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Showtime Hooker Show Starts Monday
Set your TiVo! Then feel mild liberal guilt: "After viewing excerpts of the show on Showtime’s Web site, one feminist scholar said that the series seems to want to do for prostitution what HBO’s Big Love does for polygamy — presenting a sanitized version of controversial sexual behavior." [Times, Previously]
Juno You Crazy, Right?
The Steven Spielberg-produced, Diablo Cody-written pilot The United States of Tara, about a woman (played by Toni Collette) with multiple-personality disorder, has just been greenlit by Showtime. Hey blogger-bots, that Crazy Cassie has mondo mood McFlurries, if you get my word Windex.
The Steven Spielberg-produced, Diablo Cody-written pilot The United States of Tara, about a woman (played by Toni Collette) with multiple-personality disorder, has just been greenlit by Showtime. Hey blogger-bots, that Crazy Cassie has mondo mood McFlurries, if you get my word Windex.
"Showtime," reports the Times, "is known for content that is too racy for network television, so it is perhaps fitting that its latest slogan should be inappropriate for the networks, too. A two-minute promotional spot on the cable network features the slogan, 'The Best Stuff on Television,' although the actual third word is an expletive that cannot be used by family-friendly networks (or newspapers)." The actual third word, is, of course, "shit," which the family-friendly Times will apparently only print if it comes out of the mouths of presidents or people threatening the governor's father. [NYT]
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Bret Easton Ellis Showtime Soap To Feature Way More Drug Versimilitude Than 'Weeds'
We are wholeheartedly fucking psyched for a B.E.E.-penned "horror-tinged" soap to make its way to our TV screens. Called "The Canyons" ("a reference to Los Angeles but also a 'metaphor for the chasm people have in relating to each other'"), the series will center around a young New York magazine editor who follows a friend to LA, only to find himself isolated when the friend is killed in a mysterious accident. Awesome! We love it when B.E.E. taps into his Stephen King/Christopher Pike streak.The six main characters — including an art gallery owner, lawyer, event planner and a closeted bartender — deal with career and relationship issues. They encounter violent situations and anxieties that are briefly manifested as monsters and other apparitions that may or may not be real.So it's like Ally McBeal, except instead of a retarded dancing baby it's a face-eating Furby hallucination. We're setting our nonexistent TiVo in gleeful anticipation already! More »
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Mitch Hurwitz Kills 'Arrested Development'; Everyone You Know Heartbroken
Bad news for all you yupster, yindie, altera-yuppie "grups" — spread along the F train from 14th street to 7th Avenue — who can't understand why a great show like Arrested Development can't find a way to stay on the air. Here's news from Variety last night: More »
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Adam's family values [Nerve]
Adam Glasser
Nerve interviews Adam "Seymore Butts" Glasser, porn director/star and the lead in Showtime's new reality series, Family Business, which "peers into his home life and the porn empire he built with the help of his mother (who keeps the company's books) and his elderly cousin Stevie (who doesn't do much)." [Ed. note—Porn with mom. Ew.]Adam's family values [Nerve]
