Showtime orders Spielberg comedy series
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Showtime has given a  pilot order to &quot;The United States of Tara,&quot; a single-camera  comedy from Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television centered  on a mother with multiple-personality syndrome.
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In the latest round of pilot pickups, NBC has given a cast-contingent order to the comedy "I Love Faron Hitchman," Fox has greenlit the drama "Murder Book," while UPN has given a nod to the drama "The Lot."
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The network reversed course and announced that it had ordered seven new episodes for broadcast late this year or early in 2008.
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Larry David tools around in one on his HBO series. Cameron Diaz drives one in Los Angeles. So do Leonardo DiCaprio and Rob Reiner.
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LOS ANGELES  - Showtime is having it  rough with "Huff," its new primetime series that premiered at  10 p.m. Sunday.
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Jonathan Silverman ("The Single Guy") will co-star opposite Eddie Griffin in "Pryor Offenses," a Showtime comedy pilot inspired by the stand-up material and real life of Richard Pryor.
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Last month, Ben Dey, an  assistant working in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency,  leaped several rungs on the Hollywood ladder by successfully  pitching an idea for a comedy to producer Brian Grazer. The  sale came about because the Imagine Entertainment executive  visits CAA once a year for a lunchtime meeting in which he  entertains assistants&#39; pitches.
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Fox has ordered two comedy pilots, including one from a pair of "Simpsons" alumni.
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"Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be back with their writers airing joke-filled new hours starting Wednesday, the shows' production company, Worldwide Pants, announced Friday.
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Fox Broadcasting Co. has given a script commitment to a comedy series project to be adapted from Bill Cosby's recent best-selling book "Congratulations! Now What?: A Book for Graduates."
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HBO's Unscripted is clever and fun, but how many inside-show-biz sitcoms do we need?
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MySpace.com &#038; Yahoo : More TV Shows Showtime is going to stream shows on Yahoo! to promote them and attract subscribers, according to this AdWeek article. Meahwhile, Fox will stream new shows on its affiliates&#8217; websites and on MySpace, says Reuters and MediaPost (reg. req&#8217;d). This effort is part of the larger, &#8220;Fox on Demand&#8221; initiative. The [...]
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Showtime is known for content that is too racy for network television, so it is perhaps fitting that its latest slogan should be inappropriate for the networks, too.
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Eager for new comedies to replace  "Friends" and "Frasier," NBC takes a big gamble with this  week's debut of a costly, computer-animated series about a  sexually frisky family of talking lions in Siegfried & Roy's  famed Las Vegas act.
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LOS ANGELES  - NBC's Wednesday comedies   are on the move again.
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NBC has ordered three  additional scripts of freshman comedy "30 Rock," which got off  to a lackluster start despite critical praise.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jeremy Piven, who plays ambitious Hollywood agent Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage," will portray a used-car liquidator in a comedy feature.