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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 18, 2019 16:14:39 GMT
WWII drama World On Fire will premiere on BBC One on Sunday September 29th at 9pm.
World On Fire explores the first year of World War II as told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
The drama series, which was created by Peter Bowker, stars Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Johannes Zeiler, Eugénie Derouand, Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Ansu Kabia and Ewan Mitchell.
Message to Mods - don't know if there is already a thread for this, but the forum is unable to connect to the search server at the moment.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 18, 2019 16:21:13 GMT
Don't think there is. So no worries. If we find one we'll merge them.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 18, 2019 16:21:19 GMT
Wonder how long Sean Bean survives hee hee!
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Post by Miranda on Sept 18, 2019 16:22:08 GMT
Maybe it's in his contract that he only survives for one series!  |
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 18, 2019 16:22:29 GMT
Don't think there is. So no worries. If we find one we'll merge them. Ta muchly. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2019 16:28:24 GMT
Wonder how long Sean Bean survives hee hee! It depends on where he is at the start. Here is the trailer. |
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 18, 2019 18:56:27 GMT
Well he does feature quite a bit.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 30, 2019 11:12:46 GMT
Did anyone watch. I thought it was well enough as an opening episode and introduction to the characters with some tension and jeopardy for next week.
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Post by marion on Sept 30, 2019 11:30:39 GMT
I did. I thought they established the key players pretty well. I can't say it really drew me in, I'm wondering if it might have a touch of the Home Fires feel to it which for me is Not A Good Thing, lol. They managed to cover a lot in a short time though, I thought. I shall definitely be watsching next week.
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Post by geometryman on Sept 30, 2019 12:04:29 GMT
It had quite heavy touches of modern values and the benefit of hindsight, rather too much for my liking. I'm sure the military sequences were accurate (else a lot of people would be criticising the details!) but otherwise I got quite a feeling of today's ideals back-planted into a different era. I'll watch next week, but so far I'm not overly impressed and it's not comparing all that favourably with, say, the German 'Generation War' which was shown on BBC2 a few years ago.
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Post by marion on Sept 30, 2019 12:17:26 GMT
GMAn, was that the one also called Our Mothers, Our Fathers about a group of friends, some of whom were on the Russian Front.? TBF I thought that was a brilliant series and set a very high standard which would be hard to match.
BTW Oswald Mosley is getting a lot of BBC airtime at the moment isn't he? I wonder if he will be f*****g any swans in this one?
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Post by goodhelenstar on Sept 30, 2019 12:24:16 GMT
That happens a lot, doesn't it?
I nodded off during this, never a good sign! I might give it another go but so far I can't see the hook that makes it different from so many other programmes on this subject. The Rise of the Nazis, focused on Germany not here of course, is still fresh in my mind.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 12:44:35 GMT
I am angry that the Clare Hollingsworth like character was portrayed as American, rather than English. It was she who caught the Germans at the Polish border. Edit: I am now half way through, and really am not convinced. The BBC did much better with the First World War. Eddard Stark would have been better off staying in Westeros, even knowing what would happen to him; at least he would have had some dignity. |
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Post by vicky on Sept 30, 2019 14:38:34 GMT
Judgement reserved at the moment. What I have read about the series suggests it will be telling the history of WWII from the viewpoint of ordinary people caught up in and affected by it....as though that is a new concept whereas it has been done over and over again. In fact I do wonder if the story of WWII hasn't already been told too many times. Last night's episode certainly didn't strike me as having anything fresh or innovative about it. I'm by no means sure it will hold my attention for the coming however-many-weeks.
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Post by sleepyp on Sept 30, 2019 14:44:48 GMT
My first reaction too when I saw the American woman, curiousbob  There's a very good book about Clare by John Simpson: We Chose to Speak of War and Strife
The article in the RT says the portrayal is meant to be an 'amalgam of the many female war correspondents'...
I found it interesting and will watch again, its focus is closely connected to stuff I'm doing, so I will be watching carefully!
After being used to Lesley Manville in recent years as the star of 'Mum' it was something of a shock when she appeared out of the shadows as such a dreadful person  |
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There's a very good book about Clare by John Simpson: We Chose to Speak of War and Strife
Anymore to come?
