New seasons of HBO, Cinemax original series premiere

NEW seasons of four HBO and

Cinemax original series — True Detective, Strike Back, Crashing, and High Maintenance — are premiering on HBO Go, HBO, and

Cinemax this month.

The third season of the crime series True Detective, starring Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, kicked off yesterday, Jan. 14. The third seasons of Crashing and High Maintenance will premier back-to-back on Monday, Jan. 21. The 6th action-packed season

of the Cinemax Original Series, Strike Back, which was filmed entirely in Malaysia, will premiere on Saturday, Jan. 26. All series will have a same day encore the same evening, with new episodes premiering at the same time weekly.

The eight-episode new season of True Detective tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Created by Nic Pizzolatto (The Magnificent Seven, Galveston),

the series stars Mahershala Ali

(Moonlight, The 4400) as Wayne Hays, a state police detective

from Northwest Arkansas. Carmen Ejogo (Selma, The Purge: Anarchy) and Stephen Dorff (The Power Of One, Backbeat) also star.

Strike Back’s 10-episode sixth season 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.

Returning cast includes Warren Brown (Luther), Daniel MacPherson (A Wrinkle In Time), Alin Sumarwata (Sea Patrol) and Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica). Yasemin Kay Allen (Water and Fire) also star.

Created by and starring Pete

Holmes (Comedy Central Presents: Pete Holmes), the eightepisode third season of Crashing

finds Pete reinvigorated — and no longer crashing on people’s

couches — as he reenters the NYC

stand-up comedy world following his college tour.

Executive produced by Pete Holmes, Judd Apatow, Judah Miller, and Igor Srubshchik, the series draws on Holmes’ own experiences as a comedian, providing a nuanced, hilarious look at the state of comedy today.

Created by Katja Blichfeld

and Ben Sinclair, the nineepisode third season of High Maintenance profiles everyday people whose stories of success, failure, love and loss intersect across New York, while delving deeper into personal life of The Guy (played by Mr. Sinclair), who is spending less time on his iconic bicycle and more time in

“Steve RV,” a set of wheels gifted

to him last season.