WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ION Television has finalized multiple film agreements that provide the Network with the broadcast premiere rights to four new titles. The agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) provides ION Television with the broadcast premiere rights to the Academy Award-winning feature film “March of the Penguins.” In addition, ION Television has inked a deal with NBC Universal Domestic Distribution (NBCU) for the broadcast premiere rights to the theatrical releases “The Return,” “Breach” and “Miami Vice.”

“As part of ION Television’s effort to build its primetime line-up, we also want to regularly offer our viewers top quality movies,” said Leslie Chesloff, Executive Vice President, Programming, for ION Media Networks. “We’re thrilled to be able to offer our viewers the opportunity to watch this diverse line-up of films, particularly “March of the Penguins” – which will be a nice holiday treat.”

The broadcast premieres will roll out beginning the end of this month through December:

In “The Return,” which premieres Saturday, October 31 at 9:00 pm, ET Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as a young woman who, after a car crash when she was 11 years old, has visions of a town she’s never been to and of people she’s never met. She finally decides to go to the town and investigate exactly why she keeps having vivid visions of a murder that took place 15 years earlier. When Joanna's visions start to add up and she puts them together, she realizes who the murderer is and the murderer realizes that she knows who he is as well. Sam Sheppard also stars.

“Breach,” debuting on Sunday, November 1 at 8:30 pm, ET stars Chris Cooper, Laura Linney and Ryan Phillippe. Based on a true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. The film tells the riveting story of the investigation that brought down the most damaging spy in U.S. history.

“Miami Vice” will air on broadcast television for the first time on Sunday, November 8 at 8:00 pm, ET. This update of the iconic 1980's TV action/drama stars Colin Farrell as Sonny Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo Tubbs. When an informer, his family and two FBI agents are killed by an international gang of drug dealers, Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to work undercover for the FBI in a joint operation to disclose which agency leaked the information to the criminals. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one.

The acclaimed hit documentary “March of the Penguins” debuts on ION Television on Saturday, December 12 at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm, ET. Directed by Luc Jacquet, the film is a remarkable look at the annual journey of the Emperor Penguins, as they march to their traditional breeding ground. Situated in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, the film chronicles a truly remarkable journey that takes place as it has done for millennia.

About ION Television

ION Television (www.iontelevision.com) is a general entertainment network which reaches over 96 million U.S. television households via its nationwide broadcast television, cable and satellite distribution systems. Launched in 2006, ION Television features popular TV series and movies from the award-winning libraries of RHI Entertainment, CBS Television, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures Television, Twentieth Television and Warner Bros. Parent company, ION Media Networks, Inc., owns and operates the nation's largest broadcast television station group. Using its digital multicasting capability, ION Media Networks has launched the digital TV brands qubo, a channel for children focusing on literacy and values, and ION Life, a channel dedicated to active living and personal growth. It also has launched Open Mobile Ventures Corporation (OMVION), a business unit focused on the research and development of portable, mobile and out-of-home transmission technology using over-the-air digital television spectrum. For more information, visit www.ionmedia.com.