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ABC to bring back the early 2000's

Spy shows

CBS is also in negotiations to pick up the spy drama Chaos for midseason, and USA has a spy series called Covert Affairs (starring Piper Perabo) in the works. Spy shows were all the rage this development season.
Because links are so much easier for the needs of the many.
Chaos revolves around a group of rogue CIA operatives led by Rick Martinez, who is played by Freddy Rodriguez, combating bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting. Without a Trace alum Eric Close has also signed onto the drama pilot.
Brett Ratner directed drama pilot Chaos for Fox.
http://www.onlocationvacations.com/...t-chaos-filming-in-downtown-l-a-this-weekend/
imdb.com listings
Chaos (2010) (TV)

"Covert Affairs" (2010) (TV series)
'Covert Affairs’ stars Perabo as Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who is abruptly promoted to field operative – because, yet unbeknownst to her, a shady ex-boyfriend (played by Eion Bailey, ‘ER’) is a person of interest to the Feds.
‘Covert Affairs,’ which received an 11-episode order
Tim Matheson directed the 90 minute pilot
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/tv-news/covert-spy-drama-is-headed-to-usa-network/
There is a 1 minute trailer here:
Covert Affairs Trailer
30 second 2nd trailer
Covert Affairs Trailer 2
It looks like Alias-lite. And I mean that as a compliment. The trailer doesn’t look quite as serious and complicated as Alias, but it’s not as comedic and silly as Chuck can sometimes be either. Take Alias before it got lost in the impenetrable Rambaldi mythology, add some characters approved, breezy humor and you’ve got what appears to be a happy medium. Perabo even bares a slight resemblance to Jennifer Garner in her early Sydney Bristow years with her square jaw, pouty lips and all-American girl looks.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/13/usa-networks-covert-affairs-trailer-im-in/

July 13 premiere date on USA.

Dollhouse had this type of action but also had the scifi elements.
 
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Re: Spy shows

Alias may not have been a big ratings success, but that doesn't mean it's okay to go ahead and re-make the show, especially so soon! I liked the original. Why not just create a random new spy show? I doubt it would be difficult.
 
He's also been Will's dad on Glee.

Not sure how I feel about ALIAS being resurrected. I loved the first two seasons, and slowly middled out on the rest. Granted, the series left wide room open for a renewal or continuation, so I guess as long as they stayed within the continuity of the show it would be fine? I don't know ... just seems rather pointless to remake the show, less than five years after it ended, and starting from the beginning. Then again, the major downside of this is you can't bring back Victor Garber or Ron Rifkin.

Maybe set the show in the near future and make it about Isabella?

As for the question about ABC 'bringing back the early 2000s' come on, melodrama much? Clearly it's a business decision for them, and apart from resurrecting pilots from the previous year that simply didn't get picked up, I don't know that I'd be complaining about a show people liked being brought back.

If anything, maybe we'll finally get Giacchino to release albums for the final three season soundtracks.
 
The whole remake thing has pretty much reached the level of self-parody. Pretty soon, the mid-season replacements will be reboots of the Fall season failures. :rommie:

And, anyway, the Rambaldi stuff was my favorite part of the show.
 
The whole remake thing has pretty much reached the level of self-parody. Pretty soon, the mid-season replacements will be reboots of the Fall season failures. :rommie:
reminds me of the Primeval S1 cliff hanger, where we find out that

Cutter returns to an alternate timeline, in which one of characters from S1 is not present. The actress would return in the 2nd series as a new character.

That Hulk sequel pulled the same trick, then again is Star Trek any better?
 
The re-make of Death at a Funeral was announced about a year or so after the original was released. People are weird.
I thought that was the case, wasnt the 2nd a US remake of the film?

Yep. They remade the whole movie with an all-black (or mostly all-black, I haven't seen the re-make) cast.
yes I saw Tracy Morgan promoted it on The Daily Show, and I remebered thinking "why has this movie only just got to the US, and I don't recall Tracy Morgan being in the promos for the original version.
 
The re-make of Death at a Funeral was announced about a year or so after the original was released. People are weird.
I thought that was the case, wasnt the 2nd a US remake of the film?

Yep. They remade the whole movie with an all-black (or mostly all-black, I haven't seen the re-make) cast.

Peter Dinklage has the same role in both films.

James Marsden was cast as the white guy engaged to Zoe Saldona's character and Owen Wilson was the white guy who wasn't over Zoe Saldona's character yet.

The rest of the cast was African American, includin' Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Ron Glass & Loretta Divine.

And it was written by the same guy who wrote the British original.

I saw it, thought it was pretty funny, but haven't gotten around to rentin' the original yet.
 
I'm surprised they didn't announce a Lost reboot for the fall season.

After the fan reaction to the finale, that would probably be a popular move. :D

CBS is also in negotiations to pick up the spy drama Chaos for midseason, and USA has a spy series called Covert Affairs (starring Piper Perabo) in the works. Spy shows were all the rage this development season.

:eek: I LOVE Piper Perabo.

Emmanuelle Vaugier is also on the show. Recurring character, I think.

I'm looking forward to that one because of Ion Bailey and Christopher Gorham. It debuts July 13! :bolian:
 
Actually I'm intrigued by the idea of an Alias remake. I loved the first two seasons of the show, then felt it went seriously off course in season three, and tried to limp back to greatness in the following seasons, with uneven success.

I would like to see another attempt at it, though it would probably be better to just rename it something else, or do it with different characters, in which it will essentially become something else anyway.

JJ already has Undercovers, which seems like it might be an Alias-type show, coming to NBC in the fall, and the CW has Nikita, which is based on La Femme Nikita, which will doubtless cover some similar ground as Alias did, and with a sleek, sexy lead in Maggie Q. I doubt an Alias remake will really get off the ground.
 
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