TV Show “V” on ABC

Many of us remember back in the 80′s when a new and exciting mini series came out called V – The Final Battle. By today’s standards the story line, the concept, even the funky special effects are still pretty cool. Any kid in today’s generation X or Y era will take one look at the old show and think it’s a cheap YouTube knock off video made by someone with a camcorder and a few 3D rendering programs you can get for a couple hundred dollars, but none the less they will watch it as the very concept is exciting and – believable!

Many parents grew up watching the short lived but amazing show as it aired for the mini-series and one more short season before the ratings just didn’t hold on. This doesn’t mean that millions didn’t absolutely love the show, actually back then there was no cable tv, no satellite television worth paying the ridiculous prices for and thus the only thing they had to rely on was the Nealson ratings which weren’t very accurate either. One household per 10,000 people controlled the media. Even today however great shows adored by millions are being canceled for no apparent reason other than ratings, but that’s how it goes.

Star trek was canceled in the mid seventies but they brought it back and the rest as they say is history. More than 10 new series and several movies for many of them have made billions. V, it seems is no exception to the rule. Several months back I noticed that the show was available on one of the online “internet television” type sites like hulu an veoh, and I for one watched every available episode. You have to enjoy the awareness of how these special effects were nothing short of cutting edge in 1983, but today they can be copied by anyone with a computer and some software. None the less I remember thinking I wish they would remake this show, it’s story line is incredible and with today’s cutting edge computer generated CGI and the great strides in special effects and realism would make this show killer to watch!

It seems this wasn’t just a dream, and many thousands who flocked to watch these older episodes just may have been guinea pigs in an experiment to see if the show still had a following, or if enough people would flock to watch it. You never know when it comes to the online world, you can test things like this easily before spending any money on producing the show. Tens of thousands of people watched them.

ABC has decided to remake the show, and the ABC TV Show V has already started a buzz. Sites are now showing the trailer for the show and it looks like it’s going to be all we would imagine and more. The series of new characters are familiar, starring in shows like the 4400, and other highly liked series. Many hope this show will redeem the old version with the special effects that they simply didn’t have the technology to produce in such realism. This new version is sure to bring on ten times the fan base the old one did and if they do it right it will become the new phenomenon of the 2010 generation. Many hope it will take off like star trek did, and I can’t see why it wouldn’t! The archetypes and story lines are all preserved in this new version- after all nothing was wrong with that, but the “modern” look and feel of the show is sure to take the ABC TV Show V where no sci-fi show has gone before!