rendelc Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I agree , fantatic series. The forest scene where the germans are shelling the yanks watched with surround sound is really something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekka Posted November 11, 2008 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 11, 2008 Episode 2 is on tonight by the way, "Day of Days". 11:20, BBC 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Episode 2 is on tonight by the way, "Day of Days". 11:20, BBC 2. Cool - is it on every night now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Good grief, I am angry with Virgin Media. Those of you who use it will know about the 'On Demand' feature, where you can choose a show to watch any time. Well, get this. Virgin Media have 9 episodes on demand. That's right. Episodes 1-9. They see fit to not include the last one. :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Good grief, I am angry with Virgin Media. Those of you who use it will know about the 'On Demand' feature, where you can choose a show to watch any time. Well, get this. Virgin Media have 9 episodes on demand. That's right. Episodes 1-9. They see fit to not include the last one. :x Surely that's because it hasn't been on BBC2 yet or something isn't it? It's bound to go up eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocafella Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 It's out on Blu Ray - which is fantastic news. Quite cheap at Play.com as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Good grief, I am angry with Virgin Media. Those of you who use it will know about the 'On Demand' feature, where you can choose a show to watch any time. Well, get this. Virgin Media have 9 episodes on demand. That's right. Episodes 1-9. They see fit to not include the last one. :x Surely that's because it hasn't been on BBC2 yet or something isn't it? It's bound to go up eventually. Is that right? Hmm. Hopefully it'll appear soon then. When is it scheduled to be on BBC2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 3, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted December 3, 2008 I agree , fantastic series. The forest scene where the germans are shelling the yanks watched with surround sound is really something else.There's a good bit on the extras DVD showing how they did that scene. Which I suppose does take a bit away from it, but I guess it's OK if you watch it AFTER the film itself. There are also loads of extra interviews with the original guys, which really adds to the experience. Dick Winters comes across as a really good bloke, and Bill Guanere is good talking about how his brother was killed in Italy a day or two before D-Day - which resulted in Bill going totally **** berserk killing Germans when he hit Normandy. BTW the Stephen Ambrose book is really good as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyShears Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Watched the Virgin Media catch up episodes more or less back to back a couple of weeks ago. Had to get out my copy of Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood and carry on where I left off (cos it was too hard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 "The Pacific" Trailer Production has begun in Australia on THE PACIFIC. Shooting through mid-2008, the epic ten-hour miniseries is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers." THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009. The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day. Carl Franklin (HBO's "Rome"), Jeremy Podeswa (HBO's "Six Feet Under"), Tony To (HBO's "Band of Brothers"), Tim Van Patten (HBO's "The Sopranos") and Graham Yost (HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon") will direct episodes. Writers and additional directors will be announced as they are confirmed. In addition to James Badge Dale ("The Departed"), Joe Mazzello ("Without a Trace") and Jon Seda ("Kevin Hill"), actors featured in THE PACIFIC include (in alphabetical order) Akos Armont, Jon Bernthal ("The Office"), Joshua Biton ("National Treasure"), Adam Booth ("Doctors"), Simon Bossell ("Hotel de Love"), Laurence Breuls ("Ghost Rider"), Tom Budge ("Last Train to Freo"), Linda Cropper ("McLeod's Daughters"), Brendan Fletcher ("Tideland"), Eamon Farren ("The Outsider"), Leon Ford (HBO's "Tsunami: The Aftermath"), Daniel Frederiksen ("Stingers"), Scott Gibson ("Lucky Number Slevin"), Joshua Helman, Ashton Holmes ("A History of Violence"), Andrew Lees, Rami Malek ("The War at Home"), Martin McCann ("Closing the Ring"), Ian Meadows ("Home and Away"), Toby Moore ("Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback"), Rohan Nichol ("All Saints"), Henry Nixon ("Happy Feet"), Keith Nobbs ("The Black Donnellys"), Annie Parisse ("Law & Order"), Sam Parsonson ("Love My Way"), Jacob Pitts ("The Novice"), Rupert Reid ("The Matrix Reloaded"), Mitch Ryan, William Sadler ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Gary Sweet ("Down in Splendor"), Anna Torv ("Young Lions"), Sandy Winton ("Two Twisted"), Dylan Young and Ashley Zukerman. Additional actors will be announced as they are confirmed. THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries. THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; producer, Gene Kelly; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 is there even a UK channel linked to this yet? i suppose BBC will pay the earth for it, hopefully without too much of a delay in US airings and ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevMur Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I went to a casting session for extras for 'The Pacific' when I was in Melbourne last January (2008). Didn't get in unfortunately. Still looking forward to seeing the end result though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 William Sadler's in it, ace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubby Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Sounds incredible. Band of Brothers is one of my all time favourites, I could watch it back to back on repeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 11, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2009 As "BoB" was to "Private Ryan", it will be interesting to compare this with "Flags of our Fathers"/"Letters from Iwo Jima". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelc Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Really looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 i wish this was on i-player they have somthing completely different put down for BBC2 11:20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beasley Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 i wish this was on i-player they have somthing completely different put down for BBC2 11:20 That's because it was on months ago mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuen_Biao Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 "The Pacific" Trailer Looks ace. If 'The Pacific' is anywhere near as good as 'Band...' it will be very watchable. Any idea when this'll be shown in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 It might be a long wait, especially if you're in the UK and don't have an eye-patch. There's an unconfirmed rumor (afaik) that it will air in 2009 (on Channel 7), but it's officially meant to be released sometime in 2010. Wiki refers to The Sydney Morning Herald as a source, but there's no online article. Filming was done last summer, so I guess one can hope the rumor is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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