Mean Machine

     4:20 a.m. on HBO

     After getting caught rigging a championship football tournament, football star Danny Meehan’s career and temper go south, landing him in jail for assault and battery. There, he makes instant enemies with angry inmates ticked off over the game fixing.

    The warden is Meehan’s only supporter, and wants him to put together a semi-pro team made up of guards.

    Knowing that his contribution to the team will spell the abrupt end of his prison term, Meehan offers to put together a team of inmates for practice games with the guards and assembles a rag-tag team of psychopaths out to play footy.

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    7 a.m. Pastor Joseph Prince

    7:30 NBC Nightly News

    1 p.m. Market Update

    2:00 Inside the Stock Exchange and Market Update

    6:05 Straight Talk

    6:35 Mysteries at the Museum

    7:25 Today in History

    8:00 Brain Games

    8:30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities

    9:00 Adventures to the Edge 2

    9:35 Journey to Fire Mountain

    12:55 a.m. Global Citizen Festival

    2:05 Journey to Fire Mountain

    3:00 Adventures to the Edge 2

    3:25 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities

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    8:15 China 24

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    6 a.m. The Leisure Class

    7:25 No Way Jose

    9:00 Batman Begins

    11:20 The Water Diviner

    1:15 p.m. Shooter

    3:25 Summer Catch

    5:05 Evan Almighty

    6:45 Blackhat

    9:00 Blade: Trinity

    10:50 Get Hard

    4:20 a.m. Mean Machine

     National Geographic

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    8:50 a.m. Monster Fish: Colossal Catches

    9:45 Expedition Wild: Stalking the Mountain Lion

    10:40 Perfect Storms: God’s Wrath

    11:35 Among the Great Apes With Michelle Yeoh

    12:30 p.m. Wild Swamplands: Cajun Country

    1:25 4 Babies A Second: A Long Night Shift

    2:20 Expedition Wild: Wolverine King

    3:15 Innovation Nation: Hover Board

    3:40 Innovation Nation: 3d Printed Clothes

    4:10 Nazi World War Weird: Hitler’s Meth Heads

    5:05 Facing...: Facing Escobar

    6:00 Wild Russia: The Secret Forest

    7:00 How Big Can It Get: Komodozilla

    8:00 Fight Masters: Silat

    9:00 Innovation Nation: Jetman

    9:30 Innovation Nation: Pendulum Wave

    10:00 Nazi World War Weird: Secret Art Fortress

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    4:00 Justice League: Doom

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    8:25 First Blood

    10:00 Dumb and Dumber To

    11:50 Quarry S1 01: You Don’t Miss Your Water

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