ITV is set to rescue the remake of The Prisoner following Sky's decision to pull out of the deal because of a disagreement with US cable co-producer AMC.

The network is understood to be in the final stages of securing the six-part series, which is being made by ITV Productions and has been billed as a pacy, radical reinvention of the original show.

A source told Broadcast: "We're all really glad it's an ITV show and we're gearing up for casting and shooting."

Conviction creator Bill Gallagher has penned the new version while Christopher Eccleston had been tipped to take the Number Six role that Patrick McGoohan made famous in the 1967 original, but he has thus far ruled himself out.

The cult 1960s classic aired on ITV. In it Number Six was abducted after resigning from his post as a government secret agent and moved to an unknown village - filmed in Portmeirion in Wales.

It emerged in August that Sky One had pulled out of the show because it was unhappy with elements of the production. Controller Richard Woolfe said: "It's a quintessentially British drama and there were too many creative differences trying to share it with an American partner."

Source: Broadcast