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This Just In: A Reason to Hold Off on Cancelling Your Showtime Subscription Now that DEXTER is Done for the Season!
By theTVaddict on December 14th, 2010 at December 14th, 2010
Review: WEEDS Season 6
By theTVaddict on August 16th, 2010 at August 16th, 2010
As one of the proud, the ardent, the remaining TV Addicts to have stuck by WEEDS throughout all five of its somewhat uneven seasons, it pains us to say that tonight’s sixth season premiere — which has the Botwin clan hastily making a run for it after youngest son Shane channels his inner Dexter Morgan
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Review: THE BIG C
By theTVaddict on August 16th, 2010 at August 16th, 2010
From the network that brought you WEEDS, NURSE JACKIE and the UNITED STATES OF TARA comes THE BIG C, a tale about 42-year old Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) who after receiving life changing news, decides to make drastic and long overdue adjustments to the way she is living her life. Now, before you let out
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Does Showtime’s THE BIG C Make the Grade?
By theTVaddict on July 29th, 2010 at July 29th, 2010
Who says Cancer can’t be funny? Certainly not Showtime, who is so confident that THE BIG C, their newest series starring Laura Linney, Oliver Platt and Gabby Sidibe warrants a big “A,” that they’ve teamed up with theTVaddict.com to give viewers a sneak peak of the first episode prior to the series August 16 premiere.
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You Be the Critic: NURSE JACKIE
By theTVaddict on May 29th, 2009 at May 29th, 2009
Summer reruns and reality already getting you down? Meet NURSE JACKIE; Your guaranteed cure for the post-May season finale blues. But don’t take our word for it, you be the critic by checking out the season premiere of JACKIE prior to its June 8th bow on Showtime. (After the jump)
First Look: WEEDS Season 5
By theTVaddict on May 22nd, 2009 at May 22nd, 2009
Is Nancy Botwin really pregnant with her Mexican lover/ druglord’s baby? “Expect the unexpected,” is all star Mary Louise Parker is saying. Which is why it’s up to this TV Addict to say — well, show a little more, courtesy of these photos from the upcoming season premiere of WEEDS (June 8, 10PM on Showtime)
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Review: UNITED STATES OF TARA
By theTVaddict on January 18th, 2009 at January 18th, 2009
By: Aleks Chan UNITED STATES OF TARA opens to the title character looking somber and peeved. And in the next scene, she’s T, a rowdy, horny, and suggestive teenager who proudly wears her thong outside her jeans isn’t afraid of thrusting her hips in the air while supporting herself on the kitchen counter. Sometimes she
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Dissecting DEXTER: What’s Working, What’s Not… And How To Fix
By theTVaddict on December 16th, 2008 at December 16th, 2008
As the old saying goes; When you’re at the top of your game, there’s no where to go but down. Which is why, following two excellent seasons that culminated in a thrilling face off between Dexter Morgan and Sergeant James Doakes, the downfall of DEXTER was inevitable. Cue our painfully gruesome analysis after-the-fact. If this
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Spotlight on DEXTER Star Michael C. Hall
By theTVaddict on July 29th, 2008 at July 29th, 2008
At the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour, DEXTER star Michael C. Hall was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to discuss the upcoming third season of Showtime’s critically acclaimed thriller DEXTER. On the books: “I read the first book as the first season was based on it. But
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TCA 2008: Showtime’s DEXTER, WEEDS, CALIFORNICATION and BROTHERHOOD
By theTVaddict on July 18th, 2008 at July 18th, 2008
By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent Talk about Showtime! The little network that could, or as we around theTVaddict.com are now calling it — HBO 2.0 — decided to pull out all the stops my rolling up the WEEDS, CALIFORNICATION, DEXTER and BROTHERHOOD panel into one enormous joi…. ummm fantastic panel. Heck, even one of
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