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Morena Baccarin in "V" as Anna, Leader of the Visitors
The "Visitors" of ABC's resurrected series "V" literally came out of nowhere offering "hope," "change" and…wait for it…"universal health care" – all during "our greatest hour of need," as one ABC promo trailer puts it.
Sound familiar?
The producers of "V" insist the message carried by earth's new houseguests was not originally intended to symbolize the sudden emergence of President Barack Obama – who also swooped onto the world stage from a soaring platform of hope, change and health care for every American.
"We are not looking to put any sort of agenda onto the table," said "V's" former showrunner Scott Peters in August, when the show was presented at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif.
"I wake up in the morning and look at the news, and there’s wars, there’s new diseases being discovered, there’s old diseases that we are dealing with. The economy is in the toilet. There are people losing their homes," said Peters, who also wrote the pilot that premiered last night. "Wouldn’t it be awesome if 29 ships showed up and they all said, 'We’ve got this. We’ll take care of you. Don’t worry about it?' Wouldn’t this be great? And so, I mean, that’s really where hope and change came from."
"Joel [Gretsch] has a line in the pilot that says, 'The world is in bad shape, Father. Who wouldn’t welcome a savior?' And I think that’s a pretty interesting thesis statement. So that’s kind of where this whole thing sort of came from.
"And, listen, I think that shows are open to interpretation. People bring subjective thoughts to it. And if you want to ascribe those words to the Visitors or to whatever is going on in our society, that’s sort of up to the viewer, but there’s no particular agenda to hone in on those specific things."
It was announced yesterday that Peters has stepped down as showrunner on "V," an update of the two-part 1983 miniseries of the same name. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he will be replaced in the position by Scott Rosenbaum, who was an executive producer on NBC's "Chuck."
Also, production on the show was temporarily shut down in late August for "creative hiatus" after two post-pilot episodes had been shot. ABC announced It will air four episodes, ending with a cliffhanger before returning in spring 2010 for the rest of its 13-episode order.
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