HBO & Cinemax has dated several upcoming releases:
Plagued by demons since childhood, Kyle is on a journey to find answers – but what he uncovers could mean the end of life as we know it.
The suspense-horror series OUTCAST returns for its ten-episode second season FRIDAY, JULY 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. Continuing to probe the mystery of what lies behind the town of Rome’s supernatural manifestations, and why they are drawn to Kyle, the show explores how people cope with extreme circumstances while protecting the ones they love. OUTCAST is created and executive produced by Robert Kirkman (“The Walking Dead”) and based on the Skybound/Image comic title by creator Robert Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta.
Patrick Fugit (“Gone Girl,” HBO’s “Cinema Verité”) stars as Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. With the help of Reverend Anderson, played by Philip Glenister (“Kingdom of Heaven”), a preacher who believes he is a soldier in God’s holy war against the forces of evil, Kyle tries to protect those he holds most dear, now that the otherworldly threats prove greater in scope and number than anticipated. His struggle will grow into a fight for all of his hometown, as he discovers the haunting secrets of his own past.
Other cast members in the second season include: Wrenn Schmidt (“The Looming Tower,” HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”) as Kyle’s adopted sister, Megan Holter, a child psychologist who makes it her mission to fix the people around her; Reg E. Cathey (HBO’s “The Wire”) as Chief Giles, Rome’s chief of police, who has seen enough to know there’s some truth to his friend Rev. Anderson’s assertions about demons; Kate Lyn Sheil (“House of Cards,” HBO’s “High Maintenance”) as Kyle’s former wife, Allison Barnes, who has lingering doubts about what happened in their marriage; Julia Crockett (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) as Kyle’s mother, Sarah Barnes, whose apparent mental illness tainted his childhood; David Denman (“13 Hours”) as Megan’s husband, Mark Holter, a by-the-book small-town cop whose temper can get him in trouble; and Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) as Sidney, whose dapper appearance and smiling demeanor hide malevolence.
BILL MAHER: LIVE FROM OKLAHOMA, the HBO veteran’s 11th standup solo special on the network, will debut this SATURDAY, JULY 7 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT).
In addition, his weekly HBO series “Real Time with Bill Maher,” which is currently on hiatus, will resume its 16th season Friday, Aug. 3 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), followed by other new editions subsequent Fridays at the same time.
RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS, a new late-night series from artist Terence Nance (“An Oversimplification of Her Beauty”), kicks off its six-episode season FRIDAY, AUG. 3 (midnight-12:30 a.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other episodes subsequent Fridays at the same time. The show explores evergreen cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality from a new, thought-provoking perspective.
The show will also be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners’ streaming platforms.
A fluid, stream-of-conscious response to the contemporary American mediascape, each episode of RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS features a handful of interconnected vignettes, showcasing an ensemble cast of emerging and established talent. The show is a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation. Nance and his collaborators weave together such themes as ancestral trauma, history, death, the singularity, romance and more, creating a television show like nothing seen before.
In addition to writing, directing, composing music for and executive producing the series, Nance appears in all six episodes. Guest stars include: Dominique Fishback (HBO’s “The Deuce”), Whoopi Goldberg (“The Color Purple”), Gillian Jacobs (“Love,” “Community”), Ntare Guma Mwine (“The Chi,” CINEMAX’s “The Knick”), Adepero Oduye (“Pariah,” “The Big Short,” “12 Years a Slave”), Natalie Paul (HBO’s “The Deuce”) and Paul Sparks (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”), among others.
RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS is introduced by Nance as “a show about the beauty and ugliness of contemporary American life,” kicking off with an encounter with the NYPD. The first episode also features segments tackling police brutality and “blackface”; a cable-access performance of “Everybody Dies!,” hosted by Ripa the Reaper; a parody infomercial for a topical-ointment cure for “white thoughts”; and a talk show on sexuality in the black community. Other segments in the season include: a first-person shooter game for women that takes out street harassers with scowls; a tutorial for men on how to not be a creep; a Dominican-American musical interpretation of “a classic children’s fairytale”; a consideration of whether Michelle Obama is God; and more.
Terence Nance’s first feature film, “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” premiered in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier section and won a 2012 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You. His most recent projects include: “Swimming in Your Skin Again,” which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival; “Univitellin,” a reworking of “Romeo and Juliet,” shot on location in Marseille; and “18 Black Girls/Boys Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines,” a browser-based improvisational performance featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Nance was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012 by Filmmaker magazine.
RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS was created by Terence Nance; written and directed by Terence Nance; executive producers, Terence Nance, Tamir Muhammad, Jamund Washington, Kishori Rajan, Kelley Robins Hicks, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Ravi Nandan and John Hodges. MVMT is producing the series in association with A24.
