HBO Sports says its documentary on the 1970s Flyers (BROAD STREET BULLIES) will debut May 4.

HBO Sports says its documentary on the 1970s Flyers (BROAD STREET BULLIES) will debut May 4.

-- Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch

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Mmmph. Hopefully they shed some light on WHY the Flyers became the Broad Street Bullies. This way, anyone with half a brain who watches it might learn something.

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by mikefive on Mar 9, 2010 5:33 PM EST reply actions

Agreed. That being said, I am totally fricken excited, because I LOVE HBO Sports and their documentaries. The one they did on Nova-Gtown was really good if you haven’t seen it. Also, I’m a huge Liev Schreiber fan, and his voiceover work is fantastic. I am looking forward to this and hope they don’t let me down and actually investigate the history and don’t just paint the team as a bunch of goons with a broad brushstroke.

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by doubleh on Mar 9, 2010 5:41 PM EST up reply actions

HBO does make good documentaries, that’s for sure. If it’s anywhere near the same quality as Recount, it should be awesome.

by Ben Feldman on Mar 9, 2010 6:09 PM EST reply actions

Recount was amazing. Only thing it needed was more Denis Leary.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 10, 2010 9:10 AM EST up reply actions

Recount wasn’t really a documentary being that Denis Leary was in it this is going to have interviews with the old Flyers not a bunch of actors, but that makes for good discussion. Casting Broad Street Bullies the movie who plays who…

by chrislanci on Mar 10, 2010 2:11 PM EST up reply actions

Oh, Recount definitely wasn’t a documentary. Don’t know how I just skipped right over that…

As far as casting, I have no idea. I wouldn’t want that job.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 10, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I definitely didn’t mean to connect Recount with documentaries. I meant to connect it to the quality of stuff that HBO puts out, documentary or not.

by Ben Feldman on Mar 10, 2010 9:58 PM EST up reply actions

HBO Sports did an excellent documentary on the 198- Olympic team back before Miracle came out. It’s incredible, and I think that’s probably where we should look for comparison.

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 11, 2010 4:17 PM EST up reply actions

they better show how proficient of an offense they had.

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by psudrozz on Mar 9, 2010 6:14 PM EST reply actions

Finally, a network that will be able to use the level of profanity the Flyers mandate.

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by Ben Rothenberg on Mar 9, 2010 10:23 PM EST reply actions

hahah

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by NawlinsOriole on Mar 9, 2010 10:33 PM EST up reply actions

I Can't Wait

to watch this

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by NawlinsOriole on Mar 9, 2010 10:32 PM EST reply actions

Additional playdates for "Broad Street Bullies"

In addition to the documentary’s debut on May 4 at 10pm EDT, according to HBO it will also air on May 4 (2:35 a.m.), 8 (11:00 a.m. ET only/10:30 a.m. PT only/3:20 a.m. PT only), 10 (8:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m.), 12 (noon), 20 (6:00 p.m., 4:20 a.m.), 23 (9:00 a.m., 11:00 p.m.) and 25 (8:00 p.m.). The film will also be a “Hollywood like” premiere at a downtown Philadelphia movie theater in late April although the date and place for that is not yet set.)

The film was produced by award winning documentarian George Roy (he has thee George Peabody and six Emmys to his credit) who spent most of last year making the film. (I did a two hour filmed interview with him in Philadelphia last May.) George has been making films like this since the 1980s many of which have also appeared on HBO.

by iScoop on Mar 11, 2010 2:56 PM EST reply actions