The two-part miniseries ran for 200 minutes; the first part was the second most-popular program of the week with 40% of the viewing television audience at that time watching it [REF].
For many years, Johnson has campaigned to revive V, and even wrote a sequel novel, V: The Second Generation which picked up the story 20 years after the original miniseries (but omitted the events of The Final Battle and V: The Series).