Showtime Doesn’t Want “The Kennedys” Either

Showtime says it will not air The Kennedys, a controversial miniseries about the American political dynasty starring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as President John F. and First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

Just days after The History Channel cancelled plans to broadcast the controversial miniseries, Showtime has also passed on the show.

The History Channel was originally scheduled to run the eight-part series but announced last week that the content — though well-shot — “was not a good fit” for the network. Starz and FX subsequently said they were not interested in airing the miniseries. Now Showtime’s followed suit. The premium cable network has not aired a miniseries since 2004 when it ran the equally ill-received The Reagans.

“Although ‘The Kennedys’ is well-produced, well-acted and a quality piece of work, it doesn’t fit the Showtime programming brand,” a representative for the network told The Hollywood Reporter.

A&E, History’s parent channel, allegedly pulled the plug on the political drama following pressure from members of one of America’s most powerful families — namely Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver. Producers of the miniseries drew flak from Kennedy historians last February when liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald, after reading the script, called the project “political character assassination” and “a cheap soap opera of the worst kind.”

The Kennedys is still set to air in Canada on March 6 and will be broadcast internationally on dates still to be announced.