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The Emmy Award–winning Pillars of the Earth returns to Reelz this Friday, April 20, at 11pm ET / 8pm PT. The nine-part miniseries features stellar performances from Ian McShane (Deadwood, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist, A Knight’s Tale), and Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games, The Italian Job) among others.
Based on Ken Follett's best-selling novel of the same name, Pillars is an epic tale of good and evil set against a backdrop of war, religious strife, and power struggles in 12th-Century England. The miniseries plays out over the next nine weeks, with new episodes airing Fridays through June 15th and encore showings on Saturdays. ReelzChannel is Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and available on your cable system.
Get the Pillars of the Earth enhanced-viewing app >> Posted 04.17.12 by Chris -
At 21, Jennifer Lawrence has already received an Academy Award nomination (for Winter's Bone) and appeared in a blockbuster comic book movie (X-Men: First Class), but almost nothing will prepare her for the likely loss of her anonymity after the release of The Hunger Games later this week. The adaptation of Suzanne Collins best-selling novel has already sold more advance tickets than any other non-sequel, so the possibility of global fame is not lost on Lawrence, who revealed at a press roundtable attended by HitFix that she considered every angle before accepting the role of Katniss Everdeen.
more from lawrence; watch the clips >> Posted 03.21.12 by Ryan -
The Emmy–winning epic miniseries The Pillars of the Earth debuts on Reelz this Sunday, and we have a free app available that will enhance your viewing experience. Along with allowing you to delve deeper in the the story and 12th-century English history, the app helps you keep straight the large cast of characters in the sweeping historical saga based on Ken Follett's best-selling novel.
The app features Follett's personal notes about the adaptation, including his comments about the key characters, crucial scenes, and even his own cameo. It also offers a Timeline of Events, giving historical context to the depicted events, and is loaded with tidbits about how actors prepared for their roles and what changed from the book to the miniseries. There is also an opportunity for fans to join the conversation through Facebook Connect and Twitter.
The Pillars of the Earth makes its Reelz premiere on Sunday, December 4 at 8pm ET and 8pm PT, with a two-hour presentation of episodes 1 and 2 airing back to back. All nine episodes will play out over the week, with the final two episodes airing December 11. Check out the full schedule. ReelzChannel is Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and available on your cable system.
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This December, premiering on ReelzChannel is the Emmy-nominated miniseries The Pillars of the Earth. The nine-part epic production based on Ken Follett's best-selling novel will start December 4th at 8pm E and 8pm P.
Pillars stars Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, and Donald Sutherland, and follows the storied construction of a gothic cathedral in 12th Century England, set against a backdrop of war, religious strife, and power struggles.
Pillars is getting the old-school miniseries treatment, with episodes airing on consecutive days during numerous time slots. ReelzChannel is Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and available on your cable system.
See showtimes for The Pillars of the Earth Posted 11.17.11 by reelz -
The Kennedys is not waiting for the Emmys to start collecting awards. The epic eight-part movie event, which aired on Reelz, was a big winner at the Gemini Awards, Canada's top TV honors (The Kennedys was shot in the country). Barry Pepper, who played Bobby Kennedy, won for Lead Actor in a Drama or Mini Series and Diana Hardcastle, who played his mother, Rose Kennedy, won for Best Supporting Actress. The Kennedys also won Best Photography in a Drama or Mini Series. Catch it again, starting November 6.
The Pillars of the Earth won Best Movie or Mini Series at the Gemini Awards — exciting news since we'll be airing this sweeping nine-part mini series starting Sunday, December 4. The Pillars of the Earth stars Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, and Donald Sutherland.
Both The Kennedys and The Pillars of the Earth are nominated for several awards each at the upcoming Emmys. For the first time, this year ReelzChannel is broadcasting the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Watch them the night before the Primetime Emmys, Sept. 17, at 8PM ET/PT. ReelzChannel is on DirecTV channel 238, Dish Network channel 299, and available on your cable or satellite system.
Sign up for Kennedys alerts and Pillars of the Earth alerts to get email reminders right before each series airs, with tune-in dates and times.
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The Emmy-nominated The Pillars of the Earth will air on ReelzChannel starting Sunday, December 4. Based on Ken Follet's best selling novel, the nine-part miniseries is a sweeping epic set in 12th-century England that features stellar performances from Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, and Donald Sutherland.
Follet's sensuous story — set against a backdrop of war, religious strife, and power struggles — was an Oprah Book Club selection and has sold nearly 19 million copies worldwide. Three-time DGA award-winner Sergio Mimica-Gezzan directed the miniseries.
watch the trailer and get schedule details >> Posted 08.30.11 by reelz -
In the last big casting news for The Hunger Games, Lionsgate announced today Donald Sutherland will play villainous President Snow in the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins' books.
President Snow was the final major character to be cast. Sutherland joins a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Woody Harrelson (Haymith Abernathy), Lenny Kravitz (Cinna) Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman), Wes Bentley (Seneca Crane), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Willow Shield (Primrose), and Paula Malcomson (mother to Katniss and Primrose).
Previous Script Scrapped >> Posted 05.31.11 by Chris -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen has fired literary agent Peter McGuigan after he could only get a $1M deal — offered by a single publisher — for Sheen's life story, Apocalypse Me. Sheen had wanted $10M for the project. Meanwhile, another "goddess" has been added to Sheen's warlock harum. The 26-year-old Megan Levant apparently has been dating the actor "for several months," and seems a perfect fit as it's reported she "loves porn and is a regular visitor to the Playboy mansion."
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While Lindsay Lohan is taking her chances with a trial by rejecting a plea deal in the jewelry theft case, her dad, Michael Lohan, is headed for the same courthouse and may even face the same judge as his daughter in his domestic violence case.
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Katherine Heigl is seen puffing away on an e-cigarette over a pasta and beer lunch in an apparent effort to beat her addiction to nicotine. Either that, or dealing with the stress of an acting career in jeopardy as her latest movie, the crime comedy One for the Money, has been pushed from this summer to the graveyard of January 2012.
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There is a mistress involved in the Bradley Cooper–Renee Zellweger split, and it's apparently Cooper's rising career and ascention to leading man status. "Renee had to take a backseat (to his career)," a source says. "It was just not working out."
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Two weeks after Julianee Moore was tapped to play Sarah Palin in HBO's upcoming film Game Change, Ed Harris has been cast as candidate John McCain.
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Are you old enough to remember watching the steamy sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now? Neither are we, but a new book by Variety editor Peter Bart claims the two actually had unsimulated sex in front of the camera.
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The first preview clip from Academy award-winning director Kevin MacDonald's (The Last King of Scotland) new movie, The Eagle (formerly The Eagle of the Ninth), was all about action, showing Roman Centurion Marquis Aquila (Channing Tatum) single-handedly attacking an advancing army of chariots. The pace is slowed down considerably in the latest clip from the movie, which finds Marcus Aquila explaining to Aquila (Donald Sutherland) his plan to go beyond the Roman Wall into the highlands of Caledonia to retrieve the Eagle emblem of his father's lost Ninth Legion with his British slave, Esca (Jamie Bell), as a guide.
watch the new preview clip >> Posted 01.30.11 by BrentJS -
Donald Sutherland's role in the upcoming remake of The Mechanic won't be a lead role, but it will be a pivotal one, a habit Sutherland has created with roles in movies like JFK and The Italian Job, among others. In a webchat with Empire, Sutherland had another way to describe it: "My job is to go in and die, and I love it."
Sutherland's latest dying character is The Mechanic's Harry McKenna, the mentor of an elite assassin (Jason Statham) whose death is the catalyst for the partnership between Statham and Sutherland's son (Ben Foster). During the webchat, Sutherland called the experience of working on The Mechanic "blissful," and praised the movie's direction and performances, revealing that The Mechanic rises above the average action movie.
what was so "blissful"? >> Posted 01.18.11 by Ryan