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NEWS ABOUT: Showtime

Showtime stories: 14 news summaries

Stone Takes on 'Secret History of America'

Director will look at
'under-reported' events in Showtime series

Aug 19, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oliver Stone is nothing if not ambitious. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the director is prepping a 10-part documentary series entitled Secret History of America, which promises to examine important but under-reported events from the past 60 years. Stone, who will provide the narration himself, calls the Showtime project “... More »

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entertainment • cable TV • Showtime • Cold War • Vietnam War • Oliver Stone • JFK assassination • conspiracy theory • American history

TV REVIEW

  Falco Makes 
 a Naughty, 
 Irresistible 
 Nurse Jackie 

Edie soars; script needs a doctor

Jun 8, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - She's addicted to painkillers, cheats on her husband with a pharmacist, and punishes a diplomat who stabbed a hooker by flushing his ear down the toilet. In Showtime's Nurse Jackie, debuting tonight, Edie Falco is no Carmela Soprano, but a sarcastic, no-nonsense nurse who's better, critics say, than the show... More »

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television • Showtime • television review • Edie Falco • Nurse Jackie

glossies


 Falco Brings 
 Soul to Mean 
 Nurse Jackie 

Actress adopted quietly; is more like Nurse Jackie than Carmela

May 31, 09 5:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Sopranos matriarch Edie Falco is back, and this time her cable series character is closer to the actress herself—a blue-collar woman who shirks appearances and works hard, Newsweek reports. But Falco isn't quite the brassy protagonist in Showtime's Nurse Jackie, either. The Long Island native is a warm,... More »

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adoption • motherhood • The Sopranos • Showtime • actress • Edie Falco • Nurse Jackie • single mother

Bitter Parker:
'I Was Goaded Into Nude
Weeds Scene'

Producer insists it showed 'vulnerability'

May 20, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Annoyed Weeds star Mary Louise Parker was "goaded" into a nude bathtub scene in the Showtime series about a pot-selling mom, she tells More. "I don't think I needed to be naked," she said. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter.... More »

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entertainment • television • Showtime • Weeds • nude photo • nude • actress • Mary Louise Parker

OPINION


 Thanks for 
 the Memories, 
 Bob, 'Cuz 2008 
 TV Stunk 

The golden age of TV may have died this year

Dec 28, 08 12:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Today's golden age of TV lost a little shine this year, Heather Havrilesky writes on Salon. Twelve quick months gobbled up all of the momentum and promise from years past, leaving “a haze of crappy, unoriginal new programming, lackluster sophomore shows, flaccid sitcoms and pointless cable comedies.” Old... More »

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television • NBC • CBS • cable TV • ABC • HBO • Showtime • Fox • USA • network television

Weinsteins Sign 7-Year Deal
With Showtime

Films will replace slate lost when Paramount bailed in April

Jul 15, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Showtime and the Weinstein Company have inked an exclusive 7-year movie deal, giving the pay TV network a replacement for the slate of films it lost when Paramount, MGM, and Lionsgate decamped in April and teamed up to launch a rival network, Variety reports. Showtime had balked at what it... More »

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Hollywood • cable TV • Showtime • Paramount Pictures • Harvey Weinstein • Lionsgate • MGM • The Weinstein Company • Variety magazine

Magic of 'This American Life' Returns to Small Screen

Second season debuts tonight

May 4, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The stories on the small-screen version of “This American Life” start out small—a husband’s protest over the oppressive American trend of lawn-mowing, a young man living with spinal muscular atrophy—and become something universal, both dark and light, even a little magical, writes Heather Havrilesky on Salon.... More »

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television • radio • art • Ira Glass • Showtime • This American Life • biography

Movie Studios to Create Premium Channel

MGM, Paramount, Lionsgate joint venture would target HBO

Apr 21, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paramount Pictures, MGM Studios, and Lionsgate are creating a premium TV channel to compete with HBO and Showtime, reports the Los Angeles Times, which currently showcase their programming. The joint venture comes as those same channels look to pay studios less for movies and pursue production of their own content. More »

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television • Viacom • HBO • Showtime • Paramount Pictures • United Artists • MGM

'Tudors': Flashy Fiction Is Far From Fact

Historians balk at steamy soap, but fans aren't deterred

Mar 30, 08 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the battle of fact versus flair, it’s pretty obvious which side “The Tudors” comes down on. Showtime’s steamy period soap opera, which premiers its second season tonight, trades a chubby, tight-wearing Henry VIII for slim, sexy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. “It’s sloppy filmmaking,” one... More »

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Showtime • soap operas • history • sexy costumes • Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Anne Boleyn • Henry VIII • The Tudors • period drama

HBO Struggles for Post-Sopranos Hits

New management picks a new crop of shows, hoping for a winner

Mar 22, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - HBO, at 36 years old no longer a bold young upstart of a network, is struggling to come up with hits to match The Sopranos and Sex & The City, the Wall Street Journal reports. Changes in the top ranks have meant shifts in direction: The Texas-set Lily Tomlin... More »

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television • Time Warner • cable TV • Chris Albrecht • HBO • The Sopranos • Sex and the City • Showtime • Jeff Bewkes

Mixed Martial Arts Coming
to Network TV

CBS takes plunge, with first two-hour special slated for April 26

Feb 28, 08 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - CBS is juicing up its Saturday night prime-time programming with mixed martial arts, Variety reports. ProElite, a company that has worked with CBS cable sister Showtime, will produce the show, with a first airing aimed for April 26. With the coveted 18-to-34-year-old male demographic in its crosshairs, CBS plans to... More »

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television • CBS • Showtime • primetime TV • mixed martial arts • ProElite

Chili Peppers Sue Over 'Californication'

Band knocks Showtime for 'stealing' album's title for TV show

Nov 20, 07 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime for stealing the title of their 1999 hit album. The cable network's "Californication" series, which stars David Duchovny, also features a character called Dani California—the title of a 2006 Chili Peppers song. The suit, for unfair competition, dilution of the... More »

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music industry • copyright law • Showtime • David Duchovny • Tom Kapinos • Anthony Keidis • Red Hot Chili Peppers

It's not HBO—
It's Showtime

For programming
that turns television
on its head, it's the new destination

Aug 25, 07 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - HBO was the network that was going to transcend television—and it did. But if you canceled your HBO subscription after the "Sopranos' " annoyingly ambiguous conclusion, Esquire has a suggestion to full the gap in your premium cable lineup. Showtime has been pushing the envelope with shows like... More »

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television • HBO • Showtime • Weeds • Dexter

'LIFE' GOES ON

How do you make beloved public radio program This American Life work on TV?

Mar 18, 07 8:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stevenson Swanson wonders how and weather Chicago Public Radio god Ira Glass can really do a television show and, even more daring, a show for the premium cable only network, Showtime. More »

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entertainment • television • radio • Chicago • Chicago Public Radio • Ira Glass • Showtime • This American Life

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