HOW DOES THE NEW ‘TWILIGHT ZONE’ COMPARE TO THE ORIGINAL?
CBS 🤵 MATT SINGER June 27, 2019 ⏱️ 11:30 AM Starting today, CBS All Access has submitted a new version of The Twilight Zone for the approval of its subscribers. Produced and hosted by Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele, the show is heavily indebted to the original version of the series, which ran for five seasons in the 1950s and 60s, and was created, produced, and hosted by writer Rod Serling. Peele’s Twilight Zone is actually the third such revival of the landmark sci-fi anthology, following versions in the mid-1980s on CBS and syndication, and one in the early 2000s on UPN. No matter the iteration, every subsequent Twilight Zone has been compared to the first. Serling’s Twilight Zone was never a massive ratings success in its day, but decades of syndicated reruns, VHS and DVD compilations, and holiday marathons, have transformed it one of the most celebrated and influen...