New York, U.S.A - If you were suddenly granted superpowers, would you save the world, or just get laid? Meet the most unconventional group of anti-heroes yet in the most provocative sci-fi series ever made. And only Logo has the guts to bring this breakout hit from across the pond to American television. Fans can look forward to all four seasons of “Misfits” in the upcoming months. Sexy, dark, and defiantly British, the first season of “Misfits” (six, one-hour episodes) premieres July 19, 2012.

When a group of law-breaking 20-somethings are suddenly vested with supernatural powers during a freak electrical storm, their already out-of-control lives are plunged into even deeper chaos. The rough and rebellious clan includes characters Nathan Young (Robert Sheehan), Simon Bellamy(Iwan Rheon), Curtis Donovan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), Kelly Bailey (Lauren Socha), and Alisha Bailey (Antonia Thomas).

Whether it’s turning back time, or throwing people into a sexual frenzy, their newfound abilities prove to be as troublesome as they are strange. As they come to terms with their powers, these teens will have to decide how to use them and whether to do so for good or just for good times. Take the supernatural formula, give it a bad attitude, a punk haircut, and hit of ecstasy—and you’ll get an idea of just what makes this series so wildly different.  “Misfits” joyfully crosses lines, defies expectations, and could only appear in the U.S. on Logo.

“We’re proud to introduce the U.S. television audience to this beloved series, which is like the mutant offspring of ‘True Blood’ and ‘X-Men,’” said Marc Leonard, Senior Vice President of Multiplatform Programming, Logo. “‘Misfits’ is the perfect series for our Logo viewers who will appreciate how the show’s underdogs rise up, take center stage and start blurring the lines of morality, sexuality, gender and reality itself.”

Produced by Clerkenwell Films and distributed by BBC Worldwide, the series has enjoyed acclaim from critics, winning multiple BAFTA Television Awards including Best Drama Series in 2010, as well as earning an impressive 1.9 million Facebook fans across the globe, with over a hundred thousand stateside Facebook fans eagerly anticipating the U.S. premiere.

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Michelle Yeoh, 48 a Malaysian actress who is known for performing her own stunts has been thrown out of Burma, due to her role as a pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming film. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominated actress was deported on the day of her arrival at Rangoon Airport because she was “blacklisted” according to Skynews.com.

The actress has starred in many movies some of which being The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Babylon A.D, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, True Legend and Kung Fu Panda 2. The former Miss Malaysia, rose to fame when she starred in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies in the year 1997 with Pierce Brosnan.

The government has “routinely rejected visa requests of journalists and perceived critics for years. The film, which is named “The Lady” by Luc Besson, is due to come out later in the year. Yeoh describes how she hopes “her portrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize winner would raise awareness about her story.”

Aung San Suu Kyi, 66 who had been detained right before the elections under house arrest for almost 15 yrs, was released last year in November 2010. According to Skynews.com her release was “just days after an election that her party boycotted and in which she was barred from being a candidate.” The nation’s vote was the first in almost 20 yrs, “the junta appeared to hand power to a civilian government” in the month of March.

In December, Michelle Yeoh who had visited Burma to spend time with Aung San Suu Kyi for the film shot the movie in Thailand, England, France and her own Burma. The movie according to michelleyeoh.info, describes the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese democracy icon who had been detained unjustly “by the government of Burma” and was “under house arrest for 15 out of the past 21 yrs.”

The film shows a touching love story of the “world’s most prominent prisoners of conscience, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the last ten years of her marriage to the academic Dr. Michael Aris who remained in Oxford <raising> both their children in her absence.” The movie describes how she was given a choice of choosing between her family which included her children and a sick husband who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and her country which if she left would never take her back.  Co-starring with Michelle Yeoh is David Thewlis who plays the character of Dr. Micheal Aris.

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