Steps are already being taken to correct this. ABC is in the process of killing the show, although they're calling it a creative "retooling". Even before the pilot aired this week, the network ordered a halt in production after only 4 episodes were done, replaced the creative director with a new guy with orders to "retool" the remaining episodes, and doesn't plan to broadcast the remainder of the episodes until next March "in order to avoid conflict with the Olympics" (yeah, right). There is a FR thread on this - just search "V" and "sci fi", or Google "V TV show retooling".
Make no mistake - the PTBs are going to kill this show. If you want see it you'd best do it now. I'd also bet that it will never be available on DVD, and that it's going to get the same memory-hole treatment that the 1987 TV series "Amerika" which starred Robert Urich and Kris Kristopherson received. That series has never been rebroadcast and is unavailable except in low-quality bootleg formats.
IIRC, ABC originally planned/scheduled about 11 episodes, but decided to cut back.
Their spin: They weren’t sure the new series would be successful enough to warrant 11 episodes.
[This first episode got about 14 million, making it #2 behind NCIS for the evening.]
Last I read, they will run 2 episodes this fall and delay the remaining episodes (2 or ?) until the spring. [And they wonder why people lose interest in TV programs.]
Even if it makes it to DVD, it could see some serious re-cutting/editing before that.
IIRC, the plan was always to have a 4-episode "appetite whetter" during sweeps month (November), then have it as a mid-season replacement for some of the dreck they show out there.
For a while, I was even thinking that they were gonna try tying "V" to "Flash Forward", but I guess not.