Free Republic

NEW YORK -- Just three hours after CBS Entertainment chief Nancy Tellem insisted publicly on Tuesday morning that the network had not canceled the embattled "The Reagans" miniseries, CBS issued a statement saying that it had done so. It also has licensed the film to Showtime, its pay-network arm. "This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film, not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script," the statement said. CBS said the show "does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience. Subsequent edits that we considered did...