Who: Laura Linney, Cynthia Nixon, Gabourey Sidibe, Phyllis Somerville, John Benjamin Hickey, Darlene Hunt, Jenny Bicks, Vivian Cannon, moderated by Anita Gates
What: “The Big C”
Where: Paley Center for Media
When: November 1, 2010
Thumbs: Up

Viewers see a surveillance camera conversation between two high schoolers at a diner, talking about their mutual friend who’s mom ran away. In another conversation, we see a man reveal to his wife he was bullied as a kid – only to be bullied by her in return.

This fictional scenes are from Showtime’s new R-rated series Look. We talked to Ali Cobrin, one of the stars of the show, about social networking, security cameras in dressing rooms and more.

Have you been watching one of my all-time favorites, Laura Linney, doing her stuff on cable as a woman who thinks she is dying of cancer in The Big C? This is comedic drama at its best and happens on Showtime on Sunday nights at 10:30 PM EST.

With cell phone video cameras, security cameras and social media tools like Twitter, people in America are more exposed than ever. If someone wanted to be watching, and following, they could.

A new “very R-rated” series on Showtime, Look (premiering Sunday at Midnight), explores this theme. We talked to creator Adam Rifkin this week.

No, the third letter of the alphabet isn’t rising up in revolution; it’s actually part of a promotion for an awesome new show called “The Big C,” which premiers Monday, Aug. 16th at 10:30 PM ET/PT on Showtime.

On his usual appearances alongside Megyn Kelly, John Stossel limits his libertarian leanings to debating feudalism, showing off his mustache, and taking rides on his government-funded go-cart. For better or worse, today’s conversation took a turn for the awkward, with Stossel as a passionate defender of bad Showtime pseudo-porn against big government overreach.

Saturday Night Live has briefly touched on impressions of Rachel Maddow and Arianna Huffington.

But with last night’s third season premiere of Tracey Ullman‘s State of the Union on Showtime, we finally got an answer to the question – what would happen if Maddow, Huffington, Meghan McCain, Christiane Amanpour and Rep. Barney Frank all hung out in a make-up room?

When people like Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Paul Feig, Rob Corddry, Paul F. Tomkins, Joel Stein, Rob Riggle, Diablo Cody and Jenji Kohan say your schtick is funny, then it’s pretty safe to say it’s funny. But will saying that — and tweeting it, and Facebooking it, and YouTube-ing it, and emailing them on the [...]

Exclusive! Here is another scene from “Ronna & Beverly,” a pilot made for Showtime earlier this year that got a last-ditch airdate — which creators Jessica Chaffin & Jamie Denbo turned into a chance to catalyze a veritable movement to get it seen (and, hopefully, loved). According to IMDb, it’s up 628% in popularity over [...]

So! “Ronna & Beverly” aired last night. Did you watch? Did anyone? Did the army of Twitter followers of comedy tastemakers like Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Joel Stein, Paul Feig, Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer and Diablo Cody — remember to set their DVRs? Anyone subscribing to the theory of Twitter as a cross-platform [...]

What do you do if your TV pilot finally gets made — in the middle of a media meltdown and the worst recession in years? And what do you do if it isn’t picked up, but at the last minute, randomly, gets scheduled to air? In the olden days (read: a few years ago), you [...]

When the decade began, the gay community was recovering from its unrequited love affair with the Clinton administration and worried about the culture war being waged by religious conservatives. By the end of the decade, the same people were dealing with their unrequited love affair with the Obama administration and, well, you know where this is going. Still, the decade was not without its highlights – we’ve still come a long, long way since 2000. So, on to the gayest moments of the Aughts!