I saw they launching a new series next week

[airguard]

Looks like it will get alot of spectators.
Wonder how realistic it really is, but I guess I will see it like most others.

Anyone seen any episodes yet ?

link :

http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/overthere/main.html

[BlueJ1]

Originally posted by airguard
Looks like it will get alot of spectators.
Wonder how realistic it really is, but I guess I will see it like most others.
 

From the commercials it looks pretty realistic.

Anyone seen any episodes yet ?  

Premieres July 27th at 10PM E/P

[Gunslinger]

I read this on MSNBC.com  Pretty good write up

LOS ANGELES - Leading TV producer Steven Bochco insists that his new drama about one of America’s most bitterly partisan subjects — the war in Iraq — is no more political than his landmark cop shows “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue.”

In fact, Bochco said, he agreed to make the upcoming series “Over There” — a first-of-its-kind contemporary war drama about U.S. troops in combat and their families back home — only after convincing himself that the show could be done “in a completely apolitical way.”

Audiences may read into the program messages shaped by their own opinions, but Bochco, 61, denies that his own political views about the war show through.

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“I don’t think you have to deal at all with the politics of it,” Bochco told Reuters in an interview. “Ultimately, a young man being shot at in a firefight has absolutely no interest in politics.”

The new series, filmed near Los Angeles and around the high-desert town of Lancaster, California, makes its debut on July 27 on FX, the News Corporation-owned cable network.

War dramas are not new to American television, but “Over There” is the first built around a U.S. military conflict still in progress.

“Combat” and “Rat Patrol,” both set during World War II, were made in the 1960s. The Korean War satire “M*A*S*H” started during the Vietnam War, and “China Beach,” about life on a Vietnam-era military base, was broadcast more than 10 years after that war came to an end.

“Over There” focuses on a U.S. Army sergeant, nicknamed Sergeant Scream by his troops and played by Eric Palladino who appeared on television shows “ER” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and a small band of soldiers he leads on their first tour of duty in Iraq.

The opening episode deals mostly with their initial taste of combat, a bloody battle with insurgents outside a sand-swept mosque. But subsequent episodes are divided about 60-40 between Iraq and the home front, Bochco said.

‘Simple premise’
“Our simple premise was that for every young man or woman in harm’s way in Iraq, there are husbands, wives, children ... back home worried sick for their welfare and safety,” Bochco said. “And in the inevitable backwash of those separations and anxieties, you’re going to locate strong, human drama.”

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Series co-creator Chris Gerolmo, whose previous writing credits include the film “Mississippi Burning,” said one guiding principle behind the show has been “to treat the characters with as much respect as we possibly can.”

That, however, should not be interpreted as support for the war itself. “We’re not writing about anybody above the rank of captain. We’re not writing about policy makers. We’re writing about the grunts,” Gerolmo said.

Still, the program contains references to real-life events that have stirred debate.

In the first episode, a frightened soldier mentions the controversial roll call of U.S. war dead broadcast on ABC’s “Nightline” last year. And a defiant Arab prisoner of war goads his U.S. captors by alluding to the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal.

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[Nefarious]

Not to sound disrespecting, Heres my Cautious 2 Cents.

Cable programming is pretty bad, Like we dont hear enough on the war in Iraq as it is, But now theres a show on FX about it?

Dont get me wrong, I like Military/War Programming from Fictional Movies to Documentarys. I just think now its a little too much (right now) to have a Primetime Drama based on the War In Iraq.

I will check it out and It does look interesting from the commercials. If its not good I'll turn it off, thats about the only thing one can do.

[Hangtime]

that show's gonna scare the crap outta every soldiers mom in america.

[Skydancer]

And the news doesn't already!?

What was it I heard about the war in Iraq being won etc etc.

Its a bloody mess and its getting worse. We should get out now right now.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Skydancer
And the news doesn't already!?

What was it I heard about the war in Iraq being won etc etc.

Its a bloody mess and its getting worse. We should get out now right now.

AHH YES here comes chicken little with "the sky is falling" rant.

[BlueJ1]

And we should leave because we can.