HFPA members were the guests of Sony Pictures Television on the set of the new Charlie’s Angels television show  in Miami, where they were greeted by the director and executive producer, Marcos Siega, who walked them through the set and described the show. “The mysterious Charlie sets up a mission and then sends the Angels to resolve it,” he says. There is a parallel between the new show and the 1970’s hit TV series but, set in Miami, he says: “The new Charlie’s Angels show is original with a modern twist.” The HFPA also met with the glamorous Angels:  blonde Abby  (Rachael Taylor), a Park Avenue princess who became a world class thief; dark Kate  (Annie Ilonzeh), a Miami cop who fell from grace losing both her career and her fiancé’; and brunette Eve (Minka Kelly), a street racer with a mysterious past. The actresses trained with a S.W.A.T team 12 hours a day in martial arts, scuba diving, gun handling and close combat fighting before they began filming. “Although we have stand-in stuntwomen, we try to do all stunts except risky ones, like being hit by a bus or falling off a ten-story building,” laughs Annie Ilonzeh, who is proud to play the first black Angel in the history of the show. The new Angels say that they are not trying to fill the shoes of the original stars. “We are trying to do something fresh and original,” stresses Australian-born Rachael Taylor.