Wonder Woman isn’t the only classic TV heroine making her return to TV this Fall … ABC is bringing back a new batch of Charlie’s Angels as well. It was reported last week that General Hospital actress Annie Ilonzeh was cast as one of the Angels and today we learn that Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor have been cast to round out the trio of NEW Charlie’s Angels.

Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor are putting on angel wings. The Friday Night Lights alumna and the Transformers babe have been tapped to play the remaining two titular private eyes in ABC’s Charlie’s Angels pilot. They join the previously cast Annie Ilonzeh (General Hospital) to form a new trio of sexy sleuths – Marisa (played by Kelly), Kate (Ilonzeh) and Abby (Taylor). Producing studio Sony Pictures TV and Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films went through an exhaustive search for the three leads in this Angels series reboot. Kelly was a name the producers kept coming back to, and they are now reworking the role to tailor it to her. In the current breakdown, Marisa is described as a former U.S. Marine, a weapons expert trained in all forms of hand-to-head combat, and a neat freak. Taylor’s Abby is the youngest and sassiest of the Angels. The beautiful and privileged daughter of a notorious Wall Street crook, she is an expert con artist herself, as well as a Krav Maga expert. Kelly has kept busy since leaving FNL two years ago. Most recently, she has recurred on NBC’s Parenthood, which is produced by the same company as FNL, Imagine TV. She can next be seen on the big screen opposite Gossip girl Leighton Meester in the thriller The Roommate, opening February 4. Taylor, meanwhile, starts a recurring role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy next week, playing Callie’s obstetrician — and a possible love interest for Karev. Smallville alums Alfred Gough and Miles Millar penned the script for the Charlie’s Angels pilot and are executive-producing with Leonard Goldberg (an EP of the original series), Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen.

I guess everything that is old is new again. While I was a fan of Charlie’s Angels back in the day (R.I.P. Farrah Fawcett) it wasn’t a show that I was totally obsessed with. Like The Love Boat, One Day at a Time, What’s Happenin’, Good Times and Sanford & Son (to name but a few), Charlie’s Angels was one of those TV shows that I watched because it was on. I did enjoy the big screen versions of Charlie’s Angels so I bet I’ll enjoy this new TV series as well. I’m not too familiar with these actresses so … I guess we’ll have to wait and see how the show turns out. I suspect if this new Charlie’s Angels does well, other classic TV gems will be brought back to life as well … which, now that I think about it, seems like a really bad idea.

What do y’all think of this new batch of Charlie’s Angels? Are you impressed?

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