National Geographic has given a series order for a miniseries based on Richard Preston’s 1995 book The Hot Zone. The network made the announcement during this week’s upfront presentations, and it comes from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, Fox 21 Television Studios, and Lynda Obst Productions. It wasn't announced when the show would premiere or how many episodes it would run.
The Hot Zone is about the discovery of the Ebola virus in Africa in the 1970s and an outbreak that occurred in Reston, Virginia, in 1990 when a group of quarantined monkeys began to die of mysterious causes. Ebola is a virus thought to be transmitted to humans through contact with animals. The virus is deadly; those who contract it experience fever,...
