Corona | Coming Attractions

Last week news broke that ABC had ordered a pilot for a proposed new V television series. Using the premise of the well-received 1980s mini-series as its springboard, the modern day V shows what might happen when immense alien spacecraft drop from the sky and initiate contact with our world. While on the surface it appears that the aliens are our friends it turns out that they have hidden plans for the human race.

We learned last week that the central character in the new V show is an agent in a Los Angeles counter-terrorism unit. Today, thanks to the folk at Spoiler TV, we have much more to draw on thanks to the publication of the pilot's casting call information. These overviews of the pilot episode's main characters are used by casting agencies to submit actors for consideration. They also can be used to gain insight on the show's reimagining of the old V premise, which is precisely what we care about.

Here's a couple of character overviews for the new V pilot, scheduled to start filming next month in Vancouver:

• [ERICA EVANS] 38 years old, a single mother with one teenaged son, Erica is with the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division, and is based in Los Angeles. Currently on the trail of a sleeper cell that has forged suspiciously accurate documents with suspiciously WASPy names, Erica finds her life interrupted when alien motherships appear over 29 major cities of the world. Assuaged when the humanoid inhabitants appears to be completely friendly, Erica shifts her focus back to her job and her troubled son and in so doing uncovers a shocking and massive conspiracy...SERIES REGULAR (1)
• [CHAD DECKER] 28 years old, an Anderson Cooper wannabe, he's a newscaster with BBN, based in New York City. Amoral, ambitious, and a little slippery, Chad is intent on getting to the top of his profession in a big hurry. The kind of man who sleeps with the Vice President's press secretary in order to gain entree, Chad gets the Ultimate Source when he is tapped by Anna to become her steady outlet for information (propaganda) about the Visitors. Too ambitious to realize that he's going to become an unpaid sycophant, Chad doesn't question his good luck...SERIES REGULAR (3)
• [ANNA] 40 years old, Anna is the leader of the Visitors, and she's not only humanoid, she has flawless looks and a gorgeous figure. A woman who presents herself as a benevolent deity, with a soft-spoken tone of voice that is warm and soothing (but with a strangely harmonic tone), Anna is the front person for the aliens, and she's remarkably knowledgeable -- about human culture, human languages, and media manipulation. Expert at wrapping pundits around her little finger, she decides that newscaster Chad Decker is the perfect careerist to carry her message of peace and prosperity to a wider world..sptv050769.SERIES REGULAR (13)

For more of the V character breakdowns hit Spoiler TV.