• August 3, 2001

Comedy Central has canceled its White House satire "That's My Bush" after only eight half-hour episodes, but the creators of the sitcom plan to transform it into a big-screen feature, "George Bush & the Secret of the Glass Tiger." The cable series, starring Timothy Bottoms, depicted George W. Bush as the bumbling husband in a domestic sitcom who just happened to be president of the United States. "But in the movie, we're going to turn him into a superhero who battles the enemies of the country, in this case the Chinese," said Matt Stone, who created the series with Trey Parker. "We want it to look like a John Woo action movie." Stone and Parker are best known for creating the irreverent animated series "South Park," about a group of potty-mouthed grade-schoolers in Colorado. Stone said Comedy Central canceled "That's My Bush" because, at a production cost of just under $1 million a half-hour, it was the most expensive series ever commissioned by the network. The ratings were modest. Comedy Central prevented the duo from using Bush's twin daughters as characters in the series, a restriction Stone said he and Parker chafed at. The twins will be front and center as party animals in the movie, Stone said, adding that they'll get kidnapped by the Chinese, fueling Bush's drive for revenge.
- Variety