{"id":647,"date":"2012-07-05T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=647"},"modified":"2012-07-05T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:46:07","slug":"deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/05\/deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline: HBO Acquires Rights to Fox News Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RogerAilesFox\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/files\/2012\/07\/RogerAilesFox-300x205.jpg?resize=300%2C205\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">Deadline Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <strong>Nikke Finke<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/07\/hbo-now-targeting-fox-news-roger-ailes-with-tv-movie-exec-produced-by-msnbc-rivals\/#more-291335\">reports that HBO has acquired<\/a> the TV movie rights to <strong>Gabriel Sherman<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs upcoming book about Fox News CEO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/Roger-Ailes-profile.html\">Roger Ailes<\/a><\/strong>, and the birth of Fox News Channel. Even crazier: among the producers of the (potential) project are MSNBC hosts <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/Joe-Scarborough-profile.html\">Joe Scarborough<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/Mika-Brzezinski-profile.html\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are keeping track: HBO\u00e2\u20ac\u201csister network to CNN\u00e2\u20ac\u201chas acquired the rights to a movie about Fox News, with two MSNBC hosts producing.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: Sherman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even finished yet, so this movie might never get made, but HBO does love to pick up book rights. Earlier this year<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/ratings-hbos-game-change-draws-2-1-million-viewers_b115923\"> it debuted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Game Change,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> based on the book of the same name, and it acquired the rights to <strong>Bill Carter<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs <em>The Late Shift<\/em> back in the early 90\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s, changing the TV movie game.<\/p>\n<p>Writes Finke:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick_b136285#more-136285\">continued\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>via TVNewser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick_b136285\">http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick_b136285<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nikke Finke reports that HBO has acquired the TV movie rights to Gabriel Sherman\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs upcoming book about Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and the birth of Fox News Channel. Even crazier: among the producers of the (potential) project are MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. So, if you are keeping track: HBO\u00e2\u20ac\u201csister &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/05\/deadline-hbo-acquires-rights-to-fox-news-flick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deadline: HBO Acquires Rights to Fox News Flick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[285,6,227],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-alex-weprin","tag-ifttt","tag-tvnewser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-ar","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}