Super Channel is pleased to present one of the most highly anticipated series this year – Justified starring Timothy Olyphant. Canada’s only national pay television network premieres the series exclusively for Canadians April 5 at 9 p.m. ET in vivid HD.
“Justified is just the sort of programming we know our viewers gravitate to,” said Sandy Perkins, Super Channel, Vice President Programming. “It is edgy, original and we are very pleased we are bringing this exclusive offering to Canadians.”
Created by Speed’s Graham Yost, the series is based on the popular character U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens featured in several books and short stories by novelist Elmore Leonard. Played by Olyphant, the character described as a cross between Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, The Man with No Name and Olyphant’s Seth Bullock in Deadwood is certain to please audiences.
Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment to the town where he grew up. An anachronism – he’s a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under the placid skin though and you’ll find an angry man who grew up hard in rural Kentucky, with an outlaw father, who knows a lot more about who he doesn’t want to be than who he really is.
The cast also includes Joelle Carter, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts, Walton Goggins.
Mondays at 9 p.m. ET