Epic Easter Weekend
3rd – 6th April - All Day Every Day
We have an exciting line-up for the four-day weekend, including channel premieres Uncharted, Gran Turismo, and Fast X!
Gran Turismo
3rd April at 18:00
This high-octane drama, based on a true story, makes its channel debut. An ambitious marketing executive and the management of video game Gran Turismo launch a competition offering the winner a chance to become a real-life, professional racer. Fate brings together dedicated Welsh gamer Jann (played by Archie Madekwe) with cynical former driver Jack (David Harbour) and together, they set out to turn Jann from a console champion to fully fledged king of the racetrack in a Nissan-sponsored car.
Fast X
4th April at 20:00
Channel premiere. Louis Leterrier directs the tenth entry in the franchise, which sees Dom enjoying family life. After he and his team are asked to organise a theft in Rome, Cipher arrives warning him that Dante (Jason Momoa), Hernan Reyes’ son, wants revenge for his father’s death. Dom and wife Letty head to Rome, where Dante tries to cause mayhem with a bomb, but Dom ends up in the frame for the crime. With the Agency wrongly on his heels, Dom seeks to put an end to Dante, once and for all.
Gods Of Egypt
5th April at 17:50
Brenton Thwaites and Gerard Butler lock horns in this sword-and-sandal fantasy, in which Bek (Thwaites), a thief, sets out to defeat Set (Butler), the god of darkness. He has snatched the Egyptian throne, plunging the world into chaos and putting Bek’s lady love in peril. The streetwise mortal makes an unlikely ally in the form of Horus (Nikolaj Coster Waldau), a powerful deity, and together they take on the merciless Set, aiming to restore the Egyptian empire to its rightful glory.
Uncharted
5th April at 20:00
Channel premiere. Bartender Nate is spotted pick-pocketing clients by treasure hunter Sully, who invites him on his latest job: to find explorer Magellan’s gold. What Sully doesn’t know is that Nate’s missing brother had the same dream. After a bumpy start, the two men team up to locate the loot. However, they reckon without a ruthless rival, who dogs their steps at every stage of the globe-trotting hunt. Can they stay one step ahead and find the booty first? Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star.
Action Weekend Warriors
11th – 26th April - Double-bills from 8pm War, what is it good for? Action Weekends, that’s what!
The Hard Corps
11th April at 20:00
Ex-soldier Phillip Sauvage, who has PTSD, joins the bodyguard team of heavyweight boxer-turned-businessman Wayne Barclay, after rap mogul Terrell Singletery is released from jail. He blames Barclay for his imprisonment and quickly targets him for assassination. Sauvage realises he needs to bolster Barclay’s security and calls in an old friend to train some hand-picked new recruits. But can they protect him from Singletery when the chips are down? Jean-Claude Van Damme and Vivica A. Fox star.
The Marine
12th April at 20:00
John Cena flexes his muscles and leans heavily into our Weekend Warriors theme, playing John Triton, a soldier who was sent home from the Iraq War against his will. Once back on U.S. soil, he must call on all his military skills after the head of a sinister criminal gang kidnaps his wife. Cue a deadly game of cat and mouse in the wilds of South Carolina as John faces arguably the most perilous – and urgent – mission of his life. Good support comes from Kelly Carlson and Robert Patrick.
Sisu
19th April at 20:00
Jorma Tommila heads the cast in this World War II drama, inspired by real events and set in Finland. During the German army’s violent retreat from the north of the country, ex-soldier and gold prospector Aatami’s latest haul is stolen by a ruthless SS officer. However, the latter reckons without the Finn’s implacable determination to take back what belonged to him, even in the face of impossible
odds. Before long, there’s a visible and bloody trail
of destruction. Aksel Hennie also features.
The Art Of War II: Betrayal
26th April at 20:00
Wesley Snipes stars in this sequel to the 2000 original, reprising the role of covert operative Neil Shaw. This time around, he’s reluctantly drawn out of hiding and thrust back into the fray after an old friend, who was harbouring political ambitions, is murdered. Shaw joins forces with the man’s daughter to track down the culprit, but the pair are caught up in a corrupt weapons maker’s deadly web, while Shaw is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. With Lochlyn Munro and Athena Karkanis..
Comedy After Dark
20th – 24th April - Monday-Friday @9pm
Five nights of funnies, including the channel premiere of Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell in Anyone But You
You Don’t Mess With The Zohran
21st April at 21:00
There are giggles galore in this action comedy from director Dennis Dugan. A bequiffed Adam Sandler heads the cast as Zohan Dvir, a top-class Mossad agent who dreams of being a New York hair stylist. After faking his own death with the help of his arch enemy, Zohan hot-foots it to the Big Apple, landing his ideal job in the salon of Palestinian owner Dalia. Life is perfect – until a face from his past threatens to destroy everything. Good support comes from John Turturro and Emmanuelle Chriqui.
The Hangover: Part III
22nd April at 21:00
Two years after the second movie, three quarters of the Wolf Pack – Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) – have happily embraced the stability of domesticity. The same can’t be said of Alan (Zach Galifianakis), whose family send him to a clinic and ask his friends to escort him there. Trouble ensues when the quartet are abducted by someone who demands to meet Mr Chow, and things only go downhill from there. The sparkling cast includes John Goodman and Melissa McCarthy.
Cocaine Bear
22rd April at 21:00
Elizabeth Banks directs this action comedy, which is based on real events. In 1985, a bag crammed with millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine falls from a drug runner’s plane into Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest, where it becomes a 500-pound American black bear’s lunch. While the criminals who lost the bag scour the wilderness for their missing booty, the animal embarks on a cocaine-fuelled, hours-long rampage, threatening everyone who gets in its way. Ray Liotta and Keri Russell star.
Anyone But You
24th April at 21:00
Will Gluck’s romantic comedy makes its channel premiere. Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney play a young couple whose first date goes like a dream. The following day, a miscommunication prompts the pair abruptly to go their separate ways, with no intention of ever meeting again. But fate has other plans, and the pair run into each other on the other side of the world, at a wedding in Australia. Instead of keeping their distance, they pretend they’re a couple, and comedic chaos ensues.
