Showtime

  • Carol Leifer Sets Up Pair of Shows

    Preps ‘Mouthpiece’ for Showtime, ‘You and Me and Me’ for CBS

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    the Hollywood Reporter

  • Showtime Spoofing Sitcoms with Matt LeBlanc

    ‘Friends’ star will play himself in a BBC co-production about what happens when good comedy goes bad.

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  • Elayne Boosler: ‘They Just Didn’t Like Women’

    A Hollywood Breakthrough, thanks to Andy Kaufman, Bill Cosby … and a regime change at Showtime.

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    Elayne Boosler (to Eric Estrin)

  • Condon and Linney Reunite for ‘The C Word’

    Oscar-winning director signs deal to helm the pilot for Showtime’s new cancer comedy.

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  • Not Being Joan Rivers’ Daughter Led to ‘Twilight,’ ‘Dexter’

    The other Melissa Rosenberg on Her Hollywood Breakthrough.

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    Melissa Rosenberg (to Eric Estrin)

  • Linney Taking on ‘The C Word’ for Showtime

    The network once known for "The L Word" is now tackling "The C Word" — cancer.   Showtime has signed Laura Linney to star in and executive produce a new half-hour series in which she’ll play a suburban mom and wife who’s diagnosed with cancer. Darlene Hunt ("90210") will write the pilot; Neal Moritz and…

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  • Leslie, Harvey & Quentin: A Love Story

    Harvey Weinstein’s not the only Hollywood mogul doing a little jig over the bitchin’ box office numbers for "Inglorious Basterds."   Leslie Moonves has reason to be happy, too.   That’s because "Basterds" is the first big movie covered under the massive seven-year, 95 film output deal CBS Corp.’s Showtime signed with The Weinstein Company…

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  • It’s No Conspiracy: Stone Headed to Showtime

    The wingnuts are going to love this.   Showtime is getting into business with Oliver Stone, signing a deal with the oft-controversial director for a 10-part documentary series exploring events in U.S. history that might have been underreported. Stone will narrate, create and exec produce the project, scheduled to debut next year and appropriately titled…

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  • While Networks Sputter, Pay Cable Soars

    Thanks to “True Blood,” “Hung,” subscriptions, ratings rse for Showtime, HBO.

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    Daniel Frankel
    While Networks Sputter, Pay Cable Soars

  • Time Warner Takes $25 Billion Loss

    Time Warner will record a $25 billion charge in Q4 of 2008, leading to an operating loss for the period.

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    Wrap Staff