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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Although the networks are currently being very careful not to offend or upset viewers since last Tuesday's (Sept. 11) terrorist attack, it is still unclear how far this sensitivity will go once fall shows get underway -- especially with the four spy series debuting in the next couple of months.

CBS' "The Agency" has decided to make changes to its premiere episode, but "Alias" creator J.J. Abrams, aside from rewriting a couple sentences and dropping use of the World Trade Organization in one of the episodes, thinks the show is basically fine as is.

"We're trying to be as responsible as we can be during this impossible tragedy to continue to do 'Alias' as well as 'Felicity,'" Abrams says.

"The show is about this a young woman, who is herself a victim of violence, who's actually active in trying to affect change in not just her life, but for the good of the country," he explains. "This was never intended to this extreme when I created the show, but I believe that there could be a kinship with her that people might feel because she is, in many ways, in the position that we're all in."

"Alias" follows the adventures of Sydney Bristow, a college student with a secret life as an international spy. In each episode, Sydney travels to different locales for her job. While it's Taiwan in the pilot, future episodes will include trips to the Middle East.

"The one thing about 'Alias' is, it is a show that's set in the spy genre so you're never going to get away from international travel, good guys, bad guys -- that's going to be built in. [However] there are very specific groups of bad guys, they're not terrorists."

"The show is really about the character and what she must go through," he stresses. "Not real life."

"Our show really is a comic book brought to life and doesn't really deal with, and never has, dealt with terrorism, per se," he says.

"Alias" will premiere Sunday, Sept. 30 at 9 p.m.

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