Posted on 08/19/2013 2:51:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
So says FTVLive. After all the free publicity the RNC’s given them by threatening to boycott NBC News as a debate sponsor, is NBC really going to slaughter this cash cow?
In fairness, a multi-hour miniseries about Hillary’s triumph over serial victimization would have been a terrible drag. Better to do it in a shorter, snappier format. Three words, my friends: “Hillary! The Musical”.
NBC sources tell FTVLive that the NBC suits have figured the Clinton miniseries “just isn’t worth it.”
Word is that NBC is going to let it quietly go away without saying a word.
NBC does not want to make it look like the RNC or their own news people “got [their] way,” so the project will likely die in the “in development” stage.
One NBC source told FTVLive that the miniseries has gone from a 90% “go” to more like a a 60% “No go.”
Corroborating evidence: Fox pulled the plug this weekend on producing the miniseries for NBC — purportedly over revenue. Could be that NBC’s having difficulty finding a replacement who’ll agree to the revenue terms and political risk that come with this job, but even if they find one, no one will fit the bill as well as Fox would have. That was, potentially, their trump card if they went through with it and people complained that the end product was a valentine to Clinton: “If you thought it was too biased towards Hillary, blame right-wing Fox, not us.” Now it’ll look like standard Hollywood propaganda for the Democratic nominee in waiting. Still worth doing, I’d think, given the public interest, but harder to spin.
Reince Priebus is going to end up high-fiving every grassroots donor in sight to celebrate RNC initiatives against media bias getting results, but there’s more to this than that. When FTV’s source says it “just isn’t worth it,” I think they mean from both sides. Remember, no less a left-wing hack than David Brock called on NBC to torpedo the miniseries for fear that it would end up as, ahem, a right-wing hit job on Her Majesty. And in a way, he’s right: Any unflattering scene would be seized on by liberals as proof that NBC had caved to conservatives, no matter what the tenor of the rest of the production was. They could do six hours on Hillary, Woman of Destiny, and 10 minutes of cursory treatment on Benghazi near the end would have Media Matters wetting itself. It’s one thing to have your news division grumbling about perceptions of bias, it’s another to have both the right and the left screaming at you that you’re in the tank for the left/right. Even with the promise of solid ratings, maybe the prospect of that much aggravation makes the hassle involved prohibitive.
maybe they should do a Joe Biden miniseries instead...it could probably spin out a comedy series
If Hillary Clinton would ever accomplish something other than enriching herself at the expense of the citizenry, sowing widespread discord, and flummoxing about in matters of State, one might consider a miniseries about her to be a worthy pursuit. As it stands today, however, no miniseries could do her justice except as a shallow regurgitation of undeserved praise.
Give it another four score and seven years. Then we might have something to rave about. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be deep. But at least we’ll have the seasoned perspective of time as opposed to the rah-rah-ramblings of effervescing adolescents in the history-cheapening media.
NBC instead will make a 6 minute video....
OMG! Are we going to be subjected to another one of her screeches over this?
I thought it was supposed to be on ABC.
They say he’s hiding at home. There was an article today about his being off camera and out of the scene.
he’s not at home hiding. He’s in the Hamptons.
Back in the ‘70s the Hamptons was a place to go to visit a grandmother. Okay, a wealthy grandmother, but that’s a very good kind of grandmother, summering in the Hamptons in the old summer house Grandpa or some other family member had purchased when one could do so.
Then the fast money people found out about it and the well mannered quiet maintained deserved retreat is now gone. Taken a dive. And the prices are prohibitive.
Joe Biden. What is a career public servant doing summering in the Hamptons?
If he wants to blast his or someone else’s money then he can be a capitalist. But he’s not some statesman or Founding Father type, serving some limited term and going back to a career.
When these guys go to the Hamptons there is serious money we are talking about. He’s not staying in some time share with his wife and pets. He’s got an entourage. And whoever is putting him in there expects payback.
It’s like, what is Caroline Kennedy doing claiming $500,000,000.00? Her husband is a lawyer. Did her grandfather’s fortune come from his building railroads a la Vanderbilt or contribute anything nearly as worthwhile as Carnegie?
Surely her father didn’t make that kind of money as a public servant, not legally or ethically.
Her mother’s people did not have that kind of money. She was fabulous but not from that kind of money.
Anyway, Biden should have “the real grifters of the Hamptons” show or “South Shore”.
He and his bad hair walk to the beach with their sand shovels and then get snubbed at a restaurant because his brain is fried.
Nothing against him personally, I just don’t like him and his kind thinking they can go around spending money like inebriated vacationers of the people he works for (us)
How ‘bout “(Arab) Springtime for Hillary!?”
I might even watch that!
Why? I ‘d LOVE to see it!!
Cowards. Go ahead, show that thing... I’m sure people are just dying to know about how the Smartest Woman in the World stood by her husband and his harem of interns, secretaries, and God knows who else... making her look like Slick Willie’s Doormat.
C’mon, NBC... “Courage”, as Dan Rather once famously said.
That’s too bad.
The enemy presents fewer problems out in the open.
Is NBC going to make sure “I don’t feel no-ways tired” gets its proper due?
“maybe they should do a Joe Biden miniseries instead...it could probably spin out a comedy series”
Yeah...they could call it Schmuck Dynasty.
NO....Go for it, NBC...>COME ON!!!
NO....Go for it, NBC...>COME ON!!!
They would not have any information to convey about “The One”s history. It’s dangerous to look at Obama’s history for a leftist network.
Retitle it
“Cankles !”
The life and loves of a nearsighted harpy.
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