PHILIPPINES, DECEMBER
18, 2012 – 2013 will see
HBO Asia unleash one of the most anticipated line ups ever for the new year on
HBO and CINEMAX. New series include BOSS (starring Kelsey Grammer), BANSHEE
(Executive Produced by TRUE BLOOD’s Alan Ball), HBO Latin American series, PRÓFUGOS,
and HBO Asia’s very first series co-production, SERANGOON ROAD (starring Joan
Chen).
Other new HBO
Original programs to look out for in 2013 include BEHIND THE CANDELABRA
(starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon), MARY & MARTHA (starring Hilary
Swank), PHIL SPECTOR (starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren) and HBO Asia’s first
film co-production, DEAD MINE. Also look out for HBO Original documentaries THE
WITNESS and ONE NATION UNDER DOG.
2013 will also see
new seasons of returning award-winning series such as BOARDWALK EMPIRE, GAME OF
THRONES, GIRLS, TRUE BLOOD and VEEP, as well as popular series like LIFE’S TOO
SHORT, SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED, and THE NEWSROOM.
BOSS
Starring five-time
Emmy Award® winner and three-time Golden Globe® winner
Kelsey Grammer as Kane, with two-time Academy Award® nominee Gus Van
Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting) directing its premiere episode, BOSS
tells the story of one powerful Mayor Tom Kane who holds sway over just about
everything in Chicago — except his own life. Set in a fictional Chicago mayor’s
office, this brand new eight-episode drama series premieres in Asia on Monday,
January 14 at 10pm on HBO / 9pm on HBO HD, with subsequent episodes airing at
the same time weekly.
PROFUGOS (“THE
FUGITIVES”)
An HBO Latin America
original production, PRÓFUGOS — also known by its English title, THE FUGITIVES —
presents the story of a failed drug trafficking operation that started on the
border between Bolivia and Chile, the four men who met to carry it out, and the
real players behind the business.
A complex web of
ambitions, agendas and corruption spins the yarn of PRÓFUGOS, where no one is
who they appear to be, everyone has a secret past, and there is an imperative
need to flee, without knowing who or what they are escaping, unites them and
their illicit behaviour. With two back-to-back episodes every Friday, catch
this 13-episode original series when it premieres in English on Friday, January
4 at 10pm on Cinemax.
DEAD MINE (HBO
Asia Original Movie)
A rich amateur
treasure hunter assembles an expert group to investigate a possible location
for the legendary Yamashita’s Gold — lost treasure looted from across Asia by
Japanese forces during World War 2. Venturing deep into the jungles of a remote
Indonesian island, the group finds itself under attack and forced into an
apparently abandoned mine, only to become trapped underground in a Japanese
Imperial Army bunker. The team soon realizes that they are not alone, and are
forced to decide between escaping and fighting to their death.
Featuring an
international cast including Japanese actress and model, Miki Mizuno, English
actor, Sam Hazeldine, and Indonesian hunk, Ario Bayu, be sure to tune in to the
premiere of this very first collaboration between HBO Asia and Infinite
Studios, DEAD MINE, on Saturday, February 23 at 10.30pm on HBO / 9.30pm on HBO
HD.
GIRLS Season 2
This
highly-anticipated Emmy®-winning HBO original series is back for its sophomore
season, and once again follows the urban adventures of four young girls who try
to make sense of life with all that is hurled at them. Clinching the Emmy®
for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, the hilarious second season of
GIRLS starring Lena Dunham premieres on Monday, February 11 at 11pm on HBO / 10pm
on HBO HD.
ENLIGHTENED
Season 2
Winning the 2012
Golden Globe® for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series –
Comedy or Musical for her role, Laura Dern stars as a well-intentioned
employee, Amy Jellicoe, who once attended anger-management rehabilitation in
this HBO original comedy series. The plot thickens in this second season as Amy
romantically yearns for the journalist whom she enlists for help. An earnest
and engaging comedy series, catch the premiere of ENLIGHTENED, following GIRLS,
on Monday, February 11 at 11.30pm on HBO, and in high-definition an hour earlier
on HBO HD.
BANSHEE (Cinemax
Original Series)
Some fifteen years ago, a man got incarcerated in
order to save a lady during a jewel heist. After serving his time in prison, he
comes back to the rural Amish town, Banshee, PA, under the guise of a sheriff
named Lucas Hood to search for the lady, who is also living under an assumed
name. When the two meet, old passions are rekindled and their lives get
convoluted. In addition, they realise that Banshee is a town pervaded by
corruption under the rule of a fierce overlord, and our couple inadvertently
gets implicated into duplicity.
Created by Emmy® and Oscar®-winner
and TRUE BLOOD creator, Alan Ball, as well as David Schickler and Jonathan
Tropper, BANSHEE stars Anthony Starr and Ivana
Milicevic, and premieres on
Friday, February 15 at 10pm on Cinemax.
GAME OF THRONES Season 3
Based on the best
selling book series by George R.R. Martin comes this epic drama where five
kings continue to vie for a single, all-powerful throne. Witness more duplicity
and treachery, nobility and honour, conquest and triumph in this third season.
Featuring an ensemble cast of Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke, be
sure to tune in to the new season premiere of GAME OF THRONES coming to our
shores in April on HBO / HBO HD.
PHIL SPECTOR
(HBO Original Movie)
Al Pacino stars as
Phil Spector, and Helen Mirren as his attorney in this biopic that centres on
the relationship between the music business legend and his attorney while he
was on trial for murder. Catch the HBO Original movie in March 2013 on HBO / HBO
HD.
VEEP Season 2
Winning an Emmy® for
her role in VEEP, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays former senator Selina Meyer, who
became Vice President of the United States and realised that the job was
nothing like she expected. Guaranteed entertainment, be sure to tune in to the
sophomore season of this HBO Original comedy series when it premieres in 2013
on HBO / HBO HD.
THE NEWSROOM Season 2
The exciting life as
a cable-news anchor continues in this second season of THE NEWSROOM. Written
and produced by Oscar® and Emmy® winner Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeff Daniels
and Emily Mortimer, watch how the newsroom straddles between being a good TV
news show and a popular one at that in this season premiere in 2013 on HBO / HBO
HD.
TRUE BLOOD Season 6
TRUE BLOOD is going
to be wildly entertaining as we pick up from where we left off. In the final
episode of Season 5, the True Blood factories were deliberately bombed by the
vampire authority and Bill was resurrected after exploding into a pool of
blood. In the exciting new season, what will become of Bill? How will the
vampires survive without the synthetic blood? Will Sookie finally find out who
killed her parents? And what will become of Alcide and his pack of wolves?
Starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgård, catch the season
premiere of TRUE BLOOD Season Six in 2013 on HBO / HBO HD.
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA (HBO Original Movie)
See Academy-Award®
winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon don ‘70s fashion in the premiere of this
HBO Original movie, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, that looks at the tempestuous
relationship between legendary pianist and vocalist Liberace and Scott Thorson,
his younger live-in lover in 2013 on HBO / HBO HD.
MARY &
MARTHA (HBO Original Movie)
An epic journey of
two mothers, an American and an Englishwoman, who lost their sons to malaria.
Mary took her young son, George, to Africa where he subsequently contracted the
disease, while Martha’s son, Ben, died while working as a volunteer at an
orphanage in Mozambique. When the two immensely different women meet in Africa,
they bond over their mutual loss. Forging a deep friendship, they vow to
dedicate themselves to the cause of malaria prevention, realizing that, as
mothers, they have a responsibility to all the world’s children. A truly moving
HBO Original movie starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn, be sure to tune in
to the premiere of MARY & MARTHA in 2013 on HBO / HBO HD.
SERANGOON ROAD (HBO Asia Original)
SERANGOON ROAD is a ten episode
hour-long fast-paced detective drama series set in vibrant and tumultuous 1960s
Singapore, bringing to life the dangerous underbelly of secret societies, the
opulent world of European and international expatriates, and the colourful
street life of Bugis Street, Chinatown and Serangoon Road.
The series takes its name from
Serangoon Road, which was one of the earliest roads built in Singapore and was
then known as "the road leading across the island". Serangoon Road
was the key thoroughfare that spanned the length of the island when it was
built, making it a unique crossing point for all walks of life, and it is
symbolic of the series as an important main road that traditionally linked the
various communities in Singapore.
Starring Hollywood’s
Joan Chen and Australian actor Don Hany, this is HBO Asia and ABC TV’s first
drama co-production. Be sure to catch the premiere of SERANGOON ROAD when it
hits our screens in 2013 on HBO.
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| Boardwalk Empire. Photo courtesy of HBO Asia |
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Season 4
The bootlegging
business never ends as Nucky Thompson and his party of friends return for this fourth
installment of BOARDWALK EMPIRE. Find out whether Nucky’s whisky-peddling reign
will ever come to a close in Atlantic City. Catch the Emmy®-winning
drama series BOARDWALK EMPIRE by Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese, starring
Golden Globe winner Steve Buscemi, when its new season premieres in 2013 on HBO
/ HBO HD.
TREME Season 4
As New Orleans tries
to rebuild itself after their 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, greater emphasis
is placed on trying to rid itself of the rampant crime and corruption, whilst
retaining the deep cultural roots that New Orleans stands for. Observe what
true resilience is as individuals pick themselves up and preserve the
individuality of their city. Tune in to the premiere of a new season of TREME in
2013 on HBO Signature.
LIFE’S TOO SHORT Season 2
Everyone’s favorite
little person, Warwick Davis, is back a second time round as he continues to
run his talent agency in Britain and strive for greater publicity for himself.
It is all about the laughs in the premiere of this second season of LIFE’S TOO
SHORT, starring funny-man and Emmy®-winner Ricky Gervais and Stephen
Merchant, in 2013 on HBO / HBO HD.
STRIKE BACK
Season 3
All the high-octane
action returns to our screens when we once again follow the lives of the
unusual pair, Stonebridge, a British Special Forces agent, and Scott, a U.S.
Delta Force veteran, as they continue working with secret British Secret
Intelligence unit Section 20. Returning for its third season and starring hunky men
Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester, catch the premiere of this CINEMAX Original
series in 2013 on Cinemax.
SPARTACUS: WAR
OF THE DAMNED
The gladiators are
back again in this third and final season of the series. SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE
DAMNED stars Liam McIntyre and Manu
Bennett, and will premiere
in 2013 on Cinemax.
XIII Season 2
Known only by the Roman numeral he was assigned, XIII
is a skilled and lethal secret agent recruited to a secret organization. With a
surgically altered face and an identity handed to him by a mysterious stranger,
he is asked to uncover dangerous and complex missions. Starring Stuart
Townsend, tune in to the action in this second season of XIII in 2013 on
Cinemax.
THE WITNESS (HBO Original Documentary)
A four-part documentary series from
award-winning filmmaker Michael Mann follows a new generation of young war
photographers into conflict zones in Mexico, Libya, South Sudan and Brazil.
Premieres in 2013 on HBO SIGNATURE.
