History Channel Orders SEAL Team Six TV Series
The History Channel is looking to embark on a mission with The Weinstein Company. They’ve teamed up for a new military series called Six, which will center on SEAL Team Six, the team that brought down the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Operation Neptune Spear.
This will be an eight-episode military action drama that will tell the real life stories of the team and their missions, “capturing SEALs’ complex personal lives, and the life and death decisions they make, with each season set in a different location, starting with Africa.” The series is being written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Vietnam veteran William Broyles (Castaway, Jarhead) and his son David Broyles, a military special operations veteran. They were obviously brought in because they have first hand experience.
Why are they starting with Africa? Harvey Weinstein said:
“The idea originally came to me when I read about Boko Haram kidnapping school children in Africa. I thought about how would our world react and it brought on the idea of creating a series about the world of SEAL Team Six because the story felt as poignant and timely as ever. Each year will feature a different theater of war – the first starting in Africa. Six is a series that recognizes this country’s great heroes and soldiers, and there’s no doubt that it will make for some of the most important, provocative television seen in ages.”
Paul Buccieri, President of A&E and History added:
“The backdrop surrounding this elite team of American soldiers – from their lives at home to the astonishing bravery they display serving our country – provides an amazing canvas for stories that deserve to be told.”
Then Jana Bennett, President & General Manager of History, had this to say:
“Six represents the type of authenticity History values from our creative and writing teams. This series will reflect the network’s renewed focus on core programming which embraces our recent history as well as our deeper past.”
This show could be freakin’ incredible. The History Channel has been doing great things with their shows recently, and as a fan of military films and stories, I’ll be looking forward to watching this!