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Kennedy Miniseries—Featuring Katie Holmes—Already Canceled


It appears the actual Kennedys are the ones to thank played a role in the cancellation of The Kennedys – a miniseries once destined for the History Channel.

The eight-hour event, featuring Greg Kinnear as President John F. Kennedy, was to have focused on focus on the personal relationships within the famous family. And though Katie Holmes “worked as hard” as she could to portray former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, the project was scrapped from the channel’s schedule.

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Getting Into Character: Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy

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Although she’s widely known now for being Tom Cruise’s wife, actress has taken on the challenge of playing another famous significant other.

These pictures of Holmes as former First Lady Jackie Kennedy were taken from the set of , the History Channel’s eight-hour event about the historical family in the years before President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

The miniseries, which also stars Greg Kinner as JFK and as Joe Kennedy Sr., is scheduled to air sometime in 2011.

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Katie Holmes to Play Jackie Kennedy in TV Miniseries

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The Gift‘s and Greg Kinnear will soon be reuniting for an entirely different project. It’s just been announced that the former costars will be headlining an upcoming miniseries about The Kennedys.

History Channel’s eight-hour event, which is reportedly “being annotated and vetted by History’s resident historians,” will focus on the personal relationships within the famous family.

The television project is not to be confused with , the big screen biopic Darren Aronofsky has planned about the hours after JFK’s assassination. (British-born Rachel Weisz is scheduled to play the First Lady in that film.)

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VIDEO: More Dead People Appear in DirecTV Ads


After hiring Chris Farley after death, the people over at Landline TV (more internet video funny guys—as if we didn’t have enough) predicted who DirecTV may hire for their next commercials:
“After testing the boundaries with their Chris Farley spot, DirecTV wrangles more famous people from beyond the grave to be in commercials. “

In the video, the level of offensiveness heightens with each ad, as Heath Ledger, President John F. Kennedy, and Jesus are all mouthpieces for the satellite TV company.

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