How Many Episodes Is 'The Kennedys – After Camelot'? The Reelz Miniseries Explores Another Chapter In Their Lives
It's been more than 50 years since John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. However, our country's fascination with the legendary political dynasty hasn't ceased in the years after that national tragedy, which is certainly evidenced by the premiere of the new miniseries The Kennedys - After Camelot. But since this famous family is full of history, it begs the question: How many episodes is The Kennedys - After Camelot, and how will it cover all of it?
The Kennedys - After Camelot will be a four-hour-long miniseries that will air over the course of two Sundays on Reelz with the first two hours premiering on Sunday, April 2 at 9 p.m. ET and the final two hours bowing on Sunday, April 9 at 9 p.m. ET, the network announced in January. What's also of note about the episodes is that Katie Holmes, who will reprise her The Kennedys miniseries role as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, directed the third hour of the miniseries, according to Deadline. The rest of the episodes were directed by Jon Cassar, who was at the helm of all eight episodes of The Kennedys.
This new miniseries picks up where The Kennedys left off when it aired on Reelz in 2011, with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. It looks like The Kennedys - After Camelot will start around that time. "In the series premiere, Jackie and Ted face new responsibilities moving past two assassinations," the description for the first episode reads, according to TV Guide. The second episode's log lines say, "Chappaquiddick damage control continues as Ted eyes the Presidency. Also: JFK Jr. struggles with expectations while Jackie holds the family together."
"Jhon Kennedys and His Last Step"
(A Short Fictional Story – Drama, Inspirational)
Jhon Kennedys was a nobody in the quiet town of Bernardville. He worked as a janitor at an old elementary school that was falling apart and barely running. Every day, he swept hallways that no one appreciated, fixed creaky doors, and carried out the trash. People greeted him out of politeness, but no one ever really saw him.
What no one knew was that behind his wrinkled uniform and tired eyes, Jhon held on to a dream he'd buried decades ago: to be a painter.
He used to paint as a child. But life had different plans — his father died early, he had to work, and then life kept piling on responsibilities. Dreams, he thought, were for people who had time. And time wasn’t something he had.
But at the age of 63, when most people talked about retirement and rest, Jhon did something else. He began to wake up earlier, sleep later. He turned the little back room in his worn-down wooden house into a studio — filled with leftover canvases, old paints, and his imagination.
Every night, he painted silently — floating cities, golden mountains, oceans that whispered, faces that told stories. He never showed them to anyone.
Until one day, he accidentally left a sketch behind in the school’s storage room.
The school principal, Mrs. Albright, found it. She couldn’t believe her eyes. She thought it was a professional piece, left by mistake. When she learned it was Jhon’s, she was speechless.
Within a week, she organized a small art exhibition in the school’s worn-down gym.
The town came. So did a local journalist. Even an art collector from the city stopped by after reading a short feature in the newspaper.
Jhon cried.
Not because people praised his paintings — but because, for the first time in a long time, someone saw him.
In one of his last interviews before he passed away due to chronic lung illness, he said:
"It’s never too late to become who you believe you can be. I just took one step. Then another. And then another."
Today, there’s a mural of Jhon’s painting in the hallway of Bernardville Elementary School — a floating city under a golden sky. Children walk by it every day, not knowing much about the quiet janitor who once dreamed in colors — and finally let the world see them.