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Dougray Scott & Milauna Jackson Join Cast Of Cinemax’s ‘Strike Back’ For Season 3

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 8:24am PDTTags: Cinemax, Dougray Scott, Milauna Jackson, Robson Green, Strike Back
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Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives), Milauna Jackson (Blood Done Sign My Name) and Robson Green (Wire In The Blood) have been added to the cast of Cinemax‘s action drama Strike Back as it starts production on a 10-episode Season 3. (Watch the teaser below.) The trio joins returning cast members Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Lukes and Liam Garrigan. Green plays a new member of Section 20, Scott a rogue operative James Leatherby, and Jackson is a key player who crosses paths with the counterterrorism team. In Strike Back’s third season, counterterrorism unit Section 20 pursues a deadly terrorist network from Colombia to Beirut to Europe, uncovering deadly plots that reach to the West. Returning directors are Michael J. Bassett (who also serves as co-executive producer), Julian Holmes and Paul Wilmshurst; returning writers are Simon Burke, James Dormer, John Simpson and Richard Zajdlic. Cinemax is producing with Left Bank Pictures and Sky.

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Cinemax’s ‘Strike Back’ Renewed For Third Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 8:45am PDTTags: Cinemax, Strike Back
Nellie Andreeva

Strike Back RenewedCinemax has renewed its first primetime drama series Strike Back for a third season with a 10-episode order for a 2013 premiere. The third season, which will shoot in South Africa and Hungary, will once again be produced by Cinemax/HBO, Left Bank and Sky, which will air the series in the U.K. Returning for season three will be Left Bank’s Andy Harries as executive producer, series producer Michael Casey and head of production Marigo Kehoe. Others returning for season three include director Michael Bassett and writers Simon Burke, James Dormer and Richard Zajdlic. As it did with the second-season renewal announcement, Cinemax would not confirm which cast members will continue in Season 3 “due to plot spoilers in upcoming episodes of season two.”

The Strike Back renewal comes two weeks before the premiere of Cinemax’s second original primetime drama, Hunted. It will be followed by Banshee in 2013.

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Rhona Mitra To Join Cinemax Action Drama ‘Strike Back’ As Female Lead In Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 6, 2012 @ 5:54pm PSTTags: Cinemax, Strike Back
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Rhona Mitra is finalizing a deal to land the new female lead on Cinemax’s Strike Back in the action drama’s upcoming 10-episode second season. She will play the beautiful, cunning and ultimately ruthless Capt. Rachel Dalton … Read More »

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Solid Start For ‘Strike Back’ On Cinemax, Lifetime’s ‘Against The Wall’ Inches Up

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 2:53pm PDTTags: Against the Wall, Cable Ratings, Cinemax, Lifetime, Strike Back
Nellie Andreeva

Cinemax’s first primetime original series, actioner Strike Back, got off to a promising start Friday, drawing 567,000 viewers for its premiere 10 PM across Cinemax’s universe of 16.7 million homes. That was Cinemax’s best ratings performance in the … Read More »

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Cinemax Is Original Drama Player: Partners With Sky For ‘Strike Back’ Action Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 11:00am PSTTags: Cinemax, Strike Back, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

HBO’s sibling pay-cable channel Cinemax is venturing into original programming with its first scripted primetime drama, Strike Back, a 10-hour action series it will co-produce with British satcaster Sky and U.K.-based Left Bank Pictures (The Special … Read More »

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