MUST-WATCH TITLES FOR MARCH
MARCH 3 – HBO Max’s OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH *Series Premiere*
- From creator David Jenkins and Emmy®-nominated executive producer Taika Waititi (WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, Jojo Rabbit), OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH is a new comedy series that’s (very) loosely based on the true adventures of 18th century would-be pirate, Stede Bonnet, played by Rhys Darby (FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS). After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard, played by Waititi. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together, and survive life on the high seas. The cast also includes Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting), David Fane (BRO’TOWN), Nat Faxon (FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE), Fred Armisen (PORTLANDIA), Samba Schutte (SUNNYSIDE), Nathan Foad (BLOOD), Joel Fry (GAME OF THRONES), Leslie Jones (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE), Samson Kayo (TRUTH SEEKERS), Guz Khan (MAN LIKE MOOBEEN), Rory Kinnear (PENNY DREADFUL), Matt Maher (Live by Night), Kristian Nairn (GAME OF THRONES), Con O’Neill (CHERNOBYL), and Vico Ortiz (Misdirection). The 10 episode series follows a weekly release schedule with the first three episodes dropping Thursday, March 3.
MARCH 6 – STARZ’s SHINING VALE *Series Premiere*
- STARZ’s SHINING VALE is an eight episode, half-hour horror comedy about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But, no one seems to notice except for Pat, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed. As it turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same. Patricia “Pat” Phelps (Courteney Cox) is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel. Fast forward 17 years later, Pat is clean and sober but totally unfulfilled. She still hasn’t written her second novel; she can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband (Greg Kinnear); and her teenage kids are at that stage where they want you dead. She was a faithful wife until her one slip-up: she had a torrid affair with the hot, young handyman who came over to fix the sink while Terry was at work. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, she and Terry cash in all their savings and the family move from the “crazy” of the city to a large, old house in the suburbs that has a storied past of its own. Everyone has their demons, but for Pat Phelps, they may be real. SHINING VALE premieres with two episodes on Sunday, March 6, with subsequent new episodes dropping Sundays on STARZ.
MARCH 6 – HBO’s WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY *Series Premiere*
- Executive produced by Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up, SUCCESSION), HBO’s WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY is a fast-break series about the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties – a team that defined an era, both on and off the court. The ensemble cast includes: John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss; Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson; Jason Clarke as Jerry West; Adrien Brody as Pat Riley; Gaby Hoffmann as Claire Rothman; Tracy Letts as Jack McKinney; Jason Segel as Paul Westhead; Julianne Nicholson as Cranny McKinney; Hadley Robinson as Jeanie Buss; DeVaughn Nixon as Norm Nixon; Solomon Hughes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Tamera Tomakili as Earleatha “Cookie” Kelly; Brett Cullen as Bill Sharman; Stephen Adly Guirgis as Frank Mariani; Spencer Garrett as Chick Hearn; Sarah Ramos as Cheryl Pistono; Molly Gordon as Linda Zafrani; Joey Brooks as Lon Rosen; Delante Desouza as Michael Cooper; Jimel Atkins as Jamaal Wilkes; Austin Aaron as Mark Landsberger; and Jon Young as Brad Holland; with Rob Morgan as Earvin Johnson Sr., and Sally Field as Jessie Buss. WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY is a 10 episode series and follows a weekly release schedule with new episodes dropping Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
MARCH 8 – LETTERKENNY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
- Fresh off the Crave Original Series’ seven Canadian Screen Award nominations, in this special episode of LETTERKENNY, the ladies celebrate International Women’s Day by competing in an anti-beauty pageant. The winner will be crowned Miss MoDean-iality. Meanwhile, Professor Tricia talks to the guys about women they admire. LETTERKENNY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY premieres Tuesday, March 8.
MARCH 15 – HBO’s PHOENIX RISING *Documentary Premiere*
- Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood (WESTWORLD) takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women. The film intimately charts her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time. PHOENIX RISING is a two part docuseries with both episodes available Tuesday, March 15 at 9 p.m. ET.
MARCH 18 – DUNE *Movie Premiere*
- Nominated for 10 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, DUNE hails from renowned Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, and follows Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name), a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family, and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive. The cast also includes Zendaya (EUPHORIA), Rebecca Ferguson (Doctor Sleep), Oscar Isaac (SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE), Jason Momoa (GAME OF THRONES), Stellan Skarsgård (CHERNOBYL), Javier Bardem (Skyfall), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Josh Brolin (Sicario).
MARCH 31 – HBO Max’s JULIA *Series Premiere*
- Starring Sarah Lancashire (HAPPY VALLEY) and David Hyde Pierce (FRASIER), HBO Max’s eight-episode series, JULIA, is inspired by Julia Child’s extraordinary life, and her long-running television series, “The French Chef,” which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s (played by Lancashire) life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity, and America’s cultural evolution. At its heart, the series is a portrait of a loving marriage with a shifting power dynamic. Additional cast includes Bebe Neuwirth (CHEERS), Brittany Bradford (FEAR THE WALKING DEAD), Franz Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods), and Fiona Glascott (Fantastic Beats: The Crimes of Grindelwald). JULIA premieres with three episodes on Thursday, March 31, with subsequent episodes dropping Thursdays on Crave.
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HIGHLIGHTS
MARCH 3 – STAR TREK: PICARD *Season 2 Premiere*
- Season 2 of STAR TREK: PICARD takes the legendary Jean-Luc Picard and his crew on a bold and exciting new journey, into the past. Picard must enlist friends both old and new to confront the perils of 21st century Earth in a desperate race against time to save the galaxy’s future – and face the ultimate trial from one of his greatest foes. Season 2 cast members include Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard), Alison Pill (Agnes Jurati), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Michelle Hurd (Rafaella), Evan Evagora (Elnor), Orla Brady (Laris), Isa Briones (Dahj), Santiago Cabrera (Cristóbal “Chris” Rios), and Brent Spiner (Data). This season’s cast also includes Annie Wersching (Borg Queen) and special guest stars Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan) and John de Lancie (Q). STAR TREK: PICARD follows a weekly release schedule with new episodes dropping Thursdays on Crave and airing Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on CTV Sci-Fi Channel.
MARCH 4 – F9: THE FAST SAGA *Movie Premiere*
- The ninth installment of the box office hit franchise FAST AND FURIOUS joins Crave on Friday, March 9. Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin, and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom’s forsaken brother, Jakob (John Cena). F9: THE FAST SAGA features several returning characters from past installments of the franchise including: Roman Pearce (Tyreese Gibson), Tej Parker (Ludacris), Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), Han (Sung Knag), Cipher (Charlize Theron), Queenie (Helen Mirren), Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), Twinkie (Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Moss), Earl (Jason Tobin), Santos (Don Omar), and Stasiak (Shea Wigham).
MARCH 17 – HBO Max’s MINX *Series Premiere*
- Set in 1970s Los Angeles, HBO Max’s MINX centres around Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond, ELEMENTARY), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson, NEW GIRL) to create the first erotic magazine for women. Additional cast includes Idara Victor (Love Is), Jessica Lowe (THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES), Lennon Parham (VEEP), Michael Angarano (PEN15), and Taylor Zakhar Perez (The Kissing Booth 2). The half-hour, 10 episode seriespremieres with two episodes on Thursday, March 17, with two subsequent new episodes dropping Thursdays on Crave.
MARCH 17 – HBO Max’s DMZ *Series Premiere*
- From Ava DuVernay (WHEN THEY SEE US) and Robert Patino (WESTWORLD), and leaping off the pages of the popular comic, DMZchronicles the harrowing journey of fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega (Rosario Dawson, Rent), who sets out to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of a bitter civil war. Throwing gasoline on the flames of that conflict is Parco Delgado (Benjamin Bratt, LAW & ORDER), the popular and deadly leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the dematerialized zone (DMZ). Delgado wants to rule this new world, and will stop at nothing to secure that outcome. In this adrenalized and expansive drama which examines a stark political and cultural divide in American society, Alma must contend with the gangs, militias, demagogues, and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land. In doing so, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone here has lost…hope. All four episodes of HBO Max’s DMZ drop Thursday, March 17 on Crave.
MARCH 23 – UNE AFFAIRE CRIMINELLE (A CRIMINAL AFFAIR) *Series Premiere*
- Written by Joanne Arseneau and directed by Stéphane Lapointe, in UNE AFFAIRE CRIMINELLE (A CRIMINAL AFFAIR), the fates of Catherine Godin (Céline Bonnier) and major crimes investigator Benoît “Bing” Inglis (Louis-Philipe Dandeneault) intertwine when they are questioned by agents from the Independent Investigation Bureau about the events that took place in Saint-Bruno over the past 15 years. While Catherine fights to clear her son, who is accused of a murder he allegedly never committed, Bing, who has always been in love with her, seems to be protecting someone close to him who may have been involved in the case.
MARCH 24 – MOONSHOT *Movie Premiere*
- Romantic comedy meets sci-fi in MOONSHOT, starring Cole Sprouse (RIVERDALE) and Lana Condor (To All the Boys… Franchise). Set in a future where Mars has been made habitable and colonized by humanity’s elite, two very unlikely college students team up, and board a space shuttle to travel to the Red Planet to reunite with their loved ones. Cast also includes Emily Rudd (Fear Street: 1978), Mason Gooding (Booksmart), Lukas Gage (THE WHITE LOTUS), and Zach Braff (SCRUBS).
MARCH 25 – LAW & ORDER *Season 6-10*
- Seasons 6-10 of the Emmy®-winning drama series LAW & ORDER join Crave on Friday, March 25. Created by Dick Wolf, and filmed on location in New York, the iconic crime drama showcases the sometimes-complex process of determining guilt or innocence, while lives hang in the balance. Often inspired by the latest headlines, the plots highlight legal, ethical or personal dilemmas to which people can relate. The cast includes Benjamin Bratt (DMZ), Jerry Orbach (Dirty Dancing), Sam Waterston (GRACE AND FRANKIE), S. Epatha Merkerson (CHICAGO MED), and Angie Harmon (BAYWATCH).