Black Sails 'continued':
The plot focuses on the hunt of the Spanish treasure galleon, Urca de Lima, and possibly much more.
So, what can you expect, well as its a Pay Per View Channel, there's plenty of blood and guts, fighting, sex, more fighting, more sex with a touch of lesbian action, and thats just the first three episodes. However following on from those early stories, Black Sails starts to take itself serious, and the sex is cutback somewhat. The naval battles are well pieced, and the ships were actually built for the show, with each vessel making use of over 300 tradesmen and several months to complete. There are 3 full size working ships at present, a further 2 are currently being built.
New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality. The drama series is being produced by Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes and stars Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, Hannah New, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Mark Ryan, Clara Paget and Tom Hopper.
“‘Black Sails’ is the kind of show with enough twists and turns to make viewers want to consume the whole adventure in one go,” said Tim Leslie, Vice President of Amazon Instant Video for the UK, allowing those with an appetite for the pirate life to immerse themselves completely in the story of Captain Flint and his crew.”
While Jason Ropell, Head of Amazon Instant Video International Content Acquisition, added: “We’ve seen the sanitised version of pirates in films and TV shows many times before, and this is a more realistic, dangerous and sexy take on the pirate life. What makes the show so fascinating is that it’s actually based on real pirates.
Release Update:
Amazon Prime Instant Video, has secured the rights to broadcast in the UK first. Amazon UK will release the complete 8 episode first season of Black Sails to Prime customers on Friday April 4th 2014.
The Principle:
Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew says she was tricked into narrating a film that argues the Sun revolves around Earth, oh this could be interesting..
Seeming to offer explanation for why the vessel of Star Trek: Voyager became so irrevocably stranded, Kate Mulgrew—best known as that show’s Captain Janeway—has lent her familiar voice to The Principle, an upcoming documentary about the belief that the Earth is the center of the universe. The film has been in the works for a while, though it’s mostly been as ignored as those who have propagated the theory of Geocentrism past the 17th century.
But that’s all changed with the release of a trailer that finds Mulgrew’s familiar voice intoning, “Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong,” before a montage of physicists offers vaguely articulated assessments of how unique our planet is, seemingly in support of the idea that everything must therefore revolve around it. Some of them stand before whiteboards with calculations written on them. The evidence is compelling.
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