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Are you ready for the Hillary Clinton mini-series?
Hotair ^ | 07/29/2013 | Erika Johnsen

Posted on 07/29/2013 7:17:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Whether they’re not-so-subtly gunning for her candidacy, or merely capitalizing on all of the already rampant speculation about her candidacy, isn’t quite clear. I’m going to go ahead and venture a wild guess that it’s a good bit of both.

Comcast Corp.’s NBC broadcast network is developing live-event programs and mini-series to draw audiences when programs air as opposed to recording them to watch later on DVRs.

NBC is developing four mini-series, including a four-hour show based on Hillary Clinton, who will be played by Diane Lane, Bob Greenblatt, chairman of entertainment, said yesterday at a TV critic conference in Beverly Hills.

… Live events and high-profile mini-series draw more live viewers than TV series, Greenblatt said. With DVRs now in more than half of U.S. TV homes, the programs are a way to limit viewing on the devices, which allow audiences to skip commercials.

“We have to do everything we can to get as many people to watch a show when it airs as possible,” Greenblatt said. …

But, could this little project violate FEC rules, you might ask? Nope — not if they get to it while the speculation about Clinton’s 2016 candidacy is still just speculation.

Will NBC run afoul of campaign laws that require equal time for presidential candidates? Not if the network gets the project on in a hurry.

“She’s not going to probably declare her candidacy for two more years,” NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said, “so this could well have aired before that.”

The chronology of the mini-series will reportedly begin in 1998, smack in the middle of the high-profile and surely high-drama moments surrounding her presidential husband’s scandalous affair. That means that we’ll be getting heavy doses of his impeachment scenario, her successful Senate bid, and then her loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary — but John Fund has a great breakdown over at National Review of what we’ll very likely be missing. Ahem.

Incidentally, by the way, this is happening today, too:

President Obama will host Hillary Rodham Clinton, his one-time campaign foe who later served as his secretary of state, at lunch Monday at the White House.

Obama and Clinton will meet for a lunch in the president’s private dining room, the White House announced Sunday. Their meeting will be closed to the press. …

As she weighs another campaign, Clinton has been traveling the country giving dozens of speeches, both paid and pro-bono, and is working on a new book.



TOPICS: History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillaryclinton; miniseries
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To: SeekAndFind

There is nothing “mini” about Hellery.


21 posted on 07/29/2013 7:38:11 AM PDT by twister881
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To: DManA
I wonder if they filmed the Fort Marcy Park scenes on location?


22 posted on 07/29/2013 7:40:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Will they show her sneaking off for a quickie romp on the Rose Law Firm conference room table with Chelsea’s dad, Web?


23 posted on 07/29/2013 7:42:32 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: SeekAndFind

So NBC (Nothing But Clintons) will be showing a porno movie for the first time on air. Now where does Billy fit into all this?


24 posted on 07/29/2013 7:43:56 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: SeekAndFind

Will Hillary Clinton run on the Real Hillary Clinton or the Hillary Clinton created by NBC


25 posted on 07/29/2013 7:46:14 AM PDT by molson209
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To: molson209

That is a rhetorical question, right?


26 posted on 07/29/2013 7:49:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Chapter Four:Benghazi

Phone call? At 3AM? Nope,I never got one.I clearly remember that I was baking cookies at that time....

27 posted on 07/29/2013 7:50:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would watch to see the part when she last spoke to Vince Foster.


28 posted on 07/29/2013 7:51:21 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Hatteras
Will they show her sneaking off for a quickie romp on the Rose Law Firm conference room table with Chelsea’s dad, Web?

Oh,so *that's* what he meant in that prison phone call when he said he'd have to "roll over" for her one more time.For years I thought he was talking about some sort of coverup.

29 posted on 07/29/2013 7:53:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nathan Lane as Hillary not Diane Lane


30 posted on 07/29/2013 8:13:58 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: SeekAndFind
Will it include the sweeping romance of the Hillary-Huma love affair?

"Blow in my ear and I'll follow you anywhere!"

31 posted on 07/29/2013 8:15:33 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: SeekAndFind

Diane Lane

In Hillarys dreams


32 posted on 07/29/2013 8:19:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: Cyman
Nathan Lane as Hillary not Diane Lane

Yes, I can see how that casting would work.... (after all, Dustin Hoffman did it with Tootsie )


33 posted on 07/29/2013 8:27:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Cool! A Wizard of Oz remake!


34 posted on 07/29/2013 8:33:55 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Hillary Clinton movie? Don’t we have enough zombie shows already?


35 posted on 07/29/2013 9:16:15 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind
DUAL AIRBAGS

Photobucket


36 posted on 07/29/2013 9:20:52 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Hitler would have LOVED obozo!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m ready to ignore any mini-series about anything democrat party as fully and assiduously as possible. I’d rather have my gums scraped than have anything to do with the lying, socialist, former first bitch.


37 posted on 07/29/2013 9:54:27 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SeekAndFind
Any similarities?

Physically, no. Diane Lane is actually not bad looking and has aged fairly well.

Politically is a different manner. Lane is possibly a bigger leftist moon bat than Hill-liar-y, if that's possible.

38 posted on 07/29/2013 9:59:56 AM PDT by ssaftler (Oh, hell YEAH!!!! This is absolutely Obama's fault)
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To: ssaftler
YOUNG DIANE LANE


YOUNG HILLARY CLINTON

39 posted on 07/29/2013 10:04:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What difference does it make?

40 posted on 07/29/2013 10:12:43 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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