NBC Scraps Hillary Clinton Miniseries

[Purveyor]

NBC has scrapped its controversial Hillary Clinton miniseries project.

“After reviewing and prioritizing our slate of movie/miniseries development, we’ve decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton miniseries,” the network said in a statement Monday.

The news comes hours after CNN Films opted to cancel its planned documentary on the former Secretary of State and First Lady after pressure from Democrats and Republicans.

NBC announced in July that it was developing a four-hour miniseries based on Clinton starring Diane Lane, with plans to air the effort before Clinton was likely to announce her candidacy for president. The project was due to be written by Frozen River's Courtney Hunt and would have recounted Clinton's life as a wife, mother, politician and cabinet member from 1998 to the present. The script would have started with Clinton living in the White House as her husband Bill Clinton is serving the second of his two terms as president and would have included her likely run for president.

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[spanone]

1. the media responds to the right....always

[msanthrope]

2. Ahem--the Clintons didn't want it, either. nt

[spanone]

3. think the media did it for the clintons? naaaaw.

[msanthrope]

5. I think the media did it because they knew the Clinton campaign and the RNC would have

raised an utter stink. But not solely for the Clintons, no.

[spanone]

8. think you're right about that

[frylock]

7. it was stated in another piece that none of Clinton's people would talk to these folks..

they couldn't get any interviews.

[Calculator Alligator]

4. Media Matters helped kill the documentary (the documentary could have been anti-Hillary)

And the director of the show is whining about it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/hillary-clinton-documentary_b_4014792.html

We should not assume that this documentary was going to be good to Hillary. It looks like pseudo-scandals were going to be revived.

[msanthrope]

6. He was digging in Arkansas--it was going to be the same old Mena airport/Vince Foster rehash. nt