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24 Co-Creator Pitching Miniseries About the Kennedys

BuzzSugar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:30:50 -0700

24 co-creator Joel Surnow has a project about a different government up his sleeve. This weekend, he'll be pitching a 10-hour miniseries about the Kennedy family, with "a major US cable network" already in talks to release it.

Surnow is an avowed conservative, but the producers say the project "is neither a hatchet job nor a valentine." Instead:

The Kennedys are portrayed not as mythic figures but as human beings, capable of both greatness on a grand scale and all-too-human frailty on a private one. It is a window onto the emotional minefield that made the Kennedys what they were.

Surnow says The Kennedys will "unveil secrets" about the former first family, going inside the White House to tell the stories of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the struggle for civil rights while showing how they fit into the context of personal Kennedy dramas.

The Kennedys have been pretty well-covered in our entertainment culture, but is there room for another Kennedy project from a new perspective? Does this miniseries intrigue you?

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Buzz News Roundup, 7/23

BuzzSugar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:32:47 -0700

Despite rumors to the contrary, Access Hollywood is reporting that Tom Cruise will not reprise his role as Maverick in a sequel to Top Gun.
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According to The New York Times, TiVo will introduce a product purchasing feature in partnership with Amazon.
TNT picked up the pilot for Night and Day, a show about an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms from 24 co-creator Joel Surnow, the Hollywood Reporter writes.
Billboard states Nas' untitled album topped last week's sales chart, moving 197,000 copies. Lil Wayne's album and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rounded out the top three.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Netflix is closing its Red Envelope Entertainment subsidiary, a film financing and acquisition firm that helped finance No End in Sight and Two Days in Paris, among others.

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Buzz News Roundup, 2/13

BuzzSugar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:32:50 -0800

Tina Fey will host the first post-strike episode of Saturday Night Live

The New York Times

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Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Jason Leigh will star together in the indie sex comedy titled Spread, reports Variety.
Aretha Franklin is not pleased with Beyonce after Beyonce's Grammy intro referred to Tina Turner, not Franklin, as "the queen," the Associated Press reports.
Zap2It writes that Joel Surnow, co-creator of 24, is leaving the show to pursue other projects.
According to Billboard, this summer's tour will be the last for The Police.
Fox is remaking a Japanese TV show in which people must fit into shapes like human Tetris pieces, according to Variety.

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