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New V Premiere Scheduled for November 3, 2009
I’ve already reviewed the V pilot when it was shown at Comic Con, and I’ve already made it clear that while I went into the show expecting something mediocre, I instead found myself riveted and after the screening, wanting desperately to see more. Endy already wrote about the show’s...
August 9th, 2009 | Read More
Tidbits Of News From Sci-Fi Land
Here’s some little bits and pieces of news that are cool and interesting but that I can’t muster the early Sunday will to write a whole post about.
V is back. V was on in the 80’s and was about lizard aliens from beyond that thought we were tasty. It has a premiere date. It’s...
August 9th, 2009 | Read More
Reshoots Underway for the V Pilot, Including Ending
According to V’s producer and showrunner Scott Peters, reshoots are currently underway to “tweak” the V pilot that will premiere later this year. Though a finished copy of the pilot was already shown at Comic-Con last week, Peters says they’ve gone back to add more Visitor “tech”...
August 3rd, 2009 | Read More
TV Review: New V Pilot (Comic-Con ‘09)
They’re heeeeeere. Er, again. Yep, they’re back — those scaly, duplicitous aliens with promises of a better future, hope, and of course, friendship. As the old saying goes, when it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Especially when they just appear in mile-wide spaceships above...
July 25th, 2009 | Read More
Former Angel and Alias Producer to Run ABC’s New V Show
Variety reports that former Angel, Alias, and Day Break producer Jeffrey Bell has been tapped by Warner Bros. Television as the showrunner for their new series V, based on the ’80s mini-series and short-lived show from Kenneth Johnson. I’ve hinted at it before, but a show like V has come...
June 5th, 2009 | Read More
V’s Upfront Preview Trailer
This is the preview video ABC showed at their upfront (to the presses) for their new show V. It has more of the Visitors’ arrival and reveals a little bit more of Elizabeth Mitchell’s character, including her son, who ends up on the Visitors’ side almost completely. Of course, it probably...
May 21st, 2009 | Read More
Latest V Preview Teaser Reveals the Scales
They’re heeeeeeeeere. And apparently they’ve been here for quite some time, getting ready for their “sudden and shocking arrival”. Those pesky alien lizards, they’re so cunning. Here’s a very nice preview video showing more of what the show plans to do. Looks like...
May 20th, 2009 | Read More
Preview: New V Official Synopsis, Promo Images, and Clips
In case you haven’t heard, ABC has a new version of Kenneth Johnson’s V that’s headed to the airwaves later this year. Here is your full preview of the show, including two clips showing the arrival of the aliens (or Visitors) and their gorgeous but oh-so-creepy leader Anna (Morena Baccarin,...
May 19th, 2009 | Read More
Network Sci-Fi/Fantasy Shows: Renewals, Cancellations, and Newcomers
With the networks officially kicking off their upfront presentations this month, we’ve now gotten official (and in some cases, semi-official) confirmations about which shows are coming back, which ones are gone, and what new offerings will be available to the genre fans out there. The schedule...
May 18th, 2009 | Read More
A Review Of ABC’s “V” Reboot
“V’ is coming back to television, freshly rebooted, courtesy of ABC. “V’ has lizardy aliens, disguised as humans, invading the Earth to subjugate, terrorize and then maybe eat us. We are nice and juicy it’s true. A fellow named Bison over at Aintitcool has seen the pilot...
May 13th, 2009 | Read More
Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell Joins V Pilot
Looks like the folks at the new V TV show is really stocking up on its genre actresses. First Morena Baccarin was cast as the alien female lead on the show, and now Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell has landed a gig on the pilot. Looks like it’s just for the pilot, though, and not as a regular.
Via...
March 20th, 2009 | Read More
Morena Baccarin is the new Diana in ABC’s new V Show
From the Serenity to the Stargate to the V? Obviously the first thing you need to do when you’re casting for a new V TV show is to get someone who can pull a Diana, the original female leader of the space lizards. And if you can’t get Jane Badler to come back (she’s still around, right?),...
March 9th, 2009 | Read More
Scott Wolf Will Star In The Rebooted V
Scott Wolf, most infamous from his Party of Five days alongside Lost man Matthew Fox has been cast in the new and hopefully improved V. I’m old enough to have watched the original, but it’s foggy.
I remember lizards. Hopefully that’s not some weird high school flashback. Never enough...
March 3rd, 2009 | Read More
ABC Greenlights New V TV Show Pilot
To be honest with you, I’m a little conflicted about this news that ABC has greenlight the pilot for a new TV show based on the V mini-series created by Kenneth Johnson in the ’80s. On the one hand, I’d love for a major network to give sci-fi a try once again, and I’ve always...
January 27th, 2009 | Read More
Kenneth Johnson Responds to ABC’s New V TV Show
Over at his official site, V creator Kenneth Johnson has a new post in his “V: The Second Generation” section dated October 13, 2008, that responds to a recent Variety article about ABC bringing the lizards of V back to primetime for a new TV show based on the original mini-series that aired...
October 15th, 2008 | Read More
ABC to Remake V for TV
Those pesky green scaled aliens with the funky glasses will finally get another shot at a major audience 20 years after their first appearance, except it won’t be in the “Second Generation” project that the story’s original writer, Kenneth Johnson, had envisioned. Instead, ABC...
October 13th, 2008 | Read More





