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BANSHEE
Air Date: Friday, January 11, 2013
Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on CINEMAX
Episode Title: (#101) "Pilot"
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Episode #1: "Pilot"

Debut date: FRIDAY, JAN. 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT)

Other CINEMAX playdates: Jan. 11 (11:05 p.m., 12:10 a.m.), 12 (9:00 p.m., 12:10 a.m.), 13 (noon, 11:00 p.m.), 14 (12:15 a.m.), 15 (12:10 a.m.), 16 (8:00 p.m.) and 30 (8:00 p.m.)

In a bizarre twist of fate, a recently paroled master thief (Antony Starr) assumes the identity of Lucas Hood, sheriff-in-waiting of Banshee, Pa., the same town where his former partner and lover (Ivana Milicevic), who changed her name to Carrie, relocated and remarried years ago. Keeping his history a secret as he awaits forged papers from Job (Hoon Lee), an unlikely New York City ally, Lucas befriends boxer-turned-bartender Sugar Bates (Frankie Faison), and settles into his new life as Banshee's sheriff,overseeing deputies Emmett Yawners (Demetrius Grosse), Siobahn Kelly (Trieste Kelly Dunn) and Brock Lotus (Matt Servitto).

Itching for the thrill of thievery and yearning for Carrie, who's now the wife of attorney Gordon Hopewell (Rus Blackwell) and mother of two, Lucas inadvertently gets tangled up in the rampant corruption of shunned Amish gangster Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) while keeping a vigilant eye out for Mr. Rabbit (Ben Cross), the New York mob boss who wants revenge against Lucas and Carrie for the jewel heist that landed Lucas in prison. A party thrown by Proctor for the new sheriff is spoiled by a crasher, a member of the redneck Moody clan, who despise the Amish in general and Kai in particular.

Written by Jonathan Tropper & David Schickler; directed by Greg Yaitanes.

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BANSHEE (CINEMAX)
Returns in TBA 2014 (Exact Date TBA)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
1/11/13 - ???
STATUS:
returning in 2013/14 (date TBA)
TIME SLOT:
not on the schedule
CURRENT SEASON:
2 (??? episodes)
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
renewed through the 2013-14 season (the show's second) on 1/29/13
DESCRIPTION:
(from Cinemax's press release, January 2013) CINEMAX has renewed the action series BANSHEE for a second season, scheduled to debut in 2014, it was announced today by Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and CINEMAX Programming. The show is currently in its first season, with episodes debuting Friday at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes, BANSHEE stars Antony Starr ("Rush") as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Scripts for the first season are conceived and written by Tropper and Schickler. Writers John Romano ("Monk"), Evan Dunsky ("Two and a Half Men"), and Doug Jung (HBO's "Big Love") join Schickler and Tropper for season two.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Antony Starr as Lucas Hood
· Ben Cross as Mr. Rabbit
· Frankie Faison as Sugar Bates
· Ivana Milicevic as Carrie Hopewell
· Rus Blackwell as Gordon Hopewell
· Ryann Shane as Deva Hopewell
· Ulrich Thomsen as Proctor
RECURRING/PREVIOUS CAST INFORMATION:
· Daniel Ross Owens as Dan Kendall
· Demetrius Grosse as Emmett Yawners
· Hoon Lee as Job
· Lili Simmons as Rebecca Bowman
· Matt Servitto as Brock Lotus
· Trieste Kelly Dunn as Siobhan Kelly
CREW INFORMATION:
· Alan Ball as EP
· David Schickler as CRTR/EP
· Greg Yaitanes as EP/DIR (Pilot)
· Jonathan Tropper as CRTR/EP
· Peter Macdissi as EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available