If it takes place after, then how will it incorporate the newborn(s) into this world?