7.21.2008

um, hellsyes.

Showtime grows 'Weeds' - Edie Falco series titled 'Nurse Jackie'

Showtime has brought the Edie Falco pilot to series and given Mary-Louise Parker two more seasons to sell dope. At the network’s Friday afternoon TCA session, Showtime made plenty of programming announcements, unveiling, for example, the tentative title of “Nurse Jackie” to the Falco skein. Production of the series will begin in the fall, and it will arrive on air in spring or early summer. Net also said it was ordering an untitled spinoff of “The L Word,” which ended its fifth season in March and will finish up in 2009 with eight more episodes. New series will be exec produced by Ilene Chaiken. Entertainment topper Robert Greenblatt said the storyline for the spinoff would continue from where the series ends, including taking one actress from “The L Word” and moving her character forward. He declined to say who that actress is. Parker and the gang, meanwhile, will be back for two more 13-episode cycles of comedy “Weeds” — the show’s fifth and sixth seasons. The previously announced “United States of Tara,” exec produced by Steven Spielberg and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, will launch early in 2009. Toni Collette stars as a suburban housewife with multiple personalities.

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