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Banshee Season 2 preview: Good town, bad blood

January 10, 2014 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

Banshee Season 2 preview: Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic) and the Banshee Sheriff’s Department cope with the fallout from their bloody face-off against Rabbit (Ben Cross), while Lucas faces a new and deadly threat in Season 2 of this gritty Cinemax action series. Executive produced by Alan Ball (True Blood), the show focuses on Lucas, an ex-convict who assumed the identity of the new sheriff in the rural town of Banshee, Pa. Picking up where the first season left off, Season 2 finds Carrie exposed and estranged from her family, while Lucas has his hands fuller than […]

Strike Back Season 3: Date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

August 5, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Strike Back Season 3 Fridays, beginning Aug. 9 Cinemax, 10pm How often do your vacations get interrupted by a government helicopter that unexpectedly lands in the middle of a highway to whisk you away to one of the world’s most dangerous places? Probably not often, but would you expect anything less from the opening moments of Strike Back Season 3? It’s just another day in the life of Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), the stars of Cinemax’s brazen series, which offers an irresistible mix of top-quality action sequences with Skinemax-friendly T&A. Strike Back has won a devoted […]

“Banshee” on Cinemax: Drama! Romance! Suspense! Sex! Action! … Amish?

December 26, 2012 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

“Banshee” on Cinemax is a new action drama series following the world of crime and corruption stewing under the seemingly idyllic surface of rural Pennsylvania Amish town Banshee. “I spent 15 years picturing this day, and I got to tell you, this is not how I saw it playing out,” Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) tells his ex-lover — understating things just a little bit — in the new Cinemax action drama Banshee, premiering Friday, Jan. 11, at 10pm ET/PT. Immediately upon his release from state prison, Lucas has a busy day that would tucker out any ex-con. He hits a […]

With “Hunted,” Cinemax moves into more mature original programming

October 19, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

When Strike Back and Femme Fatales premiered, ushering in Cinemax‘s foray into original programming, they seemed like exactly the kinds of shows Cinemax would come up with. The production values, acting and story lines were improved, but they fit right into the lineup of a network derisively (or affectionately) known as Skinemax. They took the formula of shameless titillation and added slam-bang action, with stellar results. But with Hunted, which premieres tonight at 10pm, Cinemax seems to have grown up a bit. Yes, you’ll still get some side boob (and more) here and there, but this atmospheric spy thriller is […]

7 Questions With … Betsy Rue of Cinemax’s “Femme Fatales”

August 6, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Betsy Rue gets to keep her clothes on (mostly) for her stint on Femme Fatales. Best known to audiences for her audacious nude scene in the 2009 slasher flick My Bloody Valentine, Rue has also turned up in roles on TV hits like True Blood, NCIS, The Mentalist and (believe it or not) iCarly, where she played a talent-challenged pop star. She’ll play the title character in “Libra,” the Season 2 capper for the Cinemax anthology series — airing Friday at 11pm — starring as a costumed vigilante out to exact high-heeled justice upon the bad guys of Cuesta Verde. […]

Cinemax explodes into original programming with “Strike Back”

August 11, 2011 Channel Guide Staff 1

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Along with the announcement that Cinemax would be venturing into original programming came the snickers and speculation that the resulting shows would be in the vein of the network’s reputation for late-night adult fare. In other words, Skinemax with explosions. As the first show out of the gate, Strike Back, which premieres Friday night, doesn’t do much to counter that assumption, although the acting and production values are admittedly a lot better than your average Deviant Desires or Sinful Temptations. But the “high octane entertainment” banner the network is going for — with this and […]

“Transporter” film franchise to become Cinemax series

August 10, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer 2

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP Cinemax announced today that filming has begun in Toronto on a new action series for the network called Transporter, based on the hit film franchise of the same name. Chris Vance (Burn Notice, Prison Break) will be starring in the title role of professional transporter Frank Martin, who operates in a seedy underworld of criminals and desperate players. Andrea Osvart (Duplicity) costars as Martin’s trusted handler Carla, and Francois Berléand reprises his role of Inspector Tarconi from the films. Rounding out the cast are Delphine Chanéac in a recurring role as Juliette, a reporter who […]

Five Fabulous Flicks (Plus Two)

June 12, 2009 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

by Karl J. Paloucek Start the weekend — and next week — right with these films airing June 12-18. All times ET. June 12 Tropic Thunder (2008) This one’s up in the air — depending on your sense of humor, it’s either the funniest movie of 2008 or it’s an OK comedy with Ben Stiller and Jack Black. Regardless, it still yields an Academy Award-nominated performance from Robert Downey Jr. in his controversial role as African-American action-film star Kirk Lazarus, and enough audacity to make it a pop-culture staple. Cinemax (HD), 8pm ET June 13 The Dark Knight (2008) Why […]

New Eminem Video Premieres On Cinemax

April 29, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

By RabbitEars In the first for the network, Cinemax exclusively debuts the latest, never-before-seen, uncensored music video from Eminem. The video is for the song “3 a.m.” — the third track to be released from his new album Relapse, which is coming out May 19 and is his first original studio album in over four years. Fortunately, the video — directed by Syndrome — does not air at 3am; you can see it at 10pm ET/PT this Saturday, May 2. _________________________ Credit: Karin Catt

Five Fabulous Flicks

April 24, 2009 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

There’s a worthy film for every night of your week. Here are our picks for April 26-30. Remember, all airtimes are ET. April 26 The Night of the Hunter (1955) “Leeeaning … leeeaning …” Never has a Protestant hymn been so creepy. Robert Mitchum stars as the preacher with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his fists and an agenda from a place a little south of heaven. TCM, 6pm ET April 27 Sabrina (1995) Nothing will replace Holden, Bogey and Hepburn in the original, but this Sydney Pollack-directed remake appropriately casts Harrison Ford as the uptight stuffed shirt who gets […]