Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough executive producer Brian Peterson said he and executive producer Kelly Souders probably had “about 100 ideas” for a second season of “The Hot Zone,” diving into the anthrax scare that followed in the wake of the Sept.
11, 2001 terrorist attacks quickly rose to the top for them. “The Hot Zone: Anthrax” will premiere Nov. 28 as part of a three-night event.“The first season was very much about an outbreak.
It was about a virus,” Peterson explained during the show’s Television Critics Assn. press tour panel on Aug. 18. “This is a story that’s about bacteria and about a very targeted situation that still lived within the same timeframe and world, roughly, as the first season, so it felt.
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