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Old 04-03-11, 03:25 AM
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The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

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By djariya at 2011-03-19

Since this Miniseries airs this entire week, I will only do 1 thread for it.

Starring:
Greg Kinnear
Katie Holmes
Barry Pepper
Tom Wilkinson

All 8 episodes Written by Stephen Kronish (24)
All 8 episodes Directed by Jon Cassar (24)

Here is the airing schedule on REELZ:


Sunday (4/3)2-Hour Movie Premiere
Monday (4/4) Encore Showings
Tuesday (4/5) Episode 3 Premiere
Wednesday (4/6) Episode 4 Premiere
Thursday (4/7) Episode 5 Premiere
Friday (4/8) Episode 6 Premiere
Saturday (4/9) The Kennedys Marathon
Sunday (4/10) 2-Hour Series Finale

2 Hour Premiere tonight. Here is the short synopsis for episode 1 and 2. Since we all know what happened to JFK, I'm not going to spoilerize it.

The series opens as John F. Kennedy makes a bid for the White House while family secrets resurface. Later, Bobby reveals that he's quitting politics.
Trailer:

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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Reelz...yeah, never heard of that network.

I'll wait for the Blu-ray.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

In Canada, Bravo is airing this miniseries starting tonight.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Reelz...yeah, never heard of that network.

I'll wait for the Blu-ray.
Don't you have AT&T? It's on channel 799 (Reelz lists all the channels on their website) unless your just being sarcastic because you don't have time to watch it or you don't get Reelz in HD. I don't get Reelz in HD on Directv, so I have to watch this on my SDTV.

I heard of this network, but they were primarily known for showing movie trailers and movie/TV news shows. They bought this series to get them some publicity since most people probably never heard of this channel.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Originally Posted by DJariya
Don't you have AT&T? It's on channel 799 (Reelz lists all the channels on their website) unless your just being sarcastic because you don't have time to watch it or you don't get Reelz in HD. I don't get Reelz in HD on Directv, so I have to watch this on my SDTV.

I heard of this network, but they were primarily known for showing movie trailers and movie/TV news shows. They bought this series to get them some publicity since most people probably never heard of this channel.
I have U-Verse. Didn't even know I had this channel. Looks like it's a subscription one though....so I'll have to pass. I thought this was more like E or Bravo where it was part of my package and not a premium movie channel. Oh well. This will be a great BD rental, but I won't subscribe for just one show.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

I can't imagine the ratings will be very good on Reelz. This probably would have done much better on History if they had not cancelled it.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Originally Posted by DJariya
I can't imagine the ratings will be very good on Reelz. This probably would have done much better on History if they had not cancelled it.
It'll (hopefully) make it's money back from DVD/Blu-ray.
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Curious to see if this puts Reelz on the map. I read an EW article the other day where Greg Kinnear hadn't even heard of the channel. I suspect millions of others hadn't either.
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It sounds like Jon Cassar's post on Twitter is begging for people to watch this...haha


I need all those true blue #24 fans to watch #TheKennedys and pass the word on. We want lots of eyes on the premiere tonight, help me out.

I don't have Reelz either, so no go for me.
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The Kennedys pre-show is basically an advertisement for Reelz and the programming they offer. Can't say I blame them for taking advantage of this opportunity to promote themselves.
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Don't you have to have Reelz to see the pre-show? I've never heard of the channel either.
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^ Yup, but I assume they figured that those who already have Reelz likely didn't know it because they tuned in to the channel for the first time tonight. I know I did

Anyway, I thought the first two hours of this were pretty damn good
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I'm glad to hear that the series seems good. Always been a fan of Cassar, but post-24, he seems to not have any luck.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Originally Posted by MLBFan24
I'm glad to hear that the series seems good. Always been a fan of Cassar, but post-24, he seems to not have any luck.
What do you mean he hasn't had any luck? He directed all 8 parts of this, 1 episode of Criminal Minds, 1 episode of Human Target and 1 episode of Fringe. He also signed on as Director for Terra Nova on FOX. I say his post-24 career has been pretty successful.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Hollywood Dailies their signature program has been advertising this for about a month and all of their hosts and corespondents are all saying this is the best series ever produced about the Kennedys (sounds like corporate spin).

They also had several behind the scenes shows on the making of the Kennedys.

Still I wonder why they cast Katie Holmes as Jackie O?? All the other people involved are good actors except for her.
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Glad to hear this was good. I looked but didn't have Reelz, so I'll have to wait 'till it comes out on other means.
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I was too tired to watch last night, although I caught a bit of it where it was 1938, when Joe Kennedy was Ambassador, and he was talking to his sons Joe and Jack (not Kinnear, but a younger actor), and kind of "schooling them" on how to mess around with women.

Seemed good. I can see why the real Kennedys didn't want this film out. Frankly, HBO should have picked this up, not a nobody network like Reelz. This mini-series will tank on this unknown network.
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Originally Posted by Buttmunker
I was too tired to watch last night, although I caught a bit of it where it was 1938, when Joe Kennedy was Ambassador, and he was talking to his sons Joe and Jack (not Kinnear, but a younger actor), and kind of "schooling them" on how to mess around with women.

Seemed good. I can see why the real Kennedys didn't want this film out. Frankly, HBO should have picked this up, not a nobody network like Reelz. This mini-series will tank on this unknown network.
I'm sure people said the same shit about Mad Men and AMC.
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Originally Posted by Dragon Tattoo
I'm sure people said the same shit about Mad Men and AMC.
Maybe, but AMC was around for a long time, and people did watch it more than occasionally because it came out before TCM, and AMC was the only channel around that played all the old movies. It was a better network in the past, and played a better selection of films, as opposed to now.

Reelz is no AMC.
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Originally Posted by Buttmunker
Maybe, but AMC was around for a long time, and people did watch it more than occasionally because it came out before TCM, and AMC was the only channel around that played all the old movies. It was a better network in the past, and played a better selection of films, as opposed to now.

Reelz is no AMC.
Agreed. While AMC wasn't known for original programming, they were still known to exist. I would wager that very few people had to check their guides to see if they had AMC in their lineup.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Per Cassar's twitter

#TheKennedys - 1.9 million people watched the premiere - A big THANK YOU from all of us to everyone one of our viewers. Eps#3 Tuesday 8pm

Looks like people were able to find the channel and watch, as that number has to be considered a success
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do they still do Niellson Ratings? I thought that, since Satellite and Cable and all the rest came out, monitoring what people watched became a thing of the past.

Guess not!
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Anyway, glad it was a success. But I'd like to get a review from someone saying what they thought of it.
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Ken Tucker of EW did not like it.
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Re: The Kennedys -- 8 Part Miniseries -- Premieres 04/03/11 on REELZ

Don't forget Part 3 is tonight at 8pm ET/PT If your on the West Coast and have Directv, you can watch it at 5pm.

Synopsis for Part 3:


The Bay of Pigs disaster prompts JFK to make a difficult decision.
Very interesting take on the miniseries. This is a good read. The guy thinks it was stupid for History Channel to dump this miniseries.

http://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articl...s05.html?25791

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