Switching Channels
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit…
Switching Channels
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> Having just returned from a much needed vacation to recharge her juices, Christy Colleran walks into the offices of the Chicago-based Satellite News Network (SNN), where she is a star on-air investigative reporter, to tell her boss, news director John Sullivan - Sully - that she is quitting. Sully also happens to be her ex-husband. Christy divorced Sully largely because she saw him as treating their relationship as news first, marriage second. She has also come to tell Sully that she is marrying New York sporting goods baron Blaine Bingham, the two who will be flying to New York City that afternoon to start their new life, and where Christy will work as a morning talk show host. Sully doesn't want to lose Christy, either as a reporter or a wife, and believes she truly will miss her investigative reporting life. Sully does whatever he can at least to delay Christy and Blaine's trip, long enough to persuade Christy to stay for good. His plan includes dangling a big story under her nose, namely getting an exclusive interview with Ike Roscoe, who is on death row and is scheduled to be executed at midnight. Ike admits to committing the murder of a police officer for which he was convicted, but that that officer was a drug dealer who sold to teenagers, including Ike's son, who died of a drug overdose. Ike did not know of him being a police officer, which may not have made any difference in his actions. Sully hopes that Christy's interview will lead to the hapless Governor issuing a pardon. They know Ike has been used as a pawn between the Governor and Roy Ridnitz, the state attorney who is running for Governor in the upcoming election. Regardless of if Christy is able to get the interview and if so what its effect is, she will have to decide if the thrill of the chase will change her mind about her upcoming more staid life. —Huggo Known as the best in the business, Christy Colleran, a news anchor and field reporter for Chicago-based Satellite News Network, does whatever it takes to get the story. Coming back from a much needed vacation, the stress which was negatively showing in her work, Christy surprises everyone with her two-part news: first, that she is immediately quitting her job, and second, that she is getting remarried in two days to New York sporting goods magnate, Blaine Bingham, who she met on that vacation. Both pieces of news don't sit well with the station's news director, her boss John L. Sullivan IV - Sully in more familiar circumstances - who also happens to be her ex-husband. Sully proceeds to do whatever he can to ensure that Christy doesn't leave as he wants her in his life in both a professional and personal capacity. While other tactics have only a partial effect in reaching his end goal, including assigning Karen Ludlow to many of what would have been her assignments, Christy who sees her nothing more than eye candy for the television cameras, what may do the job is him dangling the biggest story in years in front of her in asking her to get an exclusive interview with Ike Roscoe, the first person in decades in Illinois to be on death row, his execution to take place at 23:00 this evening. If Christy is able to get the interview and follow-up on the story, she will discover that Ike is being used as a pawn between the feckless Governor, and the ambitious District Attorney Roy Ridnitz, who is running against him. The questions then become if Sully's tactics work to show Christy both that news is in her blood and that he is the man suited to her mentality, Ike's life hanging in the balance in the process. —Huggo
Switching Channels
Comedy,Crime
Film Details
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter.
Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> Having just returned from a much needed vacation to recharge her juices, Christy Colleran walks into the offices of the Chicago-based Satellite News Network (SNN), where she is a star on-air investigative reporter, to tell her boss, news director John Sullivan - Sully - that she is quitting.
Sully also happens to be her ex-husband. Christy divorced Sully largely because she saw him as treating their relationship as news first, marriage second. She has also come to tell Sully that she is marrying New York sporting goods baron Blaine Bingham, the two who will be flying to New York City that afternoon to start their new life, and where Christy will work as a morning talk show host.
Sully doesn't want to lose Christy, either as a reporter or a wife, and believes she truly will miss her investigative reporting life. Sully does whatever he can at least to delay Christy and Blaine's trip, long enough to persuade Christy to stay for good. His plan includes dangling a big story under her nose, namely getting an exclusive interview with Ike Roscoe, who is on death row and is scheduled to be executed at midnight.
Ike admits to committing the murder of a police officer for which he was convicted, but that that officer was a drug dealer who sold to teenagers, including Ike's son, who died of a drug overdose. Ike did not know of him being a police officer, which may not have made any difference in his actions. Sully hopes that Christy's interview will lead to the hapless Governor issuing a pardon.
They know Ike has been used as a pawn between the Governor and Roy Ridnitz, the state attorney who is running for Governor in the upcoming election. Regardless of if Christy is able to get the interview and if so what its effect is, she will have to decide if the thrill of the chase will change her mind about her upcoming more staid life. —Huggo Known as the best in the business, Christy Colleran, a news anchor and field reporter for Chicago-based Satellite News Network, does whatever it takes to get the story.
Coming back from a much needed vacation, the stress which was negatively showing in her work, Christy surprises everyone with her two-part news: first, that she is immediately quitting her job, and second, that she is getting remarried in two days to New York sporting goods magnate, Blaine Bingham, who she met on that vacation. Both pieces of news don't sit well with the station's news director, her boss John L. Sullivan IV - Sully in more familiar circumstances - who also happens to be her ex-husband.
Sully proceeds to do whatever he can to ensure that Christy doesn't leave as he wants her in his life in both a professional and personal capacity. While other tactics have only a partial effect in reaching his end goal, including assigning Karen Ludlow to many of what would have been her assignments, Christy who sees her nothing more than eye candy for the television cameras, what may do the job is him dangling the biggest story in years in front of her in asking her to get an exclusive interview with Ike Roscoe, the first person in decades in Illinois to be on death row, his execution to take place at 23:00 this evening. If Christy is able to get the interview and follow-up on the story, she will discover that Ike is being used as a pawn between the feckless Governor, and the ambitious District Attorney Roy Ridnitz, who is running against him.
The questions then become if Sully's tactics work to show Christy both that news is in her blood and that he is the man suited to her mentality, Ike's life hanging in the balance in the process. —Huggo.