History Channel Kennedy mini series cancelled. 'Not a Fit’

[Jan Klimkowski]

See, if you read those eight scenes, its pretty clear that Surnow ordered up a hatchet job from every trash the Kennedys book ever written. From Hersh backwards to the Blairs.

Yup.

The problem for History Channel is the thing cost 30 million. So they have tried to sell it to other cable channels. But Greenwald did such a good job that the thing has a stench about it.

For a major network, thirty million may not be all that much. But for a cable TV channel, it is.

Yes - it is potentially crippling for the History Channel itself.

But not for its owners:

The channel is owned by A&E Television Networks, a joint venture of Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television Group (The Walt Disney Company), and NBC Universal (General Electric).

If no one picks it up, and it looks like no one will, then I am not sure they can make up their negative cost abroad. They will probably eat about half of it.

I expect to see it dubbed into Italian. Since they keep on voting Silvio "Lolita" Berlusconi into power, one can only assume that a large part of their population expect their rulers to be degenerate.

Ultimately though, I still suspect the real reason the History Channel has pulled the Kennedy series is because it is so factually incorrect that airing it would forever destroy the brand's self-proclaimed reputation for veracity and objectivity.