Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central Announces Programming Lineup

TORONTO, July 18: Corus Entertainment's Movie Central,
available to Western Canadians, has unveiled highlights from its 2007/2008
schedule, including blockbuster moves like Babel and The Queen, as well as
a slate of new drama series and movies from HBO and Showtime.

The new movies premiering on the network this September
include Babel, The Departed, Flags of Our Fathers, The Queen, Marie Antoinette and Pursuit
of Happiness. In October, Movie Central
will also debut Borat!, Casino
Royale, Pan's Labyrinth and Volver.

The roster of new HBO programming drama includes the
one-hour drama/comedy series Tell Me You Love Me, which focuses on three couple' connection, or disconnection, between
sex and intimacy. The series, premiering on September 9 at 10 p.m., stars Jane
Alexander, Emmy winner for Warm Springs, and four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Borth (Wonderland), among others. Other new programming include the
five-part BBC and HBO miniseries Five Days, which explores the disappearance of a young mother
named Leanne in a quiet British suburb, and the circumstances that leave her
children abandoned far from home. Launching in October, the series stars David
Oyelowo, Hugh Bonneville, Janet McTeer, Penelope Wilton, Patrick Malahide and
Sarah Smart. The 2007/2008 schedule will also include the fifth seasons of the
Peabody Award-winning cop drama The Wire and Entourage. Other new
HBO series slated to join the lineup later in the schedule are the serialized
comedy In Treatment, executive
produced by Mark Wahlberg and starring Gabriel Byrne as a psychiatrist who
escapes his own patients by seeing a therapist himself; John Adams, a miniseries about the American Revolution starring
Paul Giamatti and executive produced by Tom Hanks; 12 Miles of Bad
Road, starring Lili Tomlin as the matriarch
of a wealthy Texas real estate family whose business and outrageous wealth
complicate even the smallest family matter; and Generation Kill, a seven-part miniseries about a group of young
Marines whose unit is part of the first wave of American military assault on
Baghdad. The series is executive produced and co-written by David Simon and Ed
Burns, the team behind The Wire.

The slate of HBO original films and documentaries include Children
of God: Lost and Found, a documentary about filmmaker Noah
Thompson’s search for his siblings and other young deserters from the Christian
cult "The Children of God.” It premieres on Thursday, September 6 at 7
p.m. Other new documentaries include Alive Day Memories: Home From
Iraq, a portrait of the lives of U.S.
soldiers upon returning from Iraq that is executive produced by The
Sopranos star James Gandolfini. It debuts
on Sunday, September 9 at 7 p.m. The HBO original film Pinochet's
Last Stand premieres on Tuesday, September
11 at 7 p.m. It tells the story of Chilean general Augusto Pinochet's Amnesty
International house arrest in the U.K. for crimes against humanity in his own
country and his controversial relationship with former ally and then Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher. Rounding up the roster of HBO programming is Little
Rock High: 50 Years Later, the tale of
desegregation in 1957 at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and the
current state of modern racial divisions 50 years later. The documentary
premieres on Tuesday, September 25 at 7 p.m.

Movie Central will also offer up a range of programming from
Showtime that includes the second seasons of the drama series Dexter, premiering Sunday, September 30 at 8 p.m. followed
by Brotherhood at 9 p.m. Dexter
is based on Jeff Lindsay's novel Darkly
Dreaming Dexter, following a forensic
investigator for the Miami Police Department named Dexter Morgan, played by
Michael C. Hall, who takes the law into his own hands by killing the criminal
and morally bankrupt who are above the law or who have slipped through the
cracks of justice. Keith Carradine (Deadwood) joins the cast as Lt. Frank Lundy, a Special Agent
for the FBI, who is brought on board to investigate a gruesome find of dead
bodies in Miami. The second season of Brotherhood brings Tony Award-winning actor Brian F. O'Byrne on
board as Colin Carr, a cousin of the Caffee brothers who comes to Providence
from Ireland and gets involved in the criminal world on The Hill.

Movie Central’s programming lineup for the 2007/2008 season
will also feature a number of original Canadian drama series like the
eight-part series ZOS: Zone of Separation,
which explores the life-and-death struggle to enforce a United Nations-brokered
ceasefire, as peacekeepers face the harsh reality of living in a violent Zone
of Separation. Produced by Whizbang Films (H2O and Men with Brooms), the series debuts in early 2008. Other new
original local programming includes the eight-part series The Weight,
which tells the story of Max and Donny, two
cops who are often as morally ambiguous as the criminals they pursue. Produced
by The Nightingale Company, the series is also slated for premiere in 2008. The
science drama series ReGenesis,
starring Peter Outerbridge and Wendy Crewson, also returns to the network’s
schedule for a fourth season in 2008.

"With more than a dozen new and returning original HBO
programs, a raft of Showtime productions, three original Canadian drama series
in the works, as well as the latest Hollywood blockbusters viewers have come to
expect from Movie Central, the coming season promises to be very
exciting," said Andrew Eddy, the VP of programming strategy and investment
at Movie Central. "With new premieres every week, as well as access to
programming in HD and On Demand, Movie Central provides its audience with a
continuous and unmatched

selection of exceptional and groundbreaking programming all
year round."