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A limited series about the Cuban Missile Crisis is in the works from Samuel Franco, Evan Kilgore, and Adam Goodman’s Dichotomy Creative, Variety has learned exclusively.

The series is currently titled “Defcon-2.” It is based on Sheldon M. Stern’s book “The Week the World Stood Still,” which featured transcriptions of secretly recorded meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), as well as prior interviews with members of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee. No network or streaming service is currently attached to the project.

Per the official description, “The series focuses on the events not only through the eyes of President Kennedy and his brother, Bobby, but through those that surrounded them, namely Associate Press Secretary and White House speechwriter, Andrew T. Hatcher and Presidential secretary Jill Cowen, whose transcription of the ExComm tapes gave her a front-row seat to a world on the brink of destruction.

Recently, ABC revealed the new,official synopsis/description for their upcoming "Marvel's Agents Of Shield" episode 15 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "Spacetime," and it turns out that we're going to see some very drama-filled and urgent stuff go down as a terrible glimpse into the future, prompts the Shield team to take immediate action on changing it, and more! In the new, 15th episode press release: S.H.I.E.L.D. Fights To Change Their Terrifying Future. Press release number 2: When Daisy receives a terrifying glimpse of the future, S.H.I.E.L.D. will end up racing against the clock to prove that fate is not fixed. Guest stars feature: Blair Underwood as Andrew Garner, Matthew Willig as Lash, Powers Boothe as Gideon Malick, Mark Dacascos as Giyera, Alexander Wraith as Agent Anderson, Bjorn Johnson as Charles Hinton, Wolfgang Bodison as Edwin Abbott, Lola Glaudini as Polly Hinton,...