New HBO & Cinemax Originals on HBO Asia channels in 2014

MANILA, Philippines - HBO Asia has unveiled a tantalizing slate of new and returning original programs airing across its channels in 2014, all of which will premiere in Asia within a week of their debut in the United States.

The Normal Heart, a new HBO Original Movie starring Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo, will air in 2014, along with True Detective, a brand-new HBO Original Series starring Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan, plus the four-part HBO Miniseries Olive Kitteridge and The Knick, a Cinemax Original Series with Steven Soderbergh and Clive Owen.

2014 will also see hit series returning to HBO Asia’s network of channels with new seasons — Banshee, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Girls, The Newsroom, True Blood, Profugos, Strike Back and Veep.

True Detective premieres on Jan. 19, 2014 at 9 p.m. on HBO. McConaughey and Harrelson star in the one-hour HBO drama series as Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, two Louisiana detectives whose lives collide during a 17-year hunt for a killer. 

Deeptech, the half-hour HBO Original Series, is set in the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.

The Normal Heart, starring Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo and directed by Emmy winner Ryan Murphy, the new HBO Original Movie tells the story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early ’80s, taking an unflinching look at the nation’s sexual politics.

Academy Award winner Soderbergh will direct Owen in The Knick, the 10-episode new Cinemax Original Series. Set in downtown New York in 1900, it centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine.

Olive Kitteridge is based on the book of the same name by Elizabeth Trout. The HBO Miniseries stars Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins.

In Jonah: Fresh off the Boat, Jonah says, “This is a TV show about me, my fresh start in Australia, and all the good and bad that happens to me.” Chris Lilley stars in the half-hour HBO Original Series.

Returning series include the second season of the action-thriller Banshee, Jan. 17, 2014 at 10 p.m. on Cinemax; third season of the comedy Girls, Jan. 19, 2014 at 10 p.m. on HBO Signature; fourth season of the fantasy-drama Game of Thrones; second season of the Latin action-drama Profugos; third season of the political comedy Veep; third season of cable news network drama The Newsroom; fifth season of the period drama Boardwalk Empire; the fourth and final season of the action series Strike Back; and the seventh and final season of the supernatural drama True Blood.

Singapore-based HBO Asia has proprietary and award-winning HBO Original programs that are produced exclusively for HBO viewers. HBO Asia offers a bouquet of channels and services, including 24-hour commercial-free subscription movie channels in standard-definition and high-definition — HBO, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Hits, Cinemax and Red as well as HBO Go and HBO On Demand.