V is now a 2009 TV series: ABC is resurrecting the “one-hour weekly television series that aired in the United States on NBC in 1984-85.” The plot summary from Wikipedia:
The world awakens to find spaceships hovering over all major cities. Though the aliens claim to come in peace, some do not believe them. Homeland Security agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have plans to infiltrate our governments and businesses in a plot to take over the planet. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, an alien who wants to save humanity. However, the aliens have recruited earth’s youth, including Erica’s son, to serve unknowingly as spies.
Personally, I want Battlestar Galactica, the 2004 TV series, back (but everything must end). I enjoyed Battlestar Galactica for its underlying message: Although science and technology is supposed to be a tool that promotes, produces, and results in good things (like religion ironically), it can be contaminated and twisted by people (and I don’t hold anti-science, anti-technology, or anti-religion sentiments). As a result, Battlestar Galactica was more “hard social fiction, [or] a realistic look at the future of human culture” than science fiction, and “the show [ended] with a strong suggestion that humans’ devotion to science and technology will only lead to their downfall – again and again and again.”
Via io9
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Thanks for the heads-up on V. I knew there were plans to bring it back, but you’re the first site I’ve seen that says that it is a reality.
Looks like I’m spending 2009 with the TV off. ‘V’ was such an awful series (they came for our water…lol).
From your description, the new version sounds just as bad: can you explain to me how the entire world will “awaken” to saucers over their cities? No matter what time they arrive, its going to be daylight across half the world…
Sorry to be a downer, but I don’t want BG-2004 back either. You called it “hard” social science fiction (and I suppose that is a justifiable point of view), but what I saw was an over-wrought soap-opera in space, featuring a handful of dysfunctional families…
I thought the same—it is daylight somewhere in the world—but the plot summary was from Wikipedia (although it ultimately depends on where the plot summary came from or who wrote it).
I can understand your perception of Battlestar Galactica, because the drama could be heavy and difficult to watch. Although I am not an avid TV viewer, I was drawn into the story, its philosophical approach, so it provoked thought—that is why I enjoyed it (I felt the same about Six Feet Under).