The network’s coverage of the announced end to America’s 23-year military presence in Iraq arrived Tuesday inside a full graphics package — “EXIT STRATEGY,” complete with its own bumper music, a ticking countdown clock, and a lower third promising “the twist nobody saw coming” — reused, with minor edits, from the graphics package the network built for a home-renovation show it canceled last spring.

A spinoff segment covering “what happens next” was announced before the anchor finished reading the Pentagon’s actual drawdown timeline, which occupied one sentence beneath the branded countdown clock.