I caught a few minutes of one episode last week, when it was airing on either A & E or Biography.
I would think they would edit out the swear words, and there’s one T & A scene in thesecond-to-last episode that I’d assume will be deleted/cropped/pixilated. But otherwise they’ve left everything in, that I’ve seen.
(Understand that I’m a huge fan, I PVRd all 10 episodes when they first aired on HBO and got the DVD set once it was released, so I haven’t made an effort to sit down and watch it this time around.)
However, they have dropped in commercials this time around, which I feel kind of ‘eh’ about.
And with regard to Stephen Ambrose and the actual history depicted, here’s one historian’s opinion on his book and the series. Some of the details are nitpicky, and most aren’t Ambrose’s fault. One huge error the series made is the final message in Episode 3, Carentan, about Albert Blithe (seen shot in the neck in the episode). The coda states that he died of his wounds in 1948; actually, he recovered, fought in Korea, and died of a perforated hernia while on active duty with the Army in 1967. Here’s an angry post from his son, and how the mixup occurred.
Some other errors from that first link:
–The hand signals the soldiers used during assaults on Brecourt, etc, were totally made up, probably by Dale Dye.
–In Bastogne, E Company actually had it pretty easy, with the lowest casualty rate in the 506th PIR (which had it easier than the 501st) in the first two weeks.
–Nixon and Compton didn’t like each other, probably out of competition for Winters’s friendship.
–Speirs wasn’t a looter, the way the book and series make him out to be (although the book excuses this behavior).
If you haven’t seen this miniseries, it’s hugely recommended.