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SHOWTIME RELEASES THE OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR THE EMMY NOMINATED OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES HOMELAND
Season Five Premieres On Sunday, October 4th At 9 PM ET/PT NEW YORK, NY – August 27, 2015 – In advance of the highly-anticipated fifth season premiere of HOMELAND on Sunday, October 4th at 9 p.m. ET/PT, SHOWTIME has released the full-length trailer for its Emmy and Golden Globe®-winning hit drama series. Recently nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Drama series, HOMELAND stars Emmy, Screen Actors Guild® and Golden Globe® Award winner Claire Danes, Emmy nominee Rupert Friend, Oscar® winner and Emmy nominee F. Murray Abraham, Sebastian Koch, Screen Actors Guild winner Miranda Otto, Alexan...
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SHOWTIME TO PRODUCE NEW DOCUMENTARY THE SPYMASTERS AIRING NOVEMBER 28TH AT 9 PM ET/PT
Documentary Pulls Back The Curtain On The World’s Most Powerful And Secretive Spy Agency And Features Interviews With All Twelve Living Directors Of The CIA Narrated by HOMELAND’s Mandy Patinkin LOS ANGELES, CA, August 11, 2015 – Shrouded in controversy and secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency is the world’s most powerful and clandestine spy agency. On November 28th at 9 p.m. ET/PT, under the SHO: CLOSE UP banner, SHOWTIME will present THE SPYMASTERS, a gripping documentary looking inside the workings of the CIA and talking candidly to the men who ran it. For the first time ever, a...
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SHOWTIME ACQUIRES “JUST KIDS”
PATTI SMITH’S BEST-SELLING MEMOIR ABOUT HER LIFE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE TO BE A LIMITED SERIES OSCAR® NOMINEE JOHN LOGAN TO CO-WRITE AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE WITH PATTI SMITH LOS ANGELES – August 11, 2015 – Patti Smith’s much sought after memoir, Just Kids, has landed at Showtime. Co-written and produced by Patti Smith and three-time Academy Award® nominee John Logan, the memoir will be developed into a SHOWTIME limited series, to be produced with Logan's Desert Wolf Productions. “Just Kids is one of my favorite memoirs of all time,” said David Nevins, President of Showtime ...
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SHOWTIME ANNOUNCES WINTER PREMIERE DATE FOR BILLIONS AND SHAMELESS
New Drama Series BILLIONS To Premiere on Sunday, January 17th at 10 PM ET/PT – Season Six of SHAMELESS To Premiere at 9 PM ET/PT Across All Platforms LOS ANGELES, CA – August 11, 2015 – Today, SHOWTIME announced that season six of their hit series SHAMELESS will premiere on Sunday, January 17th at 9 p.m. ET/PT, followed by the premiere of the highly-anticipated new drama series BILLIONS at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Both series are currently in production, SHAMELESS in Los Angeles and Chicago, and BILLIONS in New York City. BILLIONS is a bold, contemporary drama that explores worlds of ultra-wealth,...
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SHOWTIME GIVES LIFE TO I’M DYING UP HERE
Network Orders New One-Hour Pilot From Executive Producer Jim Carrey, Set In The 1970s L.A. Comedy Scene Written And Executive Produced By Former Stand-up Comedian Dave Flebotte LOS ANGELES, CA – August 11, 2015 – SHOWTIME will produce a new one-hour pilot from executive producer Jim Carrey entitled I’M DYING UP HERE. Written and executive produced by former stand-up comedian Dave Flebotte (Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives, The Bernie Mac Show), and set among the famous Hollywood comedy clubs of the era, the dark comedy pilot will delve into the inspired and damaged psyches that inh...
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SHOWTIME GIVES PILOT ORDER TO COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA FROM LENA WAITHE AND OSCAR® WINNER COMMON
LOS ANGELES, CA – August 11, 2015 – SHOWTIME has given a pilot order to a one-hour drama created, executive produced and written by Lena Waithe (Dear White People, Bones) and executive produced by Grammy® and Academy Award® winner Common (Selma, Smokin’ Aces). Produced by Fox 21, the untitled project is a relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story of a young African American male in which just growing up can be a matter of life and death. In addition to Waithe and Common, the pilot will be executive produced by Aaron Kaplan (Secrets and Lies, The Mysteries of Laura) and directed a...
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SHOWTIME RELEASES NEW DOCUMENTARY SLATE FOR LATE 2015
Films To Profile Eccentric Entertainers, The FBI’s Most Wanted Cult Leader; An NFL Hall-of-Famer; An Outspoken Politician; And A First-Ever Look At The CIA LOS ANGELES, CA – August 11th, 2015 - SHOWTIME is laying out an ambitious new documentary slate for late 2015. Scheduled for this fall are uncensored looks at such fascinating figures as Marlon Brando, Jimi Hendrix, Suge Knight, Barney Frank and Warren Jeffs, as well as in-depth interviews with all 12 living CIA directors, who give unprecedented access to the inner-workings of America’s most powerful spy network. For the first time ...
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SHOWTIME PICKS UP CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DRAMAS RAY DONOVAN AND MASTERS OF SEX FOR FOURTH SEASONS
LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 11, 2015 – In the middle of their critically acclaimed third years, including an Emmy® nomination for Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber, SHOWTIME has announced that it will pick up both of its hit dramas, RAY DONOVAN and MASTERS OF SEX for fourth seasons. The announcement was made by David Nevins, President, Showtime Networks Inc. Both series will receive 12 one-hour episodes and will begin production in 2016. “Both RAY DONOVAN and MASTERS OF SEX are signature series for SHOWTIME,” said Nevins. “They are emblematic of what SHOWTIME stands for – quality, p...
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SHOWTIME SPORTS TO CHRONICLE 2015 CAMPAIGN OF A COLLEGE FOOTBALL POWERHOUSE IN “A SEASON WITH NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL”
Weekly, Season-Long Coverage of National Title Contender Features A Dozen 30-Minute Episodes; Series Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 8, Only on SHOWTIME® NEW YORK – August 11, 2015 – SHOWTIME Sports will chronicle the University of Notre Dame’s quest for a college football national championship with weekly, all-access coverage in a groundbreaking new series titled A SEASON WITH NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL. The season-long series premieres Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, just three days after Notre Dame’s opening-week showdown with the University of Texas Longhorns in South Bend, Indi...