Mike Lutz and Chad Mathews, both of Cowboy Smoke, will be featured extensively in FIGHT OR DIE, a new television show on the Discovery Channel this Thursday, June 26 at 10pm EDT/PDT (Check your local listings but I believe for those in Texas it will air at 9pm CST). Mike’s wife Jill Lutz, who is also a very good friend of mine, produced the show. Based on the viewer response to this broadcast, Discovery will decide whether the show will become a weekly series! You can watch a preview for the show at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2KPa8phRiI

So please tune in (or TiVo it) and forward this email on to those you think might also be interested. And if you like the show, email feedback
to: FEEDBACK@WHEELHOUSEENTERTAINMENT.COM

FIGHT OR DIE
Discovery Channel (in HD)
Thursday, June 26 at 10pm ET/PT
From Executive Producer Randall Wallace (BRAVEHEART, PEARL HARBOR, WE WERE SOLDIERS, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK), comes FIGHT OR DIE, an exciting new epic documentary special that captures the personal experience of war in groundbreaking fashion by delving inside the psyche of the soldier under fire, allowing viewers to walk the Thin Red Line that separates sanity from madness and the living from the dead. Harrowing personal accounts of battle are seamlessly blended with cinematic dramatizations, digitally remastered combat footage, and a bullet-ridden soundscape to present one of the most riveting, emotional, and realistic portrayals of war ever produced for television. “We all have the capacity for depths of courage, compassion and even cruelty that we can’t imagine when sitting in safety and comfort,” said Wallace. “FIGHT OR DIE explores these extremes of human character made apparent in the cauldron of conflict.”The first episode tells the real-life story of a group of American soldiers whose lives were made famous in Wallace’s motion picture WE WERE SOLDIERS starring Mel Gibson. On November 14, 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray, 2,000 enemy soldiers surrounded 400 United States Army troopers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. FIGHT OR DIE is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.

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