The Kennedys President and accounted for
The series will still air here, as promised, in two-hour chunks, four consecutive Sunday nights at 9 on History, starting April 10.Down south, the controversy continues. There’s a reason, production costs and tax incentives aside, that both of these much-contested efforts came all the way up to Canada to shoot (The Kennedys here; The Reagans in Montreal). In 2003, the CBS network was pressured into dropping their already shot and scheduled TV movie, The Reagans, by pre-emptively outraged historians, prominent conservatives and Reagan friends and family. It ended up airing, without further incident, on the cable channel Showtime.History repeated itself when Discovery History (not related to our own History Television) decided to drop its own eight-hour miniseries, The Kennedys, sending its producers scrambling unsuccessfully from network to network, until they found it a new U.S. home on the obscure movie service ReelzChannel. LEAVE A REPLY Cancel replyLog in to leave a comment Advertisement Advertisement Americans take their dead presidents very seriously, particularly in terms of how they are portrayed on TV.Living fictional presidents are fine: Martin Sheen on West Wing, Geena Davis in Commander in Chief, Dennis Haysbert and Cherry Jones on 24.But the martyred John F. Kennedy, and before him, the dying Ronald Reagan — venture there at your peril.
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