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“60 MINUTES SPORTS” LISTINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 ON SHOWTIME
LEBRON – Steve Kroft traces the development of the NBA’s most valuable player, LeBron James, from his youth in Akron, Ohio, to emerging superstar in Cleveland, to the driving force behind the two consecutive world championships won by the Miami Heat. Harry Radliffe is the producer. THE SPORT OF KINGS – Polo is one of the oldest organized sports in the world and its leading star, Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras, plays it with a style befitting his other role as the face of Ralph Lauren’s iconic fashion brand, Polo. Badly injured on the field recently, Nacho describes his accident and hopes of ...
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CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA TO DIRECT FIRST TWO EPISODES OF SHOWTIME® SERIES PENNY DREADFUL
LOS ANGELES, CA (June 18, 2013) – Critically-acclaimed, award-winning Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) will helm the first two episodes in the eight episode series order of the upcoming SHOWTIME drama PENNY DREADFUL – created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar® nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Call The Midwife). PENNY DREADFUL, a psychosexual horror series, features some of literature’s most ico...
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SHOWTIME® TO OFFER FREE DEXTER® COOLHAUS ICE CREAM SANDWICHES THIS WEEK AS PART OF ITS FYC Emmy® CAMPAIGN
DEXTER “KILLER COMBO” Sandwiches To Be Distributed Throughout Los Angeles And New York LOS ANGELES – June 18, 2013 – To mark the launch of the eighth and final season of the network’s iconic drama series DEXTER, SHOWTIME has teamed up with Coolhaus to create a custom ice cream sandwich called the “KILLER COMBO,” available at all Coolhaus retail outlets and trucks this month. In addition, SHOWTIME has created custom For Your Consideration Emmy Award wrappers used on these scooped-to-order ice cream sandwiches, and will distribute them for free to both Television Academy voters and consum...
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SHOWTIME® OFFERS PREVIEW OF THE ANTICIPATED SERIES PREMIERE OF RAY DONOVAN AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW
RAY DONOVAN Premieres On SHOWTIME on Sunday, June 30 At 10 PM ET/PT NEW YORK – June 18, 2013 – Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premiere of the highly-anticipated new SHOWTIME drama series RAY DONOVAN, starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award nominee Liev Schreiber in his first lead television role as LA’s best professional fixer. The premiere episode can be accessed across multiple platforms including the SHOWTIME website http://s.sho.com/RayDonovan101, on YouTube http://youtu.be/UCjXhhJ7avk, via select television providers' free On Demand channels and websites, on SHOWTIME ON D...
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TUNE IN FOR THE GRAND FINALE OF “THE BORGIAS” THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 16th at 10 P.M. ET/PT ON SHOWTIME®
THE END OF AN EPIC ERA The power-hungry Pope Alexander VI and his cunning children, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, sinned, sexed and scandalized their way through three seasons on THE BORGIAS. With ambitious plans to create a hereditary kingdom across the heart of Italy, they must rely on their love and devotion to one another to continue their legacy. Tune in to see how the dramatic saga of one of history’s most infamous dynastic families concludes on Sunday, June 16th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME. THE BORGIAS stars Oscar® winner Jeremy Irons in his Golden Globe®-nominated role as Pope A...
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Showtime® RENEWS NURSE JACKIE FOR SIXTH SEASON
New York, NY – June 6, 2013 – Today, SHOWTIME announced that its critically-acclaimed comedy series NURSE JACKIE has been renewed for a sixth season to premiere in 2014. The announcement was made by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. A co-production of SHOWTIME and Lionsgate, NURSE JACKIE stars actress Edie Falco in her Emmy® Award-winning role as Jackie Peyton, a strong-willed and brilliant – but very flawed – emergency room nurse. The fifth season of the series currently airs on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and the season five finale will air on Sunday,...
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THE EPIC SAGA OF “THE BORGIAS” TO REACH ITS GRAND FINALE THIS SEASON ON SHOWTIME®
LOS ANGELES, CA (June 5th, 2013) – The epic saga of THE BORGIAS, a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history’s most infamous dynastic families, is created by Academy Award®-winner and Emmy® nominee Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire). The series will conclude with its final episode on Sunday, June 16th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME. This expansive drama series stars Oscar® winner Jeremy Irons in his Golden Globe®-nominated role as Pope Alexander VI, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of the infamous Borgia dynasty, who builds an empire by bribing, buying and mu...
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“HE WASN’T A NICKNAME KIND OF HORSE; HE WAS SECRETARIAT,” RECALLS HIS OWNER - “60 MINUTES SPORTS,” WEDNESDAY ON SHOWTIME
Penny Chenery and Famed Jockey Ron Turcotte Look Back on What May be the Finest Thoroughbred Ever on the 40th Anniversary of His Historic Triple Crown Win There may never have been nor ever be another horse as good as Secretariat and his owner knew it. As Penny Chenery recalls her chestnut colt’s Triple Crown win 40 years ago, she tells 60 MINUTES SPORTS she never used the nickname “Big Red.” That was the name rooting fans used for the racehorse that would win the last leg of the Triple Crown by 31 lengths in a world record time some believe may never be broken. Chenery is j...
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GOLDEN GLOBE® NOMINEE DOMINIC WEST TO HEADLINE THE AFFAIR ON SHOWTIME®
LOS ANGELES, CA (June 3, 2013) – SHOWTIME has cast Golden Globe nominee and Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Dominic West (The Wire, The Hour) as the male lead of its drama pilot THE AFFAIR. West will play Noah, a good husband, devoted father of four, and New York City high school teacher whose settled, comfortable world is about to implode when he meets a woman he thinks is his soul mate. From award-winning playwright and writer/producer Sarah Treem (House of Cards, In Treatment) and co-creator Hagai Levi (In Treatment), THE AFFAIR is an intense and intimate exploration of two marriages...