Welcome to Super Channel’s monthly programming news brief for May 2013, highlighting the award-winning programming and many premieres, finales and events available this month.
Series
FIGHT XCHANGE (HD)
***Series Premiere*** – Friday, May 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET
FIGHT XCHANGE is a 10 part Canadian documentary series best described as an exchange program for MMA. Six young athletes, male and female, three from Toronto and three from the tough streets of Rio de Janeiro, embark on life‐changing journeys across two continents as they condition themselves physically and mentally for the biggest fights of their young careers. They grapple with their own humanity, physical limitations and mental toughness all while struggling with culture shock and language barriers as they try to move up the ladder of the MMA world. More…
Public Enemies (HD)
***Three-part British Miniseries Premiere*** – Thursday, May 9 at 8:00 p.m. ET
Public Enemies, from award winning writer Tony Marchant, explores the relationship between a convicted murderer (Daniel Mays), released after serving 10 years in prison, and his probation officer (Anna Friel), as he tries to adjust to his new life on the outside. (3 x 60 min). Also starring Lorraine Ashbourne and Peter Wight. More…
Black Mirror (HD)
***Season 2 Premiere*** – Monday, May 13 at 8 p.m. ET
Charlie Brooker’s award winning trilogy, Black Mirror, returns with the next installment of powerful and thought provoking dramas. Each of the three 60 minute stand-alone episodes is in turn, disarming, suspenseful and darkly satirical, and all explore our modern reality. More…
Peep Show (HD)
Season 8 Finale – Monday, May 13 at 9 p.m. ET
In the season 8 finale episode, Dobby (Itsy Suttie) is offered a job in New York by ex-boyfriend Simon. While she ponders the offer, Mark (David Mitchell) – who thinks she’s lying – suggests they spend a weekend in the country. The perfect time, as far as Jeremy (Robert Webb) is concerned, to get a few things off his chest. Also starring Matt King. More…
Peep Show Season 8 Finale Marathon airs Sunday, May 12 beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.
THE BIG C: Hereafter (HD)
***Series final episode *** – Monday, May 20th at 10 p.m. ET
The final episode of THE BIG C: hereafter will bring the series to its much anticipated conclusion. As the series comes to a close, Cathy’s journey comes full circle — from her desire to live life to the fullest, to her realization that she’s never felt more alive. Now more than ever, with her friends and family at her side, Cathy is up to the challenge of living every day as if it were her last. Starring Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, John Benjamin Hickey and Gabriel Basso. More…
The Big C: hereafter Season 4 Finale Marathon airs Sunday, May 19 beginning at 6 p.m. ET.
Specials & Events
May 20 – Searching for Sugar Man (HD) Monday 8 p.m. ET
***Oscar Winner – Best Documentary Feature***
In the late ’60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumours of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul. More…
Starring: Rodriguez, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman
Movie Premieres
May 3 – The Inbetweeners Movie (HD) Friday 9 p.m. ET
This coming-of-age comedy film based on the British sitcom follows the misadventures of a group of teenage friends on holiday in Crete after the end of their final year at school together. It’s one wild week they’re sure to never forget if only they can remember what happened in the morning. They’re out of school, out of the country and out of their league. More…
Starring: Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison
May 4 – Prometheus (HD) Saturday 9 p.m. ET
A team of scientists and explorers travel to the darkest corners of the universe searching for the origins of human life. Instead they find a dark, twisted world that hides a terrifying threat capable of destroying them…and all mankind. Directed by Ridley Scott. More…
Starring: Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace
May 10 – To Rome with Love (HD) Friday 9 p.m. ET
In one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the stories and lives of a host of interesting characters intersect – an American architect reliving his youth, an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome’s biggest celebrity, a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters, and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. Directed by Woody Allen. More…
Starring: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page
May 11 – Fire with Fire (HD) Saturday 9 p.m. ET
After witnessing the brutal murders of two convenience-store clerks, a local fireman, Jeremy Coleman, is forced to testify against the violent crime boss who committed the acts. As Jeremy is placed in a witness protection program, his new identity becomes compromised, forcing him to take an offensive course of action against the crime syndicate in order to get his life back and protect the ones he loves. More…
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis
May 17 – The Good Doctor (HD) Friday 9 p.m. ET
Martin Blake is an ambitious but anxious young doctor, eager to impress his superiors and colleagues. But things are not going Martin’s way and he can’t seem to shake off his insecurities. When 18-year-old patient Diane is admitted for a kidney infection, Martin steps in, getting the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. However, the situation takes a dark turn as his enthusiasm transforms into an obsession. More…
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough, Michael Pena
May 18 – The Watch (HD) Saturday 9 p.m. ET
There’s trouble brewing in peaceful Glenview, Ohio. That’s why four civic-minded citizens, armed with flashlights, walkie-talkies and spiffy new jackets, have teamed up to safeguard their community. But the guys find more than they bargained for when they uncover an alien plot to destroy Earth, and now these bumbling heroes are Glenview’s only chance to save the neighbourhood, and the world, from annihilation. More…
Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Will Forte
May 19 – The Monitor (HD) Sunday 9 p.m. ET
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8-year-old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son’s room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she listens to the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered, she fears it is her own. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what’s real and what isn’t before she loses her sanity and her child. More…
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner
May 24 – Girl Walks into a Bar (HD) Friday 9 p.m. ET
A group of apparent strangers connect over one night across ten bars throughout Los Angeles. A dentist teams up with a feisty would-be assassin to put the final touches on the plan to kill his wife. Once he makes a play for the assassin’s payment, he unknowingly sets off a chain of events that fuels a crosstown journey through the many lounges, bars, strip clubs and the occasional nudist ping pong club scattered across the city. More…
Starring: Danny Devito, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Emanuelle Chriqui
May 25 – Thin Ice (HD) Saturday 9 p.m. ET
An insurance agent looking for a way out of frigid Wisconsin is blackmailed by an unstable locksmith in the theft of a rare violin that belongs to a retired farmer. More…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Allan Arkin
May 31 – 10 Years (HD) Friday 9 p.m. ET
A group of friends get together on the night of their 10-year high school reunion only to discover that after a decade, they still haven’t quite grown up. Jake is deeply in love with his girlfriend and ready to propose, until he runs into his high school flame for the first time in years. Cully married his cheerleader girlfriend and has been looking forward to the reunion so he can finally apologize to all the classmates he bullied in high school. Long-time rivals Marty and A.J. spend the night picking up right where they left off, vying to impress the hottest girl in class. The famous one of the group, Reeves is now a rock star, but is still too shy to talk to his high school crush. More…
Starring: Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pratt, Justin Long
ShoBox: The New Generation
Friday, May 10 – Live from TBD
Dierry Jean vs. Cleotis Pendarvis
Undercard features Tureano Johnson vs John Thompson
Live at 11 p.m. ET HD
Showtime Championship Boxing – IBF Junior Welterweight title
Saturday, May 18 – Live from Boardwalk Hall – Atlantic City, N.J
Lucas Matthysse vs Lamont Peterson
Undercard Devon Alexander vs TBD
Live at 9:15 pm ET HD
