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NewsMax reporting:

Monday, Jan. 30, 2006 3:10 p.m. EST

'Commander in Chief' Pulled from ABC Lineup

"Commander in Chief” started out as the season’s most talked-about new show, but the initial hype didn’t translate into solid ratings – and ABC has shelved the White House drama.

The network announced over the weekend that it is pulling the show – which stars Geena Davis as the first female president – until spring to make way for a new comedy, "Sons & Daughters.” The "Commander" show will be off the air for at least six weeks, the New York Post reports.

That can’t be good news for Hillary Clinton. NewsMax columnist James Hirsen has called "Commander in Chief” a "series-style Hillary campaign commercial.”

ABC insiders denied there’s any connection between Hillary and "Commander.” But the show’s lead writer, Steve Cohen, served as the then-first lady’s deputy communications director in the 1990s.

In October, NewsMax reported that disgraced former national security adviser Sandy Berger had signed on as an adviser to the show, joining fellow Clintonistas Cohen and Capricia Marshall, the former social secretary for the Clinton White House.

"Hillary operatives” were monitoring the show "as a barometer of how she might fare in ’08,” the New York Daily News reported at the time.

In that case, the show’s failings don’t portend well for Hillary. After attracting an audience of 16 million when it premiered in September, "Commander” drew barely 10 million last week, its lowest audience ever.

The show’s shelving might not bode well for Condoleezza Rice, either. Americans for Rice, which is dedicated to drafting the secretary of state to run for the White House in 2008, bought TV time in New Hampshire, the critical primary state, during the show’s premiere.

The organization’s co-chairman Richard Mason said the show would help in the "mainstreaming of the idea of having a female commander in chief,” the Post reported.

Rice has denied an interest in running for president.

The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it.

First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days.

First female President to do the show topless....jackpot.

Thank you Lord.

Damn!  I am really going to miss it!

Sweet...

Commander in Chief and West Wing both axed.

Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot.

Davis topless=bleach in eyes...

I am amazed it got this far.

Actually I am not.

It was ABCs campaign contribution to Hillery.

Therfore I had expected them to eat the cost in that spirit.

Quoted: Sweet... Commander in Chief and West Wing both axed.

"It's the vast right wing conspiracy- they took away my favorite shows!"

Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes...

strangely. I've always been curious.

What is going to happen to Sutherland?

Quoted: I am amazed it got this far. Actually I am not. It was ABCs campaign contribution to Hillery. Therfore I had expected them to eat the cost in that spirit.

Yup.  That's what I thought, too.

Of course, there's always the chance they're wanting to let it "ferment," and bring it back to life at a time more suited to Hitlery's "ascendency".

Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes...

Careful, she'll shoot your ass.

Quoted: Quoted: I am amazed it got this far. Actually I am not. It was ABCs campaign contribution to Hillery. Therfore I had expected them to eat the cost in that spirit. Yup.  That's what I thought, too. Of course, there's always the chance they're wanting to let it "ferment," and bring it back to life at a time more suited to Hitlery's "ascendency".

Not likely, if it really WAS canned due to ratings/lack of advertising support it wont be back.

In a way they shot their bolt too early... if they had run this show NEXT year it might of got the job done in a amount of time that ABC could support financially.

But they cant hold the series in limbo for TWO years, and then bring it back.

Especally when the writers failled to capture any ones attention to begin with.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes... strangely. I've always been curious.

Earth girls are easy

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes... strangely. I've always been curious. Earth girls are easy

An 80's\90's\00's image critique would be beneficial to my research.

Quoted: Commander in Chief' Pulled from ABC Lineup

Hysterical marketing hype can only impart just so much momentum.

touble dap.

Quoted: Of course, there's always the chance they're wanting to let it "ferment," and bring it back to life at a time more suited to Hitlery's "ascendency".

Boxed DVD set, anyone?

I'd like to see a new show about liberal Democratic senators from Massachusetts called "Sons of Bitches."

Quoted: Sweet... Commander in Chief and West Wing both axed.

Quoted: Quoted: Sweet... Commander in Chief and West Wing both axed.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes... strangely. I've always been curious. Earth girls are easy An 80's\90's\00's image critique would be beneficial to my research.

Google Fu says hitable .

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The show could have done better if they went a different direction with it. First female President....ehhh. nothing exciting about that these days. First female President to do the show topless....jackpot. Davis topless=bleach in eyes... strangely. I've always been curious. Earth girls are easy An 80's\90's\00's image critique would be beneficial to my research. Google Fu says hitable .

For you, I guess.

Quoted: I'd like to see a new show about liberal Democratic senators from Massachusetts called "Sons of Bitches."

I wouldn't actually like to *see* it, but I do know what you mean.

Might be fun to drive her around the oral office once or twice.....

Quoted: I'd like to see a new show about liberal Democratic senators from Massachusetts called "Sons of Bitches."

Or maybe,"Sons & Beeeotches"

Quoted: Quoted: I'd like to see a new show about liberal Democratic senators from Massachusetts called "Sons of Bitches." Or maybe,"Sons & Beeeotches"

As long as they don't call it "Son of the Beach," as we've all seen the advance spots for it where Kennedy is in all his flop-bellied glory.

Updated: 31 MAR 2006


It's back.


(unfortunately, this is *not* an advance screening of my April Fool's Joke for this year )