Welcome to Super Channel’s monthly programming news brief aimed at highlighting the award-winning programming and many premieres available each month.
Series
Rizzoli & Isles (HD)
Season 3 Premiere – June 6
Boston’s favorite female crime fighting team is back. After Jane shot Maura’s estranged father, can she and Maura reconcile their friendship and save their partnership? What will happen to Maura’s dad, Paddy, after falling off a sky-high ledge? Will Maura meet her biological mother?
Starring Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander.
Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET
Catch up with the Season 1 Marathon on June 2 and 3 beginning at 1 p.m. ET
Falling Skies (HD)
Season 90-minute Premiere – June 21
This powerful series from Steven Spielberg depicting a world left in tatters after an alien invasion begins the Season with Tom still on the alien ship and those left on earth to fight the mysterious invaders – and each other – without their leader. Starring three-time Golden Globe Nominee Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight. Filmed in part in Vancouver, BC.
Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET
Find out why everyone is nervously looking to the skies in the Season 1 Marathon on June 16 beginning at 11 a.m. ET
Boss (HD)
Season 1 Finale – June 1
In the role that earned him his third Golden Globe, Kelsey Grammer is the most powerful man in Illinois – Chicago Mayor Tom Kane. Struggling with a degenerative brain disorder and now a potential coup at City Hall, Kane comes to the realization that, in order to preserve his power, he must be willing to sacrifice anyone. But will his debilitating disease ultimately render him powerless? Also starring Canadian Kathleen Robertson, Hannah Ware, Jeff Hephner, Martin Donovan, and Connie Nielsen
Friday at 9 p.m. ET
Catch up with the Season 1 Marathon on May 26 beginning at 2 p.m. ET
Magic City (HD)
Season 1 Finale – June 1
The Emmy-winning producers of “Mad Men” and “Band of Brothers” team up to bring the 1959 Miami mobster scene to life. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen and “Grey’s Anatomy”) is Ike Evans, who sold his soul to a mob boss to finance his dream, the luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel. Now his life has become a powder keg: a precarious existence on the border between polite society and the criminal underworld, where one false move will cause everything he’s worked so hard for to go up in smoke. Also starring Christian Cooke, Olga Kurylenko, Danny Huston, Kelly Lynch, and Academy Award nominee Seymour Cassels.
Friday at 10 p.m. ET
Track Evans’ rise and near-fall with the Season 1 Marathon on May 27 beginning at 3 p.m. ET
The Big C (HD)
Season 3 Finale – June 26
It’s been a season of change for Cathy Jamison, played by Laura Linney who won a Golden Globe for the role. The gift of time has made Cathy see life in a whole new light. The transition from suburban wife and mother to master of her own destiny has not been easy, but that was nothing compared to the challenge of beating stage four melanoma. But how did she end up in Puerto Rico? Co-starring four-time Emmy nominee Oliver Platt and Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe, and featuring recurring guest stars Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon and Academy Award nominee Alan Alda and appearances by six-time Emmy nominee Victor Garber and four-time Golden Globe nominee Allison Janney.
Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET
Get caught up on the pain, tears and laughter with the Season 2 Marathon on June 23 and Season 3 Marathon on June 24 beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET
Movie Premieres
June 2 – Red State (HD) 9 p.m. ET
Cast – Golden Globe winner John Goodman, Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, andMichael Parks
Three high school boys on their way to a meeting with a woman they met on the internet, end up crossing paths with the fundamentalist preacher and his followers. The encounter sets into motion a series of events that causes all hell to break loose. Written and directed by Kevin Smith.
June 9 – X-Men: First Class (HD) 9 p.m. ET
Cast – Golden Globe nominees James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence and Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon
This fifth installment in the popular superhero series is a prequel for the X-Men trilogy. In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.
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June 16 – Water for Elephants (HD) 9 p.m. ET
Cast – Robert Pattinson and Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance enrages her dangerously volatile husband who runs the circus.
June 23 – Beautiful Boy (HD) 9 p.m. ET
Cast – Emmy nominee Michael Sheen, two-time Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello and Kyle Gallner
A married couple tries to find an explanation after their only son commits a mass shooting and suicide at his university. The media onslaught and the awkward pity from relatives and friends impacts their already strained marriage, until they realize all they have left with each other is grief and confusion, and the tragic legacy of their son.
June 30 – Restless (HD) 9 p.m. ET
Cast – Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper and Ryo Kase
A tender love story about two teens who meet at a funeral and bond over a mutual obsession with death, which they have for quite different reasons: Enoch lost his mother and father in a car accident that, he claims, left him dead for three minutes; while Annabel has brain cancer and only a few months to live.
HENNESSY BOXING
Showtime Championship Boxing – 12 Round Cruiserweight bout
June 2 – Live from The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA
Antonio Tarver vs. Lateef Kayode
Undercard features Winky Wright vs. Peter Quillin
Live at 9 p.m. ET HD
Showtime Championship Boxing – 12 Round Cruiserweight bout
June 23 – Live from Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Victor Ortiz vs. Josesito Lopez
Undercard features Humberto Soto vs. Lucas Matthysse
Live at 9 p.m. ET HD
