SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. The original Roswell series, which premiered in 1999 on the WB, imagined that the population of Roswell, N.M., was dotted with residents whose ancestors had experienced some very close encounters with aliens who crashed there in 1947. The series pilot of that show, like that of this revisiting remake, was built around a hybrid alien-human who used his powers to save the life of a human high-school classmate, and a town celebration of the original Roswell “visitation.” But 20 years later, this new version doesn’t add much to the mix, except for an obvious approach equating outer-space “aliens” to illegal ones. And while the old mix had Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks, Shiri Appleby, Emilie de Raven and Jason Behr, this new one… doesn’t. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.