Corona | Coming Attractions

What was once old always becomes new again. Right now the upper management at ABC are close to ordering a pilot for a new casting of Charlie's Angels, the classic 1970s action-adventure hour-long series beloved by little girls and older boys for completely different reasons.

When it came out in 1976, Angels was an instant hit and cemented Farrah Fawcett (then called Fawcett-Majors due to her nupitals with Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors) as the last poster queen. While FF only starred in the show for a season before trying to play her cards as a movie star (Saturn 3? Sunburn? Man, it's pretty bad when you're only decent big screen performance from the 1970s was in Logan's Run), the show proved to have legs enough for a six season run. Drew Barrymore dusted it off and McG reimagined the concept slightly more tongue-in-cheek for the Charlie's Angels movies in 2000 and 2003 (fact: Barrymore was born the year before the series debuted.)

Drew's also involved in this new TV show as a producer as well as original Angels producer Leonard Goldberg. Writing and executive producing the pilot will be Josh Friedman, the guy that created Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. If you think like me, suddenly you can see Josh giving a call to Summer Glau in the near future, right?

No word yet if Barrymore will reprise her new Angel role of spunky tomboy Dylan Saunders for a cameo, but one imagines it's a possibility being considered.