M-Net Series urges a DStv PVR decoder reset for Pan Am recordings after an episode number adjustment.

URGENT PAN AM ANNOUNCEMENT:  PVR RESET REQUIRED TODAY 16 NOVEMBER

Please note: Pan Am will broadcast as scheduled with episode 7 airing tonight but due to the re-numbering of episodes viewers will miss out on the recordings they have set previously for Pan Am.

M-Net Series (DStv 114) encourages all viewers to please RESET their Pan Am recordings today Friday 16 November before the actual episode airs at 22:30. 

BREAKING. Pan Am coming to South African viewers on M-Net Series from 14 September at 21:30.

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Pan Am, the 1960's set TV drama about the high flyers of the once venerable airline, is finally coming to South African TV viewers when Pan Am will start on M-Net Series (DStv 110) on Friday 14 September at 21:30 for 14 episodes.

Although Pan Am has officially been cancelled by the ABC network in America, Pan Am, produced by Sony Pictures Television, is hugely popular in the rest of the world. Sony Pictures Television has started talks with other possible broadcasters for a second season.

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY. The high-flying new 60s drama Pan Am looks utterly amazing.

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.