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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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TV on DVD: November 23, 2010

7th Heaven Final Season DVDHere are some of the options available this week:

  • 7th Heaven (Final Season)
  • 12 Men of Christmas (TV Movie)
  • Batman Beyond (Complete Series)
  • Deadwood (Complete Series) **Blu-ray**
  • Durham County (Season 2)
  • Murder, She Wrote (Season 12)
  • The Pillars of the Earth (TV Miniseries)
  • Sekirei (Season 1)
  • Space Precinct (Complete Series)
  • The Tudors (Complete Series)
  • Wagon Train (Season 2)

Make sure to also check out the film options for this week.

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Preview Kate Winslet and Evan Rachel Wood in Mildred Pierce

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Mini Series, Cable, HBO, Video,


Could this be the event that brings viewers back to HBO?

Early next year, Oscar winner Kate Winslet will be featured in , a five-part miniseries based on the James Cain novel. (Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her role in a 1945 adaptation.) The Depression-era set tale centers on Pierce (Winslet), a mother who fights to maintain a middle-class position for her family, and the troubled relationship with her daughter (True Blood‘s Evan Rachel Wood).

Mildred—directed by Far From Heaven‘s Todd Haynes—will debut in the spring.

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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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TV on DVD: April 27, 2010

Here are some of the options available this Tuesday:

The Hills DVD

  • The Buddha (TV Documentary)
  • Georgia O’Keeffe (TV Movie)
  • Ghost Hunters (Season 5, Part 2)
  • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Season 2)
  • The Hills (Season 5, Part 2)
  • It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (Season 1)
  • Last of the Summer Wine (Vintage 1982-1983)
  • Mega Piranha (TV Movie)
  • Murphy’s Law (Series 2)
  • Pride and Prejudice (Restored Edition) (BBC Miniseries)
  • Rita Rocks (Season 1)
  • Sex and the City (Seasons 1-6)
  • Sherri (Season 1)
  • Survivors (Seasons 1 & 2)
  • Survivors (Complete Original Series 1975-1977)
  • Tales from the Darkside (Season 3)

Make sure to also check out the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Be Mini-Series

Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesThe best-selling parody of Jane Austen’s classic, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has been given the greenlight by Deadline Productions to make a 6-part television series.

Although talks have circulated around a feature film, it looks as if the mini-series may win the race to adapt Seth Grahame-Smith’s eccentric, fan boy-pleasing novel.

Along with announcing the production news, the book’s Twitter also released possible concept art for the series (seen after the break).

No word yet as to which network is expected to pick up the series; however, it will most likely be a British one, considering the production company is UK-based. As if Sci-Fi wouldn’t love to air a ninja-induced, zombie-killing love story!

(FYI - You can also follow TV Envy on Twitter.)

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Kill Bill Stars Reunite for Kung Fu Killer

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Five years after making ‘s life a living hell, two of the actors from Kill Bill have reunited for another martial-arts project.

This time around, David Carradine and are starring in Kung Fu Killer, a two-part revenge movie (sound familiar?) being produced for Spike TV. In Killer, Carradine (White Crane) plays a monk whose mentor is killed by mercenaries. During his attempt to find the suspects, Crane eventually crosses paths with a lounge singer (Hannah) whose brother is being held captive by the same bad guys.

The miniseries - which was shot entirely in China - will air on Spike sometime this August.

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TV on DVD: June 10, 2008

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, ABC, BBC, Cable, CBS, HBO, The CW, WB, DVD,

Here are some of the options available this Tuesday.

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2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards

Screen Actors Guild AwardsThanks to the cancelation of the Golden Globes ceremony, the hottest ticket in town was tonight’s .  Without a picket line to cross, celebrities from TV and Film were allowed to celebrate - and commiserate - together for the first time in a long while.

For star-deprived fans, the SAG red carpet was also a treat for sore eyes.  What were our favorite actresses wearing?  What were the latest trends?  Which dresses were going to be copied by Allen Schwartz tomorrow?

Unfortunately, the evening was not all about partying.  The recent deaths of and Heath Ledger cast a somber tone on what would normally be a festive occasion.  Thankfully, tonight was not about dissecting their lives, but merely about honoring them.

Meanwhile, the neglected winners of this month’s Globes were also hoping to get a share of the honors.  If they were able to pull off another victory tonight, maybe they would have a chance to give the speech they already had written.

Well, without further ado, here’s the play-by-play of tonight’s events coming to you from the fashionably late West Coast!

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