MUMBAI: US cable network Showtime will explore the human impact of climate change in the documentary event series ?Years Of Living Dangerously?.

This series is a collaboration between some of Hollywood?s biggest actors and producers, along with the country?s leading news journalists, who will report on first-person accounts of those affected by - and seeking solutions to - global warming.

The project is executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with ?60 Minutes? producers Joel Bach and David Gelber, and climate expert Daniel Abbasi. Film and television stars such as Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Alec Baldwin will participate as first-person narrators on the ground. Also expected to join the project is actor Edward Norton, with more names to be announced soon.

Reporting from the field are New York Times journalists including three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, as well as renowned columnist Mark Bittman, and MSNBC host and political commentator Chris Hayes, among others. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment for Showtime Networks Inc.

Extensive in both scale and scope, Years of Living Dangerously will unfold over six to eight, one-hour episodes and is scheduled to air in 2013.

Nevins said, "The recent devastation on the East Coast is a tragic reminder of the direct link between our daily lives and climate change. This series presents a unique opportunity to combine the large-scale filmmaking styles of James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- arguably some of Hollywood?s biggest movie makers -- with the hard-hitting, intimate journalism of 60 Minutes veterans Joel Bach and David Gelber. I believe this combination will make for a thought-provoking television event."

Cameron said, "We?ll make it exciting. We?ll make it investigative. We?ll bring people the truth. And people are always hungry for the truth."

The show will combine the epic and passionate styles of Hollywood?s top filmmakers with Bach and Gelber?s reporting expertise to reveal critical stories of heartbreak, hope and heroism as the race to save the planet continues.

MUMBAI: Movies Now has lined up special screenings of director James Cameron?s films for the month of October.

Titled ?Best of Cameron?, the English movie channel will showcase these films every Thursday at 9 pm. The titles include the box office hit movie Titanic.

The Super Movie on the channel for October is ?Iron Man?. Robert Downey Junior plays the role of Tony Stark aka Iron Man. It airs on 27 October at 9 pm.

The channel will also spice up early prime time with ?Happy Hours?. This is family focussed and film airs every Saturday at 7 pm. ?Shrek 3? and ?Happy Feet? are some of the films that will air next month.

Celebrating Dusshera day on 24 October, Movies Now will theme it as ?Victory Over Evil?. Films like ?Predators? and ?Spiderman 3? where the hero vanquishes the villain will air.

MUMBAI: National Geographic Channel (NGC) announced today it will premiere a half-hour special, James Cameron: Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth, chronicling the Oscar winning filmmaker?s one-man dive last month to the Mariana Trench?s Challenger Deep, the ocean?s deepest point.

The special airs on 2 June at 8 pm.

The Mariana Trench is perhaps the most isolated place on the planet.

Cameron describes his journey to this ocean?s depth right here on Earth in an interview saying, "I was watching the numbers going deeper. The sub slows down as you get to the target depth. There is a long moment of getting to think about it. Then you have to get busy. You have less than a thousand feet from the bottom, you fine-tune the ballast, adjust the camera, turn up the spotlight. As the altimeter counted, I saw the glow of the bottom!"

In March, the filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence descended 6.8 miles to the spot known as the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean?s Mariana Trench, an area deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. The record-breaking trip that made headlines around the world was part of Deepsea Challenge, a joint scientific expedition by
Cameron, National Geographic and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research and exploration.

Cameron is the only individual ever to complete the dive in a solo vehicle and the first person since 1960 to reach the very bottom of the world in a manned submersible.

James Cameron: Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth features Cameron?s interview on the journey. Culled from more than two hours of his firsthand accounts of the project, it details everything from more than seven years of development to the actual moment he touched the bottom of the Earth. The project is also his first expedition as a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence.