Jenji Kohan, creator and executive producer of Weeds, has a new series in store for Showtime and Lionsgate TV.
Kohan will executive produce and co-write Ronna and Beverly, a new comedy project along with actor-writers Jessica Chaffin (The Mighty B, Zoey 101) and Jamie Denbo (Reno 911), reports Variety.
Ronna and Beverly is based on a comedy sketch that Chaffin and Denbo created and performed...
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Nancy. Serious firepower aimed at her head. A missing stash. Silas and his trunkful of pot being approached by the cops. How does Agrestic's dealing damsel in distress get out of this one? TVGuide.com invited Jenji Kohan, the creator of Showtime's Weeds, to preview the new season, premiering Monday, Aug. 13, at 10 pm/ET.
TVGuide.com: I actually just got the press kit for Weeds. That's some foldout of Mary-Louise Parker, nude!Jenji Kohan: Yeah! Her ass looks good in that. Wish they hadn't used the snake, but what can you do?
TVGuide.com: Last time we spoke, you said Season 2 was about Nancy accepting her role as drug dealer. What's the theme for Season 3?Kohan: It's the education of a gangster. [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: She has seen how rough-and-tumble it can get.Kohan: And she's got to learn the ropes. It's learning how to be great at her job.
TVGuide.com: My big
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Oh, how this reporter loves himself some Mary-Louise Parker. Most recently spied marketing Mary Jane as the Golden Globe-winning star of Showtime's Weeds, she resurfaces Saturday at 8 pm/ET in Oxygen's The Robber Bride, playing Zenia, an enigmatic enchantress who gave many people a reason to kill her. But who, if anyone, actually did her in? TVGuide.com leapt at the chance to speak with Parker about this TV-movie potboiler, peddling Weeds, and her upcoming gig as a very kind of different bride — Brad Pitt's!
TVGuide.com: Wow. I'm talking to you. My first note here is to "fawn over her like a fool."Mary-Louise Parker: Oh, wow! That's so nice! I could use it....
TVGuide.com: When
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Now this is how you do a cliff-hanger.I'd lost track of Weeds since the fall season kicked into gear, but I recently plunged into a marathon of the last half of the season (thanks, Showtime On Demand!) just in time for Monday's second-season finale. And it was a doozy.Watching these episodes en masse also reinforced to me how much more pungent (so to speak) of a suburban social satire Weeds has become than Desperate Housewives, against which I once negatively compared Weeds as a weakly stepsister. (Housewives is better than a year ago, but now seems to me little more than a fun if uneven escapist romp of a soap, minus the first season's more poignant and provocative sting.)What I've appreciated about Weeds in its second season is its confident, unpredictable narrative muscle, which has been flexing since the first-season cliff-hanger, in which we learned that pot-peddling widow Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) had just slept with a DEA agent, Peter (Martin Donovan), who at first seemed ju...
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They shoot pot dealers, don't they? That question lingers as Season 2 of Showtime's Weeds drew to a close with a helpless, hempless Nancy staring down the barrels of not one or two but five serious pieces of firepower... never once setting down that prominently displayed can of Diet Coke. Her only possible salvation: Silas, now in possession of the final MILF weed harvest, but himself also in dire straits, with Celia and a policeman marching toward the 38-pound stash. And let's not forget poor Shane, who graduated from grade school straight into an impetuous, Cactus Cooler-fueled trip to Paraguay, with Kat (as in Krazy) behind the wheel, and Uncle Andy and Abumchuck in heated pursuit.And to think that the Weeds writers almost tied everything up in a neat bundle instead! So glad they opted otherwise, (as explained in my fresh Features Q&A with series creator Jenji Kohan).Was I entirely satisfied with the season-ending cliff-hanger? No, not entirely. I think it was a cheat to kill...
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