V: The Series

Executive producer Scott Peters has reached back a couple decades and brought us a re-telling of the 80's phenomenon "V". This time Morena Baccarin (Firefly) will play the beautiful rat-eating alien commander, now called Anna, while Elizabeth Mitchell plays an FBI agent who suspects the Visitors are not the benevolent creatures that they first appear. But don't expect a rehash of old 80's plots. Peters says that the show is going to "...leap forward in very quick manner so that we don’t sort of build and build and build to something that people already know." Supposedly the first 5 minutes will have you hooked. V will air each week in November and then take a break until after the Olympics in March.
Premiers November 3rd on ABC


The Prisoner

The American Movie Classics network reaches even further back and revived that classic spy-thriller "The Prisoner. James Caviezel takes over for the iconic Patrick McGoohan as the nameless no. 6. -- the spy kept from ever leaving "The Village" with no clue as to why he is there. The role of the enigmatic no. 2 in this re-imagining is stunningly filled by Ian McKellen (Gandalf, Magneto, King Lear). Sadly neither Portmeirion nor McGoohan make an appearence in this re-make. McGoohan, who passed away earlier in 2009, was asked by the producers to film a cameo but was uninterested.

Premiers November 15st on American Movie Classics


Doctor Who: Waters of Mars

David Tennet returns for his penultimate turn as The Doctor. In this story he meets his new companion, Adelaide (Lindsay Duncan), the head of a research colony on Mars. The last message ever know to be broadcast from the Mars base is ""Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop." According to Russell T. Davies, writer and executing porducer, this episode will lead directly in the two part finale set to air around Christmas but shouldn't really be seen as a "part one of three".

Premiers November 15st on the BBC and December 19th on BBC America


Alice

Yet another re-make from even further back is set to turn up on the Syfy Channel. Alice, a retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic story, stars Caterina Scorsone as Alice. Writer and director Nick Willing also helmed the Emmy-winning miniseries Tin Man so this story is likely to share the same boldly colorful and skewed dreamscape. Many well know names round out this cast including Tim Curry, Colm Meaney, Matt Frewer, Alessandro Juliani and award-winning Kathy Bates as the Queen of Hearts. This tale, set in the present, tells the story of Alice Hamilton, and her adventures in a strange city of twisted towers all built out of playing cards.

Premiers December 7th & 8th on the Syfy Channel

So which ones might you watch? There's is certainly a lot of star-power in these shows. Do you like the new directions these re-makes are taking? Do you think the re-makes will be a fair testament to the originals?

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My wife and I are going to DVR "V" and watch it later this week and for sure we will be Watching Doctor Who, thats about it for us.

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"V" is set to record and "Prisoner" will be as soon as it shows up in the menus. I'll catch Dr. Who at some point and I have to admit the small previews of "Alice" I have seen and read makes me a bit curious. I think I will be watching that as well.

Long story short..I'll be busy the next couple of months.

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