TNT Greenlights CIA Miniseries As Network Eyes Potential Scripted Ramp-Up Post Write-Down & Restructuring
deadline.comTNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries Debriefing the President (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025.
This marks the cable network’s first original scripted order since the 2022 Warner Bros.-Discovery merger. The news comes two weeks after WBD took a $9.1 billion write-down on its cable assets and a week after the company announced that Kathleen Finch will be retiring as chairman and CEO of U.S.
Networks, with Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO, adding the linear networks to her purview. TNT has no current original scripted shows after all remaining ones at the time of the merger have been canceled.
The plan to bring back original scripted programming to the network had been put in motion by Finch, including the greenlight for Debriefing the President, which comes from independent production companies AR Content and Big Dreams Entertainment.
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