Watching HATFIELDS & MCCOYS on History Channel

Tonight is Part 2 of Hatfields & McCoys, History Channel's miniseries about the legendary feud between the two clans that erupted across the hardscrabble of West Virginia and Kentucky in the years following the Civil War. And I'm enjoying the heck out of it! The miniseries that is.

Anyhoo, in addition to Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, it also stars Tom Berenger. And as luck would have it I got to meet Mr. Berenger last month at ActionFest in Asheville!

I soooo wish I had brought my DVD copy of Gettysburg along and asked him to autograph it. Or at least my Blu-ray of Inception.

Anyway, Hatfields & McCoys is pretty good so far. Well worth catching, or DVRing for later viewing.

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WWII IN HD: Best high-def programming I've seen yet!

My DVR just received a massive enema. Gone is stuff that I've recorded like P2 and Krull and Clash of the Titans and Stroker Ace (though how that got scheduled is beyond me, and I'm still trying to figure out how I wound up with Yentl). So now I've got plenty of disk space to record WWII in HD from the History Channel.

HOW did I miss hearing about this until now? Well, no matter 'cuz History Channel is broadcasting them again and if you've got a high-definition television you really owe it to yourself to catch this, because you've never seen World War II as clear and brilliant as this before. See that still image? Those are British soldiers coming ashore at Normandy, and it looks so crisp and sharp you'd swear that this was footage gathered just yesterday.

If History Channel puts this out on Blu-ray... well, between that and Star Trek that's prolly gonna be more than enough to pull me into adopting a Blu-ray player at last. But 'til then, watch WWII in HD however ya can!

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History Channel gets highest ratings ever with STAR WARS: THE LEGACY REVEALED

Check here for the stats from Mediaweek. Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed broadcasts again on the History Channel on June 3rd at 8 p.m. I got to see this when it first ran on Monday night and I thought it was easily one of the best Star Wars documentaries that I've seen (and I've seen plenty, believe you me...). Well worth checking out!

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