Navy SEALs Drama From Bruckheimer TV Lands At ABC With Put Pilot Commitment

COMMENTS (21)

• Really? Isn’t this just CBS’ The Unit?

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sounds like The Unit to me.

  Comment by John — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:20am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Was thinking the same thing.

    Comment by Schadenfreude — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 12:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This may be a difficult series to produce on a weekly basis. In order to make this happen…I fear that the Navy Seals will become ‘Hollywoodized’…and, that would be a shame and dishonor to who they are and what these great soldiers do.

  Jerry will turn this into CSI…might make for good TV…but, not real. I sincerely doubt the Navy Seals are going to open their files for story backgrounds based on fact and reality.

  Comment by tom — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:25am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sounds like The Unit, but probably won’t be nearly as good. After all, you won’t have David Mamet, Shawn Ryan and the other cast and crew that made that show exceptional.

  Comment by Jeff — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is a goodwill gesture to Bruckheimer following the issues with the lone ranger

  Comment by Anthonymg — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hmm, wonder how that’s gonna play on the female-centric, borderline soapy ABC?

  Comment by Jug — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 11:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why network TV sucks, Pt. 1,231: If anyone else on the planet had walked in with this pitch, they would’ve said, “Um, isn’t this just exactly like ‘The Unit’? why in the world would you think we would buy this?”

  But it’s “Brickheimer” so those big development dollars go to this show and not to someone else who had a better idea.

  Comment by The Kevster — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 12:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I remember the days when brucky was inventive… What happened?

  Comment by Bored of Directors — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m sure this won’t be nearly as laughable/ cringingly cheesy and unwatchable as Life was.

  Comment by Claude — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 2:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Unit was awesome. It got screwed on two levels – one the strike – no additional episodes were ordered when writing resumed and two – indirect victim of TJLS – when Medium was picked up by CBS, TU was out. Was hoping it could come back as a syndicated series. Anyway, I’m sure ABC will muck this up, like FF with the stupid Grey’s hospital plot. Yuk.

  Comment by DenverDean — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 2:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Rand Ravich is a fantastic writer. Loglines don’t always tell the whole story. This will be awesome.

  Comment by Walter Wilborn — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 3:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Once again the mass media feeds the masses the total fairy tale propaganda that glorifies yet another elitist military team.

  You’ll not find HOLLYWOOD interested in making a TV episode that shows the true story of why on August 6th, 2011 a Chinook military chopper is supposedly shot down by the dreaded Taliban over the skies of Afghanistan killing all 30 Americans aboard. Of which included 22 members of the NAVY SEALS TEAM 6, the very same team of “heroes” that supposedly finally caught up with and killed the infamous Bin Laden.

  Just like the body of Bin Laden (the evidence) was quickly disposed of… now we have the witnesses silenced for all time. And the very clever and well informed dreaded Taliban supposedly did this out of revenge and knew exactly who would be on board and exactly where they’d be travelling and when.

  Our brave, dedicated military is always being used and abused to serve the political agendas and profits of our corrupt, treasonous governments.

  In the 1960′s we had the WWII shows like COMBAT and THE RAT PATROL.
  Of course we didn’t have any pro-war shows for Korea or Vietnam… but now we have the NAVY SEALS in HD color on ABC. And as they used to say -”brought to you by”… those wonderful people who always profit from perpetual war!

  Comment by Graham Hill — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 6:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Are you serious? Please show me where it was made clear that the Taliban knew exactly who was going to be on that helicopter and when it would be vulnerable to attack. The military already made clear that none of the SEALs involved in the bin Laden raid were killed in the August 6th attack. The Taliban are always looking for revenge, they don’t care where or who they exact it on; they saw a helicopter and opened fire on it, plain and simple. And what’s with the condescending tone when referring to the SEALs as heroes? They’re dedicated, well-trained professionals who voluntarily leave their families behind to travel thousands of miles to visit sudden, violent death on terrorist shitbags. If that’s not a hero I don’t know what is.

    Comment by Dan — Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 11:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hopefully they don’t do the “mission of the week” thing. The reality is that these missions take months to plan…

  Comment by Charlie — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 6:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If this Navy Seals show is done as a hard hitting drama like Criminal Minds, or CSI, or even semi-hard hitting drama like a NCIS, it could be a huge success. But, knowing ABC, they will find a way to muck it up. Combat Hospital, with its setting, and wide range of military topics, Middle Eastern issues, and dangerously exciting situations that could have been explored, turned into a tedious, idiotic, bad soap opera. Why? Because ABC’s scope of programming has become narrow minded, shallow, and unappealing. One Grey’s Anatomy is not a problem but when everything starts to follow that pattern- boring.

  Comment by Marc1 — Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 9:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love the premise alone so much I’d be cool if most episodes the SEALs just trained (a dangerous mission in and of itself) while plotting real-world missions which climax during sweeps. Set it in Coronado to shoot in California but still get that HAWAII-50 sunshine vibe and it’ll be the next NCIS.

  But please, ABC – for the love of all things American – do not make this a soft soap. Develop it for men. SEALs are the epitome of the modern manly man. Women will still watch. Think Josh Holloway.

  I cannot put into words how badly I want to staff on this in series, which is probably not good for someone claiming to be a writer. But then again so is giving notes on the series in a Deadline comment. At least these things are anonymous, right?

  Comment by shipwreck — Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 9:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Grahamhill

  Why wouldn’t a Navy SEALs based show not want to use a ‘Ripped out of the headlines” source
  for an episode? Nobody in the SEAL community said the “war on terror” was over with Bin Laden’s death.If anything, the helicopter tragedy should drive home the fact that these guys always have
  and always will stand ready to do the dirty job of protecting the American way of life.That can be
  a good thing or bad.Good because it means saving American lives,bad because it may mean protecting American “interests” which may have nothing to do with saving lives,but everything to
  do with making it safe to do business in some country.Not the SEALs fault,they do what their told
  by civilian leaders.Btw, according various unclassified sources,SEAL Team SIX is divided into several squadrons(something like an Infantry company) that rotate in and out of war zones replacing
  each other.The guys that got Bin Laden were identified as Red Squadron and the guys who were shot down belonged to Gold Squadron.Same overall unit but not the same guys.

  Comment by Robert Carter — Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 10:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love watching action movies, as a matter of fact i subscribed to online tv tvhod so that i can have access to action shows from all over the world. I think this show would be another show to watch for.

  Comment by rally — Friday August 19, 2011 @ 5:13am PDT  Reply to this post

• The guys from the Unit were Army Detachment Delta. AKA Delta Force. Remember Desert One?

  Anyone else remember Jerry’s last Spec Ops show “Soldier Of Fortune”?

  Didn’t think so.

  Comment by Tom — Friday August 19, 2011 @ 2:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• can anyone tell me what happened with this show, if anything?

  Comment by Joseph — Sunday May 5, 2013 @ 8:14pm PDT  Reply to this post