EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax’s signature original series, Strike Back, has been picked up for a seventh season, which will be the action drama’s last. This is an early renewal for the series, which is currently airing its sixth season and slated to wrap its run March 29. Strike Back has been a legacy series for Cinemax. It was…

Cinemax has set January 25 for the season 6 premiere of action series Strike Back. The premium cabler also released a trailer with a first look at the new season which was shot entirely in Malaysia. Stars Warren Brown (Luther), Daniel MacPherson (A Wrinkle in Time) and Alin Sumarwata (Neighbours) return for Season 6…

Battlestar Galactica alum Jamie Bamber and Yasemin Allen (Water and Fire) have signed on to the cast of Cinemax’s Strike Back, joining returning stars Warren Brown, Daniel MacPherson and Alin Sumarwata. Filming has begun on the 10-episode Season 6, which will be shot entirely in Malaysia. In the new season, when a…

Ahead of the Season 5 finale, Cinemax has ordered a sixth season of action series Strike Back. The series follows the explosive escapades of Section 20, an elite, multinational, covert special ops team, as it spans the globe fighting a vast web of interconnected criminal and terrorist activity. The fifth season finale…

Scott and Stonebridge are making a return appearance. Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester, who starred in the original run of the Strike Back action series, are set to reprise their roles as as Sgt. Damien Scott and Sgt. Michael Stonebridge in Season 5, which is currently airing Friday nights on Cinemax. The duo…

Cinemax will officially kick off its rebrand as a destination for fun, mostly action-packed, original programming February 2 with the return of the series that started the network's foray into originals six and a half years ago, Strike Back. It will be followed by thriller Rellik; crime drama C.B. Strike, based on J.K…

Nina Sosanya (David Brent: Life on the Road, Love Actually), Katherine Kelly (The Night Manager, Happy Valley) and Trevor Eve (Death of a Farmer, Troy) round out the Season 5 cast of Cinemax and Sky’s reboot of Strike Back. They join previously announced new series stars Warren Brown as “Mac” McAllister, Daniel…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax is recalibrating its original programming strategy, returning to the type of fare that launched its push into original primetime series: fun, high-octane, action, pulpy, straight-to-series dramas done in a cost-effective way primarily as international co-productions. It is fitting that one of the…

Strike Back is back. A new incarnation of the popular action series with new characters and a new cast has been greenlighted by Cinemax and Sky to film in 2017. Aussies Alin Sumarwata an Daniel MacPherson (The Shannara Chronicles) and English actors Roxanne McKee (Dominion) and Warren Brown (Luther) are set to star in…

Sullivan Stapleton has spent the last half decade living like a traveling salesman all over the world for five seasons of the Cinemax series Strike Back, and battling Persian Empire forces in the 300 prequel. Now, he's starring with Jaimie Alexander in Blindspot, the new Greg Berlanti-exec produced and Martin…

In its latest major period undertaking, ITV has ordered 13-part epic drama Beowulf. Described as a re-imagining of one of literature's greatest and most enduring heroes — and as a Western set in the Dark Ages — this incarnation of Beowulf is created by Strike Back‘s James Dormer and ITV Studios’ execs Tim Haines (Prime…

UPDATE: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon‘s Michelle Yeoh is heading to Cinemax’s action series Strike Back along with Will Yun Lee and other new cast members, the network just announced. Filming on the fourth and final season is underway, following the injury that sidelined star Sullivan Stapleton and pushed the series…