Tagged: V

Original lizard queen set to return to V

V was a somewhat surprising hit for ABC last season when they rebooted the former NBC franchise of the 1980s. And while Morena Baccarain’s Anna is pure pleasure as a modern form of evil lizard queen, there’s good news for fans of the 1980s original.

Jane Badler, who played Diana, won out a wildly competitive round of casting to reprise her old role. In the reimagined reboot of the character, Diana is actually Anna’s mother, and she’s been kept in a dungeon for about 15 years. It will be intriguing to see Baccarain share the screen; the villainistic chemistry promises to be something special, at least on paper.

Badler’s about 25 years older now and more of a connoisseur of safe diet pills that work than she used to be, but she still knows how to slither it up. V returns to ABC’s schedule in November.

V renewed!

After back-to-back weeks of improving ratings, ABC has granted sci-fi thriller V a second-season renewal. That means more lizardy goodness in store for fans next fall, and a guaranteed post-LOST life for series star Elizabeth Mitchell.

In the meantime, the alphabet network isn’t sending out any high-hopes vitamins to the show they bet on to replace LOST, FlashForward. Ratings have been dismal and sinking, rather than rising, but ABC remains firm in their stance that they’ve not decided on the show’s cancellation just left.

Another presumed-dead series, Scrubs, apparently still has the slimmest of slim chances at renewal, though Twitter posts by former series star Zach Braff have indicated the prospects are less than zero for renewal. Still, with most of the expensive stars now gone, Scrubs was a half-decent performer in the ratings and less expensive than it had been to produce.

Better Off Ted, unfortunately, is dead.