Premise

Ken Burns The War 09/07. This is a new Ken Burns documentary on PBS about WWII. Should be good.

Brent_MN

I heard that Ken Burns just signed with PBS thru 2020 or something.

superdeluxe

He basically has a lifetime contract with PBS.

Ravenous

Remind me in September

Tommy Ceez

Geez Ken, could you pick a more overexposed historical event?

B.A.

I concur.

Lateralus

Well it's September!

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/


THE WAR "A Necessary War"
December 1941-December 1942
Airdate : 09/23/2007 Time : 8:00-10:30 pm TWAR # : 101 OB : 09/23/07
Airdate : 09/23/2007 Time : 10:30-1:00 am TWAR # : 101 OB : 09/23/07
Airdate : 10/03/2007 Time : 9:00-11:30 pm TWAR # : 101 OB : 09/23/07

THE WAR "When Things Get Tough"
January 1943-December 1943
Airdate : 09/24/2007 Time : 8:00-10:00 pm TWAR # : 102 OB : 09/24/07
Airdate : 09/24/2007 Time : 10:00-0:00 am TWAR # : 102 OB : 09/24/07
Airdate : 10/10/2007 Time : 9:00-11:00 pm TWAR # : 102 OB : 09/24/07

THE WAR "A Deadly Calling"
November 1943-June 1944
Airdate : 09/25/2007 Time : 8:00-10:00 pm TWAR # : 103 OB : 09/25/07
Airdate : 09/25/2007 Time : 10:00-0:00 am TWAR # : 103 OB : 09/25/07
Airdate : 10/17/2007 Time : 9:00-11:00 pm TWAR # : 103 OB : 09/25/07

THE WAR "Pride of Our Nation"
June 1944-August 1944
Airdate : 09/26/2007 Time : 8:00-10:30 pm TWAR # : 104 OB : 09/26/07
Airdate : 09/26/2007 Time : 10:30-1:00 am TWAR # : 104 OB : 09/26/07
Airdate : 10/24/2007 Time : 9:00-11:30 pm TWAR # : 104 OB : 09/26/07

THE WAR "FUBAR"
September 1944-December 1944
Airdate : 09/30/2007 Time : 8:00-10:30 pm TWAR # : 105 OB : 09/30/07
Airdate : 09/30/2007 Time : 10:30-1:00 am TWAR # : 105 OB : 09/30/07
Airdate : 10/31/2007 Time : 9:00-11:30 pm TWAR # : 105 OB : 09/30/07

THE WAR "The Ghost Front"
December 1944-March 1945
Airdate : 10/01/2007 Time : 8:00-10:03 pm TWAR # : 106 OB : 10/01/07
Airdate : 10/01/2007 Time : 10:03-0:04 am TWAR # : 106 OB : 10/01/07
Airdate : 11/07/2007 Time : 9:00-11:01 pm TWAR # : 106 OB : 10/01/07

THE WAR "A World Without War"
March 1945-September 1945
Airdate : 10/02/2007 Time : 8:00-10:30 pm TWAR # : 107 OB : 10/02/07
Airdate : 10/02/2007 Time : 10:30-1:00 am TWAR # : 107 OB : 10/02/07
Airdate : 11/14/2007 Time : 9:00-11:30 pm TWAR # : 107 OB : 10/02/07

You can pre-order the DVD! Ships Oct 2nd.

http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index...ductId=2784344


I'm re-watching the Civil War right now and I'm pumped for this one as well.

Chew

Even with 2 tuners and access to this doc on two different OTA HD PBS channels, it's been hard to get all these scheduled with it being premiere week.

Shannon Nutt

Yet, I'm betting that it's better than 95% of other WWII material out there, with the possible exception of some of the things Spielberg has done.

GreenVulture

Don't know how he'll top this:


But good luck anyways, Ken; I'll catch it on DVD.

DJariya

I like a good historical documentary every now and then, but WWII has been covered to death. I'm tempted to try this series...I loved his baseball documentary series.

B.A.

I couldn't have picked up my HDTivo at a better time.

birdseye

I got the World At War dvd set but haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

I'm looking forward to this, though. Hopefully it's in HD

Premise

Wow, I can't believe it's already been eight months since I posted this. I'm looking forward to this.

superdeluxe

Everything Ken Burns has done has been excellent. Looking foward to this.

superdeluxe

Baseball and his civil war docs we're great, as well as his Lewis and Clark Doc.

grenier

Yikes, $130 for the DVDs.

Groucho

Not sure if this is true with all stations, but locally they're showing the "language edited" version in prime time, and the unedited version after hours.

grenier

I think each PBS affiliate is making their own call about the language. We are getting only the unedited version here.

shizawn

Weird, I didn't realize PBS edited anything.

Can't wait for this.

Easy

Am I the only one who finds it odd they chose this week to run it? Why compete with so many premieres and popular returning series? They could have owned the audience a couple weeks ago.

Rypro 525

is there anyway to tell which version is being aired on each affiliate? i checked mpt's website and it doesn't say anything about language or what not.

FinkPish

Anyone watching it in HD in Los Angeles? The dialogue is waaaay out of sync; very annoying. The SD feed seems to be fine, or at least closer to being in sync. I'm curious to know if this is a local thing or something else screwy going on.

Matt

I noticed it being out-of-sync here in OKC, too. Hopefully the rest of the episodes will be okay.

Chew

Since my HD is OTA, I have the main PBS channel and 4 sub-channels. The first episode was played on the main channel at 7, then again on a sub-channel at 9:30. Both stated "HD" in my TiVo guide.

I checked the first showing at 9 when other stuff had finished recording, and it was not in HD. The sub-channel showing was.

The main channel doesn't even broadcast it in HD?