TV Article  Alien Resurrection  NBC plans sequel to '80s sci-fi
miniseries ''V.'' Two decades after ''The Final Battle,'' the
network hopes to reunite the original cast  They're back, and
they're still hungry. They're the aliens known as the Visitors,
the voracious villains from ''V,'' the cult-fave 1983 NBC
miniseries. According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has plans
to bring them back for a three-hour movie, ''V: The Second
Generation. Kenneth Johnson, who created the original ''V,''
will write and direct the follow-up, and he hopes to reunite the
original cast, including Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Jane Badler,
and Robert Englund.  Of the original cast, Englund has had the
most post-''V'' success; he plays Freddy Krueger for the eighth
time in August's long-awaited ''Freddy vs. Jason.'' But ''V''
has enjoyed a long afterlife on video; the recent DVD release
sold 250,000 copies.  ''V'' was an allegory about fascism, in
which a seemingly benevolent race of humanoids comes to Earth
and wins over the populace u