Cinemax has revealed their new drama series, The Knick will be coming to the network on August 8, 2014:

The original drama series THE KNICK will launch its ten-episode season FRIDAY, AUG. 8 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. Academy Award(r) and Emmy(r) winner Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic,” “Side Effects,” HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra”) directs Academy Award(r) and Emmy(r) nominee Clive Owen (“Children of Men,” HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn”) in the entire season of the show. Set in downtown New York in 1900, THE KNICK centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.