The History Channel announced Wednesday that Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear will star in “The Kennedy’s“…the channels very first scripted series. As soon as the news was released, every blogger and their brother started bashing Katie and saying there was no way she could pull this off. But I disagree. I think this is a great opportunity to show she still has some presence of mind after all that wheatgrass and  auditing.

The channel announced Wednesday that Kinnear will play President John F. Kennedy, and Holmes will portray first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the eight-hour program about the famous family.

Barry Pepper is set to play Robert Kennedy, who served as U.S. attorney general in his brother’s administration. Tom Wilkinson is cast as patriarch Joseph Kennedy.

The family’s personal drama will be part of the saga along with major events of their time, the channel has said.

The miniseries is scheduled to air on the History Channel in 2011.

katie as jackie