I'm not digging the short haircut though.

I think they really dropped the ball with this re-imagining. Having four straight eps. and then retiring it until late February or March is a horrific idea.

I think the best approach if they had the foresight would have been to instead put the first four together as a 2 night mini-series event (kind of like they did with the old one), and then at the end announce the upcoming series in the Spring; maybe even issue the mini-series on DVD a week or so before its regular run began. Doing four eps. straight and then going on a long hiatus is suicide.

The command from management to throw out the scripts and restart is bearing fruit. Having approved the series, they now want to kill it. It makes me wonder why they approved it in the first place.

They never should have done it without Kenneth Johnson in the first place.

Bingo

Looks like the Visitors arrived in Moscow a little earlier than November 3!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG2mFfgaHyo

First look: http://abc.go.com/shows/v

Gotta love it. The show has not aired ONCE yet and people here are saying that it's dead.

ABC is airing it during sweeps, that's not a way that networks throw out shows that they want to die. If it had been a mini series followed by a regular season in the Spring, there would be nothing thought of it, but apparently to avoid repeats, they are going to give people a short story arc to get hooked on.

Sure it's possibel that the writing might be good or that it might be good and not capture an audience, but that's always a risk.

But until it has even happened, all the talk is incredibly premature.

I wonder if Morenna Baccarin (sp?) will devour a whole groundhog?

The first 8 minutes of V thanks to ABC online...
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Heh, they didn't waste much time getting it going. :P

LOL to the reference to

I'm just now getting into this and I'm looking forward to it.

I couldn't wait each week for a new episode when the original series aired. A remake? Not so much.

The only positive aspect I see this time around is if they won't let the FX slide as the series progresses. I remember them going all out for the first two mini-series, but once the regular series started getting a lot of stock footage and VERY fake looking visitor make-up. Those masks used to scare me as a kid, I watched an ep. from the show later and was amazed at how fake it all seemed. They had the lizard visitors talk and didn't even bother to move their mouths!

And also didn't change their voices like they did in the minis.

I didn't see this posted yet. Syfy is airing the original miniseries and the TV series Sunday through Tuesday. It's not posted on their schedule page but the commercials have been airing.