Best New Series This Year? ABC Puts “V” Back In TV Nov 3, 20092:08 PST

Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

ABC steals the TV buzz award this week with the highly anticipated update to the miniseries V. We introduce you to tonight’s series premiere of the TV event of 2009. Also, Chase Utley shows the Yankees that the Phillies aren’t done quite yet. This is your Daily Surf Report, using the best videos on the web to keep you abreast of the day’s top stories.

26 Years Later, “V” Re-Invades Television

Tonight, audiences across the country get their first taste of the highly anticipated new series “V”, an update to the 1983-84 miniseries about a seemingly benevolent alien race that arrives on Earth with the promise to clean up pollution, cure diseases, and advance our science into the future. If the plot sounds like well-covered ground in science fiction, that’s partly because the original 80’s series had such an enormous impact it has continued to influence movies and TV for the last quarter century.

This month’s debut will, ultimately, be little more than a tease. ABC has scheduled the first four episodes to run in November, with the remainder being held off till March of 2010. Scott Wolf, a mainstay of “Party of Five“, “Spin City“, and “Everwood“, helps lead an ensemble cast as the reporter who approaches the alien invasion under the mantra that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

“Firefly” stunner Morena Baccarin stars as Anna, one of the leaders of the alien invaders, who become known as The Visitors (the title “V” initially symbolizes the Visitors, later to be usurped by the human resistance movement as a V for victory).

Other cast members include Elizabeth Mitchell (”Lost“) as FBI Agent Erica Evans, Laura Vandervoort (”Smallville’s” Supergirl), and Morris Chestnut (”Boyz in the Hood“).

The original version of “V”, which consisted of two miniseries and a short lived regular series, featured some of the most shocking twists TV audiences had ever seen at that point, including the true nature and purpose of The Visitors. The new show will no doubt try to step up that game for modern audiences spoiled by computer effects.

V premieres tonight at 8pm/7cst on ABC, but we have a ten minute sneak peak for you right now!

Phillies Fight Back, Force Game Six

The World Series is headed back to New York. Philadelphia Phillies Chase Utley and Cliff Lee denied the Yankees the chance to close out the series by holding off a late Yankees rally and taking the final game in Philly 8-6.

It’s the first time in five years the Series has gone to at least six games. By closing the Yankees-Phillies Series gap to three games to two, the Phillies avoided continuing the trend of sweeps and four games to one blowouts in the best of seven Series.

Game 6 will take place in the new Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, with a rested Pedro Martinez taking the mound for the Phillies against the Yankees’ Andy Pettitte, who will be pitching on short rest for the first time all season.

ESPN’s Baseball Tonight takes a look at the decisive Game 5:

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