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This fall ABC will be broadcasting a modernized version of the sci-fi series 'V', that originally aired in 1984.

I have to wonder if this is that shape of sci-fi features and series that we can expect from Hollywood and the networks for the foreseeable future. Over the past couple years, movie goers and TV watchers have been flooded with more retreaded franchises than you can shake a light sabre at.

I guess it's the easy route for writers and producers to take. Just pull something out of the archives from twenty-ish years ago, re-work the scripts by changing the gender of a few key characters, amp up the violence a bit, inject some contemporary socially relevant themes and wrap it up in the gloss package of all the CGI goodness that was not available when it first aired. Presto! A new movie / mini series that people will watch because the euphoric recall of how cool they remember the original being.

With the wild success and praise of Battlestar Galactica, I guess it was only a matter of time before the other networks started poking around their storage closets for something they can give a make over to.

If the current trend continues Hollywood has a pool of about 190 different sci-fi projects from the 80s it can siphon from over the next decade.