'V' taps 'Chuck' veteran as new showrunner

"V" will be introduced to the world on Tuesday night. Tuesday morning, the ABC series introduced a new showrunner.

Scott Rosenbaum, who's currently an executive producer of "Chuck," is joining "V" as an executive producer (Warner Bros. TV produces both shows). He'll  also take over running the show from Scott Peters, the studio confirms.

Peters will remain an executive producer of the show, but fellow exec producer Jeffrey Bell is expected to depart.

"V" has finished shooting four episodes, all of which will air in November. The show is then going on a long break -- it resumes shooting in January and will return to the air in March, in part to avoid the launch of "American Idol" on FOX and the Winter Olympics on NBC in February. Rosenbaum, who's also worked on "The Shield," will be in charge for the remaining nine episodes.

"We had a great pilot, then a couple of great episodes, but we had a disconnect on where we were going from there. I hadn't had the experience of that before," ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson tells USA Today, which broke the news about Rosenbaum's hiring. McPherson says he takes "a little blame for rushing them" -- the show was initially intended for a 2010 premiere.

The series, a reboot of the 1983 NBC miniseries-turned-weekly drama, has earned largely positive reviews for its take on the alien-invasion story. It premieres at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on ABC.

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