(L-R) Matt LeBlanc from Episodes, Emmy Rossum from Shameless, Don Cheadle from House of Lies, and William H. Macy from Shameless. Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Showtime/AP Images.
SHOWTIME announced today over 70 million households nationwide will be able to watch the network for free from Friday, January 9 through Sunday, January 11. Not only will viewers be able to sample the season premieres of the award-winning series Shameless, House of Lies, and Episodes on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME On Demand®, SHOWTIME ANYTIME® and select distributors’ TV Everywhere portals, they will also have access to current and past episodes of Homeland, The Affair, Penny Dreadful, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, and Nurse Jackie, as well as sports programming and feature films, including the television premieres of Philomena and Last Vegas. In addition, the network will air more than 60 feature films, including Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Scary Movie 5, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, August: Osage County, and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. Documentary programming will include The Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, surrounding the long-lost lyrics penned by legendary songwriter Bob Dylan in the summer of 1967 and Lance Armstrong: Stop at Nothing, an intimate but explosive story about the man behind one of the greatest frauds in sporting history, among many others.
The television premiere of Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Best Picture nominee Philomena, starring Oscar® winner Dame Judi Dench, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Steve Coogan kicks off the free weekend at 9 pm ET/PT, followed by the latest installment of SHOWTIME Sports® Emmy® award-winning ALL ACCESS documentary series, ALL ACCESS: Stiverne vs. Wilder at 10:45 pm ET/PT.
On Sunday, January 11, SHOWTIME will debut the television premiere of Last Vegas starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline as a group of friends who head to Las Vegas together to celebrate the last remaining bachelor of the group before he gets married. Then, starting at 9 pm ET/PT, viewers nationwide will sample the highly-anticipated season premieres of the network’s three hit comedy series, Shameless at 9 pm ET/PT, House of Lies at 10 pm ET/PT, and Episodes at 10:30 pm ET/PT.
The Free Preview Weekend is available on both SD and HD feeds to digital subscribers of participating providers only. Select providers will offer the Free Preview via SHOWTIME ON DEMAND and SHOWTIME ANYTIME. The preview will be available across a number of distributors including AT&T U-verse, Bright House Networks, Cable ONE, CenturyLink Prism, Comcast, DIRECTV, DISH, Mediacom, RCN, and Verizon FiOS. Available platforms will vary by participating distributor. Previews may contain PG, PG-13, TV-14, TVMA, and R-rated programming. You must be a digital subscriber to receive video on demand and HD. For additional details and a full schedule of programming, go to SHO.com/freepreview.
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