Clinton, Reagan TV dramas on tap

? If you don’t want to bother with the book, there’s a Hillary Rodham Clinton TV movie in the works. And if you can’t get enough presidential drama, a miniseries also is on the way about former President Reagan and his wife, Nancy.

A&E announced Thursday that it would make a two-hour movie on the New York senator and former first lady that is expected to air in early 2004.

No one has been cast yet, but producers already have talked with Sharon Stone about the title role, according to a source close to the production who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A&E’s announcement comes just days before Clinton’s book, “Living History,” is scheduled to hit bookstores.

The A&E movie will be based on a different book, though: Gail Sheehy’s best seller, “Hillary’s Choice.”

The movie begins with the start of husband Bill Clinton’s presidency and “will focus on Hillary’s quest to fulfill her own high hopes and ambitions as she repeatedly faces humiliating personal setbacks,” the network said. It ends with her election to the U.S. Senate.

CBS, meanwhile, is planning a two-part miniseries about the family life of the Reagans.

It will chronicle Ronald Reagan’s relationship with Nancy, his second wife, and his rise in politics as governor of California and as president.

The story is based on Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s 1991 book “First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power, 1961-1990.”

Production is set to start this summer and could be broadcast as early as November.