Very excited about this item: Deadline reported on Thursday that former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams is slated to write and executive produce a Showtime series with director Jim Strouse, whom she also works with on the Netflix comedy The Incredible Jessica James.
In 1990, George Michael risked throwing his immense fame away for the sake of his artistry. He was tired of being a commodity, and instead of merely complaining, he actually did something about it. Coming off the phenomenal global success of his solo debut Faith, he recorded a mostly downcast, singer-songwriter album …
When Tiffany Haddish tells a story, especially her own, she does so with her entire body. In her debut standup comedy special, TIFFANY HADDISH: SHE READY! FROM THE HOOD TO HOLLYWOOD, which premiered on Showtime this past Friday, Haddish was clad in a pliable black bodysuit which lent her body the blank, shape-shifting…
At last, here is the trailer (via E! News) for the documentary about Whitney Houston that her estate doesn’t really want anyone to see.
Oliver Stone appeared on Monday night’s The Late Show to promote his Vladimir Putin documentary and looked every bit uncomfortable as Stephen Colbert questioned the director’s alarmingly unchallenging interview with a dictator.
“The good Dale is in the lodge, and he can’t leave.”
The new incarnation of Twin Peaks will debut in just 16 days—not that I have a daily counter plugged to my phone or anything!—and Showtime is very slowly leaking videos that serve as breadcrumb clues to how the show will play out. Today’s video is called “Some familiar faces 25 years later.” And, wow, it looks like…
Some very exciting casting news for Lena Waithe’s forthcoming Showtime series The Chi.
There are still several months to go before David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is back. Plenty of time to catch up on the original run of the show, and do so with a damn fine cup of coffee.
The president of Showtime wants to be clear that the network was pushing equal pay for Emmy Rossum during her salary negotiations for Shameless.
Showtime has ordered a pair of series that might be worth checking out: a Chicago-based show created by Lena Waithe and a comedian-based series from Jamie Foxx starring Jay Pharoah.
As Shameless’s Fiona Gallagher, Emmy Rossum has fleshed out one of the toughest, most complex woman characters on dramedy TV, yet this week we learned she wasn’t getting the same pay as fellow lead William H. Macy, who plays her deadbeat dad. After holding out on her Season 8 contract, though, it looks like she’s…
Emmy Rossum, who’s reportedly renegotiating her salary leading up to Season 8 of Shameless, is demanding to get paid on par with her co-star William H. Macy.
At the end of Season 4, William “Bill” Masters and Virginia Johnson started a new chapter in their lives, becoming partners on a whole new level. Showtime saw that more as an ending than a beginning, unfortunately.
This season of Shameless is about various journeys of maturation, most notably of Fiona (Emmy Rossum), who finally has decided to take care of herself before her siblings, and Ian (Cameron Monaghan), who’s discovering the limits of his sexuality.
We’ve watched the young characters—and actors— of Shameless grow up before our eyes, and so it’s remarkable to be in the seventh season, seeing little Liam old enough to go off to school by himself, Ian dealing with the vagaries of a grown-folk relationship, and Lip completing his first stint in rehab (but maybe not…
Throughout Vinyl’s first—and now final—season, my opinion changed ever so slightly from when I first wrote about its debut episode. Vinyl remained absurd, overly nostalgic, ahistorical and evenly lionizing of men, but at the very least, the effervescent Juno Temple got to shine a little and, even better, the “getting…
Penny Dreadful is a slow-burning and terrific show, one that for the last three seasons has taken iconic literary figures—Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula—and used them to explore the pathos behind monstrosity. It’s also pitch-perfect at capturing the gloom of 19th century London, the tenor of Victorian horror,…
All Things Must Pass is director Colin Hanks’s documentary about the history of Tower Records, which in 1960 became the first store in America to sell records exclusively, and which incomparably shaped youth culture and music consumption until its bankruptcy in 2006. It came out last October in limited release, but…
The Affair moonlights as a mystery, the question of who hit and killed wayward junkie Scott Lockhart with their car threading through and unraveling the whole of the show, which wrapped its second season Sunday night. (As a plot device, vehicular manslaughter also propelled a show that, without it, would consist…
