Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Starz and Encore say bye-bye to Summertime with a trio of marathons

The Starz and Encore channels have your Labor Day viewing all planned out with a duo of marathons that'll have you flipping back and forth between the two Starz networks all day long. Then for Tuesday? It's straight up superhero awesome- all day long.

On Monday September 3rd, you have your pick of an entire season of Torchwood with a complete airing of the channel's Miracle Day series on Starz in Black or a Back to School marathon on Starz Comedy. 


Do you see it? Yes... it's a marathon.

STARZ IN BLACK “Torchwood: Miracle Day” Labor Day Marathon – Monday, September 3 from 10am to 11:10pm
One day, nobody dies. All around the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep aging -- they get hurt and sick -- but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. “Torchwood: Miracle Day,” a STARZ Original series, stars John Barrowman (“Torchwood”, “Desperate Housewives”) as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles (“Torchwood”, “Little Dorrit") as Gwen Cooper, Mekhi Phifer (“ER”, “Lie to Me”) as Rex Matheson and Bill Pullman (While You Were Sleeping, Independence Day) as Oswald Danes.

10:00am                Episode 101: The New World
 
11:00am                Episode 102: Rendition 
12:00pm                Episode 103: Dead of Night 
  1:00pm                Episode 104: Escape to LA 
  2:00pm                Episode 105: The Categories of Life 
  3:00pm                Episode 106: The Middle Men 
  4:00pm                Episode 107: Immortal Sins 
  5:00pm                Episode 108: End of the Road 
  6:00pm                Episode 109: The Gathering 
  7:00pm                Episode 110: The Blood Line

STARZ COMEDY Back To School Labor Day Marathon  Monday, September 3 from 1pm to 7pm  
1:00pm                High School High (1996)
  2:30pm                Prom (2011)
  4:20pm                Pretty Persuasion (2005)
  6:15pm                How to Deal (2003)
  8:00pm                Billy Madison (1995)
  9:35pm                Bad Teacher (2011)
11:10pm                Dazed and Confused (1993)
Then on Tuesday, well it'll technically be Tuesday, Encore will start airing a bunch of superhero movies. Starting with Flash Gordon (if you saw 'Ted' you probably just started laughing) and taking you through the entire day with genre classics like Superman - and ending with Michael Keaton's second outing as the caped crusader in Batman Returns. 

ENCORE Superheroes Labor Day Marathon – Monday, Sept. 3 at 12am through Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 12am 
12:00am                Flash Gordon (1980)
  2:00am                The Shadow (1994)
  3:50am                Spawn (1997)
  5:35am                Darkman (1990)
  7:20am                Hulk (2003)
  9:45am                The Green Hornet (2011)
11:45am                Superman (1978)
  2:10pm                Superman II (1980)
  4:20pm                Superman III (1983)
  6:30pm                Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
  8:00pm                The Green Hornet (replay)
10:00pm                Batman Returns (1992)