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Where will 'The Kennedys' end up?
newsday ^ | Verne Gay

Posted on 01/09/2011 9:54:00 AM PST by JoeProBono

History Channel pulled the plug the controversial "The Kennedys" doc Friday, and now this question: Where? Where will eight hours of a now-highly-promotable miniseries end up on U.S. TV, or is it too hot to handle? For reasons still unclear, HC said no, and widespread speculation about the reason landed at the door of part-owner Disney/ABC, which buckled under pressure from the family; the mini - an unusual venture for HC under any circumstances immediately drew fire from various liberal points on the cultural compass when it was announced because of the association with producer Joel Surnow, former "24" producer, and considered an unusual conservative voice, or unusual for Hollywood in any event.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: thekennedys
"The Kennedys" Television Reference Trailer


1 posted on 01/09/2011 9:54:00 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

I wonder what Tom Cruise thinks of his wife’s movie being jettisoned.

Maybe Fox will pick it up.


2 posted on 01/09/2011 10:03:08 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: JoeProBono

I am still waiting on Pathway to 911 being released on CD


3 posted on 01/09/2011 10:09:14 AM PST by Tweeker
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To: JoeProBono
Showtime looking at 'Kennedys' series
4 posted on 01/09/2011 10:09:46 AM PST by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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To: Tweeker

Or maybe on DVD so we can watch it on our televisions...


5 posted on 01/09/2011 10:10:41 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: JoeProBono

It’ll never air in the US.

Hopefully the DVD/Blu-ray will lack region coding so it will work on American players.


6 posted on 01/09/2011 10:17:56 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: JoeProBono

The ash heap of history.


7 posted on 01/09/2011 10:20:25 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: JoeProBono

A year’s worth of filming never fed a hungry child.


8 posted on 01/09/2011 10:23:40 AM PST by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: JoeProBono
Where will 'The Kennedys' end up?

Most of them, face down on a bar room floor.

What? You were talking about the TV series? Never mind...

9 posted on 01/09/2011 10:26:20 AM PST by llevrok (There is no such thing as the truth, only versions. - Arkady Renko)
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To: JoeProBono


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

10 posted on 01/09/2011 10:31:37 AM PST by The Comedian (Puzzling puzzle pieces precisely proliferating panoramically.)
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To: The Comedian

11 posted on 01/09/2011 10:37:27 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

The show is still owned by the production company and Surnow, so he can distribute it straight to video or find another network or cable outlet to air it. It is in no way dead. Heck, he could make it a several-part movie and show it in movie theaters, if he finds a distributor. It would be like seeing all the Harry Potter movies in the theater in one year instead of over six years or so.


12 posted on 01/09/2011 10:46:02 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: The Comedian
what level?


13 posted on 01/09/2011 10:54:23 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin....The Thrilla from Wasilla)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan; The Comedian

The level where they’re doomed to relive the most gut wrenching, squirm-inducing, humiliating hours of their lives over and over again for life everlasting.

They’ll be bored but suffering forever.


14 posted on 01/09/2011 11:12:25 AM PST by TheOldLady ("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
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To: The Comedian
For us, Massholes present and EX, that lived thru the Kennedy era their departure from the stage is like a boulder lifted from our collective chests. For those of us that have dealt with them, in any matter, realize that a cancer has been excised.
15 posted on 01/09/2011 11:23:42 AM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: JoeProBono

I just started watching episode one and already have seen one inaccuracy. As I remember Joe Kennedy, Jr. was in the Army Air Corps while JFK was in the Navy.
Yet both are depicted as wearing Navy uniforms and JFK’s first one showed him as a Lt. not a Lt. jg which is what he was when he went to the Pacific to command a PT Boat.
Those kind of mistakes should not have happened.
So if minor mistakes are made what will I make of the whole series and I have read a lot of books on the Kennedy’s over the course of my life.


16 posted on 04/03/2011 7:38:19 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (.)
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