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Sundance 2013: Showtime Takes the Fast Lane With 'History of the Eagles'
Showtime has acquired broadcast rights to Alison Ellwood’s comprehensive documentary “History of the Eagles,” which had yet to world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday night. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) produced the two-par...
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Was it Smart or Dumb? Who Survived the 'Homeland' Season Finale?
There are very few things in Homeland, with its endless twists and reversals, that are irrefutably true, but this comment from Saul to Carrie in the season 2 finale is one of them: “You are the smartest and the dumbest fucking person I’ve ever known.” Sometimes you...
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Homeland's Second Season Terror: American Politics
Most of us don’t know much about counterterrorism – the illusion of peering into a secret world is one of the many enticing elements of Homeland – but we all know something about politics. As it starts its enthralling second season, the Showtime series goes beyond global...
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Robert De Niro & Eric Roth Reteam To Bring 'The Good Shepherd' TV Series To Showtime
If there is one movie in the past few years this writer feels was underrated and dismissed too easily, it's Robert De Niro's 2006 effort "The Good Shepherd." Running way ahead of more critically acclaimed fare like "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," De Niro's film was an eq...
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Ron Howard To Direct Aztec Drama 'Conquest' For Showtime
While we presume Ron Howard's epic take on Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" -- which was to span both the big and small screen -- isn't happening anytime soon, it seems the helmer isn't giving up on television as a place to tell an epic story. And now he's planning to go...
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Matt LeBlanc Skewers TV: Watch 'Episodes,' Season Premiere (Video)
Among other priceless bits of show-business guidance in the brilliant new season of Episodes, you’ll learn this: when the father of a television network president dies, don’t even think about sending a paltry muffin basket, because Michelle Pfeiffer and David Kelley will be donating...
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'Dexter' Will Finish After Season 8; Producers Insist They “Know Where It’s Going To End.”
The sundrenched shores of Miami, Florida have know played home to the murderous ways of Dexter Morgan since the series “Dexter” started in 2006, since then the show has had six Golden Globe and Emmy-winning seasons, with an seventh in the can. Though things look as if they are settling down as “Dex...
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Watch: The Full Season Premiere of 'Episodes' is Available for Free Online
Showtime's U.S./U.K. showbiz sitcom "Episodes" returns for a second round on Sunday, July 1st at 10:30pm, but you can watch the full season premiere below for free online until July 30th at 11:59pm.
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Jeremy Irons In 'The Borgias' Stunning Season Finale (Video)
On a day packed with season finales, two wildly different series stand out: Lena Dunham’s increasingly brilliant Girls on HBO (for a preview, click here) and the extravagant Neil Jordan-created Showtime drama, The Borgias, which ends its glorious and gory second season tonight with one of...
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HBO Orders Pilot For Cold War Spy Drama 'The Missionary' With Aaron Paul; 'Weeds' Finished After Season 8
With the clock now running down on AMC's "Breaking Bad" with two season left to go, the future for actor Aaron Paul is a bit uncertain. Will he make the leap to the big screen? Earlier this year he earned very strong notices for his turn in the alcoholism drama "Smashed" whic...
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