In July, NBC announced with fanfare that it was developing a four-hour minseries about Clinton and had tapped Diane Lane to portray the former first lady and former secretary of State.
The project was blasted by the Republican National Committee and others who feared that Clinton would be given softball treatment. They worried the minseries would be little more than a campaign commercial for an expected run by Clinton for the White House in 2016.
In a statement, NBC spokesman Richard Licata said, "After reviewing and prioritizing our slate of movie/mini-series development, we've decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton mini-series."
Licata didn't elaborate on the reason for the network's reversal.
Earlier on Monday, CNN confirmed it was scrapping plans for a documentary about Clinton after that project's director, Charles Ferguson, wrote in the
"CNN gave me complete control ("final cut") over the theatrical version, and a generous budget," Ferguson wrote in a blog post on Huffington Post. "And then the fun began. ... Only two persons who had ever dealt with Mrs. Clinton would agree to an on-camera interview, and I suspected that even they would back out."
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