'V' to go on hiatus after four episodes

V will take an extended break after its first four episodes have aired, ABC has confirmed.

The sci-fi remake, which stars Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, will premiere on November 3, then air for a further three episodes before going on hiatus. The remaining episodes of the initial 13-episode order will play out from Spring 2010.

Production on the series was temporarily shut down last month for "creative" reasons. In recent days, rumours had suggested that V was effectively "dead" and that the episodes produced to date would instead air as a confined miniseries.

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