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Astro’s Same Day as the US & UK Premiering Titles
Monday 21st September, 2015
Downton Abbey (S6) Final Season (Same day as UK)
DIVA HD (CH 723) & DIVA (CH 702) 10:20PM
The final season of Downton Abbey brings you back to the year 1925 with the complex Crawley Family. The resolution of our beloved characters will take center stage as we expect some big events, lots of highs and lows in this sixth season. Expect even more drama and intrigue, with the excitement of going on a journey to discover how and where everyone ends up.
Tuesday & Wednesday, 22nd & 23rd September, 2015
The Voice (S9)
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 8:10PM
Gwen Stefani returns as a coach this 9th season, taking Christina’s chair. Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will retain their coach chairs from season 8. The Voice have won accolade awards such as 2013 Primetime Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program; 2013 Critics Choice Television Awards winner for Best Reality Series – Competition; 2014 People’s Choice Awards winner for Favourite Competition TV Show. Christina Aguilera has been confirmed to return for season 10 next spring.
Thursday 24th September, 2015
Empire (S2) (Available on VOD)
STAR World HD (CH 722) & STAR World (CH 711) 9:00PM
From Academy Award® nominee Lee Daniels (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Precious) and Emmy® Award winner Danny Strong (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Game Change), comes EMPIRE, a sexy and powerful drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne. As the Lyons slug it out, an emotional chess game begins that will either cause the family’s destruction or redemption. Lives and loves will be lost as the complicated family will come together and fall apart over the elusive throne, all set to an original soundtrack written and produced by legendary hip-hop hitmaker Timbaland. Will the family unite and learn to love each other before it’s too late? Love, war, family, sacrifice, money and music: this is the story of EMPIRE.
Friday 25th September, 2015
Scandal (S5) (Available on VOD)
STAR World HD (CH 722) & STAR World (CH 711) 9:00PM
Everyone has secrets…and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation’s elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope’s team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these “gladiators in suits” who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand, their own.
Heroes Reborn (Available on VOD)
FOX HD (CH 724) 9:00PM
From creator/executive producer Tim Kring, who imagined “Heroes” series, comes “Heroes Reborn,” an epic event series that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. A year ago, a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas, left the city decimated. Blamed for the tragic event, those with extraordinary abilities are in hiding or on the run from those with nefarious motives. Two such vigilantes include Luke (Zachary Levi) and Joanne (Judi Shekoni), who are seeking to avenge a tragic loss. Noah Bennet, a.k.a. H.R.G. (Jack Coleman), has gone off the grid but conspiracy theorist Quentin Frady (Henry Zebrowski) finds him and opens his eyes to the truth behind the Odessa tragedy. While in hiding, some are discovering their newfound skills. Awkward teen Tommy (Robbie Kay) just wants to be normal and win the girl of his dreams, Emily (Gatlin Green), but normalcy is virtually impossible after learning of a new ability that terrifies him. Coming from a very sheltered upbringing, a bold and ethereal teenager, Malina (Danika Yarosh), has been told she is destined for greatness. In Tokyo, a quiet and unique young woman, Miko (Kiki Sukezane), is trying to track down her missing father while hiding an extraordinary secret that will make her a force to be reckoned with. Elsewhere, a different type of hero is emerging through former soldier Carlos (Ryan Guzman).
Saturday 26th September, 2015
The Amazing Race 27
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 9:05PM
This season kicked off at Venice Beach, California, with an Express Pass up for grabs. Teams then headed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. THE AMAZING RACE is a multiple Emmy Award-winning adventure reality series hosted by Emmy-nominated host Phil Keoghan, which pits teams, each comprised of two members, against each other on a trek around the world. At every destination, each team competes in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical, and only when the tasks are completed do they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind are gradually eliminated as the competition progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning $1 million.
Monday 28th September, 2015
CSI 2 – hour movie (Series finale) (Available on VOD)
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 8:10PM
One of the most-watched shows in the world, CSI will end its 15-year run with a special two-hour movie event. Fans of show will be thrilled to know that the drama’s original leading man, William Petersen, will return and reprise his nine-season, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated role as Gil Grissom along with Marg Helgenberger. The show’s enormous popularity help launched hit spinoffs CSI: Miami and CSI: NY and the latest CSI: Cyber which has been renewed for a second season. Current CSI star Ted Danson will continue to stay with the franchise by moving over to CSI: Cyber. In the last episode of the previous season, Julie Finlay was lying in the hospital in a coma and Nick Stokes has decided to leave the team for a promotion in San Diego.
Quantico (Available on VOD)
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 10:00PM
From the executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy and Criminal Minds, comes one of this season’s biggest action thriller dramas. Featuring Bollywood superstar and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra in the lead role. Aunjanue Ellis (NCIS: Los Angeles, The Mentalist), Jake McLaughlin (Warrior, In the Valley of Elah) and Tate Ellington (Remember Me, The Elephant King) round out the internationally diverse cast. The series tell about a diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Tuesday 29th September, 2015
Brooklyn Nine – Nine (S3)
DIVA HD (CH 723) & DIVA (CH 702) 7:55AM
Season three picks up right where we left off: Holt forced out of the 9-9, a kiss in the evidence room between Santiago and Jake, and a new captain. Who is the new captain taking charge of our favorite detectives? Will Captain Raymond Holt be back to take command of the 9-9? More importantly, what’s next for the relationship between Santiago and Jake? Find out what happens when this humorous, action packed third season premieres!
Wednesday 30th September, 2015
Marvel’s Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D (S3) (Available on VOD)
FOX HD (CH 724) 9:00PM
Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, reprising his role from “The Avengers” and the “Iron Man” movies) heads an elite team of fellow agents with the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as SHIELD, as they investigate strange occurrences around the globe and protect regular citizens from the extraordinary. Its members — each of whom brings a specialty to the group — include pilot and martial artist Melinda May, engineer Leo Fitz, biochemist Jemma Simmons, and computer hacker Skye.
Friday 2nd October, 2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
E! (CH 712) 12:00AM (Tuesday – Saturday)
The one and only Jimmy Fallon has found a new home with E!. Jimmy, along with the Grammy-winning house band, The Roots, will replace all your late-night party plans with an hour of comedy, music, conversation and competition. You won’t need to look out into the late night sky to catch guest stars like Meryl Streep, Salma Hayek, Kristen Steward and Zac Efron engaging in your favorite competitions. From Lip-Sync battles to Family Feud, there’s no short of fun and entertainment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, now on E!
Sleepy Hollow (S3) (Available on VOD)
FOX HD (CH 724) 9:50PM
The thrilling mystery-adventure drama from co-creators/ executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the Star Trek and Transformers franchises, Fringe). In this modern-day twist on Washington Irving’s classic, ICHABOD CRANE (Tom Mison, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Revived alongside Ichabod is the infamous Headless Horseman who is on a murderous rampage in present-day Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod quickly realizes that stopping Headless is just the beginning, as the resurrected rider is but the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and only one of the many formidable foes that Ichabod must face to protect not only Sleepy Hollow, but the world.
The Blacklist (S3) (Available on VOD)
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 10:00PM
What’s New this Season? Elisabeth Keen starts the season off as a fugitive, joining Reddington on the FBI’s most wanted list.Team dynamics change as Agent Ressler replaces director Cooper at the FBI and is the one tasked with Liz’s capture.The task force is described by Megan Boone (Keen) to be imploding.
Monday 5th October, 2015
The Leftovers (S2) (Available on VOD)
HBO HD (CH 431) & HBO (CH 411) 9:00AM*/9:00PM
Created by Emmy® winner Damon Lindelof and acclaimed novelist and Academy Award® nominee Tom Perrotta, THE LEFTOVERS (#TheLeftovers @HBOAsia) kicks off its ten-episode second season same time/same day as the U.S. More than three years ago, 2% of the world’s population inexplicably vanished. 140 million people, gone in an instant. No country, no state, no city was spared – except for one small town in eastern Texas. Population: 9261. Departures: Zero. This is the setting for a tale of two families: the Garveys, whose lives were forever changed by The Departure, and have since moved to this special place, and the Murphys, a local family who seem to have been spared from an event that shook the rest of the world.
CSI: Cyber (S2)
AXN HD (CH 721) & AXN (CH 701) 9:05PM
CSI: Cyber returns for a second season with Ted Danson alongside Patricia Arquette. Ted Danson joins the cast as a series regular, following the conclusion of the mothership CSI series. Peter MacNichol will not return for season 2. Elisabeth Harnois (Brody) has hinted that several of the other Las Vegas actors may be booked for guest roles in the near future. Cyber Crime Division of the FBI, is a unit at the forefront of solving illegal activities that start in the mind, live online, and play out in the real world.
The Good Wife (S7)
DIVA HD (CH 723) & DIVA (CH 702) 9:25PM
In the finale episode of season 6, Finn dropped his decision for a partnership with Alicia, citing his efforts to fix his relationship with his estranged wife and the sexual tension going on between the both of them. David Lee, Cary and Diane discovers that Louis Canning’s wife is working as a paralegal in the firm and fires her, angering Canning who vowed to destroy the firm. Will Alicia take up Canning’s offer to be a legal partner?
Homeland (S5)
FX HD (CH 726) 11:00PM
Season 5 of Homeland picks up two years after the events last season with Carrie Mathison struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the war on terror. This new season will address some of the most pressing global issues of the day as the show’s setting moves from the Middle East to Germany, and Carrie will find herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working as the head of security for a German philanthropist. This season also sees the addition of new cast members including Alexander Fehling (Inglourious Basterds), Sebastian Koch (A Good Day to Die Hard), and Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings trilogy).
Thursday 8th October, 2015
American Horror Story: Hotel
FX HD (CH 726) 11:00PM
The Emmy Award-winning FX franchise reaches new levels of depravity as a killer cast recreates new storylines inspired loosely by true, sinister events. LADY GAGA will be leading the way, along with many of your favourite cast members from previous seasons! Taking the audience round a much darker turn, bloodier and grislier than ever before, join American Horror Story veterans, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett and Dennis O’Hare along with Matt Bomer, Wes Bentley, Finn Wittrock, Chloe Sevigny, Lily Rabe, Max Greenfield and more! As you check in to the HOTEL, there will certain unsettling things beyond your control – who knows who your room keys are with and who will join you in this shocking and thrilling fifth season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY!
Monday 12th October, 2015
The Walking Dead (S6) (Available on VOD)
FOX HD (CH 724) 9:00PM
In The Walking Dead Season 5, we saw our group become consummate survivors and incredibly powerful people. Some even nearly became villains, and continuously blurred the lines of good and evil. In season 6A, we’ll see our group learn that if you are among the living, you have a responsibility to do more than just survive. This moral complexity will be best epitomized and illustrated through the evolution of Rick Grimes rediscovering his humanity. We will see Rick war within himself as he wavers between Carol’s hardened view of the world where harsh reality calls for drastic measures and Morgan’s steadfast belief that humanity can thrive in this new world. His journey will take him from a man who trusts no one and believes that he should kill before being killed to a man that realizes the importance of holding onto the traits of what it means to be human.
Tuesday 13th October, 2015
My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Available on VOD)
STAR World HD (CH 722) & STAR World (CH 711) 9:00PM
In this brand new drama-comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” Rachel Bloom plays Rebecca Bunch, a successful, driven and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, Calif. (It’s only two hours from the beach! Four in traffic)
Saturday 17th October, 2015
The Knick (S2) (Available on VOD)
Cinemax (CH 412)11:00PM
From Academy Award and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh, The Knick centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Soderbergh directs all 10 episodes of the series’ first season. Academy Award and Emmy nominee Clive Owen stars as Doctor John Thackery, a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who’s been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor, Captain August Robertson; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins; a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun who isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
Monday 9th November, 2015
Getting On (S3) (Available on VOD)
HBO HD (CH 431) & HBO (CH 411)11:00AM*/10:00PM
Based on the BBC series of the same name, GETTING ON is created for American television by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer (co-creators of the acclaimed HBO series “Big Love”), the show follows the daily lives of overworked nurses and doctors as they struggle with the darkly comic realities of tending compassionately to their aging charges in a rundown, red-tape-filled hospital extended-care wing, blending outrageous humor with unexpected moments of tenderness. Cast regulars on GETTING ON include: Laurie Metcalf (three Emmys® for “Roseanne”) as Dr. Jenna James, who once hoped to become a medical-research star, but has instead been sentenced to purgatory at the facility; Alex Borstein (“Family Guy”) as Nurse Dawn, whose personal shortcomings and obsession with finding a boyfriend undermine her need to excel in her job; Niecy Nash (“Reno 911!”) as Nurse DiDi, whose easy rapport with patients should be an example to her superiors, but isn’t; and Mel Rodriguez (“Community”) as Patsy De La Serda, a reform-minded supervising nurse of ambiguous sexuality. Guest stars include Molly Shannon, Daniel Stern, Harry Dean Stanton, June Squibb and Irma P. Hall.
*Indicates SAME TIME AS THE US
Ongoing – Astro’s Same Day as the US Titles
Strike Back (S4) (Available on VOD)
Cinemax(CH 412), Saturdays, 11:00PM
A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with storylines ripped from today’s headlines, Strike Back, the network’s first original primetime series in more than 15 years, focuses on two members of a top-secret intelligence agency known as Section 20: Michael Stonebridge, a British sergeant on the elite counter-terrorism team, and Damien Scott, a former U.S. Delta Force operative who was discharged on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Stonebridge, Scott and the rest of Section 20 criss-cross the globe on the trail of a deadly international terrorist named Latif, who is planning a major attack involving a cache of WMD that could have global repercussions.
America’s Next Top Model (S22) (Available on VOD)
STAR World HD (CH 722) & STAR World (CH 711), Thursdays, 7:50PM
Cycle 22 of “America’s Next Top Model,” hosted by Tyra Banks, returns with new prizes and a new twist – no height requirement! The 3rd edition of “Guys and Girls” will feature 7 men and 7 women who will live under one roof and battle it out to earn the prestigious title of “America’s Next Top Model.” This cycle will explore the similarities and differences that male and female models face in the pursuit of their careers, bringing on experts and celebrities to mentor and challenge them each week. There will be more than a little opportunity for rivalry, flirtation and romance.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S13)
Lifetime (CH 709), Mondays – Fridays, 7:00PM
This talk-variety show features comic Ellen DeGeneres in the studio performing an opening monologue and interviewing guests who include celebrities, newsmakers and ordinary people with extraordinary talents. Additionally, segments include performances from top music acts, audience participation and man-on-the-street interviews. Music is a key part of the show, with an in-studio DJ — including occasional celebrity guest DJs — spinning tunes and DeGeneres often breaking out into dance moves during the show.
