Spartacus Blood and Sand to air on Nine’s Go
Nine Network will air a new ancient roman series, Spartacus Blood and Sand on its digital channel Go in August.
The announcement:
Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the bold new series about the life and death struggle of the Roman gladiators, premieres in August on GO! with a movie-length episode.
With a superb cast of victims and villains, Spartacus: Blood and Sand stars Australian Andy Whitfield (McLeod’s Daughters) as Spartacus alongside John Hannah (The Mummy Trilogy, Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) who play cunning Batiatus, Spartacus’s owner, and his insatiable wife Lucretia.
Producers/film makers Sam Raimi (Spiderman), Josh Donen (The Quick and the Dead) and Robert Tapert (The Grudge) have combined a potent mixture of live action, graphic special effects and brutal battle sequences in a violent and provocative depiction of the rise of Rome’s most infamous gladiator.
Betrayed by the Roman army he fought for and torn from the home and the woman he loves, Spartacus is forced into the barbaric world of the gladiator arena. Corruption, treachery and carnal pleasures test him, and survival requires that he be more than a man, more than a gladiator – that he becomes Spartacus the legend.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand Movie-length premiere Coming to GO! in August
Source: GO press release
I wonder if some scenes may be cut?
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When does season 2 start? Loved the first season and wondering if that was it, considering all the bluebloods were killed?
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whats the song on the ad
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What’s the song used in the add on GO!
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surely some scenes will be cut. the run time of the eps in season 1 are between 49 and 56 minutes, not to mention some extremely graphic scenes that they will probably want to avoid all together.
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What is the song on the GO! ad?
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whats the song called on go!!!
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Seriously what is the song on the ad
i tried looking looking up the lyrics but all i got was to the left to the left
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I also tried Googling it – I heard the lyric ‘you take the left’, ‘you take the right’, ‘count to three’, ‘attack the enemy’ – but I couldn’t find any song that matched. Someone must know this song, right?
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try the iPhone app “MusicID” to see if it can identify the mystery song.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LSqsNInyT0
has the download link to the song and the video
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Thanx – still nothing to identify the song/artist though…
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I contacted Channel Nine Sydney who advised me that the song is just promo music that has been commissioned for this ad and isn’t available to the general public…
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And the youtube link given above does allow you to downoad the song, but it’s just the audio from the ad, which includes all the vopices and sound effects as well.
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Well done Mel, thanx for doing that.
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I can’t believe that it’s just a song created for the ad. It’s too good, and it sounds like it’s part of a longer song that’s been edited down to fit the commercial. I think the receptionist at Channel Nine, or whoever Mel and others talked to, is just too lazy to find out (thanks for trying though Mel). Keep looking guys, I’m sure we’ll find it eventually.
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Hi All. I produced the launch campaign for Spartacus on GO! The Channel 9 receptionist was right, it’s what we call Production Music, composed and licenced specifically for use in on-air promos and commercials. I’m really glad you like it. It is called WE HIT HARDER. It’s composed by Joy Charity Enriquez & Exec Produced by Rodney (Darkchild) Jerkins. The total length of the track is 1min 41sec. I’m not legally permitted to upload it to anyone .
Enjoy Spartacus Ep 1 Wednesday 9.30 on GO!
Get your Gladiator on!
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Just watched the Ep1 final Arena scene on GO. All the Blood and dismembership was removed. It was a clean and uninteresting fight. Tish Tish.
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seems pretty pointless to have a show that is based around sex and violence…then edit out the sex and violence.
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So disappointed. People who watch the series on the tv now, but haven’t actually seen the episodes you can download on the web have no idea what they are missing out on. The (fake looking) blood and over-the-top sex is integral to the stylistic vision of the show. Why has the network decided to treat us all like children? I hope that if/when the series is released on dvd we get the best and original version.
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I saw the series a while ago via download and was very disappointed when l saw what Go did with it. If free to air tv isnt prepared to play this type of program unedited then they should let foxtel have have it.
Kim- season 2 has been delayed because main star Andy Whitfield had a battle with cancer earlier this year. They resume production in october. There may also be a prequel before it where spartacus only features in a few scenes.
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