HBO Canada presents HBO’s new six-part, one-hour miniseries SHOW ME A HERO from David Simon (HBO’s TREME and THE WIRE) and Oscar® winning Canadian director Paul Haggis (Crash). Exploring themes of race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists, and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, New York, Parts 1 and 2 premiere Sunday, August 16 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada, day-to-day with HBO in the U.S. Parts 3 and 4 premiere on Sunday, August 23beginning at 8 p.m. ET/MT, followed by Parts 5 and 6 on Sunday, August 30 at 8 p.m. ET/MT.
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city, Mayor Nick Wasicsko (Golden Globe® nominee Oscar Isacc, Inside Llewyn Davis), is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighbourhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government, and threatens his political career.
The cast also includes: Oscar-nominee Catherine Keener (Capote) as longtime East Yonkers resident Mary Dorman; Alfred Molina (HBO’sTHE NORMAL HEART) as Councilman Henry J. Spallone; Oscar-nominee Winona Ryder (Little Women) as Councilwoman Vinni Restiano; LaTanya Richardson-Jackson (BLUE BLOODS) as housing project resident Norma O’Neal; Bob Balaban (HBO’s RECOUNT) as U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand; Jim Belushi (ACCORDING TO JIM) as incumbent Yonkers mayor Angelo Martinelli, who lost his seventh term to Nick Wasicsko; and Jon Bernthal (The Wolf of Wall Street) as NAACP attorney Michael Susman.
SHOW ME A HERO is written by David Simon and William F. Zorzi, based on Lisa Belkin’s book of the same name. Paul Haggis directed all six parts. Executive producers are David Simon, Nina K. Noble, Paul Haggis, Gail Mutrux, and William F. Zorzi, Jr.
In Eastern Canada, episodes will be available on TMN GO and HBO Canada OnDemand. In Western Canada, it will be available on the go with Shaw Go Movie Central app, Bell TV app, Telus Optik on the go, and HBO Canada On Demand.
HBO Canada is a multiplex channel of Bell Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada).
