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I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Nah, I was meaning the one between the Nazis and the Fins when the Fins swapped sides. Let me check Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
Yeah, talk about a rock and a hard place. Hitler or Stalin. At least Hitler was willing to leave them alone, while Stalin wanted their territory and a puppet government. They played it pretty well. They protected their Jews and refused to advance beyond East Karelia. It was at a huge cost though. 60,000 odd thousand I think, which is massive for such a small country. Also lost their second biggest city. But they took out a lot more Russians and were able to avoid Russian occupation. That's pretty damn impressive.
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Continuation War is when they resumed hostilies against the Russians after the Winter War. Obviously prompted by the German invasion. Lapland War was when they kicked out the Germans.
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Nah, I was meaning the one between the Nazis and the Fins when the Fins swapped sides. Let me check Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
With you now, I thought you were talking about the earlier part. They did very well considering. I think some Swedes joined them along with the Germans but not in an officially recognised way
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Nah, I was meaning the one between the Nazis and the Fins when the Fins swapped sides. Let me check Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
With you now, I thought you were talking about the earlier part. They did very well considering. I think some Swedes joined them along with the Germans but not in an officially recognised way
Several thousand, including many Norwegians and even Hungarians (because of the linguistic connection I guess). What's weird is that during the Winter War the Allies were preparing plans to assist the Finns against the Russians by invading the north of Norway. Norway were shit scared of the Germans and didn't want to let them in. Could have had a major outcome on the war if the whole thing had gone ahead.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Nah, I was meaning the one between the Nazis and the Fins when the Fins swapped sides. Let me check Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
With you now, I thought you were talking about the earlier part. They did very well considering. I think some Swedes joined them along with the Germans but not in an officially recognised way
Several thousand, including many Norwegians and even Hungarians (because of the linguistic connection I guess). What's weird is that during the Winter War the Allies were preparing plans to assist the Finns against the Russians by invading the north of Norway. Norway were shit scared of the Germans and didn't want to let them in. Could have had a major outcome on the war if the whole thing had gone ahead.
Churchill goaded Germany into invading Norway that way . It cost the poms an aircraft carrier when they did turn up though.
The allies gave the Finns some obsolete stuff like Gloster Gladiators and Brewster buffalos that they took the armour out of and tore the Russians a new one with .This is a cracking read, I had no idea that Churchill was actually seriously expecting a nuclear strike on the uk for a couple of years due to the Nazis having Norwegian heavy water.
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
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@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
The Germans tried to give iron crosses to three Finnish Jews who fought alongside them .
It got really messy at the end when the Germans had to evacuate after the Finns were given a deadline to join the allies too. Really interesting part of the war .That was called the Lapland War IIRC?
Nah, I was meaning the one between the Nazis and the Fins when the Fins swapped sides. Let me check Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War
With you now, I thought you were talking about the earlier part. They did very well considering. I think some Swedes joined them along with the Germans but not in an officially recognised way
Several thousand, including many Norwegians and even Hungarians (because of the linguistic connection I guess). What's weird is that during the Winter War the Allies were preparing plans to assist the Finns against the Russians by invading the north of Norway. Norway were shit scared of the Germans and didn't want to let them in. Could have had a major outcome on the war if the whole thing had gone ahead.
Churchill goaded Germany into invading Norway that way . It cost the poms an aircraft carrier when they did turn up though.
The allies gave the Finns some obsolete stuff like Gloster Gladiators and Brewster buffalos that they took the armour out of and tore the Russians a new one with .This is a cracking read, I had no idea that Churchill was actually seriously expecting a nuclear strike on the uk for a couple of years due to the Nazis having Norwegian heavy water.
Should also be mentioned that the Winter War is the origin of the Molotov Cocktail. Molotov being the Soviet Foreign Minister at the time.
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finale of Big Bang Theory...going out on a high, reckon they still had a couple more seasons in them as I they still got laughs out of me every episode.
Up there with Friends as a fave sit-com for me.
fuck. no TR, what have you done? We were boys
but now? I think you are dead to me. dead.
I didn't think blokes who say they're straight liked friends. How bout that.
I grew to hate it immensely due to an extremely annoying female flatmate raving about it. That and the fact that apart from Joey and Chandler ( every now and again ) none of the main characters were remotely funny and in Ross and Phoebes case extremely punchable.
Yep. I was big time into British comedies at the time and the gulf between them and sitcom crap like Friends was enormous. I never watched it properly until I moved in with my girlfriend. Some of the Chandler-Joey interaction was funny, but the others simply weren't funny and frankly deserved to be lined up again the wall.
Not a fan of the show as I’ve made pretty clear but it must take a really special kind of snowflake to be offended by it. Wow.....
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@Nepia said in TV Serieseseses:
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in TV Serieseseses:
@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:
I would stoked if they made a miniseries of the German version. This one looks decent though.
You guys may be thinking of the Forgotten Soldier? Brilliant book about half Frenchie on the Eastern Front. That Dutch director who made Total Recall (veerhoven?) was talking about making a film about that, but it was years ago. The Finnish theatre of war was pretty amazing. The Winter War is a good film and I'd love to see this latest one. The stuff the Finns did in WW2 was absolutely incredible. Tough as fecking nails.
That’s the one. There’s some doubt about if all true or not, cracking read though.
The Finns in the continuation war did amazing things , gets a bit complicated with the Nazi involvement though
Yeah, always feel a bit sorry for the Fins. They really had no option but to align themselves with the Nazis even though they weren't really "on their side".
Yep. My enemies' enemy must be my friend sort of thing. There is a story that at the end of the hostilities when the new frontier was drawn between Finland and the USSR, as the agreed line was being drawn on the map, Stalin put his finger in the way and the guy had to draw round it ceding a large part of Karelia to the USSR.
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One that may have flown under the radar - Back to life
Premise is a woman released from prison after 18 years and trying to be positive about a new start. I won’t say much more plot wise as it unfolds nicely.
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I think this is going to do really well. Massive demographic they're chasing:
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Look at the like/dislike ratio.Didn't see that. Wow.
Dougray Scott's done well hasn't he? Could have been Wolverine but now he's doing bit parts in Dawn of the Dead and this... whatever the hell it's supposed to be.
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@Mokey I havent watched finale yet, but yes a S3 has been renewed
‘Killing Eve’ Renewed for Season 3, Sets New Showrunner
"Killing Eve" has been picked up for a third season with a new showrunner.
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Started watching Castle Rock on the plane. JJ Abrams and Stephen King. Second episode in and it's pretty good viewing thus far.
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Anyone interested in this?
From today’s Times:
Tom Hardy takes on the SAS in new TV drama
The extraordinary story behind the founding of the SAS is being adapted as a major television drama by the creator of Peaky Blinders.
The series is based on the first authorised history of the elite special forces unit, which was established in 1941 to target Axis forces in North Africa.
The script is being written by Steven Knight, the man behind long-running BBC gangster thriller Peaky Blinders. It is based on the bestselling book SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre, the Times columnist.
Casting has not been confirmed but Tom Hardy — the British star of Hollywood blockbusters including The Revenant — is tipped to take a lead role.
The actor has previously spoken of his fascination with Lieutenant-Colonel Blair “Paddy” Mayne, the hard drinking and notoriously violent co-founder of the SAS.
Hardy, 41, has a long track record of working with Knight. He played Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders for three series, and the two men partnered on the BBC historical drama Taboo, which was made by Hardy’s own production company.
Macintyre’s book was adapted by BBC Two as a 2018 documentary mini-series of the same name. The corporation is considered the most likely home of the new dramatisation, although the identity of the broadcaster has not been formally announced.
Knight is best known as a film and television scriptwriter but was also co-creator of the quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
He said: “This will be a secret history telling the story of exceptional soldiers who decided battles and won wars only to then disappear back into the shadows. We will shine a light on remarkable true events informed by the people who shaped them.”
Martin Haines, joint managing director of the production company Kudos, promised the series would “redefine the genre” of wartime history dramas.
Macintyre obtained unprecedented access to the special forces unit’s private archive for SAS: Rogue Heroes, which was published in 2016.
His book drew on unseen reports, letters and diaries to tell how an eccentric young officer, David Stirling, secured permission from Winston Churchill to form an undercover unit tasked with causing mayhem behind enemy lines.
It tracks the regiment’s exploits in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, then on to D-Day and the assault on Germany.
In the book Macintyre describes Mayne, one of the founding SAS officers, as “truculent, troubled, and dangerously unpredictable, particularly when drunk, which was often”.
Born in Northern Ireland, he was an amateur boxer and played rugby for the British Lions before embarking on a military career. “This man was 17 stone of highly volatile human explosive,” the author wrote.
Hardy’s interest in Mayne was revealed in a 2015 magazine profile, which noted that he kept a copy of the soldier’s biography wedged in the dashboard of his truck.
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Back to Life (TV Series 2019–2021) ⭐ 7.6 | Comedy, Drama
