PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 – From the writer and producer of X-Files, Frank
Spotnitz, comes HUNTED, an eight-episode drama set in the world of
international espionage. Shot on location in
Europe, two back-to-back episodes of this Cinemax Original Series
will premiere in Asia on Friday, December 7 at 10pm on Cinemax.
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| Photo courtesy of Cinemax |
Golden Globe nominee Melissa George (HBO’s In Treatment) stars as Sam Hunter, a skilled, gutsy operative for Byzantium, a secretive private firm involved in global intelligence and espionage. After surviving an attempt on her life that may have been orchestrated by members of her own team, she returns to work, but doesn’t know who to trust.
The cast of HUNTED also includes
Adam Rayner (Hawthorne, Dragon Age: Redemption), Stephen
Dillane (HBO’s Game of Thrones and John Adams), Stephen Campbell Moore (The Bank Job, The History Boys), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Cinemax’s Strike Back),
Morven Christie (The Sinking of the
Laconia), Lex Shrapnel (Captain
America: The First Avenger), Indira Varma (Human Target, HBO’s Rome),
Dhaffer L’Abidine (Sex and the City 2)
and Patrick Malahide (Billy Elliot, HBO’s
Five Days).
In addition to Frank Spotnitz,
who wrote four episodes and co-wrote another episode, writers on the series include
Simon Allen (M.I. High), Smita Bhide
(The Blue Tower) and Christian
Spurrier (MI-5), who each wrote one
episode, and Amira El Nemr (Luther),
who co-wrote one episode. The directors for the series include SJ Clarkson (Life on Mars), Daniel Percival (Cinemax’s
Strike Back), James Strong (Downton Abbey) and Alrick Riley (MI-5), each of whom directed two
episodes. The executive producers are Frank Spotnitz, Kudos’ Alison Jackson,
Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett; Christopher Aird and Polly Hill, executive
producer for BBC One; Eliza Mellor produces.
HUNTED is produced by Kudos
Film & Television (MI-5, Life on Mars)
in association with Big Light Productions for CINEMAX and BBC One.
The show marks the second
recent original primetime series on CINEMAX, following the Emmy® nominated
hit action drama, Strike Back, which
was the first original primetime series on the network in more than 15 years,
and has just ended its second season. The third original CINEMAX series to
debut will be Banshee, which is
executive produced by Alan Ball (True
Blood).
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exclusive licensing deals with major Hollywood studios - Paramount Pictures,
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number of major independent studios. HBO Asia has proprietary and
award-winning HBO Original programs that are produced exclusively for HBO
viewers. HBO Asia offers five subscription movie channels with uninterrupted
programming – HBO, HBO SIGNATURE, HBO FAMILY, HBO HITS and CINEMAX – as well as
HBO GO, the brand new Internet streaming service, HBO ON DEMAND, a subscription
video-on-demand service, HBO HD, the first regional movie channel to broadcast
in high definition in Asia, HBO HITS HD, which delivers Hollywood blockbuster
hits 24-hours a day in high definition, and RED, HBO Asia's first premium Asian
movie channel. HBO Asia is the exclusive distributor of BabyFirst and WarnerTV
in Asia and a joint venture of HBO (a Time Warner company) and Paramount. Log
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