Showtime Seeks Crossover with Gritty Dramas
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Cable channel Showtime unveiled three new series for its 2005-06 lineup Wednesday, including an adaptation of box office hit "Barbershop."
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Showtime's comedy, starring Hank Azaria, is a clear-eyed, good-humored look at an upper-middle-class midlife crisis.
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Showtime is headed for "The  Canyons," a horror-tinged soap opera originated by "American  Psycho" novelist Bret Easton Ellis.
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"Jozi-H," a new television series  set in a fictional Johannesburg hospital, enters a crowded  genre, but this medical drama offers something different -- a  glimpse at life in a society ravaged by violent crime.
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NEW YORK  - Showtime Networks is partnering with Meebo, a firm that fuses video programming and chat rooms, to offer "Dexter" fans additional content after the serial-killer show airs its season finale on Sunday.
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Crime doesn&#39;t have a monopoly on mystery and intrigue. Medical Investigation takes the procedural story-telling techniques that have made CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV&#39;s most popular drama, and attempts
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Television networks face an increasingly competitive landscape to attract new viewers, so channels are seeking innovative new ways to promote their primetime series.
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The popularity of crime TV shows translates into a boom for autopsy actors willing to play cadavers. In Table of Malcontents.
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Some of the most hotly anticipated new dramas scheduled to open in the next eight months are by men who have been of Medicare-eligible age for years.
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Showtime is developing an hourlong drama with writer-producers Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, whose credits include "Party of Five" and "Sisters."
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LOS ANGELES  - Cable channel Showtime  unveiled three new series for its 2005-06 lineup Wednesday,  including an adaptation of box office hit "Barbershop."
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On âCashmere Mafia,â a new ABC drama that begins on Sunday, successful, privileged and glamorous women balancing families and high-powered careers are taught that there is no such thing as âhaving it all.â
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LOS ANGELES  - Spike TV is hoping for  an explosion in its ratings with the new reality series "Boom."
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Here's a prediction for 2005: Showtime is going to make some noise with its musical remake of an agitprop cinema classic, "Reefer Madness."
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Showtime is giving an  upcoming episode of "The L Word" an online sneak peek after  ratings for its fifth-season premiere popped after a similar  stunt.
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"Jozi-H", a new television series set in a fictional Johannesburg hospital, enters a crowded genre, but this medical drama offers something different -- a glimpse at life in a society ravaged by violent crime.
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Despite the Hollywood writers' strike, the big TV networks have more than a hundred episodes of scripted series ready to roll out over the next few months. The bad news for viewers: Few are fan favorites.