A First Look: V

Yes a remake of the 1983 miniseries

BY COLIN ENQUIST

ABC plans to bring V back to television. Starting on November 3rd, 2009, a re-imagining of the 1983 miniseries of the same name airs, 4 episodes will air in November before the show goes on a break until after the 2010 Winter Olympics. Originally created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series is produced by Scott Peters, Jace Hall, Steve Pearlman, and Jeffrey Bell. ABC president Steve McPherson also said, “We always intended to break the show up into ‘pods’ to make it more of an event.”

For those that do not know the premise of this series or the original, here is a breakdown. Giant spaceships appear over all major cities in the world, and Anna, a beautiful and charismatic leader of the extra-terrestrial “Visitors,” claims to come in peace. Small groups of humans start to doubt the sincerity of the Visitors. An FBI counter-terrorism agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell) discovers the aliens have spent decades infiltrating human governments and businesses, and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over Earth. Soon, Erica joins a resistance movement, which includes Ryan (Morris Chestnut), a Visitor sleeper agent who wants to save humanity. The resistance is in trouble when the aliens gain favour among many humans because they cure a variety of diseases.

Below is a 9 minute preview of the show. The pilot is already getting rave reviews. Maybe this show will be what FlashForward was intended to be?