On the drawing board it is just a remake of the original V which was hardly an original idea. Space creatures pretend to be friendly, but really want to eat us. Do the words "It's a cookbook!" strike any chords? Other than the many similarities to the tried and true earthly methods of totalitarians - take over the press, fervent youth groups, thugs breaking up opposition meetings - the direct comparisons to Obama with references to hope, change and universal health care could have been put in minutes before the shooting instead of needing to be green lighted (lit?) by the network months beforehand.
Peters has been demoted to exec producer, a largely honorary title and has been replaced by former “The Shield” and “Chuck” alum Scott Rosenbaum.
I haven't heard any reason why other than paranoids (who sometimes do have real enemies) hinting that the replacement was because of governmental pressure or a network decision to make it less political. Has anyone heard from people with real information? The most common cause for this type of replacement is running over budget and behind schedule. If you take two weeks to provide every episode you will quickly be replaced.
I posted this yesterday for anyone interested in exploring the connection...
“To Serve Man” Classic Episode from the Twilight Zone (30 min video)
It is actually a much easier explanation than that.
A show runner is tied down to the show. Often the lead of the creative team will run the show for it’s first several episodes and then move to an executive producer slot in order to free up his time for the production company.
He may have other ideas that he is working on or he needs to supervise several projects. He runs the show until it gets it’s footing and the director and production team gets the right “feel”, then he turns it over to someone else and gets back in the office.
Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here”
As someone posted on previos thread.
The writings about Fascism are NOT new.
Hollywood just got a big wake up call when they put this on screen and all of a sudden they were looking in a mirror.