Oh this is funny, this is real funny!  I can't help but think that the execs were reading freekatie   I just went to the History Channel website yesterday so I could set my TIVO.  I searched that site in every way, but couldn't find mention of the masterpiece (excuse one moment, ).  The History Channel is crap and kaka's "highest quality" acting didn't even meet their unestablished standards.  Kinear must be pissed!  Here's the problem, HOW THE HECK ARE WE GOING TO SEE IT?  Do we really have to move to Canada?

Katie Holmes: History Channel Cancels 'The Kennedys'

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from E!:

Jackie Oh, No! Katie Holmes' Kennedys Gets Canned

Today 6:00 PM PST by Marc Malkin

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b219499_jackie_oh_no_katie_holmes_kennedys_gets.html#ixzz1API6lRKW

from the Washington Post:
History network pulls plug on Kennedy project

The Associated Press
Friday, January 7, 2011; 8:52 PM

PASADENA, Calif. -- The History network says it has decided not to air a controversial miniseries that it has produced on the Kennedy family.

In a statement issued late Friday, the network said that "we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand."

The series starred Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John and Jackie Kennedy. But during its production, critics like former Kennedy administration aide Theodore Sorenson attacked the scripts as innaccurate. The role of producer Joel Surnow, a political conservative, also drew suspicion from fans of the Kennedy family.

The decision was first reported Friday by the Hollywood Reporter.

from zimbio:

Katie Holmes' Mini-Series Cancelled by The History Channel

Actress Katie Holmes onstage during the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards nomination announcement held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 14, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California. (Getty Images)more pics » Katie Holmes (Getty Images) The world was supposed to see Katie Holmes channel her inner Jackie O for an upcoming mini-series, The Kennedys. But The History Channel has decided to drop all eight episodes, which had already been taped. Holmes, who has talked about putting her all into the role, is bound to be bummed.

She recently told Elle: "I worked as hard as I could, because I loved her. On set there was this feeling that we had to create something very special, because these people were very special."

Apparently, The History Channel thinks airing the mini-series would be too risky of a move.

A rep stated: "After viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded that although the film is produced and acted with the highest quality auspices, the dramatic license that series takes is not suitable for the History brand."

Holmes said she prepared for the role by watching old footage of the Kennedys with husband Tom Cruise and developed an admiration for Jackie O's parenting.

"She had so much strength…I loved her love of family, how important it was for her to be a good mother," she said.

Looks like she'll have to channel Jackie's parenting skills for the time being.

I also have to , because that stupid ass Elle cover came out just days before this announcement. 
Come on everybody, do it with me !!!

from USA Today:

History scraps 'Kennedys'

The channel had talked up the eight-part project, filmed last year, and produced by Joel Surnow (24), and had tentatively set an early March premiere date.

But Surnow, an avowed conservative, raised suspicions over his agenda, and early on Kennedy family supporters cast aspersions on historical inaccuracies in an early draft of the script.

The network had stood by the project, despite its liberties with some details of the Kennedy family, but apparently got cold feet after pressure was said to be exerted by its owners: Disney, Hearst and NBC Universal.

Friday, History issued a statement noting that "while the film is produced and acted with the highest quality, after viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand. We recognize historical fiction is an important medium for storytelling and commend all the hard work and passion that has gone into the making of the series, but ultimately deem this as the right programming decision for our network."

The decision drew parallels with The Reagans, a controversial 2003 miniseries about a presidential family, first commissioned by CBS, which canceled plans to air after a threatened advertiser boycott. Showtime later aired it. The project is still scheduled to air in Canada, where it was shot, but it's unclear if another U.S. network will touch it; HBO, for one, says it's not interested.--Gary Levin

from people.com:

Who says you can't change history?

The ambitious eight-part miniseries The Kennedys, starring Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear, will no longer be shown on the History Channel in the United States this spring.

“While the film is produced and acted with the highest quality, after viewing the final product in its totality, we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand," a network rep tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The miniseries, to have been broadcast in the spring with Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy and Kinnear as John F. Kennedy, had been criticized by liberal politicians and Kennedy historians based on an early version of the script. The cable channel had said the script was changed and approved by network historians.