The aliens have landed. Well, sort of. ABC is greenlighting a pilot for a new version of V. Back in the 1980s, the V mini-series spawned both a sequel, novels, and a short-lived TV show.
The original 1983 mini-series stars Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Marc Singer, Jeff Yagher, Blair Tefkin, Robert Englund, and Faye Grant, and focuses on a race of friendly and helpful humanoid aliens that land on Earth. Referred to as “The Visitors,” these aliens offer up their advanced technology in exchange for the chemicals and minerals their ailing world desperately needs. Unfortunately, they’re not what they appear to be. Journalist Michael Donovan eventually discovers that the human-looking aliens are actually reptiles who prefer live meat. Before he can get the word out, the Visitors take control of the media and soonafter, the world.
The mini-series spawned a second mini-series, novels, and its own weekly TV show that ran in 1984. V: The Series ran for only one season. Many of the actors from the mini-series returned and were joined by Jennifer Cooke, Jeff Yagher, June Chadwick, Michael Ironside, and Lane Smith.
NBC cancelled the show after 18 episodes and the finale ended on a cliffhanger that left many storylines unresolved. DC Comics published a comic based on the weekly series that also lasted 18 installments but didn’t resolve any of the show’s storylines either.
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In 1989, Warner Bros. considered producing a new series, V: The Next Chapter, that would have picked up the TV show’s storylines some five years later. After numerous script drafts, the project was ultimately abandoned due to expected high production costs.
Now, Warner Bros. wants to try again and ABC has given the project a greenlight. This time around, The 4400’s co-creator/exec producer, Scott Peters, has the reins. Kenneth Johnson, the original’s writer/producer, isn’t involved with the ABC project.
The new series pilot will focus on a Homeland Security agent named Erica Evans. She has an aimless son who attaches himself to the newly-arrived aliens, causing lots of tension at home. Like the original, the new V will center around aliens who say they’ve come to Earth to help but have other motivations. Because this is a reworking of the original story, it’s doubtful that any of the performers from the original will reprise their roles.
If the pilot impresses network execs and gets a go-ahead, will the new series outlast the original? Other recent remakes of NBC 1980s shows, like Bionic Woman and Knight Rider, have been critical and viewer disappointments. Perhaps the new V will be different. One way or another though, these aliens just refuse to go away.
Image courtesy Warner Bros.
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Hello Sir/Madam… I love to watch Homeland Security on ABC channel but they stopped the program because of Auto Races almost every weekly on Sunday since last early Falls. I want to know if Homeland Security will come back on the TV (ABC) again. I hope so. I hope they would NOT cancel it. Please let me know when it will start back again or in 2010. Thank you, P J.
The V TV Series is here and in many ways it is a refreshing twist on the old series.
I highly encourage everyone to watch it. The first 4 episodes are now available at Hulu or http://Abc.go.com/shows/v
Well, I was only 8 years of age when this aired and I remember my parents watching this tv series. I thought it was a pretty good sci-fi series. Just got done watching the 4th episode, and i can not wait till March 2010. This is good family time for my family and I to watch something that can keep the kids interested. They are 13 – 12 – 7 and they enjoy watching this . I would love to see some of the old actors in this. Really the only one that I remember is Robert Englund just because… Read more »
I hope the writers “re-imagined” this incarnation of “V” with some better acting and directing! The original mini series was great but they would be hard pressed to be any worse than the original series. They can only go up from there. The original series has got to be the worst thing ever to air on television! (sorry)
I am very pumped to watch this due to the fact I have been wishing for it to return after so many year 🙂
I would like a better premise for the aliens taking over the planet this time. Here
why:
-Humans as food makes no sense since cattle would be a better option.
Humans have little meat on them.
-Using humans as slaves makes sense if you believe the aliens
would not have the technology to make robots to do their
work. If they have the technology to traverse billions of miles across the universe to visit us, why can’t they make household robots to do their bidding?
-Taking over the planet for its resources would make most sense than any other
reason. Kinda like independence day.
Regarding V when is the next airing after Nov 3?
Thank You
@Kim Cranshaw: After the Olympics in 2010.
Hollywood revisionists “re-imagined” and totally changed 1978’s Battlestar:Galacticia into a weird and much darker/morbid series with major characters changing gender and one became a spy for the aliens. A principal actor in the new series said that he didn’t care if fans of the classic series don’t like the new series. In the new Star Trek movie, they changed the introduction of all the major characters, had too many completely coincidental meetings among them, killed Spock’s mother and destroyed the planet Vulcan, and left the end of the movie in that alternate timeline which never happened. They re-made “Lost in… Read more »
Actually, I am surprised that they are re-working the series, they should just continue on with where they had left off ….. in the series, I believe that when the Aliens were defeated back in the 80s, someone in the series had mentioned that they would be coming back in twenty years.
Well, here it is ….. twenty years (and change) later …… just continue with the original story with the Aliens coming back as expected.
Information on questions posted here based on some of the V comic books published by DC Comics, V novels officially published and widely recognized fan based novels. Anonymous:Comment 1. William , played by Robert Englund, was a dearly loved character, with the mind and innocence of a child. A practitoner of the peaceful ancient Visitor religion, he guides Elizabeth Maxwell, the Star Child, to her destiny as the Disciple of Amon. It is unlikely the new V series will explore this religion or the Star Child until sometime after the first season when the Resistance is well underway ,after the… Read more »
Everyone says Star Trek, or StarWars, or some other great Sci- Fi classic is the ultimate Sci-Fi story. You could argue Dune, Space Odessy 2001, Red Planet, Riddick Chronicles, Farenheit 451, 1984, any number of Zombie movies like 28 Days or Dawn of the Dead, oh my goodness the list goes on and on. But I find the Sci-Fi that truly hits home is a story that takes place today, in our world as we know it today, for we know this world intamately and can identify with it most, allowing for a sense of realism and refelction on ourselves… Read more »