Foxtel Highlights Week 9 (February 26th to March 4th)

Sunday February 26

FX LAUNCHES ON CHANNEL 123

THE WALKING DEAD – FX (Premiere)
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
A bullet put him in hospital, a virus turned the world into zombies and as he lay in a coma, his best friend stole his wife.

HELL ON WHEELS -FX (Premiere)
9.35pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
A former confederate soldier journeys to the transcontinental railroad to seek vengeance.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK – THE HISTORY CHANNEL
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Anne Frank’s diary, written between 1942 and 1944 in hiding in Amsterdam, has made Anne Frank one of the best-known figures of the 20th Century. She was four when she left her native Germany, thirteen when she went into hiding, and not yet sixteen when she died in a concentration camp – one of the six million Jewish victims of Hitler’s racial madness. Over the past fifty years Anne Frank has become a universal symbol of the oppressed in a world of violence and tyranny. Her name invokes humanity, tolerance and the will to live. Her diary, required reading in schools throughout the world, has been interpreted as an eternal testament of courage and hope.

SHAMELESS – W – Season 2
9.20pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
It’s summertime and the Gallaghers of Chicago are cooking up fresh ways to bring home the bacon. Their ventures may not be moral — or even legal — but they certainly are outrageous. Between beating the heat and keeping their cool, the Gallaghers are in for one crazy summer.

Monday February 27

ALIAS – FX – Season 1, Episode 1
11.30pm – Weeknights – Repeated at 8.30am the next day
Sydney Bristow discovers that her job as an agent for SD-6, a top-secret division of the CIA, holds deadly secrets that threaten the security of the free world.

DARK ANGEL – FX – Season 1, Episode 1
2.30pm – Moving to 3.30pm Weekdays from March – Repeated at 4.30am the next day
A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later, Max, one of the escapees, is fighting to avoid capture and reunite with her siblings.

THE GREELY EXPEDITION – THE HISTORY CHANNEL
8.30pm – Australian Television Premiere
In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described by a British admiral as a “sheer blank.” Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism.

JUSTIFIED – FX (Premiere)
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
After shooting a fugitive in Miami, gunslinging US Marshal Raylan Givens returns to his native Kentucky, coming face to face with an old friend leading a deadly white supremacist gang.

Friday March 2nd

SOUTHERN FRIED STINGS – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK – Season 2
8.30pm – Australian Television Premiere
Meet Jay Russell, ex-state trooper and addiction expert. Whether it’s drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex addiction, you name it, if you’ve got a problem with a loved one, an employee or a neighbour, Jay is the guy you call when you don’t want the cops involved.

Saturday March 3

MY GHOST STORY – BIO
6.30pm – Australian Television Premiere
Eyewitnesses re-tell their own unique ghost stories by personal experiences of paranormal activity and encounters with the unexplained in a particular location, using visual evidence they have captured on their homemade videos.Each story also includes some historical facts of the reportedly haunted locations and the eyewitness’ own private residences.
Friday March 2nd

SOUTHERN FRIED STINGS – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK – Season 2
8.30pm – Australian Television Premiere
Meet Jay Russell, ex-state trooper and addiction expert. Whether it’s drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex addiction, you name it, if you’ve got a problem with a loved one, an employee or a neighbour, Jay is the guy you call when you don’t want the cops involved.

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