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EXCLUSIVE: Bodyguard and Line Of Duty star Keeley Hawes has been set to headline and executive produce Crossfire, a major BBC One miniseries about a hotel shooting from the producer behind The Salisbury Poisonings. Deadline understands that Fremantle-backed Dancing Ledge Productions will team with Hawes’ Buddy Club Pro…

Chuck Hogan has come aboard to pen an adaptation of Crossfire, a film based on the online game from Korean game developer Smilegate and Neal H Moritz's Original Film. The news comes following last year’s announcement that Original Film had teamed with Smilegate to turn the popular global game into internationally…

The first time it went out with a bang — this time it went out with a whimper; CNN’s Crossfire is no more. Again. The show had been missing in action for weeks and already some of its co-hosts — Stephanie Cutter, Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp and Van Jones — have been popping up as contributors around the network’s…

Just when you thought that what CNN‘s Missing Malaysian Airliner story really needed to liven things up was a fluid ounce of weed killer scientifically administered to some of the talking heads, the network abruptly brought back Crossfire this evening, as if to signal to the country that its long cable-news nightmare…

CNN Worldwide chief Jeff Zucker, who is about to celebrate his first anniversary at the news gathering organization, touted his addition of Anthony Bourdain‘s show and the documentary Blackfish in a holiday memo to staffers, but gave a miss to any discussion of  his new morning program, or the return of Crossfire. “In…

Stephanie Cutter just got another new job today thanks to President Obama. Just over two and a half months since the former White House staffer debuted on CNN’s resuscitated Crossfire with co-hosts Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp and Van Jones, Cutter is back working for her old boss – at least partially. Obama Tuesday named…

Looks like troubles come in threes for CNN lately. First the cable news company had its worst single primetime in over a year on October 30, then it had its worst week since Jeff Zucker took over and now the relaunched Crossfire has hit new lows. Resuscitated on September 9 after eight years off the air, the political…

Back after eight years off the air, CNN's Crossfire didn't exactly set the ratings ablaze on Monday. With Wolf Blitzer's interview with President Barack Obama on Syria as a lead-in, the Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter-hosted half-hour show came in second among adults 25-54 and third in overall viewership against…

Discussing his latest career move as star of CNN's resuscitated Crossfire, a few days before its launch, Newt Gingrich said it is not possible to make a "neutral" documentary about Hillary Clinton. Which is just what his new network has proposed to do. Asked his thoughts on the Republican National Committee's decision…

CNN's resuscitated Crossfire unveils tonight with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter debating with Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as to whether Congress should approve a military air strike on Syria. The show will premiere as…

In what it's billing as a first for a TV news program, CNN's Crossfire will offer viewer voting using Poptip technology that tallies votes of the program's daily debate question. Via Twitter using #CrossfireReturns, on CNN's live blog, or by commenting to the show’s Facebook page, users will be able vote in real time…

CNN‘s resuscitated Crossfire was set to return to the network on Monday, September 16. Instead the half-hour political debate show will premiere a week early to get in on Syria coverage, debuting September 9 at 6:30 PM ET according to a network Tweet. Related: Big Four Networks Break In For President Obama's Address On…