“ABC was trying to decide whether or not to pick upDesignatedfor a third year,” Baer recalls.
“I went in and pitched the storyline for the pandemic.
That was Maggie Q’s story for the whole season that intersects with Kiefer’s storyline.
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Are we prepared for a pandemic?
How are we going to deal with this?
ABC went, ‘Woo, that’s pretty tough.'”
“There was an attempt to do this during apartheid called Project Coast,” he explains.
“It was in the ’80s.
They were trying to design a bioweapon that would target black South Africans.
It wasn’t like I was just making this out of thin air.
I was informed by some really dark things that human beings were doing decades ago.
I remember when I was a kid, that was a huge TV movie.
data pipe television doesn’t take the risks they took 20 years ago,” Baer says.
There’s a lot of talk about blue-sky aspiration.
But there were a lot of gangster films.
Well, we have history that shows that we did.
I think we’ll see both."
