Producers of The Kennedy Family looking for new channel

The producers of The Kennedy Family are looking for another channel to air it after the History channel said it would not air a the controversial miniseries. The Showtime pay cable network has been approached to air the eight part series, a spokesman said on Saturday. Eight years ago, Showtime aired a movie about President Reagan that CBS had made but decided not to broadcast when it faced pressure from some of that former president’s family. Showtime won’t make a decision about the Kennedy miniseries until its executives have a chance to see it, spokesman Richard Licata said.The multi million dollar mini series, which stars Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear as Jackie and  John Kennedy was History’s most expensive project ever. But the network issued a statement late Friday saying that after watching the finished product, “we have concluded this dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand.”Producers have sold the rights to air the series in other countries, including Canada. The producers, Muse Entertainment and Asylum, said in a statement they were confident U.S. television viewers would have a chance to see the series. A collaborative effort was made to trash the series. Liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald produced a short film condemning the project on a website and collected 50,000 petitions urging History not to air it. He had been given an early script which included one scene where President Kennedy tells  Robert about his need to have sex with other women. Former Kennedy aide Theodore Sorensen also harshly condemned the film, saying scenes in the script where he was depicted didn’t actually occur.