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Showtime Developing Terrorist TV Show
via Fox News, NY Post
Cable channel Showtime is quietly at work on a new series about the personal lives of an Islamic terrorist cell in the United States, The Post has learned. The series — to be called "The Cell" — will be told from the view points of a group of European and American converts to Islam who are plotting terror attacks here.
That's the last time I watch anything on Showtime then.
Showtime says it realizes it is walking into a potential minefield by portraying terrorists sympathetically without pulling punches about their violent aims. HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" have found success doing that with mobsters and drug dealers. "We're trying to look into the minds of these [terrorists] and the issues driving them, beyond a black-and-white portrayal," says Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt, who will decide next month whether to commit to a series.
Imaginary stories about the supposed exploits of mythical mobsters is not the same thing as glorifying terrorist scum who CHOP OFF AMERICAN HEADS FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE.
"The leaders of the cell look like nice, normal , cute and cuddly people you would encounter in everyday life and never know were quietly putting together a power base," he says. "Our only hesitation was sensitivity to the subject matter, which was very scary. Several plot points have already come to pass." In fact, one scene was so prophetic and volatile it had to be cut from the original script. It depicted a captured serviceman being beheaded on videotape, months before it happened in real life.
And you didn't pull the plug right then because... hello? Is this thing on?
Posted by: Chris W. 2004-10-05
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=45117