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Just read that TV3 has woken up to the fact that they need to get their shows on air before everyone that is interested has already watched them by other means.<br />
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Homeland Series 2 will be shown only hours after each episode airs in the US. That's better than even SoHo manage to do.<br />
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Well done TV3.<br />
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On the flip side, I now have the wife suggesting that I find a way she can watch the latest series of Downton. I'm surprised that Prime/ Sky haven't managed to negotiate this one better. I can imagine them not showing it until early 2013. -
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Just read that TV3 has woken up to the fact that they need to get their shows on air before everyone that is interested has already watched them by other means.<br />
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Homeland Series 2 will be shown only hours after each episode airs in the US. That's better than even SoHo manage to do.<br />
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Well done TV3.<br />
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On the flip side, I now have the wife suggesting that I find a way she can watch the latest series of Downton. I'm surprised that Prime/ Sky haven't managed to negotiate this one better. I can imagine them not showing it until early 2013.<br />
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Yeah I only saw the new series of Downton the other day when I was looking at somethign else.<br />
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I have plenty of stuff to watch (not those I simply cant wait, but ones I enjoy) like Downton (for the wife of course) Bones, Dexter, Person of Interest, SOA, Homeland.<br />
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My brother said he watched a new one called Revolution, only 1 ep so far and he said it seemed pretty good. only aired recently, said it was pretty good. -
I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.
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[quote name='Baron Silas Greenback' timestamp='1348442628' post='312862']<br />
I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.<br />
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Pretty much what my brother said...I might have to have a look.<br />
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SOA ep3 - jeez, that was brutal, and very surprising!! Also a bit sad!<br />
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[spoiler]OP has always been one of my fave characters, so a bit sad to have him killed off. Coulda got rid of Clay!!<br />
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What is it with the need to have a character with the bloody tubes coming out the nose!!<br />
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Although the scene was a bit off, he clobbered a couple of them with that pipe with what appeared 2 good blows, and they both got back up.[/spoiler] -
[quote name='Baron Silas Greenback' timestamp='1348442628' post='312862']<br />
I am enjoying Strike Back, not sure why.<br />
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I watched two hours on Sunday. Great stuff, mainstream TV aimed at blokes, this is a good thing. Two hours of terrorists getting shot, and tits. Awesome! If the rest of the series does not continue in a similar manner i should be lodging a complaint for false advertising.... -
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I watched two hours on Sunday. Great stuff, mainstream TV aimed at blokes, this is a good thing. Two hours of terrorists getting shot, and tits. Awesome! If the rest of the series does not continue in a similar manner i should be lodging a complaint for false advertising....<br />
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After watching the first series of Strikeback which aimed to be a little bit more, um, highbrow, I was initially shocked at seeing boobies in the 2nd series! <br />
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I'm mid way through the 2nd series and find it an enjoyable lark.<br />
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I've finally come round to Mad Men after everyone (in real life and on here) saying how good it was. After watching the first few episodes months back and wondering what everyone was smoking (fans of it, not on the show) I sat myself down and watched a few eps in a row. I'd say about 5 episodes in it started making sense and I'm really enjoying the series. I do find it a wee bit hit and miss though, one episode will be great - up there with The Wire, and the next will be average, but then another great one will come around. -
There's a first series?
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[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1349134523' post='314722']<br />
There's a first series?<br />
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There's 3 I think, maybe I was wrong and there were boobies in the first one? There was a complete cast change between S1 and S2 - and I think S1 was a pure Brit production while S2 was targeted at US cable.<br />
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[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1349134523' post='314722']<br />
There's a first series?<br />
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Kinda... it follows the guy Porter (who gets a bullet in the head of the first episode of the next series). The actor who played him left to work on the Hobbit.<br />
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The US show has 2 seaosns, the UK has 2 season s and a prequel season.<br />
They dont shy away from showing people getting shot in the head, and I think there is a sex scene with boobs at least once in every episode. -
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Kinda... it follows the guy Porter (who gets a bullet in the head of the first episode of the next series). The actor who played him left to work on the Hobbit.<br />
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The US show has 2 seaosns,[b] the UK has 2 season s and a prequel season.[/b]<br />
They dont shy away from showing people getting shot in the head, and I think there is a sex scene with boobs at least once in every episode.<br />
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So, is the one with the Brit & Yank and Liam Cunningham S2 of the UK version? Or is each story a series? For example the first Porter story, then the Zimbabwe one, then the Afghan one?<br />
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Here you go.<br />
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I have edited the Wiki article so as not to be spoiling. Looks like the confusion is that what is known as Series 3 in the UK is Series 2 in the US<br />
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[i][b]Strike Back[/b][/i] is a British and American [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(fiction)"]action[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_novel"]military[/url] television series, based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Service"]Special Air Service[/url] (SAS) soldier [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ryan"]Chris Ryan[/url].<br />
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The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service"]Secret Intelligence Service[/url] (MI6), who operative several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe. The series began broadcasting on Sky1 on 5 May 2010, showing the first six-part series.<br />
After a second series was commissioned, it was announced that Cinemax would co-produce the franchise. The first episode of the ten-part second series, undergoing the banner title [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Back:Project_Dawn"]Project Dawn[/url][/i] in the United Kingdom, first aired on 12 August 2011.<br />
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A third series, under the banner title [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Back:Vengeance"]Strike Back: Vengeance[/url][/i] is currently airing in the United Kingdom and United States.<br />
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Following Cinemax's participation from the second series, the series faced a re-imagining due of the absence of first series lead [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage(actor)"]Richard Armitage[/url], who was at the time filming [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit(film_series)"]The Hobbit[/url][/i] in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand"]New Zealand[/url].<br />
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The first series consists of six episodes. It follows John Porter ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(actor)"]Richard Armitage[/url]), who resigned from the SAS following the aftermath of a rescue mission in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq"]Iraq[/url] on the eve of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq"]American led invasion in 2003[/url], where two fellow soldiers were killed, apparently by a thirteen year boy Porter failed to kill, leaving him responsible. Seven years later, Porter is "reactivated" following the kidnap of journalist Katie Dartmouth ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_Brady"]Orla Brady[/url]) by the same terrorists he fought seven years ago, including the same boy.<br />
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The second series consists of ten episodes. Porter is captured by a Pakistani terrorist called Latif ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Mistry"]Jimi Mistry[/url]) while investigating a planned operation of Latif, Project Dawn. Sergeant Michael Stonebridge ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Winchester"]Philip Winchester[/url]) finds disgraced ex-[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force"]Delta Force[/url] operative Damian Scott ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Stapleton"]Sullivan Stapleton[/url]), who would not be hired by even [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary"]private military contractors[/url], who previously worked with Porter to track Latif.<br />
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[b][i]Strike Back: Vengeance[/i][/b],as it is known in the United Kingdom (or [b][i]Strike Back[/i] Season 2[/b] in the United States) is a ten-part third series of [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Back_(series)"]Strike Back[/url][/i] commissioned by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky"]Sky[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemax"]Cinemax[/url] (the second year since Cinemax was brought on board to co-produce the show) in October 2011. The main cast for the series includes [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Winchester"]Philip Winchester[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Stapleton"]Sullivan Stapleton[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhona_Mitra"]Rhona Mitra[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Lukes"]Michelle Lukes[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhashan_Stone"]Rhashan Stone[/url]. The series began filming in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa"]South Africa[/url] in January 2012, and premiered on Cinemax on 17 August 2012 and will premier on Sky1 in September. -
ha, I enjoy reading most of Chris Ryans stuff, so I am sure I'll like the series, I'm sold!!<br />
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NO idea if I have read this book though, not that I am sure it will matter! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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1st episode of Homeland last night, interesting, the way they introduced Carrie back into the fold was always an obvious one IMO. -
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My brother said he watched a new one called Revolution, only 1 ep so far and he said it seemed pretty good. only aired recently, said it was pretty good.<br />
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I saw an ad for this on TV2 last night, looks interesting (parts looked similar to Flash Forward) whereby bascially there is no longer electricity and the world is thrown into chaos, only up to ep 2 in the US, so it seems TV companies in NZ starting to realise airing things as close to the origin market is a good idea.... -
Strike Back continues to be good fun, so much titty, and fluffybunnys getting wasted in the head (seems to be the preffered method of offing blokes). Terrifically fun TV.
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SOA seems to be moving along nicely....thought the cameo by Walter Goggins in the latest episode was brilliant!
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SOA seems to be moving along nicely....thought the cameo by Walter Goggins in the latest episode was brilliant!<br />
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The Tranny?<br />
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That Tig is one weird screwed up dude. I see Clays grubby fingers all over those home invasions too.
