[Robert357]

Inquiring minds would like to know who might be the Showtime sponsors of such a "political hit job," just so a few letters can be written to companies to express opinions regarding the purchase of products by those that want to sponsor such rubbish.

[lainie]

Well, Showtime's owned by the same company that owns CBS. So them airing it doesn't necessarily mean they want to. If they think they're going to get a lot of new subscribers over this, well, I think that's pretty naive. But the production company and/or specific execs who made this movie? I don't know. Good question.

[lainie]

CBS's senior vice president of movies and miniseries, Bela Bajaria, is being blamed internally at the network for the growing backlash against the project, CBS sources said this weekend.

"Look, it was going to be about the Reagans and their family," a senior network source said. "A love story! We lost control of it... it transformed. Politics was seasoned in. What was delivered is not what was pitched to me or anyone else here, that I am aware of."

Bajaria told the LOS ANGELES TIMES last summer that in REAGANS she wanted to tell "an amazing love story that spans four decades."

"We don't expect this to be controversial," she explained.

http://www.drudgereport.com/rr6.htm

[N. Theknow]

Inquiring minds would like to know who might be the Showtime sponsors of such a "political hit job," just so a few letters can be written to companies to express opinions regarding the purchase of products by those that want to sponsor such rubbish.

Showtime would not have sponsors would it? Movie channels most often run entire movies and only plug their own shows instead of products.

Now, if everyone cancelled their Showtime subscriptions or threatened their local cable companies with some sort of retribution for Showtime airing this Streisand-motivated, libelous, insipid hate piece; we might see some action.

OR

If those of us who do not subscribe to Showtime all of a sudden subscribed and then in one fell swoop cancelled our subscriptions, this too would be a wake up call.

OR

If we all cancelled our subscriptions tomorrow, resubscribed, the day after, cancelled the day after that, resubscribed the day after that, etc, etc, etc; we could drive them completely nuts at both the cable companies and Showtime and more importantly Viacom.