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| Alliance-Atlantis announces fall programming highlights for its specialty channels |
| Posted
on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:00 AM |
Alliance Atlantis Communications today unveiled some programming highlights from its fall/winter broadcast schedule across the company’s specialty channels including the Canadian cable premiere of HBO's Deadwood on History Television and Showtime’s Huff on Showcase, along with a strong lineup of original Canadian productions.
“Viewers can look forward to another blockbuster year of stellar programming from Alliance Atlantis as we continue to invest in the production of new, original Canadian programs, such as Showcase’s Rent-A-Goalie and Moose TV and History Television’s Ancestors in the Attic,” says Norm Bolen, Executive Vice-President of Content for Alliance Atlantis Communications. “As well, we will continue to bring the best television programs to our networks with acquisitions like HBO’s Deadwood, Showtime’s Huff and Nigella Lawson’s Nigella Feasts, thanks to our solid relationships with our programming partners.”
HISTORY TELEVISION
History Television kicks off its Fall programming lineup with HBO’s Emmy®-, Peabody- and Golden Globe-winning series Deadwood, the gritty period drama created by David Milch which has both critics and fans raving. Now Canadians right across the country can see the multiple award-winning drama’s first two consecutive seasons beginning September 4, with back-to-back episodes premiering at 9 p.m. ET, repeating in three overnight cycles. Set in the teeming outlaw camp of Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the year 1877, the landscape explodes with violent power struggles and shifting alliances. Cast regulars include Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant and Canadian Molly Parker.
Hosted by Things That Move’s Jeff Douglas, Ancestors in the Attic airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT beginning October 18 on History Television. This irreverent, fast-paced new Canadian series takes viewers on a road trip across the country and through the past on a worldwide search for people’s most interesting ancestors. Tracking characters from sheep-thieves to fleeing slaves to war heroes, experts use family tree forensics to untangle legends and unlock secrets. Top genealogists offer concrete tips every episode to solve each mystery.
SHOWCASE
Highly anticipated award-winning programs returning to the 10 p.m. timeslot on Showcase include Rescue Me, Season 3, on Tuesday, August 29; Weeds, Season 2 on Wednesday, August 30; and The L Word, Season 3, on Thursday, September 28. Headlining its cutting-edge 10 p.m. programming line-up this winter is the Showtime drama Huff, starring Hank Azaria (Mad About You, The Simpsons), Oliver Platt (Casanova) and Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents). Huff follows the story of psychiatrist Craig Huffstodt (Azaria) who lacks balance and clarity in his own life, while struggling to help others achieve these goals.
The half-hour Showcase Original comedy series Rent-A-Goalie marries the industry of amateur rental goalies to the world of a Little Italy coffee shop. Cake, a hockey-crazed, hopeless romantic, assists local hockey teams that find themselves with an empty net. With cameo appearances by hockey legends including Phil Esposito, Dave “Tiger” Williams and Darryl Sittler, Rent-A-Goalie is a story about friends, life and hockey. This brand-new series launches Sunday, October 1 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT following Trailer Park Boys.
LIFE NETWORK
Heidi Klum hosts the Emmy®-nominated, critically acclaimed series that gives aspiring designers a chance to break into the notoriously difficult-to-crack fashion industry. The highly anticipated third season of Project Runway, airing Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT beginning September 4 on Life Network, finds a brand new crop of 15 amateur designers competing in a series of challenges designed to test their talent and temperament, under the ever-watchful eye of mentor and viewer favourite, Tim Gunn.
HGTV
HGTV knows that finding, fixing and flipping houses is a hot trend. But what does it take to really make money in the reno game? Beginning October 5 on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, The Big Flip gives viewers an inside look as renovators Randy McKay and John Stassen take on the ultimate challenge of fixing and flipping as many houses as they can in just 12 months – or lose their minds and shirts trying. With some serious hustling, cool negotiating skills and nerves of steel, Randy and John embark on this emotional, conflict-driven roller coaster.
Those sassy, saintly, and overall spectacular Scottish boys of design, Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, are coming back with a brand new spectacle of a season this Fall with a third installment of their hit series How NOT to Decorate. With the network premiere airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT beginning October 3, interior and property experts Justin and Colin seek out the UK’s most needy houses and drag them kicking and screaming into stylish and practical shape.
FOOD NETWORK
Culinary goddess Nigella Lawson is back and is celebrating her passion for food in her brand new series, Nigella Feasts. This delectable series dedicates itself to creating memorable feasts for all occasions – from holiday feasts and special occasions to celebrating small everyday pleasures, midnight snacks and solo meals. The recipes featured in each episode derive from Nigella’s best-selling cookbook, Feast – Food That Celebrates Life. The series airs Mondays at 10:30 p.m. ET beginning October 2.
On Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET beginning October 3, the world premiere of The Heat takes viewers on a full-throttle, sweat-drenched ride into the catering kitchens of one of Canada’s most renowned chefs, Mark McEwan (owner of North 44 and Bymark in Toronto), and his irreverent staff of talented protégés. The Heat uncovers exactly what it takes to cater to the rich and famous and run arguably the best restaurants in the city. From corporate dinners to richer-than-rich private parties and massive stadium style events, Mark McEwan takes his kitchen anywhere they have a party, and makes new fans with every entrée.
BBC CANADA
BBC CANADA presents the exclusive Canadian premiere of Life on Mars – Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET beginning September 27. From the creators of the popular UK crime show Spooks: MI5 comes this twist to the cop genre. While investigating a serial killer, a detective chief inspector, played by John Simm (24 Hour Party People), is hit by a car. He survives but finds himself somehow transported back to the year 1973. In his new role as a detective transferring to a new precinct, he struggles with the antiquated technology, the 1970s attitude and his recent inexplicable time travel.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
Airing Saturdays at 7 p.m. ET beginning October 7, the Canadian premiere of the new series Inside takes viewers into the inner workings of situations no one except the real insiders ever see: the staging of a Rolling Stones concert for 1.5 million people on the beach in Rio de Janeiro; the launch and re-entry of a private Russian space mission from a desert in Kazakhstan; frenetic eating, drinking and judging during the world’s biggest wine competition in London’s Guildhall; the massive FIFA Club Championship in the great soccer cathedrals of Japan; a week of the greatest vehicular speeds ever achieved on the dangerous salt flats of Bonneville; and Chinese New Year celebrations in Hong Kong.
IFC
IFC presents the Canadian premiere of Film School on Fridays at 5:30 p.m. ET, beginning October 6. This 10-part series documents the trials and tribulations of four film school students during their final year at the prestigious New York University as they battle to raise funding, finalize screenplays, audition actors, gather crew, and shoot and edit their student films. Finally, they unveil their work at the NYU Film Festival with the hope that it will win awards and launch a high-profile career. NYU alumni Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone and Amy Heckerling weigh in on filmmaking.
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