Super Channel to Premiere New Crime Drama Series ICE, 3/6

Super Channel is pleased to announce that it has acquired ICE, a high-impact, serialised crime drama set in the Los Angeles diamond trade, from Entertainment One (eOne). Shot in Vancouver and Los Angeles, the series is executive produced by Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer, Training Day), who also directed the first episode.

Subscribers and non-subscribers alike can catch a sneak peek of the premiere episode of ICE at www.superchannel.ca/freeview/ice beginning Monday, February 27, as well as on participating cable and satellite providers Free On Demand page. The free sampling precedes by one week the Canadian broadcast premiere which takes place on Monday, March 6 at 10 p.m. ET (SC1). Each episode of the ten-episode season, will also be available to viewers on Super Channel On Demand the day following its linear broadcast.

To view the trailer for ICE: http://www.superchannel.ca/show/69644901/ice

ICE follows the prestigious diamond-dealing Green Family, as they plunge into the high-stakes underbelly of the Los Angeles diamond trade. Jake (Cam Gigandet,The Magnificent Seven, The Twilight Saga franchise) and Freddy (Jeremy Sisto, Six Feet Under, Law and Order, Suburgatory) are brothers brought together by their father, Isaac (Raymond Barry, Training Day, Born on the Fourth of July), the patriarch behind Green & Green Diamond Company, and their uncle Cam (Ray Winstone, The Departed). After wildcard Freddy kills a prominent diamond dealer, his brother Jake must bail him out and save THE FAMILY business from Lady Rah, a ruthless diamond dealer who is not afraid to get her hands dirty (Judith Shekoni,Heroes Reborn, The Twilight Saga franchise).

In saving Freddy, THE FAMILY falls under the thumb of Lady Rah, who begins to involve the Greens in her business deals. As she steps up her demands, the Greens must maneuver amongst blood diamond deals and double-crossing criminals, while attempting to stay one step ahead and keep the doors to the business open. But when Pieter Van de Bruin (Donald Sutherland, The Hunger Games franchise), a ruthless diamond smuggler with designs on Green & GreenDiamond Company, arrives in Los Angeles, THE FAMILY realizes their problems have only just begun.

The series is executive produced by Antoine Fuqua and Bart Peters, creator Robert Munic (The Cleaner) and showrunner James Manos, Jr. (Dexter).

eOne produces the show, with participation from IM Global Television and in association with AT&T for AT&T AUDIENCE Network in the US. eOne controls international rights to the series.