Read more Showtime stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4273/showtime.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:50:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67275/stone-takes-on-secret-history-of-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOliver 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 “the...http://www.newser.com/story/67275/stone-takes-on-secret-history-of-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61296/falco-makes-a-naughty-irresistible-nurse-jackie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShe'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...http://www.newser.com/story/61296/falco-makes-a-naughty-irresistible-nurse-jackie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Jun 2009 12:21:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60596/falco-brings-soul-to-mean-nurse-jackie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer 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,...http://www.newser.com/story/60596/falco-brings-soul-to-mean-nurse-jackie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 31 May 2009 17:47:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59541/bitter-parker-i-was-goaded-into-nude-weeds-scene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAnnoyed 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. I wish I hadn't...http://www.newser.com/story/59541/bitter-parker-i-was-goaded-into-nude-weeds-scene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 7:29:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/46476/thanks-for-the-memories-bob-cuz-2008-tv-stunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagToday'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 standbys like...http://www.newser.com/story/46476/thanks-for-the-memories-bob-cuz-2008-tv-stunk.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 28 Dec 2008 12:32:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/32482/weinsteins-sign-7-year-deal-with-showtime.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShowtime 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...http://www.newser.com/story/32482/weinsteins-sign-7-year-deal-with-showtime.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Jul 2008 11:15:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26478/magic-of-this-american-life-returns-to-small-screen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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.com. On...http://www.newser.com/story/26478/magic-of-this-american-life-returns-to-small-screen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 04 May 2008 11:57:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25142/movie-studios-to-create-premium-channel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParamount 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.http://www.newser.com/story/25142/movie-studios-to-create-premium-channel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Apr 2008 8:50:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22957/tudors-flashy-fiction-is-far-from-fact.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn 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 historian tells ABC News. “Not one...http://www.newser.com/story/22957/tudors-flashy-fiction-is-far-from-fact.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:00 CDT