USA Cancels Film After Ad Protest

  • December 7, 2000
AP - USA Network canceled production of a television movie about two drug-tampering deaths after a major pharmaceutical advertiser complained it was inappropriate. The cable network said Wednesday it pulled the plug on "Who Killed Sue Snow?" on Nov. 22, five days before filming was to begin in British Columbia. The movie was based on the 1986 deaths of two Seattle-area residents who took cyanide-laced Excedrin. The cancellation followed objections by Johnson & Johnson, whose subsidiary manufactures Tylenol. The New Brunswick, N.J.-based company threatened to pull all advertising at the network and ask other drug companies to do the same, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources involved in the project.
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