145;Documentary was a hoax146;

The deception was part of a 8216;8216;guerrilla marketing campaign8217;8217; that went too far, network president Bonnie Hammer said on Friday.

Sci Fi claimed last month that Shyamalan had stopped participating with the channel8217;s documentary about his life when the questions got too personal. Documentarians Nathaniel Kahn and Callum Greene pressed on and made a three-hour film 8212; The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan 8212; without his cooperation, the network said.

The Associated Press wrote about the documentary last month, prompting other media to run accounts that also stressed the supposed conflict. In a news release last month, Sci Fi said Shyamalan had tried to shut down production of the 8216;8216;disturbing expose.8217;8217;

It was all a lie and there is no buried secret, Hammer said on Friday. She couldn8217;t be reached for further comment. 8216;8216;We created a fictional special that was part fact, part fiction and Night was part of the creation from the beginning,8217;8217; she said. Shyamalan couldn8217;t be reached for comment. 8212;LAT-WP