HBO appears obsessed by GOP Conservatives. There have been movies about the 2000 Bush vs Gore election standoff and Sarah Palin and most recently a TV series featuring George W Bush’s severed head. Now HBO has done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project. It’s based on the upcoming manuscript by media writer Gabriel Sherman who has written two cover stories for New York magazine on Ailes and Fox News, including his mammoth article “The Elephant In The Green Room” which came out a little more than a year ago and prompted complaints from the Fox News CEO. Last year, Sherman signed a book contract with Random House which at one point was tentatively titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room: An Inside Account of the Rise of Fox News” but isn’t formally titled now. I’ve also learned that executive producing this latest HBO project are two of Ailes’ competitors: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of MSNBC‘s Morning Joe. The deal was negotiated by WME Entertainment, the Hollywood agency run by Ari Emanuel who is a Democratic activist (and the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama White House chief of staff).
None of this has been announced yet because sources tell me Sherman is still researching the book and plans to finish writing it by the end of the summer for a 2013 publishing date. “Nothing much to say. No book yet to read. No script. We’ll wait to see what the script looks like and then decide whether to develop further,” a cagey HBO exec explained to me. It’s commonplace for Time Warner’s premier pay TV channel to sign up books before they’re published and then turn them into TV movies. In this TV movie, a source tells me, ”HBO prefers to take on Fox News through Ailes. The idea is that it should make Fox News look like a Mafia, and you get into this through Ailes, sidestepping Murdoch, not approaching the story head on.”
Wow Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezezinski, isn't THAT interesting?
Okay so I was excited and all ready to program my DVR to make sure I did not miss this once the date of its premiere was announced. But then....
HBO is dropping its plans to make a film on Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News Channel.
The network had optioned film rights to work by media writer Gabriel Sherman, who is writing a book on Fox News. But HBO said Thursday that it’s not going forward with those plans, saying it wouldn’t be appropriate considering the network’s ties to Fox competitor CNN. Both HBO and CNN are owned by Time Warner.
Wait, what? So what if HBO and CNN are owned by the same company?
You know if I were a conspiracy minded person, and there is no evidence to suggest that I am, I would find myself thinking that perhaps somebody got a call from another very powerful somebody making them a deal they could not refuse. You know like
You cannot tell me that there is not an audience out there that would devour this movie whole and then plead for more, because there certainly is. And since HBO is in the business of making movies, and series, which are controversial and guaranteed money makers, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that there are powerful people who simply do NOT want this movie to see the light of day.
Which of course makes ME want to see it more than ever!
I wish Orson Welles was alive to see this.
ReplyDeleteOops, did you mean the project was 'dropped'?
ReplyDeleteIt was dripped?
ReplyDelete"dripped" in your title should be "drOpped"...
ReplyDeleteYES that is interesting
ReplyDeleteHow do you DRIP a project??
V..e...r....y S..l...o....w.....l.....y
DeleteAfter that comment is out, now i can comment on the contents. :)
ReplyDeleteINTERESTING that the movie has been dropped... Sounds like there is someone WAY up there that has LOTSA power (or, in plain English: LOTSA $$$$$!!!).
Just like there is that someone who is trying to silence Shailey, and who does not want the stories about Toad being a PIMP getting out into the MSM...
Well clearly it was a "drippy" project that was dropped.
ReplyDelete(Little typo in the headline, so sue me.)
I find interesting that Ailes got a story about him dropped without much effort and yet he let the story about Sara go through. So if Roger can get HBO to dance to his puppet strings then why leave Sara to twist in the wind? Methinks he might actually have given a silent nod of approval because she went against his wishes once too often. Maybe her appearances on FN are not because she gets hits but because he knows what an idiot she is and as long as he continues to expose the idiocy she will have no cred with the majority of Americans. He neutralized her by doing nothing more than letting her do it to herself.
ReplyDeleteHe is responsible for both atrocities, MSNBC and FOX.
ReplyDeleteSo chickenshit shows lambasting Hillary Clinton, leading to the dreadful Citizens United "free speech" ruling by the Supreme Court are ok, but what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander? WTF?
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, I'm looking forward to reading Ailes' and Murdoch's obits.
I don't have much to say about THIS- Ailes is s giant dick and you can certainly follow the money/favors regarding HBO/CNN/FOX.
ReplyDeleteNo, what I wanted to ask was- have you seen the quad of photos Bristol posted on her "happy birthday willow" post?
Two things strike you-
First, Bristol flat out LIED about getting that Newfoundland puppy and "naming it" on June 4th. The dog is a friggin' GIANT. No way on earth the dog grew that fast- even if it was drinking out of the dead lake.
Second, holy quit (it's like holy shit, but Sarah-fied), what the HELL kind of amphetamines do you all have up there?
At first I honestly, SERIOUSLY thought it was one of those iPhone apps where you put your head on a skinny body. I mean fo' real, WHAT happened? That kind of transformation seems unreal even by "what? We're just gulping down adderal like mom!" standards.
Oh WOW Nyah! Just saw the *Adderall Sippin' Sisters picture! Who are those two heffa's trying to fool!
DeleteThey are going for the Baldy Bobble
head effect...they better be careful that they don't end up with the Beerfart effect!
*Note...short for ASS!
I've reported my recent Bristol sightings before on this blog and I told you guys, she is like a size two....no ass at all and shoulder blades sticking out of her sweatshirt. I'm all for pushing the buck when it comes to weight loss but Bristol has gotten a little too thin. Your body generally takes over and tells you when you have overdone it with the dieting/exercise/pills and whatever it takes to get into a size 4 so I'm sure she'll rebound to a normal size (or die if she doesn't; those are your eating disorder choices: start eating a little and gain a few pounds or die. I've seen both, with both myself and my friends).
DeleteI blame it all on Bethany Frankell. Sounds like the entire clan is trying to out-Skinny Girl her. Makes me even more worried about piper. Her health could be irreparably ruined.
DeleteWhat happened ? That is dreadful.
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"Happy Birthday Willow" WTF ???
Yikes! That Adderal Sipping Sisters is WRONG.
DeleteIt's ADS. Adderal Dripping Sisters. (See, Gryphen KNEW this would come up and purposely put the word "Drip" in his post).
Happy Birthday, Willow! Wow 18!!! Bristol was "literally pregnant at your age!" wink wink
I am in a different corner on this completely.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking this is "delayed" until AFTER all the juicy stuff quits coming out. I think we have only seen the very tip of the News Corps downfall.
I sure hope you are right!
DeleteCNN went teabagger a few months ago (right before their ratings sank like a stone). Perhaps the idiot management of CNN is painfully aware of the fact that CNN will cease to exist if Ailes comes after it. They're good little teatards now, of course they ran screaming to mama.
ReplyDeleteMy consolation is that they can’t take it with them.
ReplyDeleteAnd maybe Karma will reincarnate them as cockroaches in a hammer factory (I stole that from somewhere else, thanks).
How "Convenient"! Wonder who got paid off?? How much?? Who's money?? I'm shocked, Joe S and Mika B.? That's the part that's surprising me.
ReplyDeleteCNN totally sucks. The only decent news networks are MSNBC, BBC and Current.
What is the appeal of Joe and Mika to anyone, left, right or middle?
ReplyDeleteWhile an HBO film about Roger Ailes would be interesting, I can't fault the network too much because HBO has done some really excellent work. Over the years I've seen some great documentaries and series on HBO, including "Big Love" and now "Newsroom." And, never forget, HBO did "Game Change." All of these, and more, have represented courageous and intriguing programming.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this some kind of monopoly going on with these media groups?? Didn't congress disband AT&T in the 1980's for this type of thing?
ReplyDeleteWithout knowing background details, it's difficult to say that there's some conspiracy here. HBO options probably 20 shows for every show that actually makes it on the air.
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT'S why it used to be illegal for one person/entity to own/control multiple news venues:
ReplyDeletebecause of the very real, very sinister potential for propaganda.
they probably found out Arnold from Green Acres has passed on and there isn't really another actor who could play roger ailes...
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