'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others || 'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others ||

ABC Working On 'V' Remake Without Creator

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: SciFi Wire
Oct-10-2008

"V" is finally coming back to television, but it just will have little to do with the hit 1980s miniseries that helped redefined science-fiction on television.

ABC has ordered a new adaptation of the lizard-populated show with Scott Peters, a co-creator of USA Network's "The 4400," despite the fact that "V" creator Kenneth Johnson continues to work on a continuation of the 1980s outing.

The new project, which has not been identified as a series or a miniseries, will be produced by Warner Bros. Television, and will have both Peters as well as Jace Hall from HDFilms leading the way. While Peters will concentrate on the television aspect, Hall will be in charge of alternative media, including a gaming platform for the project.

With the new "V" will come a lot of changes, including the removal of the Holocause and Nazi allegories from the original. The current project will focus on Erica Evans, a Homeland Security agent who has her life turned upside down when the aliens arrive, according to SciFi Wire.

One thing that will remain the same, however, will be the opening shot of spaceships showing up over major cities, a la "Independence Day."

Remakes have been rather hit or miss for networks in recent years. While "Battlestar Galactica" has been a success for SciFi Channel, it seems that few other programs that were reborn from the 1970s and 1980s have not done so well. The most recent example was NBC's attempt to revive "Bionic Woman."

NBC also is trying to gain traction with its "Knight Rider" remake, but audiences are even lower in the Wednesday 8 p.m. ET timeslot than they were for "Bionic Woman.

No other details about the production, or when it might air on ABC, have been released.

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