Hillary Clinton Miniseries Officially Canceled By NBC

The Hillary Clinton miniseries will not be produced by NBC Television.

On the same day that CNN dropped its planned documentary about the former Secretary of State, NBC announced that the docu-drama project was dead: “After reviewing and prioritizing our slate of movie/mini-series development, we’ve decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton mini-series,” according to Deadline Hollywood.

Deadline Hollywood also reports that NBC had already made the decision to drop the project, but decided that thanks to CNN, today was a good time to make it public. “But when CNN this morning announced the demise of its Hillary Clinton documentary, NBC pounced on the opportunity to slip its news into the CNN story, rather than have reporters pound away with will-NBC-or-won’t-NBC sidebars and second-day stories. This is known as taking out all the dirty laundry in one afternoon — public relations 101.”

As The Inquisitr previously reported, speculation was rife that NBC was backing away from the four-hour movie that was supposed to star Diane Lane and that is going to be slow-walked until it was forgotten. At the time, the FTVLive website claimed that NBC suits determined that the “Clinton miniseries ‘just isn’t worth it.’ 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.”

NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd previously called the Clinton biopic a total nightmare and his colleague Andrea Mitchell deemed it a really bad idea. The Republican National Committee voted on August 16 to pull its 2016 debates off of both NBC and CNN unless they abandon their planned Hillary Clinton productions given the expectation of fawning coverage of the presumed Democrat presidential candidate. Fox TV studios — a sister company of Fox News — which considered getting involved in the movie instead dropped out of the production as well.

Last month, NBC Entertainment boss Bob Greenblatt had also downplayed the controversial project despite all the initial hoopla.

The producer of the proposed CNN documentary said today one of the reasons he abandoned the project was that he got the cold shoulder from Hillary Clinton camp almost from the get go.