First he starred in Kevin Smith's
Zack and Miri Make a Porno as a twentysomething guy who ventures into the world of amateur pornography, and now
Seth Rogen is bringing a very similar story to Showtime in a TV series. Variety awesomely calls it a "porno-based comedy," and Rogen will produce the show with his writing/producing partner Evan Goldberg (Rogen and Goldberg wrote
Superbad together, hence the "Seth" and "Evan" characters).
The Showtime series will follow "three twentysomethings who learn about life and love while running a pornography shop."
It'll be just a couple of months now before the lovely ladies of
The L Word return to Showtime for their sixth and final season. Of course, at least part of the show is living on in the form of
a spinoff led by
Leisha Hailey's Alice, but January marks the beginning of the last time these particular women will be together on screen.
There's not much to this teaser except for some intrigue and a whole lot of gorgeousness — I think each of the L Word ladies takes a turn giving the camera a steamy look.
Dexter Morgan's got a little more killing to do on Showtime. The network has just
picked up two more seasons of
Dexter, ensuring it will be around at least through season five.
The third season is airing right now on Showtime.
Showtime's got several intriguing new shows on its roster, and recently, the network released first glimpses of two of them:
The United States of Tara and
Nurse Jackie, both of which have intriguing actresses in the lead roles.
The United States of Tara, which premieres in January, stars Toni Collette as a woman with multiple-personality disorder. The clip has some scenes from the show, and in between those, the stars (and writer Diablo Cody) talk about how the project came together out of an idea from Steven Spielberg.
Metropolitan Home has teamed up with Showtime and some of the design world's top tastemakers to transform a 19th-century New York City townhouse into a modernist masterpiece with rooms that take a cue from some of Showtime's original series — Californication, Dexter, The L Word, The Tudors, and Weeds. The four-story Greek Revival townhouse will be open to the public until Oct. 26, and for those not taking a bite out of the Big Apple,
PointClickHome.com has you covered online with behind-the-scenes videos, house tours, room galleries, decadent decor, designer secrets and tricks-of-the-trade, sweepstakes, and even a design tool to help you recreate the featured rooms.
If you tell me to watch a TV show about people who kill bugs for a living, and I'll run the other direction. But if you tell me that show is "the
Six Feet Under of pest control," well, then we're talking.
Showtime is going for the latter by
developing a TV series called The Exterminators, based on a comic book series of the same name.
Between
Weeds,
Californication, and the
recently announced Matthew Perry project
The End of Steve, Showtime certainly seems to be racking up a warehouse full of dark comedies these days. Today there's news of a new one, and it's got a powerhouse behind it: George Clooney.
Clooney's production company, Smoke House, is
developing a half-hour comedy called The Fall of Bob.
Last year, it was David Duchovny making his return to television on Showtime. This year, it's Matthew Perry. The ex-Friends and Studio 60 star will be
making his comeback in The End of Steve, a pilot Showtime just ordered.
Watching
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which starts tonight on Showtime, is like getting let in on the juiciest piece of gossip ever. The show is sly and slick, pulling back the curtain on the world of sex-for-money in London and leaving you feeling like the ultimate insider.
The show stars Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class hooker — and the alter ego of Hannah, an everyday gal who prefers jeans and books to corsets and stilettos.
Weeds is starting its fourth season tonight by burning the show's whole premise to the ground. This is definitely not the same show where latte-sipping Nancy Botwin got into small-time drug slinging to hold on to her lifestyle after her husband's death. All of that is gone now: the luxury, the lattes, and even the relatively innocent Nancy who just happened to get caught up in something way over her head.
