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| Steven Soderbergh switches to TV with period medical drama The Knick | Steven Soderbergh switches to TV with period medical drama The Knick |
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| Steven Soderbergh will make his long-heralded move into TV with a period medical drama series starring Britain's Clive Owen for HBO sister channel Cinemax, Deadline reports. | Steven Soderbergh will make his long-heralded move into TV with a period medical drama series starring Britain's Clive Owen for HBO sister channel Cinemax, Deadline reports. |
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| The Knick will comprise 10 episodes, all set in New York in 1900 and all directed personally by the Oscar-winner, who has declared himself disinterested in continuing his feature film-making career. Soderbergh has already built a relationship with HBO after the US pay-TV network funded his Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and is currently screening in competition at Cannes. Observers had expected his first small-screen ventures to emerge via the channel, but this arrangement will instead help boost the profile of Cinemax, which has often languished in the shadow of its better-known Time Warner stablemate. | The Knick will comprise 10 episodes, all set in New York in 1900 and all directed personally by the Oscar-winner, who has declared himself disinterested in continuing his feature film-making career. Soderbergh has already built a relationship with HBO after the US pay-TV network funded his Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and is currently screening in competition at Cannes. Observers had expected his first small-screen ventures to emerge via the channel, but this arrangement will instead help boost the profile of Cinemax, which has often languished in the shadow of its better-known Time Warner stablemate. |
| The Knick will centre around the pioneering surgeons, nurses and staff at Knickerbocker hospital as they push the boundaries of medicine during a time of horrifically high mortality rates, prior to the proliferation of antibiotics. | The Knick will centre around the pioneering surgeons, nurses and staff at Knickerbocker hospital as they push the boundaries of medicine during a time of horrifically high mortality rates, prior to the proliferation of antibiotics. |
| Meanwhile, there is still a chance for European audiences to experience the old Soderbergh magic in cinemas one last time before the 50-year-old director retires from the big screen for good. Behind the Candelabra, about the tempestuous six-year relationship between the flamboyant piano player and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson, is getting a UK release from 7 June. | Meanwhile, there is still a chance for European audiences to experience the old Soderbergh magic in cinemas one last time before the 50-year-old director retires from the big screen for good. Behind the Candelabra, about the tempestuous six-year relationship between the flamboyant piano player and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson, is getting a UK release from 7 June. |
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