Last night I looked at Pan Am, the brand-new TV drama starting in September in America and set - like Mad Men - in the 60s, chronicling the fictitious goings-on behind-the-scenes of the now-defunct airline Pan Am at a time when flying was still glamorous, flight attendants got weighed (and were called stewardesses) and working (and flying with a) commercial airline was the jetset lifestyle to envy.
Pan Am looks absolutely amazing.
Imagine Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (because of beautiful and hyper-realistic CGI effects that gives the show an almost ethereal, other-worldly and brilliant yesteryear quality in its look and feel) crossed with Mad Men, American Dreams and a bit of Space: 1999. I've asked but no word yet from M-Net (that has Mad Men) on whether the pay broadcaster's gotten the Pan Am rights.
When you see the retro-glam airport insides, even the world-famous Pan Am building in New York (which of course no longer carries the name) and the pilot and stewardess uniforms - basically everything associated with that high flying romanticised era and even Life magazine - it looks really great.
Pan Am with Christina Ricci will follow the professional and private lives of the pilots and flight attendants working for the iconic airline in 1963.
