Dec
05New Showtime Leading Man Liev Schreiber Will Likely Scale Back Role At HBO Sports
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With a offer to star in Showtime’s pilot Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber could one day grow to be the face of the spend cable network. But at the very same time, it seems to be like he will no lengthier be the exceptional voice of the sports activities division of rival HBO. I’ve realized that HBO has opted not to renew its general deal with the actor to be the the voice of HBO Sports, which has incorporated narrating practically all HBO passe-temps documentaries, the 24/seven fact sequence, and the NFL reality sequence Tough Knocks. HBO is not severing ties with Schreiber, who has been voicing HBO Jeu’ programs for the prior sixteen years. “Liev is set to start off operate following week on his following HBO Sports project, /seven Flyers/Rangers: Street to the NHL Winter Common,” HBO Sports said in a assertion, declining further comment. I hear that Schreiber also is scheduled to do yet another HBO Sports project in January.
According to an HBO supply, the network does not strategy to indication an general offer with yet another actor, opting for a variety of voices. Considering that starting in 1995, Schreiber has narrated almost all HBO Sports activities documentaries. (One of really few exceptions was the 2003 Red Sox docu The Curse Of The Bambino voiced by die-tough Red Sox enthusiast Ben Affleck). He has narrated all but one particular version of Tough Knocks given that the series’ kick off in 2001 (the Kansas City Chiefs edition in 2007 was carried out by Paul Rudd), and of 24/7 because its 2007 start.
The transfer coincides with the leadership adjust at HBO Sports. Ken Hershman was lately tapped as new HBO Passe-temps president, and he will be a part of the shell out cable channel in January. But it also coincided with Schreiber’s substantial-profile casting as the lead in Showtime’s pilot Ray Donovan in the attribute actor’s 1st typical sequence gig, with some declaring that the decision by HBO was created soon right after the announcement of Schreiber’s Showtime casting. Other people inside HBO insist the two are not connected.
Nov
14Paul Bettany To Star In New Showtime Series Masters Of Sex!
Filed in: Hollywood Gossip by admin on 11-14-11Paul Bettany and a present about sex?!
Indeed and Sure!
The British actor has reportedly signed on to star in the new Showtimes drama, Masters of Intercourse, which focuses on the celebrated investigation staff finding out human sexuality comprised of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, and was adapted from a book by Thomas Maier!
Bettany will portray the aforementioned male lead.
Surely seems like it’s worth checking out, eye-candy aside!
We hope the pilot gets picked up for sequence! How about U?
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Showtime has re-upped Weeds for its eighth year. Stoners rejoice!
The common late evening demonstrate starring Mary Louise Parker has been ordered a 13 episode season although it is uncertain if this will be the last year.
Do U believe 8 is a good amount to calls it quits?
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Nov
08‘Lost’ Writer Brian K. Vaughan Tapped to Adapt Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ for Showtime
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Late this summer, it was declared that Stephen King‘s 2009 supernatural thriller Under the Dome would be hitting Showtime as a drama sequence, with a lookup for a author by now underway. Now, months later, previous Lost scribe and acclaimed comic book author Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to pen the display, about a city in Maine that suddenly finds itself sealed off from the rest of the world by means of a mysterious power field. More particulars right after the jump.
Vaughan served a author and producer on ABC’s Misplaced throughout its 3rd, fourth, and fifth seasons, earning two Writers Guild of America nominations and one particular Emmy nomination. In addition, he’s also picked up numerous Eisner Awards for his comic e-book function, which incorporates the series Y: The Previous Gentleman, Runaways, Ex Machina, and Pride of Baghdad. Beneath the Dome is in excellent fingers, especially provided that the premise undoubtedly has shades of Missing.
Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Tv 1st optioned King’s ebook back in 2009, shortly right after its publication. Around that time, King described that it could grow to be an HBO miniseries, but we discovered this previous August that the challenge had landed at Showtime, and it now seems to be an ongoing series relatively than a mini. King will executive develop the undertaking, with DreamWorks Television’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.
Here’s the synopsis of King’s first novel:
On an entirely regular, lovely fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the city is inexplicably and all of a sudden sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible power subject. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, men and women jogging errands in the neighboring city are divided from their households, and autos explode on influence. No one particular can fathom what this barrier is, where it arrived from, and when — or if — it will go absent. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a small-order cook, finds himself teamed with a handful of intrepid citizens — city newspaper operator Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a pick-girl, and a few brave children. Against them stands Massive Jim Rennie, a politician who will cease at absolutely nothing — even murder — to hold the reins of energy, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their principal adversary is the Dome itself. Simply because time is not just quick. It is jogging out.
Oct
10Showtime Developing Drama Series About Little-Known LGBT Subculture With Merritt Johnson & Lee Daniels
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Distinctive: Temple Grandin author W. Merritt Johnson has teamed with Cherished director Lee Daniels for a drama venture in growth at Showtime that sheds light on a little-known LGBT subculture. The contemporary drama, which Johnson is composing and Daniels is hooked up to direct, is set in New York Metropolis and centers on the disenfranchised multicultural transgender youth of the Ball subculture, beforehand portrayed in Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning. Some say the roots of the New York ball home tradition can be traced to the 1930s,when the first underground drag balls were held in and around New York City by white men in gay bars, while others argue that it progressed out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. Today’s underground ball house society is composed of New York City’s disadvantaged black, Latino, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual communities who occur jointly to compete for trophies and prizes. They all belong to various fraternity-like “houses,” or “drag households,” that serve as surrogate households for their members banded jointly below 1 leader. Their “voguing” dance fashion, in which rivals freeze to pose in glamorous positions, was re-created in Madonna’s Vogue video. Johnson and Daniels are executive making. Johnson, repped by CAA and Leverage Management, was nominated for an Emmy for Temple Grandin and won a Peabody and Humanitas Prize. He also labored on the HBO series In Treatment method. CAA-repped Daniels, who acquired an Oscar nomination for Precious, recently signed on to create and direct an adaptation of Valley Of The Dolls for NBC, twentieth Tv and Chernin Amusement. On the function aspect, his comply with-up to Precious, The Paper Boy — starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey — will be released subsequent year.
Oct
05Showtime Releases ‘Dexter’ Season 6 Premiere Episode for Free on YouTube
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To be sincere, I suspect most of you who adhere to Dexter but don’t subscribe to Showtime have by now downloaded an unlawful copy of Sunday night’s Year six initial. But on the off likelihood you haven’t gotten close to to that just however — or that you’re a single of people uncommon law-abiding sorts — the network is delivering you with an opportunity to view it legally and for totally free, in hopes that you’ll think about shelling out the extra $ twelve or so a month to just subscribe to the channel currently.
Right after the leap, look at the full-duration episode by means of YouTube. A communication at the start off of the display states that “the following system has been edited from its authentic sort” (read: slightly significantly less blood and blurred-out boobies), but until you’re a genuine completist about top quality cable-accredited nudity, I’m considering the video beneath is great sufficient. Look at it soon after the leap.
This week’s premiere doesn’t appear to rank amid the collection’ strongest episodes, but it’s value viewing just for the scene when Dexter (Michael C. Hall) will get adorably tripped up at his class reunion by his inability to recognize MC Hammer. Plus, Edward James Olmos and Colin Hanks make their initial visual appeal as a pair of deeply creepy religious nutjobs, and Heroes‘ Brea Grant shows up for a scene or two.
Year synopsis:
The explosively popular DEXTER® is back with a vengeance for a sixth year of startling suspense and sudden twists. It’s been a 12 months given that last year’s shocking and heartbreaking summary, and mild mannered criminologist-cum-grisly serial killer Dexter Morgan has occur to phrases with who he is. But his existence is shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he’s confronted before. A delusional spiritual zealot with unflinching convictions, this new adversary quickly attracts Dexter into a harmful sport that could effectively stop in disaster.
Go over: What did you think of the sixth period initial of Dexter?
Oct
02Netflix And Showtime Eye Potential New ‘Arrested Development’ Limited Series
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Up to date: Arrested Improvement creator Mitch Hurtwitz dropped one more bombshell nowadays, telling a panel at The New Yorker Festival that he programs to bring the Emmy-profitable collection back to television for a limited nine-ten episode operate ahead of proceeding with the prolonged-gestating Arrested Advancement motion picture. He didn’t specify wherever the prospective series would air as it doesn’t automatically have to operate on Fox, which carried the mothership series. I have learned that 20th Century Fox Tv, which co-developed Arrested Growth with Envision Tv, has had talks with Netflix, which has been on the hunt for first programming, and Showtime, whose new entertainment president David Nevins shepherded Arrested Advancement when he ran Visualize Television. twentieth Tv declined remark.
In accordance to attendees at the panel, wherever Hurwitz was joined by collection stars Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Tony Hale, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross, Alia Shawkat and Jessica Walter, Hurwitz laid out his program to have every installment target on a different member of the Bluth clan. Bateman later weighed in on the announcement on Twitter. “It’s true,” he wrote. “We will do ten episodes and the motion picture. Possibly shoot them all together subsequent summer time for a release in early . Quite fired up!” That would indicate launching the follow-up minimal collection on the 10th anniversary of the first, which premiered in 2003.
Showtime has renewed The Huge C for a 3rd year ahead of the darkish comedy sequence’ second period finale on Sept. 26. Ten new episodes will go into creation beginning early following year for debut in the second quarter of 2012. The Massive C is developed and published by Darlene Hunt, who serves as executive producer, alongside with showrunner Jenny Bicks, Laura Linney, Neal H. Moritz and Vivian Cannon. The Sony Photos Television-produced sequence stars Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison who this time become an all-out warrior in the battle from her Stage four melanoma, while her husband, Paul (Oliver Platt), stepped up to turn into her best advocate and treatment method “cancierge.”
Aug
31Showtime to Develop Steven Spielberg-Produced Stephen King TV Series Adaptation ‘Under The Dome’
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Stephen King originally mentioned that his 2009 guide Below The Dome may possibly finish up as an HBO miniseries. Soon soon after people comments have been created, we realized that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Tv optioned the e-book. It seems to be like the options have changed as Underneath The Dome will not air as a mini-series on HBO as King originally thought — but as an alternative on Showtime as a dramatic tv series.
Spielberg will executive generate the sequence, and a research for a author is currently underway. Deadline, who broke the Showtime information, doesn’t point out “mini series” and instead calls the venture a “drama series.” So it seems to be like the format has altered as nicely? The tale is set in a tiny holiday city in Maine which turns into coated by an invisible power discipline which brings about the residents to combat for survival, in two warring factions. Right here is the official plot description from the e-book:
On an entirely regular, stunning drop day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the city is inexplicably and quickly sealed off from the relaxation of the world by an invisible force subject. Planes crash into it and drop from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” arrives down on it, people running errands in the neighboring city are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No 1 can fathom what this barrier is, where it arrived from, and when — or if — it will go absent. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a small-buy cook, finds himself teamed with a couple of intrepid citizens — town newspaper proprietor Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a decide on-lady, and 3 brave young children. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will end at absolutely nothing — even murder — to hold the reins of energy, and his son, who is keeping a horrible top secret in a darkish pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Simply because time isn’t just small. It’s jogging out.
The front of the guide attributes an elaborate town map and list of characters, even like “Dogs of Note”. USA Today referred to as the guide “Propulsively intriguing… Staggeringly addictive”, and The New York Times said it was “Tight and energetic from start to complete… Tough as this thing is to hoist, it’s even more challenging to set down.” And creator Neil Gaiman referred to as it one particular of his “favourite books of the 12 months so far.” The 1088-web page guide was launched on November 10th 2009, and is accessible on Amazon for $ 9.33.
To give you a come to feel of what the mini series may possibly seem like, right here is a promotional trailer King’s publisher developed to promote the guide:
Spielberg has been making an attempt to be involved in a King production for a long time. Steven bought the rights to King’s book The Talisman soon right after the book was posted in 1984. The venture went through many incarnations, but by no means went into manufacturing. Most lately, Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy introduced plans to create a six-element mini-series primarily based on the ebook for TNT. The project fell again into development hell because of to budgetary concerns.
Nov
06L Word alumna Jennifer Beals signs on for holiday film
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Jennifer Beals, whom we love, love, loved as Bette Porter on The L Word, has been cast in Hallmark Channel’s TV movie The Night Before the Night Before Christmas, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The production won’t put her in the couture outfits or compromising positions she often found herself in on the L Word set. The holiday film is about the mishaps Santa Claus encounters when he leaves the North Pole a day early and crash-lands on a family’s roof.
It is currently shooting in Toronto and will premiere on Hallmark Channel for the holidays in 2010.
Since The L Word wrapped in February, Beals has kept busy playing Assistant U.S. Attorney Zoe Landau on the Fox drama Lie to Me. She also will appear in the upcoming sci-fi film The Book of Eli.
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