Kristen Bell, the voice of Gossip Girl, is coming back to a medium she never really left. She's set to star in the pilot House of Lies, based on a tell-all about management consultants. Showtime's new entertainment president, David Nevins, has voiced a strong commitment to shaking up the cable network that has become known Read More
With the exception of perhaps news about Eliot Spitzer, it's been a quiet summer thus far with regards to television — and, no, that Jake and Vienna broke up after finding "true love" on The Bachelor doesn't count. So greet this bit of casting news with as much excitement as you can muster: Read More
Did you think that with the regular TV season drawing to a close, your DVR-and your eyeballs-would get a well-deserved rest? Think again. In their increasingly successful attempt to turn television watching into a year-round endeavor, the networks have conspired to pack the ostensible off-season with more programming than you can shake a pair of Read More
At an intimate screening of Nurse Jackie, Showtime's new dramedy starring Edie Falco as an experienced nurse with a speed-snorting habit, on Thursday, March 26, the publicist Peggy Siegal thought it would be fun if everyone brought their favorite doctors along for the one-hour preview and the dinner following.
"I don't know, I just thought it Read More
Apparently nonplussed by the failure of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Seth Rogen is heading back to the billion-dollar industry that no one likes to talk about... for Showtime. Mr. Rogen, along with his partner-in-comedy arms Evan Goldberg, is developing an untitled series for the cable network about three floundering twentysomethings who grapple Read More
Matthew Perry alert! Showtime announced that they've picked up the pilot for Mr. Perry's new series, The End of Steve, from Rescue Me creator Peter Tolan. On the show, which is described ominously as a "dark comedy", Mr. Perry will star as a talk show host in Rochester, New York trying to put both Read More
It's always been a huge bummer to find your favorite TV show episode on YouTube only to have the content police take it down within minutes. But now, in their scramble to increase ad revenues, YouTubehas the daggers out for sites like Hulu, NBC.com and ABC.com by offering full-length episodes of TV shows on Read More
Showtime is delving into the depths of the 70's with its new show Studio. While still in development, producers say the project will look at New York City nightlife through the lens of its oft-heralded dark heart: Studio 54. "The show is less about the history of Studio 54 than it is about New York Read More
Showtime gave the greenlight to their new comedy Nurse Jackie, starring Sopranos First Lady Edie Falco. They're also giving the First Lady of MILFs, Mary-Louise Parker, two more seasons of Weeds.
Ms. Falco's series will begin production in New York in the fall. Episodes will air in the spring or early summer 2009, according Read More
Prepare to see lots of Weinstein movies on Showtime soon. Starting with its 2009 release schedule, including Nine with Daniel Day-Lewis and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards "spaghetti western," the pay channel has signed an exclusive seven-year theatrical-movie-output deal with the Weinsteins. (By the way, Brad Pitt and Mr. Tarantino are allegedly meeting in France Read More
George Clooney's production company will produce a new half-hour comedy for Showtime called The Fall of Bob. The lead character, Bob (obviously), will narrate his life through flashbacks as he propels himself from a building. Morbid stuff. Variety is reporting that Showtime has been busy courting the big names since greenlighting the Steven Spielberg-produced, Read More
When news broke that Eliot Spitzer had been patronizing a high-class prostitute, one thing everyone seemed to want to know was what, exactly, he’d asked his call girl to do. It was “unsafe,” in the words of “Kristen,” a.k.a. Ashley Alexandra Dupre—but could that have been an excuse she fabricated in hopes of unloading an Read More
The Smithsonian Channel is getting all historical on us (that's just what they do!) with The True Story. They'll partner with Showtime to produce the five-hour series. It will look at the real-life roots of popular films and characters, including Indiana Jones, Ian Fleming's James Bond, Eliot Ness of Untouchables fame and the Amityville house, Read More
With the strike on CBS's bank of crime and punishment programming is getting low. CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves announced that the network is looking to its sister channel, Showtime, to fill in the gaps. Will Dexter, the mediocre-written, yet highly addictive show about a forensics cop who moonlights as a serial killer make it Read More
