{blackbabes} Charlie has a fresh team of 'Angels'

"If Jack Bauer and Carrie Bradshaw had a love child, it would be Charlie's Angels." That's the assessment of Rachael Taylor, one of the Angels of ABC's new version of the iconic 1970s series.

If 24 and Sex and the City don't seem like obvious inspirations, producers Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville) promise a more serious reboot of the original series, which aired from 1976-81, than the two subsequent feature films were. "It's not a cynical remake but something that has its own uniqueness to it," Millar says.

Taylor stars with Minka Kelly and Annie Ilonzeh, and Ramon Rodriguez plays a more active Bosley. (Robert Wagner, who was slated to voice Charlie, will be replaced.)

Producers are hoping to replicate the smash success of the original series, a tall order based on the failure rate for other recent TV remakes. "We know this show has a big target on its back," says Gough. "The stakes are much higher when you're doing a remake," adds Millar.

Many critics are unenthusiastic about the pilot episode, which features the murder of one Angel. But Leonard Goldberg, who produced the original series with Aaron Spelling, recalls, "We didn't get great reviews for (that) show (either). But as soon as the show hit, they were very quick to put us on the cover of everything they could find."