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Old 29th Nov 2009, 11:00
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For those interested, the writer of the Erebus: The Aftermath mini-series, Greg McGee, wrote a book that was published last year called "Tall Tales (Some True) - memoirs of an unlikely writer". In this book, their is a 32 page chapter titled "Dancing on the Coffins of the Dead" - which is entirely describing how the mini-series was all put together.

It is an interesting read, and I'd have to agree with a review I've read on the internet, that it would have been great if the Erebus chapter was not just limited to one chapter.

Amongst other things, it goes into a fair bit of depth about the legalities of writing such a script and how they managed to depict what they did. It also mentions that the show was screened and repeated in the UK (by BBC) and in Australia (ABC) - however, it was only ever screened once in New Zealand, as apparently the deal that Air NZ made with TVNZ was that they wouldn't sue if it wasn't repeated. So to those in NZ, don't expect it ever to be re-screened on television again.

TVNZ just showed it over the last two nights. Now if only I'd recorded it...
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