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Sep 04 2015
Discovery Channel’s GOLD RUSH Returns for Sixth Season Oct 16
As the Klondike winter comes to an end, a new mining season begins. And this year, the tables have certainly turned. There are bold new challenges, new equipment and massive power shifts. It’s a battle like never before among the crews as they push to find the most gold yet. Gold mining is a dangerous business and you never know who’s going to come out on top. Discovery’s #1-rated show GOLD RUSH returns for its sixth season on Friday, October 16 at 9 PM ET/PT, with the pre-show, The Dirt, at 8 PM ET/PT.
Sep 02 2015
Banshee and Outcast Going to New York Comic Con This October
For the first time, the CINEMAX drama series BANSHEE and OUTCAST will have panels at New York Comic Con, being held at the Javits Center this October.
Sep 02 2015
Starz Renews Survivor’s Remorse For a Third Season
Starz announced today orders for a third season of the critically-acclaimed STARZ Original comedy series “Survivor’s Remorse” from executive producers Tom Werner, Maverick Carter, LeBron James, Mike O’Malley, Paul Wachter and Vic Levin.
Sep 01 2015
TravelChannel .com Names Top 10 TRAVEL’S BEST: ROAD TRIPS FOR 2015
Grab your keys – TravelChannel.com has named the “Travel’s Best: Road Trips” for 2015 with 10 memorable, scenic drives that will take you across land and sea. Go as far north as Whistler, British Columbia, or as far south as the Alabama coast. TravelChannel.com editors enlisted a panel of experts to help determine the 10 best road trips for 2015, including: Michelle Bucher (writer, RoadTripBlogger.com), Shannon Entin (writer and founder, 100 Routes Across America), James Fisher (founder and CEO, RoadTrippers.com), Mark Sedenquist (founder, publisher and managing editor, RoadTrip America) and Mike Shubic (award-winning travel journalist, MikesRoadTrip.com).
Sep 01 2015
TV News: KILLJOYS Renewed For Second Season on Syfy
Syfy announced that the acclaimed series Killjoys has been renewed for a second 10-episode season, scheduled to air in 2016. Killjoys follows a trio of interplanetary bounty hunters who chase deadly Warrants (fugitives) throughout the Quad, a distant planetary system on the brink of a bloody class war. The series stars Hannah John-Kamen as Dutch, Luke Macfarlane as D’avin and Aaron Ashmore as John.
Aug 27 2015
Discovery Channel’s REBEL GOLD Premieres Sept 15
As the Civil War came to an end in 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, VA with the contents of the Confederate treasury – an estimated $20 million worth of gold and silver by today’s value. Six weeks later, Davis was captured, but the treasure had vanished. REBEL GOLD is an all-new series that follows an experienced group treasure hunters as they join forces to retrace Jefferson Davis’ trail and search for clues that could lead them to the legendary treasure.
Aug 24 2015
Smithsonian Channel Examines Notorious Conspiracy Theories and Unexplained Mysteries in The Missing Evidence Aug 30.
A probing, six-part series, THE MISSING EVIDENCE includes new insights from authorities, investigators, scientists and journalists, and uncovers new leads surrounding some of the most famous tragedies, unsolved crimes, persistent mysteries, and other phenomena that have piqued the public interest. THE MISSING EVIDENCE premieres Sunday, August 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Aug 20 2015
Travel Channel New Series 50/50 Premieres Oct. 4 Featuring Spontaneous Getaways Worth $50,000
“50/50” is an action-packed, 50-hour getaway worth $50,000 that starts when two Travel Channel hosts find unsuspecting people on the street and ask a simple question — can you leave right now? In Travel Channel’s new original series, premiering on Sunday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT, travel expert Samantha Brown and her up-for-anything pal Chris Grundy are doing the asking and whisking an impulsive couple on an unforgettable two-day getaway where they are presented with extravagant and excruciatingly awesome choices every step of the way: where to go, what to do, when to eat and should they take time out to sleep. But, the intrepid travelers must drop everything and leave right now! The series is comprised of six one-hour episodes and two half-hour pilots.
Aug 17 2015
Universal Pictures The Purge Lures Guest To Halloween Horror Nights
Beginning Friday, September 18, the annual Purge will commence at “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort as both parks debut all-new disturbingly-real experiences, inspired by Universal’s popular franchise film series created by writer and director James DeMonaco and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes. Guests will attempt to survive the night as they are immersed in the film’s depraved world, where all crime is declared legal as part of the government’s annually sanctioned 12-hour Purge.
Aug 13 2015
TV News: Sesame Street is Coming to HBO!
SESAME STREET DEBUTS ITS 46TH SEASON SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 2016 ON HBO!
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind the Emmy Award-winning program Sesame Street, and HBO, the nation’s leading premium cable network, today announced a new partnership that will make the next five seasons of the iconic series available on HBO and its multiplex channels, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and the new internet-only SVOD service HBO NOW.
Aug 12 2015
TV News: Syfy Announces Premiere Date for Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, one of the most-acclaimed science fiction novels of all time, will come to life in the first-ever adaptation beginning December 14 on Syfy. This six-hour television event from Syfy and UCP will air over three consecutive nights on Monday, December 14, Tuesday, December 15 and Wednesday, December 16 from 8-10PM (ET/PT).
Aug 11 2015
The CW Orders New Cycles of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Penn and Teller: Fool Us
The CW has ordered new cycles of the hit improvisational comedy series WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? and the hit comedy magic series PENN & TELLER: FOOL US, it was announced today by Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW. The new episodes will debut in 2016.
Aug 11 2015
TV News: TNT Renews THE LAST SHIP For Third Season Airing Summer 2016
TNT has renewed the hit action-adventure The Last Ship, basic cable’s top scripted series this summer with adults 25-54. Currently airing Sundays at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), The Last Ship stars Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy), Rhona Mitra (Strike Back) and Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Chuck). Season 2 will climax with a gripping cliffhanger on Sept. 6. TNT has ordered 13 episodes for the third season, which is slated to launch next summer.
Aug 07 2015
TV News: USA Network Announces Series Pick-Up For SHOOTER Starring Ryan Phillippe
USA Network announced a pilot pick-up for the hour-long scripted drama SHOOTER and has locked in Ryan Phillippe (“Secrets and Lies”) to star. SHOOTER is based on the best-selling Bob Lee Swagger novel by Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact, and the 2007 Paramount film starring Mark Wahlberg. SHOOTER is an action series whose central elements are the ingenuity and courage of a U.S. veteran and the military training and background that sustain him as he fights a sophisticated conspiracy.
Aug 05 2015
Showtime Documentary Films Sets Premiere Date For PROPHET’S PREY
The highly-anticipated documentary PROPHET’S PREY will make its world television premiere on Saturday, October 10th at 9 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME. The film, focused on the tyrannical cult leader Warren Jeffs, debuts theatrically nationwide under the SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY FILMS® banner on September 18th in New York and on Friday, September 25th in Los Angeles, followed by additional cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City, among others, on Friday, October 2nd. An official selection of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and directed by Academy Award® nominee Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, West of Memphis), PROPHET’S PREY is a unique and intricate look inside the world of one of the largest cults currently operating in the United States, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
Aug 03 2015
Showtime Documentary Films Presents Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
Rock legend Jimi Hendrix captivated the world with his unique, highly stylized, jaw-dropping approach to blues guitar. The new SHOWTIME documentary Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, premiering Friday, September 4th at 9 p.m. ET/PT on-air, on demand and over the internet, chronicles his largest ever U.S. performance at the massive Atlanta Pop Music Festival in July 1970 with never-before-seen concert footage of the icon in action.
Aug 03 2015
Syfy and UCP Announce Start of Production on New Series Hunters
Syfy and Universal Cable Productions (UCP) announced that production has commenced in Melbourne, Australia on the upcoming thriller series Hunters. The series is from executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator Trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), who will also serve as showrunner, and Emile Levisetti (Royal Pains). Ernest Dickerson (The Walking Dead, Dexter) is set to direct the pilot.
Jul 31 2015
Starz to Offer Subscribers Online and On-Demand Bingeing For Flesh and Bone and Da Vinci’s Demons
The bingeing opportunities give STARZ subscribers online and on-demand options to watch all ten episodes of season three of “Da Vinci’s Demons” from creator and executive producer by David S. Goyer and all eight episodes of “Flesh and Bone” from Emmy® award-winning “Breaking Bad” writer and executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett, in advance of the respective episode premieres on STARZ.
Jul 30 2015
AMC’s The Walking Dead Returns to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights
The nation’s insatiable appetite for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” will continue to terrify Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort when the most intense moments from season 5 of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award®-winning television series take a bite out of “Halloween Horror Nights,” beginning Friday, September 18, 2015.
Jul 30 2015
Science Channel Premieres Secret Space Escapes On Nov 10
What’s it like to leave earth to explore the unknown? How does it feel to be in space? What happens when you’re in space and something goes terribly wrong? Science Channel’s SECRET SPACE ESCAPES reveals terrifying accidents, fights for survival, and stories of close calls and near misses by the astronauts who survived them. This all-new series offers chilling accounts of the challenges of space exploration as told only by the explorers who lived them and the men and women in mission control who helped each team avert disaster. SECRET SPACE ESCAPES premieres on Science Channel Nov. 10 at 10 PM.
Jul 29 2015
Syfy and UCP Bring Grindhouse Genre to TV With New Series BLOOD DRIVE
Syfy and Universal Cable Productions today announced they have greenlit Blood Drive, a high-octane, over-the-top scripted series in the classic grindhouse movie tradition. Set in a near-apocalyptic future, the 13-episode series centers around LA’s last good cop who is forced to join a twisted, gory cross-country death race — with cars powered by blood and a dangerous femme fatale partner who sees people as fuel.
Jul 29 2015
Chiller’s First Original Series Slasher Starts Production
Chiller announced casting and start of production for Slasher, an eight episode, one-hour psychological thriller series from Shaftesbury (also airing on Super Channel in Canada). Slasher, Chiller’s first-ever original series, will be filmed in Sudbury, Parry Sound and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario until October 2015, with an eye towards a 2016 premiere.
Katie McGrath (Jurassic World, Dracula, Merlin) stars as Sarah Bennett, a young woman who returns to the small town where she was born, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying copycat murders based on the widely known, grisly killings of her parents. As the murders escalate, long-buried secrets are revealed, making everyone around her a suspect…or a victim.
Jul 29 2015
Doctor Who Returns to the Big Screen In Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven
BBC Worldwide North America and Fathom Events announce the return of the longest running sci-fi television series, Doctor Who, to the big screen for a two-night special theatrical event, Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven in spectacular 3D, starring Peter Capaldi. Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven, the show’s two-part eighth season finale, will be presented in RealD™ 3D and Dolby Atmos sound (where available) on September 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. (local time). The event will feature The Doctor’s Meditation – a special prequel scene to the first episode of season nine – and an exclusive interview with Doctor Who stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, hosted by Wil Wheaton (Big Bang Theory, Star Trek: Nemesis), in addition to the two-part season eight finale.
Jul 24 2015
Smithsonian Channel Presents The Day the Bomb Dropped Premiering Aug. 2
A gripping new one-hour special from Smithsonian Channel relives the fateful day 70 years ago when the United States dropped a single bomb on Japan, destroying the city of Hiroshima and killing up to 70,000 people instantly. Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Dominic West (The Affair), THE DAY THE BOMB DROPPED premieres on Sunday, August 2 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.
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