'The Pacific' - Chances of RTÉ Showing it?

Jim236

Band of Brothers producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are returning with new WWII miniseries 'The Pacific' - http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/index.html

I remember RTÉ showed Band of Brothers years ago when it was first shown, anyone think theres a chance they'll show this?

Guy:Incognito

It's being shown on Sky Movies, so I highly doubt RTE will have it.

chalkitdown1

Just because Sky have it doesn't mean RTE won't air it at some point. Lost is on Sky and RTE air new episodes before them.

Anyway, if RTE were planning on showing it close to the US airing, we'd surely have seen ads for it by now.

Minstrel27

Unless Sky specifically bought the rights for the UK & Ireland then I don't see why not.

TarfHead

They may acquire rights, when SKY are done with it, then screen it at 3am, one episode every 3 months

JonathanAnon

TarfHead wrote: »

They may acquire rights, when SKY are done with it, then screen it at 3am, one episode every 3 months

and then about six times back to back over the xmas...

I think the guys above have called it right. They will get it about two or three years later I would think

ziedth

So download then?

Richard Dower

Mods, please merge all Pacific threads.

Biggins

Really looking forwards to this.
Having seen Band of Brothers a few times and in HD (on a large screen with 5.1 surround) the tv series that they make is of outstanding quality.
All credit to HBO.

Richard Dower

This has "epic" written all over it!

Ruthie_

Does anyone know when Sky are showing it? I don't wanna miss it. Loved Band of Brothers, might actually watch it again before this starts. Get myself all excited bout it!! :P If its even half as good as BOB then we're in for a serious treat!!

Fredrick

Yep really looking forward to this. HBO have aired some great shows over the years, sopranos, oz and the like, bring it on

KerranJast

RTE took ages to show BoB. It was on BBC for a good while before RTE got around to show it. Regardless like all my TV I'll be getting it from source.

Elmo

KerranJast wrote: »

Regardless like all my TV I'll be getting it from source.

You subscribe to HBO? Or your cousins do?

KerranJast

Elmo wrote: »

You subscribe to HBO? Or your cousins do?

Yeah my cousin Rapah "Hair" Murphy does. He's dead on.

T-b0n3

Yea I love Band of Brothers and the ads for this look great. Really looking forward to this. Just over 3 weeks to wait!

Elmo

KerranJast wrote: »

Yeah my cousin Rapah "Hair" Murphy does. He's dead on.

He seems to have allot of cousins on boads.ie

I think RTÉ, TV3 or TG4 would have mention at this stage weather or not they got the series. I would say Sky paid for the PPV rights.

T-b0n3

Elmo wrote: »

He seems to have allot of cousins on boads.ie

Yea hes my favorite cousin too

Richard Dower

I'm not buying that cousins malarky!....i smell fresh ink guys (Batman refrence)

Elmo

Richard Dower wrote: »

I'm not buying that cousins malarky!....i smell fresh ink guys (Batman refrence)

Rapah "Hair" Murphy, sure he your cousin too.

Luis21

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

Just because Sky have it doesn't mean RTE won't air it at some point. Lost is on Sky and RTE air new episodes before them.

Anyway, if RTE were planning on showing it close to the US airing, we'd surely have seen ads for it by now.

Learn to read, its on SKY MOVIES, a premium channel, cant see them allowing RTE to show it.

Anyway, just download the bleedin' torrent !

Elmo

Luis21 wrote: »

Anyway, just download the bleedin' torrent !

You mean get your Cousin Rapah "Hair" Murphy to send it over to you on VHS.

Minstrel27

Luis21 wrote: »

Learn to read, its on SKY MOVIES, a premium channel, cant see them allowing RTE to show it.

What has that got to do with anything. The only thing that would prevent it being shown on RTÉ, TV3 or TG4 is Sky acquiring the Irish rights.

chalkitdown1

Luis21 wrote: »

Learn to read, its on SKY MOVIES

Sky can put it on any channel they want, it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to RTE, unless, like Minstrel says, they've also acquired the Irish rights, which I very much doubt they have.

Mr E

They'd probably put it on at 2am in the morning anyway.

Less of the torrent talk, folks.

robby^5

Why anyone wants it on RTE is beyond me. Watching ad-free is a big must for me.

BBC is the channel of choice imo but Sky Movies is acceptable so long as it premières around the same time as in the US.

Minstrel27

robby^5 wrote: »

Why anyone wants it on RTE is beyond me.

The cost of having Sky Movies might be a reason.

The Black Oil

http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific#/the-pacific/about/video/iwo-jima-preview.html/

Seems to be a clip or two here, although it takes a while to load. I might wait until the DVD is released.

Richard Dower

sure 720p's will be everywhere within mins of preair.

Morlar

Chances are I wont get to see all the episodes of this one when it's on so will probably just ignore it when it's on tv then pick up the blu-ray boxset later on.

Elmo

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The cost of having Sky Movies might be a reason.

And this is the reason why Sky have possibly bought the rights for Ireland and the UK.

Sky Movies are just as much of a Pay TV service in Ireland as they are in the UK. And per head of population their Irish customers are far greater.

The Black Oil

20 mins making of piece

TonyD79

Sky put the Battlestar Galactica mini series on Sky Movies aswell. Its a joke your paying enough for the normal subscription service as it is

Biggins

Spielberg's praise for The Pacific

Thursday February 25 2010

Steven Spielberg insists he was determined to find a way to get his new Second World War drama The Pacific onto TV screens.
After the focus on the Army in Second World War miniseries Band Of Brothers, Steven was determined to give the big picture by telling the story of the US Marine Corps.

"I felt incomplete, that if we didn't tell the story of The Pacific and had HBO said 'no we were in it for Europe and not any more' I would have found some other way to get this story told," the legendary Hollywood director said.
Steven serves as Executive Producer alongside actor Tom Hanks on the HBO show, which comes to Sky this April.
He gratefully added: "HBO gave us the money, that's very important!"
"I wanted to tell the story of the veterans of the Pacific Theaters of Operation, they brought the entire global wall to an end in 1945 and the sacrifice was no less horrendous than in Europe."

The Pacific will be shown exclusively on Sky Movies/HD from Monday April 5.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/spielbergs-praise-for-the-pacific-2079622.html

JonathanAnon

The Black Oil wrote: »

20 mins making of piece

Was really good. but I hate they way they keep saying "it was just like being there", "we wanted to go thorugh exactly what they went through"... etc etc.. I dont remember hearing of any of the actors being blown up, tortured, burned to death etc...

I thought intially that they were just covering the Guadalcanal landings, but seems there covering Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the different episodes.

There's a cool map on wiki that shows the complete list of landings in order, if you want to follow it on the map. Gonna just link to it cos it's huge and would mess up the thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/US_landings.jpg

bonerm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I thought intially that they were just covering the Guadalcanal landings, but seems there covering Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the different episodes.

There's a cool map on wiki that shows the complete list of landings in order, if you want to follow it on the map. Gonna just link to it cos it's huge and would mess up the thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/US_landings.jpg

As an aside could I recommend the very good and very well-known TV documentary THE WORLD AT WAR if you want a nice gentle intro to the pacific campaign. I'm not a war buff and I didn't really know anything about the Pacific campaign (other than how it ended!) prior to watching it and I felt it gave me a decent enough grounding.

The show deals with both social effects of WWII as well as the actual war on two european fronts, north africa and the pacific so you could easily pick out the Pacific eps for a review. I will be watching them again before PACIFIC starts!

JonathanAnon

bonerm wrote: »

As an aside could I recommend the very good and very well-known TV documentary THE WORLD AT WAR if you want a nice gentle intro to the pacific campaign. I'm not a war buff and I didn't really know anything about the Pacific campaign (other than how it ended!) prior to watching it and I felt it gave me a decent enough grounding.

From recollection, I thought the documentary was VERY sketchy. Only one episode was dedicated to the Pacific island hopping campaign, and focussed on mostly Tarawa (which in reality was a tiny 1 square km island), didnt mention Midway (where Japs lost four carriers), no mention of Peleliu, nothing significant on Guadalcanal. Seemed to focus on basically saying, "they hopped from island to island, it was tough, and because they didnt want to lose a million plus more troops by invading the home islands, they dropped the bomb"

There's a program called The Lost Evidence, which is uploaded on youtube, and it has episodes dedicated to Guadalcanal, Pelileu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.. as well as Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Luzon.. it's very comprehensive... World At War: Pacific is a very basic intro.

That_Guy

Just seen a promo of this. Easter can't come soon enough.

amacachi

Full HD TV in the sitting room but no Sky HD, so I won't be watching it on broadcast here, definitely not something I would watch in SD.

The Black Oil

Sky has responded to negative comments circulating on message boards, blogs and social network sites regarding its decision to air forthcoming ten-part miniseries The Pacific on Sky Movies rather than Sky1.

The HBO-backed show, which is produced by film heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, follows the interlocking stories of three American Marines fighting the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. TV fans across the web, including the Digital Spy forums, have been critical of the decision to debut the Band Of Brothers follow-up on the Sky premium channel.

In a statement released to DS, the broadcaster insisted that Sky Movies is "the natural home for this ground-breaking series" due to its high production values and cinematic scope. "We had always planned to screen The Pacific on Sky Movies and from the moment we saw the first clips of the series in early 2009, following more than three years of discussion with HBO, we were awestruck by the sheer scale and spectacle of the series and from that point on we knew it had to be shown on Sky Movies," the release said. "Although The Pacific has a mini-series label, the approach to the production and the end product is far more in keeping with a blockbuster movie release. The budget of over $200m (£128m) and the stunning production and cinematography all make this the most cinematic programming made for television ever."

Sky added that a place on Sky Movies allows episodes of The Pacific to air unedited and free from commercial breaks and on-screen intrusions. "The directors of The Pacific envisaged that each episode would be shown in full (ie without ad breaks), unedited, in HD and free from on-screen logos or graphics - as such Sky Movies is the most appropriate channel for the series," the statement continued.

"There has been a huge amount of interest from a number of different broadcasters and we had to fight hard to secure The Pacific. We've now seen a selection of the final episodes and are more convinced than ever that Sky Movies is the best place to fully experience The Pacific and we're sure that our viewers won't be disappointed."

The Pacific will be shown on Sky Movies Premiere and Sky Movies Premiere HD this Easter. It will debut in the US on HBO on March 14.

Pfft.

Minstrel27

What a load of bollocks. The directors envisaged that it be shown uninterrupted. That's why they sometimes show movies on Sky One.

I also notice that they will begin showing the series three weeks after the states. Talk about shooting themselves in the foot.

TonyD79

As if it will be shown in States ad free! What timescale do you reckon it will take to come out on blue ray if its shown in April? Ready for Xmas 2010?:(

Dont Sky have a SkyOneHD channel aswell? Im getting fed up with Sky myself. Have sky sports purely to watch Man united matchs yet besides cup games they only ever seem to be on once a month. Total waste of money:mad:

high heels

HBO is add free ya numphy... You'll notice that all they Tv shows are a hour long just like the BBC as they dont have adds

I don't have the movie package at the moment but will be getting it in just for this.. Its going to be epic.. Just wish I had a bigger TV or they played it in cinemas each week.. I think Id go every week.. Thats about 130 Euro for your tickets so the 10er a month for the movie channels isn't bad!!

Junco Partner

any ad i've seen says exclusively on sky movies in hd i have movies but i don't have hd box can i still watch it

Richard Dower

3 weeks head start by HBO?....LOL!, sure nobody will watch, we'll have high def 720p rips within hours of (US)broadcast, and HBO will always be ahead of Sky....stupid!

Richard Dower

f0ggy92 wrote: »

any ad i've seen says exclusively on sky movies in hd i have movies but i don't have hd box can i still watch it

Nope, you need the HD hardware + smart card.

Vokes

f0ggy92 wrote: »

any ad i've seen says exclusively on sky movies in hd i have movies but i don't have hd box can i still watch it

I'd imagine you can watch it on the non-HD Sky Movies channel.

Junco Partner

i was looking at it's wikipedia page and rte is listed as a confirmed broadcaster but date is tbc hope this is real and not some hoax editing

TarfHead

NY Times article today - part of the countdown to next Sunday

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/television/07pacific.html?ref=television

jimmy5bellys

Really looking forward to this. Big big fan of Band of Brother, even read the book.

There is a case to made for waiting till the Blu-Ray Box Set comes out (at christmas time I'm assuming) and watching it in one epic weekend.

Biggins

jimmy5bellys wrote: »

...There is a case to made for waiting till the Blu-Ray Box Set comes out (at christmas time I'm assuming) and watching it in one epic weekend.

Absolutely. I have Band of Brothers on standard dvd and on Blu-ray, the difference is stunning and not just in picture quality.
Added thru a 5.1 surround system, its out of this world to watch on a large HD flat screen.