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Airdate: The Pacific
HBO miniseries The Pacific will take on Hey Hey it's Saturday when it premieres Wednesday April 14th on Seven.
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HBO miniseries The Pacific will take on Hey Hey it’s Saturday when it premieres at 8:30pm Wednesday April 14th on Seven.
The lavish $200m miniseries, which has Seven funding in it, is part of the network’s renewed push in the return of survey ratings.
It’s no coincidence that Seven is airing the movie Saving Private Ryan next Wednesday night. The network also did its best to whet appetites with Band of Brothers over summer -all three were produced by the Spielberg / Hanks team.
This one has been a long time coming.
Worth the wait.
- Tagged with Band of Brothers, Hey Hey its Saturday, The Pacific
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@Paull
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Can’t ****ing wait
Looking forward to The Pacific.
I was never going to watch Hey Hey anyway.
And thus the downside of second digital channels begins. If only duel tuning recorders were affordable!
Hectic.. bad enough with Lost and Fringe on at the same time, but soon Hey Hey will be in on the mix and now The Pacific? Couldn’t a different night be chosen for this?
I can only hope 7 does encore episodes for the whole series, whether it be on 7 itself or 7Two, otherwise I’ll have to be making use of the online catch up services.
I am so stuck on what im going to do on that Wednesday ive been scrolling up and down this page for the last half hour!!!
Annoying place to put it, I was a garenteed viewer in almost any other timeslot but I’ll be watching lost and recording fringe.
I very much doubt Hey Hey will be on at 8.30pm. Or is going to be an old fashioned bumblnig through 3 hrs of Darryl dribble again?
I can’t believe Seven didn’t fastrack this. As usual Australia is one of the last countries to air this – just check Wiki. Especially since it’s about the fight “for Australia”
I thinks CM is moving to Tuesdays, at least that’s what they said at the end of last nights episode.
I can’t wait for this one. However, as it clashes with the final two weeks of So You Think You Can Dance, I will have to watch the first two episodes of The Pacific on PLUS7 during the weekend.
Pacific looks good. But I won’t be watching it on Seven. I’ll wait for the ad-free DVD set.
I’ll join the echo. Where is Criminal Minds?
Will be an interesting tussle Wednesday nights… Can’t really pick where the cards will fall…
Aus viewers are already viewing this, as it started 2 weeks ago in the US.
crap,now there”s criminal minds,fringe,lost and pacific.what the hell am i gonna do now?
That’s really annoying putting The Pacific up against Lost. Who cares about Hey, Hey?
Damn! Now I have a 3 programs vying for my attention at the same time (Hey Hey, Pacific, Lost). Looks like I will have to go back to the less traditional way of watching Lost once this starts up!
Any chance of a repeat on 7two every week? If I was seven i’d make the most of their second channel, come on seven it’s time.
The Pacific will lose the war.
Ermmm what about Criminal Minds. Where’s that going??
Yes worth the wait, lucky enough to have seen the first 2 parts and it’s great, solid acting, great production values and a decent story, I like the lead-ins for each part.
Just a question this is around 55 min per ep, I guess on Seven it will run over 80 or 90 minutes with ads or do they have a deal in place for reduced ad breaks David?
Any clue on the episode durations?
Well it will be The Pacific for me. HHIS is so yesterday!!!!
So we have the choice Pacific or lost.
Guess I’ll be taping pacific on VHS then, I could bare not taping lost on the harddrive.