PHILIPPINES, JANUARY
2, 2013 – Starring five-time Emmy Award® winner and two-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.
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| Photo courtesy of HBO Asia |
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.
Mayor
Tom Kane sits like a spider at the center of Chicago’s web of power; a web
built on a covenant with the people who want to be led, have their disputes
settled, jobs dispensed and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves all this through
deception and immorality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, everyone
looks the other way.
He has
become estranged from his wife, Meredith, and daughter, Emma, leaving him with
no one to turn to when he is suddenly diagnosed with a degenerative brain
disorder; a secret that he deliberately conceals because it threatens to
topple all the dominoes that preserve his power.
It's in facing this
adversity that his true character is revealed. It's not power that corrupts Tom
Kane, but his fear of losing it. He must
therefore remain vigilant - always staying a step ahead of his enemies who've
been waiting years to see him fall.
Joining Grammer in the main
cast are Connie Nielsen (Gladiator, The Devil’s Advocate) as his
wife Meredith, a formidable Chicago power player in her own right; Jeff Hephner
(The O.C., Hellcats, Easy Money) as
ambitious young politician Ben Zajac; Hannah Ware (Cop Out) as Kane’s
estranged daughter Emma; Kathleen Robertson (Girls Club, Beverly Hills 90210, Hollywoodland) as Mayor
Kane’s supremely organized chief of staff Kitty O’Neil; Martin Donovan (Weeds, Unthinkable) as Kane’s
senior advisor; and Troy Garity (Sunshine, Bandits) as enterprising
journalist Sam Miller, who is zeroing in on Kane.
The series was
created by Farhad Safinia (Apocalypto)
who is also an executive producer on the series, along with Grammer, Van Sant,
Brian Sher, Stella Bulochnikov, Richard Levine and Lyn Greene. Lionsgate
Television is producing BOSS in
association with Grammer’s Gramnet Productions and Sher and Bulochnikov’s
Category 5 Entertainment.
Catch the season
premiere of this exciting new series BOSS
on Monday, January 14 at 10pm on HBO). Or catch it in high-definition an hour
earlier at 9pm on HBO HD.
About HBO ASIA
Singapore-based
HBO Asia is able to bring the best of Hollywood to Asia first because of its
exclusive licensing deals with major Hollywood studios - Paramount Pictures,
Sony Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., as well as a large
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
on to www.hboasia.com for more
information.
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