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Sensitive Skin, Hot Sex

SimchaJune 3, 2008 //

Sex is still in the city and on HBO. Kim Cattrall, aka Samantha Jones, will executive produce/star in Sensitive Skin, a new show about a 50-something Manhattan housewife putting herself (and her crotch) out there. The series will be based on a BBC program of the same name which featured the coolest cougar from Absolutely Fabulous, Patsy (aka Joanna Lumley). Sopranos alums, writers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, have also signed on to guide the project and we’re sure with Ms. Kim in the lead role, this new show will be just as hit-able stateside. [Hollywood Reporter]

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Show We’ll Be Watching: Swingtown

Amelia McDonell-ParryMay 12, 2008 //

One of the upcoming shows getting lots of buzz is Swingtown on CBS — I don’t think it has an official release date yet, but I’m psyched. The show centers around couples in the 1970′s who are into swinging — i.e. partner swapping. How did a show like this end up on CBS? It is produced by the same director behind HBO juggernauts Big Love and Rome and you would think that a show so much about, you know, sex, would be better suited for a network that allows nudity. But producer Mike Kelley says, “I actually think the shackles of having to show more explicit things every week to week to week on cable would have been far more constricting.” Uh, yeah. Whatever, we’ll be watching…and wishing for some nipple, I’m sure. [NY Times via Boinkology] Keep reading »

Coming To A TV Near You!

SimchaApril 25, 2008 //
  • Nick Lachey is set to host a High School Musical-inspired talent show competition. Get ready for some show tunes! [Just Jared]
  • Could the 90210 remake start to suck even before it’s begun filming? E! Online reports that the CW may have reached out to Hilary Duff about starring in the series. No, no, no! [E! Online]
  • HBO is well-endowed with a new dark comedy called Hung. True to its title the show will focus on the sex life of an aging athlete still trying to use his impressive physical attributes to the best of his ability. [Variety]

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    Polygamist Compound Raided

    SimchaApril 7, 2008 //

    While it may take until 2009 for HBO’s hot hit Big Love to start its third season, there’s some real life polygamy drama going down in Texas and Warren Jeffs is a real-life Roman Grant. After an unidentified 16-year-old girl called 911 to report sexual and physical abuse, Police raided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ compound in El Dorado. Over the weekend, officials removed 219 women and children from the organization’s 1900-acre Texas ranch. Most have been relocated to a shelter run by family members and friends, but 18 of those at risk women have been taken into state custody for protection. Although law enforcement couldn’t verify the identity of the caller, Marleigh Meisner, a rep from Child Protection Services, said, “I am confident that the allegations that she brought forth are accurate.” The sect’s “prophet and leader” Warren Jeffs, who claims to be a blood relative of Jesus and Joseph Smith, is no stranger to trouble with the law. After his trial this past September, Jeffs is currently serving a 10-year sentence for being an accomplice to two counts of rape. While this troubling investigation of sexual abuse continues, rest assured, Jeffs has allegedly already tried to kill himself in prison. [CNN] Keep reading »

    If This Is What Marriage Is Like, We’re Never Doing It

    Amelia McDonell-ParryDecember 4, 2007 //

    HBO’s controversial new show Tell Me You Love Me is amazingly depressing, incredibly arousing, and mind-bending-ly boring. Focused on four couples, all of whom are straight and fairly middle-class, the show aims to give the viewers an uncensored look at male/female relationships, flaws completely exposed to their bloody mucus-y center. To be perfectly honest, we didn’t give a hoot about the high-minded premise — we tuned in for the much buzzed about, hardcore sex scenes that left some reviewers wondering if the actors actually did it. It’s like porn but with better lighting, hotter, less plastic-y people, and a great soundtrack. But like porn, we were extremely tempted to fast-forward through the pesky storyline – which has one couple that is completely sexless and another that is trying and failing to have a baby – to get to the humping. But we didn’t. And that’s why the storyline completely killed our lady boner. On a positive note, if couples were forced to watch this show, there would probably be a dip in divorce rates – but only because they wouldn’t be getting married in the first place. [HBO] Keep reading »

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