NBC Says Hillary Clinton Miniseries May Never Go To Production

[IDemo]

Source: Picayune Times

Following backlash from the Republican National Committee, NBC expressed doubts theHillary Clinton miniseries will ever go to production.

"The Hillary Clinton movie has not been ordered to production, only a script is being written at this time," NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt told Deadline in a statement. "It is 'in development', the first stage of any television series or movie, many of which never go to production. Speculation, demands, and declarations pertaining to something that isn't created or produced yet seem premature."

Greenblatt's statement comes shortly after the Republican National Committee decided to block NBC access to GOP primary debates during the next presidential election. "As an American company, you have every right to air programming of your choice. But as American citizens, certainly you recognize why many are astounded by your actions, which appear to be a major network's thinly veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 election," RNC chairman Reince Priebus wrote in letters sent Greenblatt and Jeff Zucker, president of CNN, which also has a Hillary Clinton project in the works.

On Friday, negotiations fell apart for Fox Television Studios to produce NBC's Clinton miniseries because of deal points. Diane Lane was attached to star in the project, to be written and directed by Frozen River's Courtney Hunt.






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[chillfactor]

1. good god!

a network capitulating to the RNC? who controls this country..Rinse Creepise?

[kelliekat44]

39. And people worry about NSA spying which hasn't stopped a damn thing. The media conglomerates

pose the greatest threat to American democracy and freedoms by what they focus on and what they don't.

[tularetom]

2. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

to think that the liberal media would be intimidated by a threat from the right wing goons who run the republican party.

It's pretty certain that CNN, which has less spine than any other TV "news" outlet, will put the kibosh on any Hillary Clinton show they may be contemplating.

Meanwhile you can expect a dozen specials proving that Benghazi was the worst thing that ever happened anywhere in the world ever. And they won't all be on Fox either.

[kelliekat44]

40. Waiting for the Netflix Mini-series or are they too afraid also? nt

[FreeBC]

3. DON'T CAAAARE - Warren 2016!!!

Let's get a candidate that will work for americans, not for their corporate buddies.

[The American Sickle]

19. That's a good question.

If it came down in the primaries between Warren and Clinton......????

[eggplant]

20. Yea, it would be terrible if we fielded two strong female candidates.

The horror!

[FarPoint]

36. Just be grateful she won the Senate Seat.

I am.

[closeupready]

4. Fine with me. Many good Democrats can run and win.

K&R

[Dustin DeWinde]

5. the media kowtows to the lunatic right once again.

And moron teabaggers will still rant and rave about the 'liberal media'.

[grandpamike1]

6. And a

Big FU NBC. It's no wonder you are in last place. Jeff Zucker took you there and now will take CNN to the same place, and Greenblatt is furthering their demise.

[Initech]

7. So let me get this straight...

The republicans are legally allowed to produce an anti Hillary [strikethru]campaign ad[/strikethru3] "documentary" called "Hillary: The Movie", sued to get it aired, took the case all the way to the Supreme Court and overturned 100 years of campaign finance laws in the process. But someone tries to produce a pro Hillary piece? Fuck that!!

[busterbrown]

8. To a more important point...

the backing down to right wing extremists never fucking never ceases to amaze me..
Wether we give a shit or not about the Hillary movie..

[karynnj]

9. Does anyone remember the 2005 special on hero John McCain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444626/

At the time, McCain, like Hillary now, was a leading candidate of his party. In addition, that film was written based on HIS book and was clearly designed to cement his image as a war hero. It is doubful that the HRC would be anywhere near as one sided as this.

Do you remember the outrage? I don't. Any attempt to keep it off the air? None that I know of. Reaction -- it was nominated for emmys!

[WCGreen]

15. It was aired on USA...

[karynnj]

17. And promoted ad nauseum on many other channels

Not to mention, there were excerpts of it used in 2007 and 2008.

[raindaddy]

10. Who cares?

They ought to run a series on the history of labor in this country and have both parties threatening to pull their debates.

[spin]

11. I would be upset if Fox ran a fluff miniseries on Condoleezza Rice ...

in hopes that this would enhance her chances of winning the Republican primary and consequently the Presidency.

I see no problem with a network running a unbiased and fair documentary about a candidate that investigates both the good that the candidate has accomplished as well as any possible missteps or scandals in the candidate's past.

A miniseries or movie is more appropriate for a dead politician. Prior to that point, I consider it propaganda from one side or the other.

[Electric Monk]

14. +1

Dead, or clearly retired and never campaigning for themselves again. I'd have no problems with NBC doing a Jimmy Carter biopic, for example.

[question everything]

12. Well, NBC is already in 4th place

Keep doing this and you will sink further below CW and Lifetime.

I cannot think of a single regular program that we watch on NBC. Even the local affiliate is sinking.

SNL, maybe, when it returns.

[WCGreen]

16. Parenthood is really the only showI watch NBC...

[zbdent]

13. But anti-Obama "V" series gets green light from "liberally-biased media" ...

and lo and behold, people are wondering why everybody thinks it's about Obama and "universal health care" ...

[NeonDog]

18. Sinclair Broadcasting swift boating Kerry 24/7, for days on end was OK..

But a biography of Hillary Clinton..a US Senator, 1st Lady and Secretary of State...is not allowed on a main stream media broadcast...
More of the shallowness we've come to expect from the enemies of the Republic, better know as the Republican Party..

Time to trample some vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored...

[olddots]

21. could you imagine politics without TV ?????

people would have to think ,listen and know the issues .......

[underpants]

22. She is going to win anyway but this lays the whole MSM bare

[calimary]

23. So they're caving.

Since when does the RNC get to push the media around? Well, I guess since forever...

[YOHABLO]

24. Perhaps just looking for a way out of debates altogether .. ha ha they got nothin.

[Archae]

25. I say it's good news.

A miniseries about Hillary Clinton?

How much would get distorted, one way or another in the name of "artistic license?"

I say just drop the whole stupid idea. Period.

[iamthebandfanman]

28. Itd be worth it

to see republicans shoot themselves in the foot...
how them not allowing people to cover the debate is supposed to help them, ill never know

[Archae]

29. Would it really "be worth it?"

I say no.

It would be rightly seen as a pro-Hillary campaign ad, and if the facts were distorted, (which in a TV-movie or miniseries they would be,) the right-wingers would be jumping all over "the liberal media" giving them an excuse to ignore their own bullshit TV movies like "The Road To 9-11."

[kelliekat44]

41. First question at the RNC debate: "How do you feel about a HRC mini-series?" nt

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Irrelevant. Republicans didn't intend to hold debates notwithstanding the Miniseries.

[davidpdx]

30. Good point

They were just looking for an excuse. Had it not been the Hillary Clinton movie, it would have been something else.

They claim NBC is bias yet they have their fist so far up Chuck Todd's ass he pretty much repeats their talking points.

[iamthebandfanman]

27. Anybody have contact info?

When you try to find out using NBC.com , it just gives you the run around and sends you to a survey about their website and your viewing habits.. nothing to submit comments about programming.

[davidpdx]

31. I think it's better the movie isn't made

Because it's going to be attacked for either being too critical of her or too favorable toward her no matter how it is made. IMHO history should be the judge now some made for TV movie.

[zonkers]

32. This movie will be made... by another network, probably cable. The publicity it has already

insures its success.

[JRLeft]

33. No way this documentary helps Hillary. You guys should be happy. Understand this if

they would have ran it. The media would have went out of the way to attack her in order to appear like they weren't biased.

[DCBob]

34. This should send up massive red flags regardless how you feel about Hillary.

This is one more step towards the Republican/conservative takeover of media and eventually the country if things keep going this way. Meanwhile "The Left" is busy bashing Obama about... whatever.

[Le Taz Hot]

35. And if they change their minds again

will they also run "bios" for the other PRIMARY candidates? Nah, didn't think so. I hate censorship and would never advocate for it BUT, this corporate interference 2-1/2 years before the first primary vote is cast is bullshit and it's EXACTLY what I've been saying all along about the primary process. That it's rigged from the beginning and this is a prime example.

[heaven05]

37. and

[TekGryphon]

38. The documentary was probably going to be crap anyway...

... but I must say I absolutely love how panicked Republicans are about Hillary.

Makes me wonder what they'd do if NBC floated an Elizabeth Warren documentary. Probably march on their HQ with pitchforks, lolol.

[rlegro]

42. The RNC's censorship campaign is too late

I recall that in the early '90s NBC series "SeaQuest DSV," set in the second decade of the 21st Century, mention in one episode was made of an American naval vessel, "the USS Hillary Clinton." No one in Republican leadership at the time expressed offense at this. The series, not a big hit, is nevertheless available on disc so I suppose that if Prince Reince were ever to notice the reference, he'd put NBC on double-secret probation.

[Doctor_J]

43. Thousands of radio stations and newspapers and FOX/CNN/CNBC aren't enough for the wingers

they have to have complete control

[Pterodactyl]

44. Sounds like boring TV anyway.

[madville]

45. Probably for the best

Blah, blah, whitewater, blah, Vince foster, blah, Hillarycare, blah, Monica Lewinski, blah, blah, 2008 primaries, blah, was fired on by a sniper, blah, blah, "What does it matter!!"