Isabel’s upcoming TV mini-series The Pacific is gearing up for a release, and with that comes new photos and information! To start with, a new still has been added to our Gallery – it’s from the same scene as the other still we have and doesn’t really show us much, although it is pretty.

We also have some news on a UK air date – The Pacific will premiere in the UK on Monday 5th April, at 9pm on Sky Movies Premiere/HD. There are some new ‘official’ links to promote the UK broadcast – Sky Movies’ The Pacific Site &
@ThePacificOnSky on Twitter. Keep checking both not just for UK related stuff, but for interviews, photos and videos etc.

Back over the Atlantic, we know that the series will premiere on HBO in the US on Sunday 14th March. Wikipedia has a list of other known international broadcast dates.

Visit the official mini-series site at hbo.com/the-pacific, and go back through our The Pacific news category for trailers and other info.

Beneath the cut (Click here to read more…) is a synopsis/short critics comment from the Sky Movies promotion.

Where Band of Brothers depicted the European Theatre of Operations in WW2, The Pacific looks to the Far East, and the fierce jungle fighting against the Imperial Japanese Empire.

Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies, said: ‘We were blown away when we saw the previews of the series – the cinematography and effects are pure Hollywood. It seemed only natural that a premium production such as this should live on Sky Movies, where it can be viewed as the director intended – in HD and with no ad breaks.”

And The Pacific’s production history is closer to a summer tentpole movie than a regular TV series. Again overseen by BOB’s producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, running for 10 episodes and made at a cost of $200 million, The Pacific is shot on location in Australia in stunning High Definition.

The series track the odysseys of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone – across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.