[Toskrin]

A complete piece of crap. This is worse than I thought. Just look at any three or four scenes throughout the script. Every single one portrays the Reagans in a terrible way.

It's obvious no research was done at all for the script. The authors just remembered what they could about the Reagan administration and invented all the behind-the-scenes nastiness.

[RayChuang88]

You can say that again. Small wonder why CBS President Leslie Moonves shelved the project, given that it could have resulted in a HUGE public-relations fiasco for CBS and several prominent advertisers suffering major consumer boycotts at the busiest shopping season of the year.

Moonves may be a close friend of the Clinton family but when serious dollar signs are involved, that overrides all other considerations. "Babs" Streisand may be p***** off but she doesn't have to deal with a financial impact that could run into the many millions of dollars for everyone involved including the advertisers.

[RayChuang88]

Oh one more thing: I think an entity no less powerful than the National Football League may have played a behind the scenes role in CBS shelving the miniseries. You forget that CBS will be broadcasting the next Super Bowl game and if CBS had broadcast The Reagans as scheduled it would have resulted in potentially disastrous effects on Super Bowl TV advertising sales, sales that help CBS recoup the cost of producing the Super Bowl.