Posted on 09/19/2018 10:59:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
CBS is in talks for the rights to produce a miniseries based on "A Higher Loyalty," former FBI Director James Comey's memoir of his time in the FBI, including his service under President Trump.
CNBC reported Tuesday that the network is close to a deal for the series's rights after reportedly winning an auction for the story earlier this month.
CBS Television Studios declined to comment to CNBC, but a source close to the negotiations described the auction process as "a highly competitive situation," according to the report.
The former FBI director's memoir was released in April amid fanfare in the press and heated criticism from Trump and the White House, with the president himself calling for the former FBI chief to be "prosecuted" for allegedly leaking classified information, which Comey has denied doing.
Comey's tell-all book was harsh in its criticism of Trump and his administration, describing the president as "unethical" and his leadership style akin to a mob boss.
"This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values," Comey wrote. "His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty."
At the time of its release, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Comey was in talks for potential TV or movie deals, with the news outlet adding that he had not previously considered before a "flood" of interest around the book's release.
"A film or TV deal wasn’t something Comey even thought about until a flood of people in Hollywood called and expressed interest after the book was announced in early August. Comey is said to be unsure if he’ll sell the option in the end," the report stated.
Comey's former colleague, ex-deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the bureau earlier this year, signed his own book deal this week, according to an announcement from his publisher.
Wow. that will be riveting drama.
Episode one “I Wish I Was Stronger”. The entire half hour is a static shot of the drapes in the White House. You can’t really tell if he’s hiding in there or not.
The Deep State is undertaking a large-scale project to eject PDJT and open the door to the final destruction of the United States Constitution based on demographic replacement and reverse ethnic clensing.
They think this is the moment. They think if they don’t do it now, it won’t happen within the lifetime of the Baby Boomers who are controlling and motivating this.
It’s the equivalent of the Manhattan Project for the Deep State. Every element of it is pulling in the same direction, and the costs are being borne by very large sources both within the United States and from off-shore accounts. Price is no object.
It’s time to start revoking television broadcast licenses.
The licenses have to be renewed, and part of the renewal process is providing evidence they provide a service to the community.
Lying to the community repeatedly with sub-par propaganda isn’t fulfilling their mandate.
Just cut off the licenses.
Fiction and fake news all rolled into one.
CBS would set the “obituary column” to a miniseries, if they could.
They want to make Comey look like a hero fighting for ‘truth, justice, and the removal of Trump’.
Agreed! The Marxists are using this phase as the bloodless coup. If unsuccessful, i don’t htink the next one will be bloodless.
Heh, reminds me of one of the more enjoyable posts I got to read a few months ago regarding the movie “RBG” about Justice Ginsberg.
A freeper said (I have to paraphrase):
“Its hard for me to picture. Could she ever have been an attractive young woman at some point?”
Another freeper answered:
“Don’t be silly, of course she was. There was that time she dated that Union officer after the Battle of Antietam...”
His book wouldn’t even make good toilet paper.
Netflix enriching the Obamas. CBS funding Comey. Leftists always finds a way to reward those kindred brethren who serve them well.
They’ll need to cast a transgender in the role to play Comey. Somebody who can blend in with the curtains, and can leak standing up, not squatting. Or maybe Les Moonves can play him. I hear he’s looking for a job.
Why Comey’s book and not Greg Jarrett’s?
I wonder if Comey can write the screen play from the Clinker?
-—It’s time to start revoking television broadcast licenses.-—
Don’t be silly...If CBS wants to blow a ton of money on a show nobody will watch past the third eposide...let them...
It’s not the broadcast entertainment programming.
It’s the supply of information that is accurate to the people.
They are failing their mandate.
Their news feed is in violation of their license mandate.
At least as I understand it, it is.
Can’t wait until there is a movie re: Trump time as President.
Not just CBS. The book’s publisher is owned by Holtzbrinck. Enter the Germans again.
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