# Horatio Hornblower : Loyalty (2003) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035 "2003-05-09T03:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/1 "2003-05-09T03:00:40Z")
Has anyone here seen the [new Horatio Hornblower made-for-tv movie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0327890)? According to the review posted at IMDB, folks in the UK have already been able to see it back in February of this year. When do we viewers in the USA get to see it? ☹ I checked over at the A&E web site, but couldn’t find any mention of it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/2 "2003-05-09T03:30:16Z")
Is it the series that airs here[on A&E?](http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/horatio/index.html) The last one I saw was based on Lieutenant Hornblower (the one with the trail). I love the books but I gotta admit Ioan Gruffurd’s Hornblower is a whole hell of a lot sexier than the written Horny. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/3 "2003-05-09T03:37:18Z")
That’ll learn me not to read more carefully. You _are_ talking about the A&E. [Here’s an announcement on the HH boards](http://boards.aetv.com/forum.jsp?forum=289) over at A&E about the new movie. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/4 "2003-05-09T12:44:46Z")
Thanks, Biggirl. Aagghh! November 2003? Oh, well. That’s only a month before Return of the King. ---
**Author:** ![Deptford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Deptford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deptford)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/5 "2003-05-09T14:07:02Z")
It’s pretty good.I’ve never been a huge fan of the written Hornblower, preferring the Jack Aubrey series but these Hornblower Tv movies are done quite well. High production values as well, they obviously spent a bit of money on it.Oh and Paul McGann’s great in it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/6 "2003-05-09T18:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Deptford \* > \*\*I’ve never been a huge fan of the written Hornblower, preferring the Jack Aubrey series \*\* Who would you rather serve under? Hornblower who would attack a French fleet with a rowboat and two pistols, or Lucky Jack who throws his water overoard to escape the Dutch ship of the line whatchmacallit? I’ll take Goldilocks, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/7 "2003-05-09T19:56:14Z")
Is there any talk about turning O’Brien’s _Aubrey Novels_ into movies or TV films? The poor old guy is dead and he had a pretty messy personal life. I’d think the families (plural) would want to pump the corpse for as much as they could now that the books are being remaindered at B&N. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/8 "2003-05-09T20:01:51Z")
[Yes](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/1501/maxcrowe_mastercommander.html) ---
**Author:** ![mackeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mackeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mackeff)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horatio-hornblower-loyalty-2003/174035/9 "2003-05-20T21:25:16Z")
Getting back to the OP [sorta] . . . Does anyone know a good way to keep up-to-date with the A&E listings without actually going to their site every week or two? We want to be sure to catch the Hornblower movie when it’s on, but going to the A&E site is tedious at best, and frustrating any time. The bulletin boards have no real info about the intended date, just conjecture, and A&E itself is remarkably unhelpful. [Witness the way they cancelled showings of the last series AFTER newspaper schedules had gone to print.] BTW, the movie has already aired in both Britain and Australia.