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| TMN unveils its Fall 2007 programming highlights |
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on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 04:43 PM |
With premier access to Hollywood-hit movies, critically-acclaimed HBO and Showtime series, and first-rate Canadian original content, The Movie Network offers uncut and commercial-free programming 24-hours a day on its five multiplex channels: M, MMore, MExcess, MFun! and MFest. Viewers can also watch hundreds of titles in high definition on The Movie Network HD and MMore HD and enjoy unlimited access to over 150 movies and series at their convenience on The Movie Network OnDemand.
THE MOVE NETWORK ORIGINAL SERIES
The Business (Season 2)
Premieres Monday, September 3, 2007 at 9:30 pm ET (8 x 30 min; comedy)
In season two of IFC’s comedy series The Business, Vic Morgenstein’s (Rob Deleeuw) respectability and reputation are on the rise after changing gears from smut peddling to authentic indie filmmaking. Following the surprising box-office success of their latest indie-thriller House of Fear, Vic along with his fellow producer Julia Sullivan (Kathleen Robertson) move their team into stylish new offices as they try to prove, against steadily increasing odds, that House of Fear wasn’t a fluke.
Stargate: Atlantis (Season 4)
Premieres Monday, October 1, 2007 (20 x 60 min; drama)
The future appears bleak with the incapacitation of Weir and multiple injuries among the senior members of the expedition. With the city damaged, running out of power and drifting in space, and cut off from Earth, the Atlantis expedition has to rely on their own resourcefulness to save Atlantis and themselves from death and destruction. Starring Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson, David Hewlett, Rachel Luttrell and Jason Momoa.
Coming IN 2008
ReGenesis (Season 4)
Premieres Spring 2008 (13 x 60 min; drama)
In the fourth season of this Gemini award-winning series, a NorBAC (North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission) scientist is found sick with a brain infection, and with little memory of what happened to him, he is haunted by a face and quickly becomes convinced that somewhere, someone knows the answers he is searching for. Meanwhile, Chief Scientist David Sandström leads his team to solve a number of mysterious outbreaks including the most lethal hepatitis ever seen and a case of drug resistant tuberculosis. Starring Peter Outerbridge, Wendy Crewson, Conrad Pla, Mayko Nguyen, Dmitry Chepovetsky and Greg Bryk.
ZOS: Zone of Separation
Premieres Spring/Summer 2008 (8 x 60 min; drama)
Co-executive produced by Paul Gross, ZOS: Zone of Separation is about the life-and-death struggle to enforce a United Nations-brokered ceasefire, as peacekeepers face the harsh reality of living in Jadac, a fictional, Sarajevo-like town. Each episode follows the Zone’s protagonists in their tortured and tenuous jockeying for influence and advantage – from unarmed United Nations Military Observers (UNMOs) and armed UN soldiers to Christians and Muslims. Starring Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Michelle Nolden, Rick Roberts, Enrico Colantoni and Allan Hawco.
The Weight
Premieres Fall 2008 (8 x 60 min; drama)
This series that tells the story of Max and Donny, two cops who are often as morally ambiguous as the criminals they pursue. Max, a married man with a family, is having an on-again/off-again affair with a burned-out criminal defence lawyer who isn’t blind to the harsh realities of her profession; while Donny is a cop who’s been almost completely destroyed by the job, loves the company of prostitutes, lives in a rundown motel which he’s part owner of, and has a hard time staying sober. Created and written by playwright/screenwriter George F. Walker and Dani Romain.
HBO ORIGINALS
Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 6)
Premieres Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 8:30 p.m. ET (10 x 60 min; drama)
Seinfeld co-creator Larry David stars as himself in this unsparing, cinema verité depiction of his life. Featuring real-life celebrities playing themselves, each episode is improvised by the actors with storylines created by David. Also starring Cheryl Hines and Jeff Garlin.
Tell Me You Love Me (New Series)
Premieres Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 9 p.m. ET (10 x 60 min; drama)
Three couples linked to the same sex therapist, but at different stages of their relationship, reveal the ups and downs of their sex lives through ongoing therapy sessions and a look into their intimate lives. With several episodes directed by Canadian Patricia Rozema, this series stars Luke Kirby, Ally Walker, Michelle Borth, Tim DeKay, Adam Scott, David Selby and Sonya Walger.
Five Days (Miniseries)
Premieres Tuesday, October 2, 2007 (5 x 60 min; drama)
An attractive young mother and her two children inexplicably vanish in the southeast England commuter town of Hertfordshire. The complex police investigation unearths rifts among members of the family and the crime soon becomes a media sensation that forces the family to confront their issues in public. Starring Nikki Amuka-Bird, Hugh Bonneville, Charlie Creed and Janet McTeer.
In Treatment (New Series)
Premieres January 2008 (45 x 30 min; comedy)
Airing five days a week, In Treatment stars Gabriel Byrne as a therapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients, but displays a crippling insecurity and anger when he seeks the counsel of his own therapist. His patients include a woman in her 30s who reveals her love for the therapist, a U.S. Air Force pilot torn by his role in the Iraqi war and a couple who are on the verge of breaking up. Also starring Diane Wiest, Blair Underwood and Embeth Davidtz.
The Wire (Season 5)
Premieres Winter 2008 (13 x 60 min; drama)
Returning for a fifth and final season, the award-winning police drama series by creator David Simon focuses on the vagaries of crime and law enforcement in Baltimore, Maryland. Starring Dominic West, Clarke Peters and Sonja Sohn.
12 Miles of Bad Road (New Series)
Premieres Winter 2008 (12 x 60 min; comedy)
Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, this comedy series revolves around the matriarch of a wealthy Texas family whose wealth and powerful real estate business complicate family life. Starring Gary Cole, Ivana Milicevic, Cameron Richardson, Mary Kay Place, Kim Dickens, Leslie Jordan and Lily Tomlin.
SPECIALS
Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq (Documentary)
Premieres Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 10 p.m. ET (drama)
Executive produced by Emmy® Award winner James Gandolfini, Alive Day: Home From Iraq documents the physical and emotional cost of war on wounded soldiers as they recount the memories of their "alive day" – the day they narrowly escaped death in Iraq. Gandolfini, who visited the troops in Iraq on behalf of the USO, interviews ten soldiers who reveal their feelings on their future, their severe disabilities and their devotion to America.
Pinochet’s Last Stand (Film)
Premieres Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 9 p.m. ET (1 x 90 min; drama)
Director Richard Curson Smith tells the story of Chile’s General Augusto Pinochet and his incarceration in the United Kingdom. The film follows the charges brought against him by Amnesty International for crimes against humanity in his own country. Starring Derek Jacobi, Phyllidia Law and Anna Massey.
Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later (Documentary)
Premieres Thursday, September 25, 2007 at 9 p.m. ET (1 x 75 min; drama)
In 1957, nine black students changed history forever when they forced desegregation at Central High School. Today, Little Rock Central is two separate schools in one, with its minority of white students graduating to some of the best colleges in the U.S., while only 19 per cent of its black students pass basic reading requirements. Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later offers access into an infamous American urban high school and an examination of modern race relations in America.
PU 239 – The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (Film)
Premieres Saturday, November 17, 2007 (1 x 107 min; drama)
While working at a Russian nuclear facility, Timofey Berezin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. With only days to live, he travels to Moscow and hooks up with a small-stakes gangster in the hopes of finding a buyer for a vial of weapons-grade plutonium he has stolen, all to secure a better future for his family when he is gone. Starring Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell and Oscar Isaac.
I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA (Documentary)
Premieres Monday, November 26, 2007 (drama)
This documentary explores the ideologies and personalities behind the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) including its founder and president Ingrid Newkirk. This animal rights organization’s goals have been seen as extreme and uncompromising on one hand, and revolutionary on the other. But their successes have had been hard-won and have come at a high price.
SHOWTIME SERIES
Californication (New Series)
Premieres Monday, August 13, 2007 at 9 p.m. ET (12 x 30 min; comedy)
Novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) struggles to raise his 13-year-old daughter while still carrying a torch for his ex-wife. His obsessions with truth-telling and self-destructive behaviour – drinks, drugs, and relationships – threaten to destroy and enrich his career. Also starring Natascha McElhone, Madeleine Martin, Madeline Zima and Evan Handler.
Dexter (Season 2)
Premieres Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 10 p.m. ET (12 x 60 min; drama)
Based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, season two continues to follow Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer. Orphaned as a child and harbouring a traumatic secret, Dexter’s adopted father recognized his homicidal tendencies and taught him how to channel his passion for human vivisection in a constructive way – by killing those heinous perpetrators who have slipped through the cracks of justice. Also starring Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Velez, Julie Benz, Erik King, David Zayas and James Remar. Joining the cast in season two is Jaime Murray who plays Lila, a former addict and artist who becomes a friend and ally to Dexter.
Brotherhood (Season 2)
Premieres Monday, October 1, 2007 (11 x 60 min; drama)
Brotherhood follows the Caffee brothers who live in ”The Hill”, an Irish-American community in Providence, Rhode Island, where the old-world ways of street justice and loyalty continue to rule the tough blue-collar neighbourhood. Tommy Caffee (Jason Clarke) is a local politician out to protect “The Hill” but his complicated family and professional lives are turned upside down by his gangster brother Michael (Jason Isaacs). In season two, Colin Carr (Brían F. O’Byrne), a cousin of the Caffee brothers arrives in Providence and gets involved in Michael’s criminal world.
State of the Union (New Series)
Premieres Winter 2008 (5 x 30 min; comedy)
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Acclaimed comedienne Tracey Ullman returns to television in a new comedy series that takes a satirical look at life in America today. In each episode, Ullman takes on characters as diverse as working mothers, politicians and celebrities.
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