Weeds Dealer Paired Up with Call Girl Billie Piper
Mary-Louise Parker by Cliff Lipson/Showtime, Billie Piper courtesy Showtime Networks
It's
Billie Piper, charging by the hour.
Doctor Who's former Companion is coming to Showtime June 16, playing a legal secretary by day/high-priced hooker by night in
Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Pegged as a cross between
Sex and the City and
Californication, the half-hour comedy will follow
Weeds, which launches its fourth season that night.
At a Wednesday press conference, Showtime also announced that in April it would start filming Hollywood "It" writer Diablo Cody's (
Juno)
The United States of Tara. The half-hour pilot, which was produced by Stephen Spielberg and stars
Toni Collette as a mom with multiple personality disorder, "should be on sooner rather than later," says Showtime entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt. Despite Cody's burgeoning film career,
Tara will "be her No. 1 priority," Greenblatt promises.
Lastly, for those who can't get enough of David Duchovny cavorting with nubile young beauties,
Californication will return after the Olympics. -
Ileane Rudolph
