Variety reports that independent cable and satellite network Reelz has acquired the television rights to Stephen Bannon’s Sarah Palin documentary “The Undefeated” and will premiere it on March 11, just a day after HBO debuts “Game Change,” a very selective adaptation of the best selling book:

The two projects will certainly be a study in contrasts: “The Undefeated,” which had a theatrical and pay-per-view run last year, is a reverential look at Palin, from how she took on the good-old-boys club of Alaska politics to her battles against the entrenched media and Beltway establishment as she rose to national prominence. Palin attended the film’s premiere last summer in Iowa.

 

“Game Change” is based on the 2008 campaign tome by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, but the HBO movie focuses on the drama surrounding John McCain selection of Palin as his running mate. While it portrays her

 

2008 convention speech and vice presidential debate as triumphs and her defense of family and special needs children as strengths, she’s also shown as a mercurial figure way in over her head, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. Palin already has denounced the movie.

 

 

Bannon said that Reelz’s showing “will be a counterweight” to the HBO film, which he called a “fictionalized account of what happened.”

 

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The press release is posted at Digital Journal.

Cross-posted at The Sarah Palin Journal

- JP