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V: The New Series Update..

An ABC spokeswoman confirmed that while V: The New Series will indeed premiere on the network in November, it will be just four episodes that will run during sweeps, and then not return again until March when the Winter Olympics are over..

In waiting until March to resume V: The New Series it seems that they wanted to avoid the January American Idol juggernaut and the Winter Olympics in February..

News of the show’s unique rollout comes amid rampant speculation that the Warner Bros. TV drama was undergoing a serious overhaul after news broke that it would halt production for a two – week hiatus..

Now, an insider confirms, the hiatus will extend for another four weeks to prepare for the show’s previously announced 3rd November 2009 debut.. The ABC spokeswoman says it was always the network’s intent to the run the science fiction drama, which has a 13 – episode order, in ” pod “ form to treat it more like event programming.. Thus, similar to how they did V: The Mini – Series and V: The Final Battle..

According to our source, only three episodes have been filmed thus far, and ABC hasn’t been satisfied with subsequent scripts.. We’re told that the creative reworking which was being supervised by creator / exec producer Scott Peters during the last few weeks of hiatus didn’t help matters.. Our source tells us that the next episode will lens in October and that production will then shut down until January … which would mean 10 weeks or more of production suspension.. If you know anything at all about television production, that’s a potentially costly, disruptive proposition for a network, since studio space is expensive to rent and crews can move on to other projects..

That could mean ABC is worried about how V: The New Series will perform, and may be looking closely at debut audience numbers to figure it out what to do next.. If the show under performs, ABC will be able to pull the plug quickly without expending too much producing episodes it may never intend to air.. If it at least meets audience expectations, then the network could green light additional episodes that would be ready to shoot about the same time..

When the hiatus was originally announced, back in August, it was just a couple of weeks, and Warner Bros. execs said it was designed to take advantage of the leeway from the show’s already – announced 3rd November 2009 premiere date to ” maximize creative difficulties..”

The real problem was that Warner Bros. and ABC weren’t happy with the scripts that showrunner Jeff Bell was turning in.. ( Bell was showrunner on the final, best season of Angel, so we were excited to see him working on this show ) Bell was being bumped to the ” number 2 spot “ and show re – creator Scott Peters ( The 4400 ) was becoming showrunner..