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Japan's FX delay threatens gap in fighter production By Leithen Francis Japan has failed to issue a request for proposals for new fighter aircraft, leaving the country's defence manufacturing industry in limbo. The failure to issue the RFP in April, as had been widely anticipated, has also meant the FX fighter programme is now likely to miss Tokyo's 2011-12 budget and will have to wait another year. This is because there is too little time left, as budget requests are usually made in August and require both cabinet and parliamentary approval, say industry sources in Japan. The sources attribute the...

Series Finale next week on FX

Hi I thought maybe some of you would be interested in a project I am working on. Its a 30 minute docudrama on creation. You can see a proof of concept at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXQFqlVMrrc. The final version will have all new higher quality graphics and narration. But it does give you a basic idea. I would be interested in getting feedback if anyone has the time.

LONG BEACH, Ca., Aug. 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- His Nesting Place, a pro-life home for unwed mothers will be featured on FX Networks "30 Days" program this Wednesday, August 24th at 10:00PM. Morgan Spurlock, producer of Super Size Me, sent his video crew along with pro-choice activist, Jennifer from Atlanta Georgia, to His Nesting Place for 30 days. During these 30 days Jennifer lived in the home under the same guidelines as any pregnant woman in a crisis pregnancy situation would live. Jennifer was required to help out around the home as well as volunteer at the crisis pregnancy center...

Inquiring minds want to know: Did Red Sox TV guys Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy catch some heat from their NESN bosses for letting “Rescue Me” stars Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke go wild in the broadcast booth Tuesday night? The FX funnymen, who were on the air to promote Leary’s Firefighters Foundation, went on a hilarious three-minute rant about Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis, who is Jewish, and Mel Gibson, who checked into rehab after a drunken, anti-Semitic tirade. Although Orsillo and Remy completely lost it, laughing uncontrollably during the boys’ diatribe, at the end of the bit Clarke...

Week of April 1-6, 2006 FX Networks "30 Days" - filming Southern California The cable channel FX has developed a show called ”30 Days” in which a person is taken out of their comfort zone for 30 days and the entire ordeal is filmed. What could be more uncomfortable for a pro-choice woman than 30 days in a home for women in crisis pregnancies? This April, FX is filming an episode featuring just such a scenario! A pro-choice woman in her late 20s will be living for 30 days at a pro-life home in Long Beach, and will be required...

FX's war drama "Over There" won't be redeployed for a second season, becoming a casualty of the same thing that causes most shows to be cancelled -- declining ratings. The cable network took the unusual step Tuesday (Nov. 1) of announcing it wouldn't pick up "Over There," about a squad of inexperienced soldiers in Iraq. Typically networks don't choose to draw attention to shows that are being cancelled. In explaining the cancellation FX chief John Landgraf takes pains to note that the "beautifully produced, acted, written and directed" show was axed solely due to the realities of the TV business,...

Who watched tonight's episode of Over There? It was suprisingly pro-troops, made the media look like agenda driven fools and the insurgents for the blood thirsty savages they are.

...Through the Web and various veterans groups, The New York Times contacted more than a dozen soldiers, all of whom had been on active duty in Iraq and have since returned. They had a variety of opinions on the war they served in, but were almost universally negative about the show that attempts to depict it.... When Steven Bochco's "Over There" began last month, many military blogs immediately began pumping round after round of ack-ack into it, suggesting that it is both opportunistic and clueless.... "There are a few bad war movies and TV shows, but this one takes the...

"Peace at any price" purveyors are going gaga over the new FX Channel series "depicting" the Iraq war, "Over There," produced by Steven Bochco of Hill Street Blues fame. "Wow! Anybody else watch Over There last night?" gushed a writer for the heavily-read antiwar blogsite, Daily Kos. "Within a few minutes . . . it was obvious that Iraq was Vietnam all over again." How a fictional show shot in La La Land could make anything about Iraq policy "obvious" is hard to fathom. But the series does tout its realism, as have some reviewers who've never gotten closer to...

FX's new drama OVER THERE about an Army unit in Iraq is well produced and visually arresting but takes a sharp left turn from reality. After watching the Pilot episode of 'Over There,' I conclude that the only thing they got right were the uniforms which, right down to the black socks used to cover goggles, were spot on. Unfortunately, the costume designer is the only person who seems to have actually studied the war, pictures of the war or video of the war. As someone who has been over there it was easy to see that if Steven Bochco...

Over There got a lot of hype. It was BS and pure anti-American. To those who say they "Support our troops" and if you listen closely they say that as an afterthought. It is like they have to concentrate and remember to fit it in before they run out of face time in front of the camera. "They" do not support our troops. They do not want us to win. They would be happy with more American Soldier deaths if it meant political power. This was pure propaganda. It was anti-American all the way. But hyped as true and non-political....

I am so MAD, watching this piece of garbage on TV. Where can I write to the executives of this channel? They are trying to make another Viet Nam out of this, and make our troops look like idiots. God, I'm angry!!!!

I know, I know...vanity!I just heard about this show last night on O'Reilly. Steven Bochco promised a show with no politics that accurately covers what's going on in Iraq. The clips I've seen have looked great!

After a string of recent flops including the much-maligned Blind Justice, television producer Steven Bochco is again garnering high praise, this time for a series focusing on soldiers in the current Iraqi conflict. Over There, which debuts tonight on F/X, marks a milestone in television as the first series to fictionalize an ongoing war. Firsts are nothing new to Bochco, who became famous for creating groundbreaking dramas like L.A. Law and NYPD Blue (not to mention being the first to feature a naked derriere on broadcast television). And though Over There is his first foray into cable, Bochco's betting his...

Anyone know anything about this show called "Over there" about the war in Iraq. Is this more liberal propaganda or will this be a realisitc depiction of the war.

Under deafening fire, a U.S. Army squad takes cover behind the crumbling mud walls of a shack in an Iraqi village. ''Let's move!'' barks the leader, Sgt. Chris Silas, nicknamed Sgt. Scream, over the noise. Smoke and dust swirl in the 100-degree desert heat as the team plans its retreat. ''Take a position behind that berm and cover our withdrawal!'' Sgt. Scream orders, indicating a mound 30 yards away. Dodging AK-47 gunfire, the troops make their move. Muzzle flashes from their M4 rifles light the midday air as spent ammo casings litter the ground. Darting behind the bullet-riddled shell of...

Morgan Spurlock shows how difficult it is to pretend to be poor.by Dan Gainor June 16, 2005 The new Morgan Spurlock documentary ’30 Days’ highlighted the fantasy of “reality” TV as Spurlock and his fiancé pretended to live life on minimum wage surrounded by cameras. Instead of teaching important lessons about saving, personal responsibility and the value of education, Spurlock relied on emotion to try to convince viewers the minimum was too low. The June 15, 2005, program tried to duplicate the success of Spurlock’s Oscar-nominated attack on McDonald’s “Super Size Me,” where he stopped exercising and ate 5,000 calories...

Energy apocalypse is one big worst-case scenario“It probably will be viewed as the worst disaster on American soil, ever.” No, that’s not a review of the new FX Networks movie, “Oil Storm,” though it could be. Instead, it’s a comment from one of the characters in the film about the seemingly endless stream of worst-case scenarios the film ties together to create an energy cataclysm in 2005 and 2006. The movie had its initial airing Sunday, June 5, 2005, in back-to-back broadcasts. The film was designed as a mock-umentary, looking back on the series of catastrophes that piled on top...