Why the virus story line on Netflix's Designated Survivor was too heavy for ABC
, but also gave Baer the green light to pursue the arc, which is based on a true story. "There was an attempt to do this during apartheid called Project Post," 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.
Now Baer worries whether the broadcast networks will continue to shy away from heavy and relevant subject matter like a pandemic — especially when production resumes for the 2020-21 TV season.[about nuclear war] in the '80s. I remember when I was a kid, that was a huge TV movie. Network television doesn't take the risks they took 20 years ago," Baer says. "[Producers] may possibly fear that since people have lived it, so they don't want to see it.
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