It seems that Showtime has himself pushed to the side of his own envelope ballsy.
Wages cable channel that has always been a distant second HBO came to the end of an era, and the sooner that a relatively new entertainment president David Nevins understand this better. What he inherited from Robert Greenblatt, who left to run NBC is essentially the wake of parts used for a revolution very impressive. Honestly, can you give enough credit Greenblatt move from a movie channel Showtime, which has focused its original material of money on film for a movie channel, centered on the original series instead , one of HBO. The movies are fine. But the scripted series - very good - the currency in cable channels upscale, especially those that require a subscription. As Greenblatt had found that HBO was not - which has been aggressively politically incorrect - and why. The results? Nothing less than a reversal of fortune.
See, Showtime has had some wonderful injected the series - Resurrection Blvd, Queer as Folk, Dead Like Me, Huff, The L Word, Brotherhood. - But his legacy belongs to the current Weeds, Dexter, Californication, The Tudors, Secret Diary, and call girl, Nurse Jackie, United States of Tara and Big C. What happens if you keep score at home, the mother of selling drugs, a serial killer, sex addict, sex-addicted, addicted to killing, king, hardened prostitute, a hardened drug addicted nurse, a woman in a number of people and cancer victims. This is bleeding edge so loved that Greenblatt really started to stain on the carpet at Showtime.
But before that, guess what he did? This aggressive non-traditional daredevil Canal revitalized lineup just when the storm crossed HBO executive ranks, and when there was a drought unforgivable in its pipeline of shows. People do not pay for something they do not receive on a regular basis and - in time - Showtime surpassed HBO as a need to have the channel. For several years, when people ask - HBO or Showtime? "- The answer was this, but no more ..
And it's not even a difficult decision. Nevins is why Showtime should be put in motion and move elsewhere. This is something quite dark comedy is over. Especially because there was not much humor in it. Now it's just unpleasant folk song.
Monday, Showtime announced it was canceling United States of Tara, with the wonderful Toni Collette. It was a good decision, because as brilliant as Collette is an actress, Tara was becoming boring and tiring. The chain also announced Monday that it had renewed Nurse Jackie with Edie Falco no less wonderful. Unfortunately, it was a bad idea. While Jackie was always stronger show for Tara, it was not less irritating and one-dimensional. Jackie has a drug problem. It clouds his sentence. Yes, we get it. It is necessary for the development of a series, or you might as well be animated.
Lost in these ads was the renewal of a class of students on Monday, Borgia, the writer-director Neil Jordan. Borgia finished the first season on Sunday night and showed that the costume drama was the best and most important of Starz Camelot (another pay channel of the original game in the series), and even better than the previous hit Showtime, The Tudors.
Is a direction that should encourage Nevins. In his first season, Los Borgia has been shown to have stories and longer stories options for Tara and Jackie combined. He also managed to escape the problems of historical accuracy and detours that soap The Tudors so loved.
Although Nevins said that Showtime will broaden its approach, not renewing Jackie not quite mesh with that, especially since the season will be followed by weeds and California, two sets and the last date of sale dates and the Big C, which was, as Tara and Jackie before, a welcome means to show the immense talent of an actress who may not be receiving offers of film, worthy of his talent. Laura Linney, as Falco and Collette, can hardly be wrong, but the Big C is a series that just never had the right tone in his first season and seems destined to be confined to the ghetto Limited and / or repeated story angles.
And that is the problem faced at this stage of Showtime. If you look at their programming, much of it seems to play. Dexter has been fantastic, but now is the time of near misses and escapes at the end. I do not vote in the weeds (a series I loved), Californication, Tara, Jackie and C. Great I'm still on board with Shameless episodes (and Dexter, at least earlier this season), and I like the look of the previews national (and, through warning, presumably soaking in the glory of the franchise).
However, in addition to a lot of excellent mini-series and movies, HBO continues to churn out, the channel has a solid game Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Treme, True Blood, bored to death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eastbound & Down, Life & Times of Tim, Ricky Gervais Show, Hung and since a series of upcoming slate, Lucky, which definitely looks promising. In any event, the first three series of larger than what is currently Showtime.
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