Port Royal: 17th C pirate TV series

[Temis the Vorta]

Port Royal

This is one of those ideas that I always wondered why somebody didn't do. It sounds like a realistic historical based series rather than a POTC type comedy/fantasy romp:

Port Royal, an hourlong series based on an original idea by Hurd. Set in the late 17th century on the island of Jamaica, the series will chronicle the namesake port’s notorious rise as the “richest and wickedest city” in the new world, and as a self-governing safe haven for cutthroat pirates

 

[Skywalker]

Sounds cool.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They need to change the name; sounds like a soap.

 

[auntiehill]

Yeah, the name sounds like a daytime soap. It could be interesting, if they cast some good people.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They should focus on the escapades of Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonney and Mary Read.

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, that sounds fun.

Speaking of Anne Bonney and gang, I have to recommend The Sweet Trade by Elizabeth Garrett, which is a really great novel about that bunch.

And, you know, The Sweet Trade wouldn't be a bad title for a pirate tv show . . . .

(I agree that, unfortunately, Port Royal sounds like a soap.)

 

[Lonemagpie]

Sounds like The Tudors with wet feet.

That's not a criticism, though - I like the idea.

 

[Starbreaker]

Will it be rated Rrrrrrrr?

 

[Greg Cox]

Will it be rated Rrrrrrrr?

We can only hope.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

This sounds like the latest in TV's new trend of period dramas with lots of lust and intrigue like Spartacus, Tudors, Rome, Borgias, Camelot, etc. Not that that is necessarily a negative. If it goes on Starz or other pay service I'd be good with that.

 

[timothy]

two things one this is not a april's fools is it I am sick of those already .
the second which channel is this going to be on?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It's not April Fools (and would be a pretty wtf joke anyway; people haven't exactly been complaining about the lack of any good pirate stuff on TV) and I don't think it's far along enough in development to have a channel yet.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^^ True though another production by the same company is airing on Starz so that might be some indicator.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Starz would be a good fit; they go for sleazy, crazy historical stuff with lots of sex and violence.

 

[Starbreaker]

Oohh... like The History Channel?

 

[Corran Horn]

They're remaking Jack of All Trades?

 

[Dream]

Put it on AMC!

That way this show can have crossovers with The Walking Dead!

 

[Owain Taggart]

Sounds really good. I always felt like Pirates of the Carribean was a bit of a misstep. I kind of wished they would have taken it in a more serious/realistic direction as compared to cartoony/comedy. Btw, anyone read Micheal Crichton's Pirate Latitudes? Concept sounds similar, and I hear Steven Spielberg is making a movie out of novel.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Put it on AMC!

That way this show can have crossovers with The Walking Dead!

Great, here's the dialogue...

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[timothy]

it should go to starz sex and violence belongs on cable. it would be good on amc or even history channel but to be pure to it , it needs to be on starz . and run it with camelot or spartacus.

pirate fiction is allways fun. the pirate of the caribian movies were fantastic . love at worlds end best of the three . also cutthroat island and jack of all trades .