Alias 2.0??
ABC is considering an Alias reboot? Can we have Sark and Jack Bristow back, please? (E! Online)
'Again, it's only very initial talk at this point, but I'm told that the development folks over at the Alphabet network are considering doing a new version of Alias that would borrow some elements of the original series that starred Jennifer Garner (and Michael Vartan, Victor Garber and some guy named Bradley Cooper who must have slipped into oblivion since). But the series would most likely not include any sort of complex mythological throughline such as the Rambaldi prophecy (a storyline that lost some of the fans).'
ETA: The AV Club has this to say:
'Sources have told Santos that the network is thinking of doing a new version that eschews the original’s mythology entirely, while retaining all its “sexy girl kicking things” aspects. It’s all part of ABC's plan to hold onto Lost audiences-just like Flash Forward was supposed to do, until it spun its wheels right into cancellation-by green-lighting another of J.J. Abrams' complex sci-fi stories, only without the sci-fi and not so complex, and most likely without J.J. Abrams, since he already has his own super-sexy super-spy series, Undercovers, getting all sexy and espionage-y over at NBC this fall.
'So were this to actually happen, it would be an in-name-only imitation of the original Alias, more akin to something like The CW's Nikita or USA's Covert Affairs (with Piper Perabo!), which makes us wonder why they'd even bother, when it runs the risk of sullying the legacy of one of its own fondly remembered shows.
You know what you could do, ABC, to differentiate it from those other shows? Someone in the comments had the right idea: "If they're doing a reboot, how about doing Alias: The Julia Thorne Years?" Obviously you can't bring back Jen Garner to play Sydney/Julia, but another agent in a similar long-term undercover position?
'Again, it's only very initial talk at this point, but I'm told that the development folks over at the Alphabet network are considering doing a new version of Alias that would borrow some elements of the original series that starred Jennifer Garner (and Michael Vartan, Victor Garber and some guy named Bradley Cooper who must have slipped into oblivion since). But the series would most likely not include any sort of complex mythological throughline such as the Rambaldi prophecy (a storyline that lost some of the fans).'
ETA: The AV Club has this to say:
'Sources have told Santos that the network is thinking of doing a new version that eschews the original’s mythology entirely, while retaining all its “sexy girl kicking things” aspects. It’s all part of ABC's plan to hold onto Lost audiences-just like Flash Forward was supposed to do, until it spun its wheels right into cancellation-by green-lighting another of J.J. Abrams' complex sci-fi stories, only without the sci-fi and not so complex, and most likely without J.J. Abrams, since he already has his own super-sexy super-spy series, Undercovers, getting all sexy and espionage-y over at NBC this fall.
'So were this to actually happen, it would be an in-name-only imitation of the original Alias, more akin to something like The CW's Nikita or USA's Covert Affairs (with Piper Perabo!), which makes us wonder why they'd even bother, when it runs the risk of sullying the legacy of one of its own fondly remembered shows.
You know what you could do, ABC, to differentiate it from those other shows? Someone in the comments had the right idea: "If they're doing a reboot, how about doing Alias: The Julia Thorne Years?" Obviously you can't bring back Jen Garner to play Sydney/Julia, but another agent in a similar long-term undercover position?