Edie Falco, Toni Collette
Showtime is bringing Nurse Jackie back early.
The half-hour drama starring Edie Falco will return March 22, 2010, the cable channel announced Friday. Jackie will be paired with fellow returning sophomore show...
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Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
10 pm/ET Showtime
She's back! The prodigiously talented and incredibly amusing Tracey Ullman returns for a second season of skewering Americans in the news (and celebrity visitors to America). She kicks things into comic high gear with a wickedly funny spoof of Heather Mills (Paul McCartney's ex) as a reality-TV star. Other highlights include Ullman as Texas-ranch retiree Laura Bush presiding over a garage sale featuring "doodads and objets d'art" from her White House stay, and a send-up of Celine Dion doing post-Katrina calamity cleanup in New Orleans.
Read on for previews of The Masters, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Breaking Bad and Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels.
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New releases announced today, July 24:The Big Easy - Season 2 will be coming out November 25 The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - The Best of Season 3 (Retail 4-Disc Release) will be coming out September 16 Spin City - Season 1 will be coming out November 4 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union - The Complete Season 1 will be coming out November 11 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Tracy Ullman by Art Streiber/Showtime
Showtime has renewed Tracey Ullman's State of the Union for a second season. The network also announced The Mark Wooten Project, a six-episode series of character-driven sketches by the British-born comedian."Tracey Ullman is the veteran genius who continues to impress us with her versatility, while Marc Wootton is the up-and-comer who will surprise our audience with his own unique voice. This is an embarrassment of riches for us in the comedy department," said Showtime Entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt. — J.R. Whalen
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We always knew Tracy Ullman was quite the impressionist, but we never knew what a true comedic genius she really was until we saw this Dina Lohan sketch from the premiere of her new series, Tracy Ullman’s State of the Union. Best line? "If your daughter’s heart cardiac arrests once in a night club, shame on you. If your daughter cardiac arrests twice, shame on me."
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Question: Have you seen Tracey Ullman's new series on Showtime yet? I think it's smart and hilarious, and as much as I love her old characters, I 'm glad that she created some new ones. Her celebrity impersonations killed me, especially Arianna Huffington and Campbell Brown. I can't believe HBO let her go. Oh, wait, I can!
Answer: I reviewed it recently, and while I'm also a longtime Tracey Ullman fan, I'm not sure State of the Union represents her best work. Not so much her performance, which as always is amazing in its range, but in its scattershot choice of targets, especially a weekly sketch about Laurie David (who cares?). Many of the reviews tended to be more generous than mine, so maybe my expectations were too high. And there's much about the new series I like: the Bollywood numbers, her Buffalo news anchor character, the Renee Zellweger squint. But this is one of those shows where I felt it was giving me both too much and not enough ...
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Tracy Ullman by Cliff Lipson/Showtime
The hilarious British actress, Tracy Ullman (a self-proclaimed 'happy schizophrenic'), is hitting up Showtime with an all-new sketch comedy series featuring, of course, her laundry list of mimicked characters. Among our personal favorites has to be established celebrities. We give her a lot of credit for her Renee Zellweger—not just anyone could pull of the 'chronic narcissistic squint' as well as she can! Watch it now! | More online videosYour take: Which of Ullman’s character’s is your favorite?
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The many faces of Tracey Ullman from State of the Union
English native Tracey Ullman has a unique perspective on the United States — actually, she has dozens. In her zany sketch-comedy series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union (Fridays at 10 pm/ET, Showtime), the multitalented mimic will each week deliver a series of rapid-fire vignettes that capture a day in the life of America. We caught up with her for some insight into the method behind her madness.
TVGuide.com: You sing, dance, act…. Is there anything you can't do?Tracey Ullman: I can't draw. Stick people come out! [Laughs] But, in general, I don't like to be pigeonholed. I'm lucky — I get to have a chance at anything. I'm a happy schizophrenic!
TVGuide.com: Explain the concept of State of the Union.Ullman: We spend a day in America — from dawn to dusk
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At first blush — and I do mean blush — you may wonder about the sensibility of PBS' latest Jane Austen movie. It opens like a literal bodice-ripper on a scene of bare flesh and fiery passions: Bizarro-World Jane?
Not to worry. This overheated prologue, which is explained much later, is intended as a sharp contrast to the more genteel but emotionally charged romance that follows. Master adapter Andrew Davies' two-part Sense and Sensibility provides a flavorful, spirited finale to Masterpiece's "The Complete Jane Austen" series.
It lacks the star power (Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) of Ang Lee's 1995 Oscar winner. But Austen's characters are so enduring and endearing in their virtues, vanities and passionate follies that they don't require movie stars to bring them to life.
Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield are agreeably understated and instantly sympathetic as sisters Elinor (the quietly suffering pragmatist) and Marianne (the re
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