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'Chuck' This Out: 'V' Gets a New Leader

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ABC's "V" is getting "Chuck"-ed.

The red-hot alien drama, which premieres tonight following glowing reviews, has nonetheless made a change at the top. Original showrunner Scott Peters has been replaced by "Chuck" alum Scott Rosenbaum, ABC confirmed Tuesday.

Peters will retain an executive producer credit on "V" and is still on staff at the show as of Tuesday morning. But Rosenbaum, an executive producer on "Chuck" (and "The Shield"), will now be at the helm.

UPDATE 1:40 p.m. CDT: Insiders also confirm that writer/executive producer Jeffrey Bell ("Alias") has left "V." 

The showrunner shift had been anticipated in Hollywood circles for weeks, since ABC and Warner Bros. TV made the joint decision to halt production on the series in order to get scripts in shape. According to USA Today, which broke the news of the shuffle, Peters was removed from his post last Thursday.

"V" begins a four-episode run tonight at 8. It's scheduled to return in March for the remainder of its first season. 

RELATED: Break out the hamsters: "V" is a hit! The ratings from last night.

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Such accolades are something of a triumph for Mr. Ford, who was forced to finance the nearly $7 million project with his own money, after leaving gucci in 2004 and announcing that he would become an replica gucci. It was a transition some in fashion thought made perfect sense given his meticulous attention to cheap gucci — and others thought was doomed, for the same discount gucci.

I have linked this at my site. Just google me.

Trust me folks, this is all over the net. Obama's propaganda ministry had a total conniption. THAT is why the show had to be rewritten. I think ABC actually HAD started to grow a set. And then this. How many O-bots are still blinded by TEH ONE™?

i am surprised anyone still watches a liberal tv station. oh thats right, the obama crowd are the last ignorant ones left on earth to still watch tv. i gave it up years ago as it is just a liberal brainwashing machine. you can get FOX NEWS live on the net for free. the rest is just life wasting garbage.

Last week SYFY channel ran the series from the early 80's - if you remember what made the show so good was the 100% cheesiness on every level. So the comments about the stellar product in the 80's are way off base.

As for changes to the plot lines - there are rumors that FOX NEWS might be picking up the series when ABC cancels it, this would be a natural for them and they could have Glen Beck starring in the Marc Singer role - now that I would pay to see!

I stopped watching any television in 2006. I never watched much before that, so it was no great sacrifice.

If anyone wants to "get a life!", shutting down the boob tube is a GREAT way do do just that!

You'd be surprised at how your attitude changes and how much more you can do...

So much for abc...I leave them to their leader...mmm mmm mmm
I can better use my time at tea parties anyway!

So much for abc...I leave them to their leader...mmm mmm mmm
I can better use my time at tea parties anyway!

Why do you people still pump television into your homes? With the internet, if I don't traffic NBC, they don't sell their ads to me and they don't make any money.

If you want to stop the Obama agenda, why are you supporting NBC, HBO, ABC?, CBS etc, etc every month?

Television is rotting your mind. America has been in decline since TV became our leisure time. Thank god Thomas Edison and Jefferson weren't sitting around waiting on some box to say what they want it to say.

You don't need some super hero soap opera on ABC to tell you these Obamatons are stupid.

It is obvious that somebody got a call (maybe from Rham Deadfish ?) in the middle of the night.

Venezuela, here we come.

Can we have an investigation ?

If they screw this up by cowtowing down to the Libiturds, this will kill ABC. And won't help "THE KING" and his "czars" one damn bit. You think people aren't smart enuff to figure it out? It'd be suicide on two fronts. LOL!

Someone writes a great show attacking Obama and the dangerous stupidity of Obamamania so naturally the Hollywood libs freake out and have to axe the guy in charge oh and "rewrite the scripts." V is going to go downhill fast. Oh well I'll enjoy these first few episodes that make Obama supporters look like the mindless idiots they are.

Idiot execs tried the same play with Jericho and what could've been a great series went down in flames. Now ABC thinks that March is the best time to reintro a series with only 4 episodes of a following after 4 months off?!? Build momentum and keep it. There's nothing but garbage on until January...then there's almost too much good TV to keep up with until April.

Cory,

I saw the link to the sheep grazing story. I didn't realize your family was from New Zealand.

No wonder Obama has so easily pulled the wool over your eyes. Be sure and request that your health plan includes mint jelly.

Semper Fi!

I would not be suprised at all if the network got scared the plot line offended the One and the media Libs. It is getting scary when schoolchildren are taught to sing praises of the great leader, huge companies like GE that own vast media outlets are in bed with the great ruler, and Hollywood is frightened to air anything the could offend the exuctive. Thank God fot the election yesterday. Maybe this country is waking up to the fact that Obama is a dangerous man that shares none of the values of our founding fathers or traditional, unique customs and economic beliefs.

Does anybody involved in TV realize that you will lose half the people who would like to watch your show when you air four episodes and then it gets lost for half a year? Do you not realize that we all just assume you killed another good show, and we'll not even be aware that it's back until April? At which point it's not worth the effort to try to catch up.

Reinventing the wheel has traditionally been considered stupid, just so you know.

The 'showrunner' change (a word I just learned) is obviously at the command of the White House to repair the damage to the image of The Zero. Where's the mystery?

Cory J said:

"If Drudge linked an article about sheep grazing in New Zealand, the comment section would be filled with nothing but Obama rants. It's bordering on mental illness with them."

You'd have a point if only you'd been equally critical of Bush Derangement Syndrome among the libtards back when Shrub was Figurehead-in-Chief

But somehow I doubt you were....

I used to watch every episode of the old NBC V as a kid. I remember the story quite well. In the 80's show they did have V youth, they did have miraculous healing and there was a supplanting of faith with the V. In fact there was a Jewish couple who survived the holocaust and warned their family about how eerily the current events mimicked that time. Maybe they did tweak the script with the universal healthcare phrase (I thought it funny that in this sense it could have also been a double entendre for alien and human healthcare), but who knows if they did or not. All I recall is that they followed most of the original plot and set-up. The mini-series had more time to establish everything however, and in this ratings dash, I am sure that's why it felt rushed. V for victory.

Ridiculous you start a decent show they sop it until March and for what? to build hype! No can someone please inform TV executives its time to leave the 1950's that stuff doesn't work. One if they shows are in the can and people want then they will leak and they the execs will get mad; r two people will forget about it and they will have destroyed a good show. Learn is a free lesson guys on how modern media works, you get people's interest, hold it as long as possible, then either A. threaten to take it away and let fanboys build the hype and fervor for more or B. end it DVD box set it and Spin off the concept/story/ or popular character with more to tell.

cory j- shut up you obamabot cheap hysterical twerplet liberal anti-American garbage.

If he was replaced because the original story line (from 30 years ago) too closely resembled the Obama-Reid-Pelosi regime, is not ABC and the show parodying itself?

Does not this action make the parallels EVEN CLOSER?

and a few thousand nasty-grams to abc about how the show started out huge and turned into vacuous worship wouldn't hurt either if the story line does go that way. i admit i made the assumption that it certainly will with the firing of the head cheese, but i'll try to keep an open (empty) mind and see where it goes. it could stay huge.. really.. it could.. monkies could fly outa abc's collective butts and they might actually make a collosal bump to fly-over country sensibilities and show the requisit sanctimony for the real world.. wow, now THAT would be fiction!

simple solution to this abc sucking up to the messiah by offloading the producer.... do what it takes to make the ratings huge while the old story line kicks the messiah in the nuts. then, when it gets all suckup to barry, drop the ratings like a rock. it's already destined to become yet another pump the messiah show, so no need trying to limp it along out of nostalgia. remember the wakeup call hollywood got from mel gibson's passion. abc can be made to see the light if only the dollars speak.

Actually, i could care less about sheep grazing in new zealand. plenty of sheep grazing toward the polls in 2008 here in the usa swallowing the chosen one helping to transform america. now we see fascist power grabbing and nationalizing businesses. and nobody dares utter anything that would put the chosen one in a negative light

For me the problem with the Drudge-heads posts is simple - it doesn't even matter what the article is about (though this one may be fairer game than most). If Drudge linked an article about sheep grazing in New Zealand, the comment section would be filled with nothing but Obama rants. It's bordering on mental illness with them.

All Hail the Non-citizen - that is, IF you want to keep your job, not get audited, generally stay off of THE LIST. And we are to believe that the "FEMA Camps" are for victims of "emergencies"? I'd venture to ask WHOSE definition of "emergency" and WHOSE victims? The Obama-ites Come In Peace - MMM-mmm-mm!

My jaw was on the floor almost the whole premier with all the Obama parallels. I was a kid when the original V miniseries aired, and many of the same parallels were drawn there. The only differences I recall so far are that the original had a character who was a concentration camp survivor from Hitler's Germany. The alien methods matched Hitler's, and their logo was oh so similar to a swastika. But who knows? Maybe we'll see that in an upcoming episode also. Roll on, Obama theater!

BARACK MADOFF OBAMA MMM MMM MMM

Hey Hank. You are the gullible one here little man. You should have better manners.

Hank, I think the stupidity and gullibility is yours... You are a classic bleating sheep.

Complain about the Drudgereport for "linking" articles that others write.. Yeah, that really makes Drudge readers the stupid ones.

Get back to your Chris Matthews leg tingle and leave the rest of us to see the real world.

Wonder when the producers at ABC news will have the anchors singing praises to the great O....

The Drudge sludge is really showing their stupidity and gullibility.

Looks like Obama put the word out doesn't it? Obama doesn't realise we ALL can see through him like he's made of glass. He also doesn't realise that we are going to send him back to Chi-Town in 2012 or sooner! We don't do the dictator thing here in the USA!

You politicians best keep your hands off our entertainment lest you draw back a stub!

By the end of this show's run, the humans will be the bad guys and the aliens will peel off their skins and reveal themselves as TonTon Macoutes operating on behlaf of Barack Hushpuppy OhBummer.

I'm loving the parallels to Obamamania in this show, but was that the reason they really tossed the writer and producer? I loved the original V as a kid, and found this one to be a product of shoddy direction, very poor dialog and horribly stupid action scenes, lets not forget how many holes were left in the plot, such as a guy showing up at the church with a letter and dying in the pews. What does the priest do with him? Why such a rapid rush to showing how everybody is loving the Vs? There was so much mashed together quickly that it lacked any drama or character development. Dont get me started on the horrible dialog between mother and son! Now that they have a hit, they may actually have to up the quality bar a notch to keep the momentum.

Come on People ABC must show some "RESPECT" to our Fearless leader!
On a side note. That one blond guy that plays the FBI agent that turns out to be an alien. He played the Pirate guy in that Dodgeball movie. Everytime he spoke I had to add, "Ngargh!". Im an alien Ngargh! I want to eat you, ngargh!

If a producer were replaced in 2006 because the network thought there were anti-Bush references in their show, do you think the Hollywood entertainment press might have cared?

If they take the edge off the show it is dead, that was one reason the original did so well, the allusion to totalitarianism and how someone can promise BS and use it to sway people.

If that is taken out of this because people are worried that the government may be offended, it doesn't bode well for the series' future success, and it sure doesn't say a lot of good things about freedom of speech in our country.

The creepy parallel to the Obama admin was what made the premier great.

I'm hoping they show school children singing about the V in the next episode.

I hope ABC keeps it up, but they prob won't. Illustrates the sad state of America today.

Now we have a pretty good idea why we will never see Obama's birth certificate. Not just another country!

Yes, the Obama allusions were dramatically toned down. However, the first episode was a jumble of things that took the old version much longer to reveal. I wonder if they have lots of masterful new plot devices for us to enjoy? Likely not. I suspect that this was originally intended to be a 2-hour pilot/premiere, but that so much was cut that getting it down to an hour required drastic surgery.

With at least half the season already in the can, changes at the top will take some time to filter into the show. Watch it this season and if/when it veers off the track tell ABC and the advertisers you don't like the change.

So... He was replaced for criticizing the Obama regime? Wow. This IS getting scary.

I KNEW abc didn't have it in them to continue the jabs at the obamamaniacs we saw in the great pilot last night!

Lokos like they've fired both the producer AND the writer they hold responsible!

why not grow a pair, ABC?

Has anyone heard as to whether this has happened in order to "tone down" the comparisions between the aliens and the present administration? I noticed the previews showed many references to the aliens bringing "hope", yet when the showed aired, it appeared those references were taken out almost entirely. If they want to buck the system and be 'daring', they should leave the current story arc in place and not try to steer it away from pointing fingers at "obamamania".

thanks

Nope. He's gone.

I assume Jeffrey Bell is still with the show. Is that true, Joe?

Comments

Such accolades are something of a triumph for Mr. Ford, who was forced to finance the nearly $7 million project with his own money, after leaving gucci in 2004 and announcing that he would become an replica gucci. It was a transition some in fashion thought made perfect sense given his meticulous attention to cheap gucci — and others thought was doomed, for the same discount gucci.

I have linked this at my site. Just google me.

Trust me folks, this is all over the net. Obama's propaganda ministry had a total conniption. THAT is why the show had to be rewritten. I think ABC actually HAD started to grow a set. And then this. How many O-bots are still blinded by TEH ONE™?

i am surprised anyone still watches a liberal tv station. oh thats right, the obama crowd are the last ignorant ones left on earth to still watch tv. i gave it up years ago as it is just a liberal brainwashing machine. you can get FOX NEWS live on the net for free. the rest is just life wasting garbage.

Last week SYFY channel ran the series from the early 80's - if you remember what made the show so good was the 100% cheesiness on every level. So the comments about the stellar product in the 80's are way off base.

As for changes to the plot lines - there are rumors that FOX NEWS might be picking up the series when ABC cancels it, this would be a natural for them and they could have Glen Beck starring in the Marc Singer role - now that I would pay to see!

I stopped watching any television in 2006. I never watched much before that, so it was no great sacrifice.

If anyone wants to "get a life!", shutting down the boob tube is a GREAT way do do just that!

You'd be surprised at how your attitude changes and how much more you can do...

So much for abc...I leave them to their leader...mmm mmm mmm
I can better use my time at tea parties anyway!

So much for abc...I leave them to their leader...mmm mmm mmm
I can better use my time at tea parties anyway!

Why do you people still pump television into your homes? With the internet, if I don't traffic NBC, they don't sell their ads to me and they don't make any money.

If you want to stop the Obama agenda, why are you supporting NBC, HBO, ABC?, CBS etc, etc every month?

Television is rotting your mind. America has been in decline since TV became our leisure time. Thank god Thomas Edison and Jefferson weren't sitting around waiting on some box to say what they want it to say.

You don't need some super hero soap opera on ABC to tell you these Obamatons are stupid.

It is obvious that somebody got a call (maybe from Rham Deadfish ?) in the middle of the night.

Venezuela, here we come.

Can we have an investigation ?

If they screw this up by cowtowing down to the Libiturds, this will kill ABC. And won't help "THE KING" and his "czars" one damn bit. You think people aren't smart enuff to figure it out? It'd be suicide on two fronts. LOL!

Someone writes a great show attacking Obama and the dangerous stupidity of Obamamania so naturally the Hollywood libs freake out and have to axe the guy in charge oh and "rewrite the scripts." V is going to go downhill fast. Oh well I'll enjoy these first few episodes that make Obama supporters look like the mindless idiots they are.

Idiot execs tried the same play with Jericho and what could've been a great series went down in flames. Now ABC thinks that March is the best time to reintro a series with only 4 episodes of a following after 4 months off?!? Build momentum and keep it. There's nothing but garbage on until January...then there's almost too much good TV to keep up with until April.

Cory,

I saw the link to the sheep grazing story. I didn't realize your family was from New Zealand.

No wonder Obama has so easily pulled the wool over your eyes. Be sure and request that your health plan includes mint jelly.

Semper Fi!

I would not be suprised at all if the network got scared the plot line offended the One and the media Libs. It is getting scary when schoolchildren are taught to sing praises of the great leader, huge companies like GE that own vast media outlets are in bed with the great ruler, and Hollywood is frightened to air anything the could offend the exuctive. Thank God fot the election yesterday. Maybe this country is waking up to the fact that Obama is a dangerous man that shares none of the values of our founding fathers or traditional, unique customs and economic beliefs.

Does anybody involved in TV realize that you will lose half the people who would like to watch your show when you air four episodes and then it gets lost for half a year? Do you not realize that we all just assume you killed another good show, and we'll not even be aware that it's back until April? At which point it's not worth the effort to try to catch up.

Reinventing the wheel has traditionally been considered stupid, just so you know.

The 'showrunner' change (a word I just learned) is obviously at the command of the White House to repair the damage to the image of The Zero. Where's the mystery?

Cory J said:

"If Drudge linked an article about sheep grazing in New Zealand, the comment section would be filled with nothing but Obama rants. It's bordering on mental illness with them."

You'd have a point if only you'd been equally critical of Bush Derangement Syndrome among the libtards back when Shrub was Figurehead-in-Chief

But somehow I doubt you were....

I used to watch every episode of the old NBC V as a kid. I remember the story quite well. In the 80's show they did have V youth, they did have miraculous healing and there was a supplanting of faith with the V. In fact there was a Jewish couple who survived the holocaust and warned their family about how eerily the current events mimicked that time. Maybe they did tweak the script with the universal healthcare phrase (I thought it funny that in this sense it could have also been a double entendre for alien and human healthcare), but who knows if they did or not. All I recall is that they followed most of the original plot and set-up. The mini-series had more time to establish everything however, and in this ratings dash, I am sure that's why it felt rushed. V for victory.

Ridiculous you start a decent show they sop it until March and for what? to build hype! No can someone please inform TV executives its time to leave the 1950's that stuff doesn't work. One if they shows are in the can and people want then they will leak and they the execs will get mad; r two people will forget about it and they will have destroyed a good show. Learn is a free lesson guys on how modern media works, you get people's interest, hold it as long as possible, then either A. threaten to take it away and let fanboys build the hype and fervor for more or B. end it DVD box set it and Spin off the concept/story/ or popular character with more to tell.

cory j- shut up you obamabot cheap hysterical twerplet liberal anti-American garbage.

If he was replaced because the original story line (from 30 years ago) too closely resembled the Obama-Reid-Pelosi regime, is not ABC and the show parodying itself?

Does not this action make the parallels EVEN CLOSER?

and a few thousand nasty-grams to abc about how the show started out huge and turned into vacuous worship wouldn't hurt either if the story line does go that way. i admit i made the assumption that it certainly will with the firing of the head cheese, but i'll try to keep an open (empty) mind and see where it goes. it could stay huge.. really.. it could.. monkies could fly outa abc's collective butts and they might actually make a collosal bump to fly-over country sensibilities and show the requisit sanctimony for the real world.. wow, now THAT would be fiction!

simple solution to this abc sucking up to the messiah by offloading the producer.... do what it takes to make the ratings huge while the old story line kicks the messiah in the nuts. then, when it gets all suckup to barry, drop the ratings like a rock. it's already destined to become yet another pump the messiah show, so no need trying to limp it along out of nostalgia. remember the wakeup call hollywood got from mel gibson's passion. abc can be made to see the light if only the dollars speak.

Actually, i could care less about sheep grazing in new zealand. plenty of sheep grazing toward the polls in 2008 here in the usa swallowing the chosen one helping to transform america. now we see fascist power grabbing and nationalizing businesses. and nobody dares utter anything that would put the chosen one in a negative light

For me the problem with the Drudge-heads posts is simple - it doesn't even matter what the article is about (though this one may be fairer game than most). If Drudge linked an article about sheep grazing in New Zealand, the comment section would be filled with nothing but Obama rants. It's bordering on mental illness with them.

All Hail the Non-citizen - that is, IF you want to keep your job, not get audited, generally stay off of THE LIST. And we are to believe that the "FEMA Camps" are for victims of "emergencies"? I'd venture to ask WHOSE definition of "emergency" and WHOSE victims? The Obama-ites Come In Peace - MMM-mmm-mm!

My jaw was on the floor almost the whole premier with all the Obama parallels. I was a kid when the original V miniseries aired, and many of the same parallels were drawn there. The only differences I recall so far are that the original had a character who was a concentration camp survivor from Hitler's Germany. The alien methods matched Hitler's, and their logo was oh so similar to a swastika. But who knows? Maybe we'll see that in an upcoming episode also. Roll on, Obama theater!

BARACK MADOFF OBAMA MMM MMM MMM

Hey Hank. You are the gullible one here little man. You should have better manners.

Hank, I think the stupidity and gullibility is yours... You are a classic bleating sheep.

Complain about the Drudgereport for "linking" articles that others write.. Yeah, that really makes Drudge readers the stupid ones.

Get back to your Chris Matthews leg tingle and leave the rest of us to see the real world.

Wonder when the producers at ABC news will have the anchors singing praises to the great O....

The Drudge sludge is really showing their stupidity and gullibility.

Looks like Obama put the word out doesn't it? Obama doesn't realise we ALL can see through him like he's made of glass. He also doesn't realise that we are going to send him back to Chi-Town in 2012 or sooner! We don't do the dictator thing here in the USA!

You politicians best keep your hands off our entertainment lest you draw back a stub!

By the end of this show's run, the humans will be the bad guys and the aliens will peel off their skins and reveal themselves as TonTon Macoutes operating on behlaf of Barack Hushpuppy OhBummer.

I'm loving the parallels to Obamamania in this show, but was that the reason they really tossed the writer and producer? I loved the original V as a kid, and found this one to be a product of shoddy direction, very poor dialog and horribly stupid action scenes, lets not forget how many holes were left in the plot, such as a guy showing up at the church with a letter and dying in the pews. What does the priest do with him? Why such a rapid rush to showing how everybody is loving the Vs? There was so much mashed together quickly that it lacked any drama or character development. Dont get me started on the horrible dialog between mother and son! Now that they have a hit, they may actually have to up the quality bar a notch to keep the momentum.

Come on People ABC must show some "RESPECT" to our Fearless leader!
On a side note. That one blond guy that plays the FBI agent that turns out to be an alien. He played the Pirate guy in that Dodgeball movie. Everytime he spoke I had to add, "Ngargh!". Im an alien Ngargh! I want to eat you, ngargh!

If a producer were replaced in 2006 because the network thought there were anti-Bush references in their show, do you think the Hollywood entertainment press might have cared?

If they take the edge off the show it is dead, that was one reason the original did so well, the allusion to totalitarianism and how someone can promise BS and use it to sway people.

If that is taken out of this because people are worried that the government may be offended, it doesn't bode well for the series' future success, and it sure doesn't say a lot of good things about freedom of speech in our country.

The creepy parallel to the Obama admin was what made the premier great.

I'm hoping they show school children singing about the V in the next episode.

I hope ABC keeps it up, but they prob won't. Illustrates the sad state of America today.

Now we have a pretty good idea why we will never see Obama's birth certificate. Not just another country!

Yes, the Obama allusions were dramatically toned down. However, the first episode was a jumble of things that took the old version much longer to reveal. I wonder if they have lots of masterful new plot devices for us to enjoy? Likely not. I suspect that this was originally intended to be a 2-hour pilot/premiere, but that so much was cut that getting it down to an hour required drastic surgery.

With at least half the season already in the can, changes at the top will take some time to filter into the show. Watch it this season and if/when it veers off the track tell ABC and the advertisers you don't like the change.

So... He was replaced for criticizing the Obama regime? Wow. This IS getting scary.

I KNEW abc didn't have it in them to continue the jabs at the obamamaniacs we saw in the great pilot last night!

Lokos like they've fired both the producer AND the writer they hold responsible!

why not grow a pair, ABC?

Has anyone heard as to whether this has happened in order to "tone down" the comparisions between the aliens and the present administration? I noticed the previews showed many references to the aliens bringing "hope", yet when the showed aired, it appeared those references were taken out almost entirely. If they want to buck the system and be 'daring', they should leave the current story arc in place and not try to steer it away from pointing fingers at "obamamania".

thanks

Nope. He's gone.

I assume Jeffrey Bell is still with the show. Is that true, Joe?