Switching Channels (1988)

Storyline

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. Switching Channels, the 1988 Ted Kotcheff television broadcasting comedy (“Her fiancee won’t give in . Her ex just won’t give up. Film at 11.”; “There’s a lot more going on around here than news, weather and sports.”; “Based upon the play entitled ‘The Front Page’ by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur”) starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, and Henry Gibson