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SHOWTIME RENEWS EMMY NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY SERIES VICE FOR A SECOND SEASON
Season Two Comes as VICE Receives Its First 2020 Primetime Emmy Nomination on SHOWTIME Photo: Zachary Caldwell/VICE News/SHOWTIME LOS ANGELES – July 30, 2020 – SHOWTIME has picked up a second season of VICE, the award-winning documentary series that recently wrapped its first season on the network and received a 2020 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special. Delivering immersive reporting from the frontlines of global conflicts, civil uprisings and beyond, the VICE team of journalists rapidly adapted this past season to cover stories of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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SHOWTIME SCHEDULING ALERT
Today Showtime announced the premiere date for Director Alison Ellwood’s documentary feature THE GO-GO’S has shifted. THE GO-GO’S will now premiere on Friday, July 31 at 9pm ET/PT, with an encore replay on Saturday, August 1 at 7:20pm ET/ 4:20pm PT. Director Alison Ellwood’s documentary feature, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, chronicles the first all-female band to play its own instruments, write its own songs and soar to No. 1 on the album charts. The Go-Go’s made history. Featuring candid testimonies, Ellwood’s film charts the meteoric rise to fame of a band born of the L...
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SHOWTIME DEVELOPING LIMITED SERIES BLACKBIRD: LENA HORNE AND AMERICA BASED ON THE LIFE OF LENA HORNE
Jenny Lumet, Granddaughter of Horne, To Write and Executive Produce Photo: Carl Van Vechten/Courtesy of Jenny Lumet LOS ANGELES – July 8, 2020 – SHOWTIME is developing the limited series BLACKBIRD: LENA HORNE AND AMERICA, based on the life of incomparable entertainer and activist Lena Horne. BLACKBIRD: LENA HORNE AND AMERICA will be executive produced by Horne’s granddaughter, Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married, Star Trek®: Discovery), and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Picard, The Comey Rule), who together will write the first few episodes. The series will be produced by CBS Television ...
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SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY FILMS ANNOUNCES NEW FEATURE FROM MARTIN SCORSESE ABOUT DAVID JOHANSEN, LEGENDARY FRONTMAN OF THE NEW YORK DOLLS
David Tedeschi To Co-Direct with Scorsese Brian Grazer and Ron Howard To Executive Produce Photo: Sikelia Productions/Courtesy Of SHOWTIME LOS ANGELES – July 7, 2020 – SHOWTIME Documentary Films today announced a new feature documentary from Academy Award® Winning director Martin Scorsese that profiles David Johansen, the celebrated frontman of the New York Dolls. Emmy® nominee David Tedeschi will co-direct with Scorsese, and Scorsese and Sikelia Productions will executive produce with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Imagine Documentaries. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, E...
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SHOWTIME OFFERS THE PREMIERE EPISODE OF NEW DOCU-SERIES OUTCRY FOR FREE
Five-Part Investigative Series Directed By Emmy® Winner Pat Kondelis Premieres Sunday, July 5 NEW YORK – July 2, 2020 – SHOWTIME will release the premiere episode of its new docu-series OUTCRY for free online sampling, on streaming platforms and on demand beginning at midnight on Sunday, July 5. The five-part investigative documentary series, directed and produced by Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Pat Kondelis, examines the gripping story of high school football star Greg Kelley’s controversial conviction for child molestation and the quest for truth and justice that followed in the ...
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SHOWTIME RELEASES TRAILER FOR ALISON ELLWOOD’S DOCUMENTARY THE GO-GO’S
Official 2020 Sundance Film Festival Selection Tells the Story of the Most Successful Female Rock Band of All Time, Premieres on Saturday, August 1 at 9 PM ET/PT NEW YORK – July 1, 2020 – SHOWTIME has released the trailer for the upcoming feature-length documentary THE GO-GO’S, hailing from director Alison Ellwood (HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, American Jihad). An official 2020 Sundance Film Festival Selection, the film chronicles the first all-female band to play its own instruments, write its own songs and soar to No. 1 on the album charts. Featuring candid testimonies from the group member...
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WE HUNT TOGETHER
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SHOWTIME SCHEDULING UPDATE
Amid the ongoing fluctuations in production operations due to the COVID-19 virus, SHOWTIME is making the following changes to the schedule for its scripted content and is also announcing the acquisition of a series: SHOWTIME has picked up the six-episode drama WE HUNT TOGETHER, an hour-long series from BBC Studios starring Eve Myles (Keeping Faith, Torchwood), Babou Ceesay (GUERRILLA), Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Dipo Ola (Baghdad Central, Inside No. 9). A gripping twist on a classic cat-and-mouse story, WE HUNT TOGETHER explores the intoxication of sexual attraction...
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SEASON FIVE OF THE CIRCUS RETURNS TO SHOWTIME AMID AN UNPARALLELED PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Photo: SHOWTIME New Episodes of the Acclaimed Political Documentary Series Begin on Sunday, August 16 at 8 PM ET/PT LOS ANGELES – June 22, 2020 – THE CIRCUS returns to SHOWTIME as America approaches a monumental presidential election, confronts systemic racism and endures a deadly pandemic and economic upheaval. New weekly 30-minute episodes will premiere on Sunday, August 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and continue through the election. For a preview, go to: https://youtu.be/jfLDiyTlu3w. Co-hosts John Heilemann, Alex Wagner, and Mark McKinnon will again take viewers behind the scenes as the T...
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DESUS & MERO TO RETURN SUNDAY, JULY 5 ON SHOWTIME
Series Returns From June Hiatus and Moves to Sunday and Thursday Nights at 11 PM ET/PT Photo: Greg Endries/SHOWTIME NEW YORK – June 18, 2020 – DESUS & MERO returns from hiatus with all-new episodes starting Sunday, July 5 at 11 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, joining acclaimed series THE CHI and BLACK MONDAY in the network’s Sunday night block. Previously airing Mondays and Thursdays, the late-night show will now air weekly on Sunday and Thursday nights in the same time slot, and will continue to shoot remotely from the hosts’ own homes. Each episode features Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and T...