US President George W. Bush.
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Washington, Sep 1: British broadcaster Channel 4 is getting set to premiere a controversial new drama that shows US President George W Bush’s fictional assassination.

The show will be premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to be held later this month.

Titled ‘Death Of A President’, the drama uses the style of a real-life documentary and a blend of computer generated special effects, as well as archive-type footage to show Bush’s assassination by a sniper as he arrives for an anti-war rally in Chicago, Illinois in 2007. The investigation that follows, points to a Syrian-born suspect as the assassin.

The program will be broadcast on the UK digital channel More4 in October this year.

More4 boss Peter Dale said that the drama was a ‘pointed political examination’ on the consequences of the war on terror.

"It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic. I'm sure there will be people upset by it. I hope people will see the intention as a good one," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying. (ANI)