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| New season for Huff tops MC and TMN's april's programming |
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on Saturday, April 01, 2006 - 12:52 PM |
This april, Movie Central and The Movie Network premiere the new season of Huff. Both pay-tv channels will also present the digitally remastered classic Liza With A “Z”, one of the most celebrated television specials of all time as well as the two-parts minieries Elizebeth which explores the private and public life of Queen Elizabeth. Movie premieres include March of the Penguins (narrated by Morgan Freeman) and The Interpreter (with Nicole Kidman).
RETURNING SERIES:
| HUFF: SEASON 2 – FROM SHOWTIME |
Paget Brewster as Beth
Copyright © 2006 Showtime. All rights reserved. |
The second season of Huff continues with the story of Dr. Craig “Huff” Huffstodt (Hank Azaria), a family man and successful psychiatrist whose life and career conspire to blur the lines of reality, often causing his so-called normal world and family life to be as surreal as that of his patients. He deals with the functionally insane all day, and when he comes home, he’s faced with the daily insanities of family life. This season, Huff struggles with his mother-in-law’s impending death from cancer; the outcome of his argument with his best friend Russell; searches for his missing brother Teddy, and takes drastic measures to try and save his sinking marriage.
Season two premieres:
Movie Central: Monday, April 3 at 8 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Monday, April 3 at 9 p.m. ET
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SPECIALS:
LIZA WITH A “Z” – FROM SHOWTIME
In 1972, alone on stage, Liza Minnelli took over New York’s Lyceum Theater for what would be the performance of a lifetime. Liza took the stage alone, and guided by the showmanship of the legendary Bob Fosse, Liza was captured with eight 16mm cameras by Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Owen Roizman. Now for the first time in over three decades, Showtime presents the digitally remastered classic Liza With A “Z”, one of the most celebrated television specials of all time.
This special premieres:
Movie Central: Saturday, April 1 at 8 p.m. PT on MC3
The Movie Network: Saturday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET on Mmore
ELIZABETH I – FROM HBO FILMS
This two-part HBO Films’ miniseries explores the private and public life of Queen Elizabeth I (Helen Mirren), in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies and her suitors as she struggled to survive in a male-dominated world. Part one explores the middle-aged Elizabeth’s tempestuous relationship with the Earl of Leicester (Jeremy Irons) as it survives a French suitor, war, treason and illness. The second part follows Elizabeth through her later years, during which she had an equally passionate affair with the young, ambitious Earl of Essex (Hugh Dancy), who had been raised, ironically, by his stepfather Leicester.
Elizabeth I, Part 1 premieres:
Movie Central: Saturday, April 22 at 9 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. ET on Mmore
Elizabeth I, Part 2 premieres:
Movie Central: Monday, April 24 at 9 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Monday, April 24 at 8 p.m. ET on Mmore
ALL ABOARD: ROSIE’S FAMILY CRUISE – FROM HBO
This documentary follows the maiden voyage of the first-ever cruise offered for gay and lesbian families. Kelli and Rosie O’Donnell and friend Greg Kaminsky created R Family Vacations so that gay and lesbian couples could vacation in an environment full of love, pride, and understanding. However, upon disembarking the ship, the 500 families onboard are met by angry protestors and are faced with the reality of opposition.
This documentary premieres:
Movie Central: Thursday, April 6 at 8 p.m. PT on MC3
The Movie Network: Thursday, April 6 at 9 p.m. ET
APRIL MOVIES:
THE LONGEST YARD
Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (Adam Sandler) was a revered football superstar until allegations of point shaving ruined his career. Then things got even worse when Crewe landed himself in a Texas state penitentiary after taking a drunken joyride in a stolen car. When prison official Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) assigns Crewe the task of assembling a team of convicts to compete in a football game against the guards, Crewe recruits former inmate and college football champion Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) and fellow convict Caretaker (Chris Rock) to hustle a team together that can exact revenge on the sadistic guards.
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Saturday, April 1 at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Saturday, April 1 at 9 p.m. ET
MELINDA AND MELINDA
“Is the essence of life comic or tragic?” This is the query that Sy (Wallace Shawn) poses to his fellow diners over a meal in a French restaurant. Sy begins to tell a story, a romantic comedy, in which a woman named Melinda is a single, downstairs-neighbour to a young couple hosting a dinner party. A dinner companion, Max (Larry Pine), turns the story into an urban tragedy when he tells the story of Melinda as a long-lost friend of the dinner hosts, who shows up unannounced, bedraggled and in utter dismay. In this tragic version of the story, Melinda has left her doctor-husband for a photographer; her husband has taken away their children and now she has spiralled into a suicidal depression. The stories go back and forth, contrasting the destinies of the two Melinda’s in an attempt to answer the question Sy posed. This Woody Allen film also stars Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet, Josh Brolin, Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller and Steve Carell.
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Friday, April 7at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Friday, April 7 at 9 p.m. ET
FEVER PITCH
When high school teacher Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon) meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks (Drew Barrymore) he quickly takes a liking to her. Although their lives are vastly different, Lindsey finds Ben sweet and charming and the two hit it off, sparking a relationship that seems perfect – until baseball season roles around. Lindsey discovers that Ben’s love of baseball is not just a hobby, but rather an obsession, and Lindsey is left competing with Ben’s first true love: the Boston Red Sox.
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Friday, April 14 at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Friday, April 14 at 9 p.m. ET
MY DATE WITH DREW
Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore since the second grade when he saw her, for the first time, in E.T. The Extraterrestrial. It’s now 20 years later, and Brian has decided to fulfill his lifelong dream of asking her on a date. Equipped with a video camera and some money he won on a game show, Brian and his film school pals attempt to negotiate with publicists, agents and assistants in order for Brian to get close enough to Drew to ask her on a date – all of which they must accomplish in 30 days, the date on which they must return the camera. This documentary is an inspirational story about an ordinary guy who followed his dream and the advice of Drew Barrymore herself, “if you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Friday, April 14 at 9 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Friday, April 14 at 11 p.m. ET
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins for a penguin to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey – a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love. This documentary is narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Luc Jacquet.
This documentary premieres:
Movie Central: Saturday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Saturday, April 15 at 7 p.m. ET
THE INTERPRETER
At United Nations headquarters, translator Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia understand. But when federal agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) investigates her claim and digs deeper into her dangerous past, he begins to question whether she’s a victim – or a suspect.
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Friday, April 21 at 9 p.m. ET
BEWITCHED
Isabel (Nicole Kidman) is a naïve, good-natured witch who is trying to reinvent herself by disavowing her supernatural powers and settling down to live a normal life in California’s San Fernando Valley. Across town, Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrel), a once famous movie actor, is trying to get his career back on track by starring in an updated version of the beloved 1960’s TV comedy Bewitched. When Jack accidentally runs into Isabel and notices her nose bares an uncanny resemblance to the nose of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha in the original TV version of Bewitched, he asks her to be his co-star in the show. Isabel is smitten with Jack, seeing him as the quintessential mortal man with whom she can settle down with to lead her normal life, but can Isabel really change who she is, and what is normal anyway? Bewitched also stars Shirley MacLaine.
This movie premieres:
Movie Central: Friday, April 28 at 7 p.m. PT
The Movie Network: Friday, April 28 at 9 p.m. ET
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