HBO’s Hard Knocks Premieres on Wednesday

The new season of Hard Knocks is just about here and HBO is pulling out all the stops to make sure you know. We have the press release previewing the premiere on Wednesday.

HARD KNOCKS:  TRAINING CAMP WITH THE NEW YORK JETS KICKS OFF ITS FIVE-EPISODE SEASON AUG. 11, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO
          HBO Sports, in association with NFL Films and the New York Jets, provides an all-access look at what it takes to make it in the National Football League in HARD KNOCKS:  TRAINING CAMP WITH THE NEW YORK JETS. The first sports-based reality series – and one of the fastest-turnaround reality series – begins its five-episode sixth season, presented in HD, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. Other hour-long episodes debut subsequent Wednesdays at the same time, with an encore play immediately following each episode’s debut at 11:00 p.m., culminating in the Sept. 8 season finale.
         Episode #1
          Debut:  WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT)
          Other HBO playdates:  Aug. 11 (11:00 p.m.), 12 (3:00 p.m., midnight), 13 (5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., midnight), 14 (noon, midnight ET only, 11:30 p.m. PT only), 15 (10:00 a.m.), 16 (10:00 a.m., 12:30 a.m.) and 17 (6:30 p.m.)
          HBO2 playdates:  Aug. 15 (11:30 p.m.) and 31 (8:00 p.m.)
          Players begin to arrive and settle into their new quarters at Jets training camp in upstate New York. Coaches take the players thru week one of two-a-day drills.

          A 24-person NFL Films crew is living at the Jets training camp, shooting up to 1,000 hours of video over the course of the series. Camera and sound crews are given unencumbered access to the players’ and coaches’ meeting rooms, training facilities, dormitories and practice fields.  The Jets are training at the SUNY campus in Cortland, NY.

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