Enter the Darkness: HBO’s MAKING TRUE DETECTIVE and Interactive Mini-site Now Available on HBOCanada.com

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TORONTO (December 18, 2013) – Dive deeper into the darkness! In advance of the series premiere of HBO’s new drama TRUE DETECTIVE, HBO Canada prepares the viral world with MAKING TRUE DETECTIVE, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming series, and an enhanced interactive digital experience, Darkness Becomes You, both available now on HBOCanada.com. TRUE DETECTIVE, premiering Sunday, Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada, follows two Louisiana State PD detectives (Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson) and their 17-year hunt for a ritual killer. HBO Canada is a multiplex channel of Bell Media’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada).

In Eastern Canada, MAKING TRUE DETECTIVE will be available on TMN GO and HBO Canada OnDemand, and on the on-demand platforms of participating television providers, on Tuesday, Dec. 24.

In Western Canada, MAKING TRUE DETECTIVE will be available On Demand, via mobile and online with participating service providers. 

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TRUE DETECTIVE is an eight-episode, one-hour anthology series starring A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives whose lives collide and entwine during a 17-year hunt for a killer. Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson) worked the macabre 1995 murder of a prostitute by a possible serial killer with disturbing occult leanings. In 2012, for reasons not immediately revealed, the two are interviewed separately by investigators about this notorious case. As they look back on the case, Hart and Cohle’s personal backstories and often-strained relationship become a major focal point. Hart, an outgoing native Louisianan and family man whose marriage is being frayed by work stress and infidelity, is (at least on the surface) the polar opposite of Cohle, a lone-wolf pessimist and former narcotics detective from Texas. While the plot moves forward by their shared obsession to hunt down the ritual killer, the true drama centres around the mercurial nature of Hart and Cohle’s relationship and personalities, and how they affect each other as detectives, friends, and men. Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) also stars as Hart’s wife who struggles to keep her family together as the men in her life become locked in a cycle of violence and obsession. For a look at TRUE DETECTIVE CLICK HERE.

TRUE DETECTIVE premieres day-and-date with HBO in the U.S.

About HBO Canada

HBO Canada brings Canadians HBO’s current slate of signature dramatic and comedic programs, together with new and never-before-seen programming including comedy series, live specials, sporting events, behind-the-scenes content and titles from HBO’s extensive library – all in an uncut and commercial-free environment. HBO Canada is offered in high definition on HBO Canada HD and programming is accessible on TMN GO, on demand and online where available by service provider. For more information, please visit www.hbocanada.com. In Eastern Canada, HBO Canada is a division of Bell Media, which is part of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. In Western Canada, HBO Canada is offered by Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada).

About Movie Central

Movie Central is a commercial-free premium pay TV service available in western Canada. Movie Central premieres the best in Hollywood, international and Canadian films across nine 24-hour movie channels, including dedicated high-definition feeds, a Movie Central On Demand service and exclusive HBO content on HBO Canada. Movie Central is also the first window for Showtime content and home to cutting-edge Canadian series. A major force in the Canadian independent film and television production industry, Movie Central, through Script to Screen, a writer-oriented feature script development program funded by Movie Central and delivered by NSI supports Canadian filmmaking. Visit the Movie Central website at www.moviecentral.ca.

Movie Central is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, television broadcasting, children’s book publishing and children’s animation. Experience Corus on the web at www.corusent.com.

-HBO Canada-

For more information:

For The Movie Network (Eastern Canada)

Jessica Charbonneau, 416.956.8638 or jessica.charbonneau@bellmedia.ca

For Movie Central (Western Canada):

Owen McCorquodale, 416.479.6068 or owen.McCorquodale@corusent.com