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A Look at Showtime

For many critics and a great many more viewers, Showtime has become the new gold standard for compelling, provocative, and challenging premium television. The critical acclaim surrounding Showtime’s original series has made the network the most talked about in television today. With breakthrough shows, including Dexter, Weeds, Brotherhood, The Tudors, Californication, The L Word, the Emmy–winning This American Life, Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Showtime appeared on more than sixty national “Ten-Best” lists last year in publications such as Time and People magazines, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today—which went even further and proclaimed Showtime “Network of the Year.” This past year, Dexter received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and was recognized by the American Film Institute as one of AFI’s top ten most outstanding television programs of 2007.

Leading the way in this exciting new era for Showtime are Chairman and CEO Matthew C. Blank and President of Entertainment Robert Greenblatt. With an ever-expanding lineup of quality programs created by and featuring some of the greatest talents in the industry, Showtime has attracted new subscribers in record numbers. And now with its largest audience base in the network’s more than thirty-year history, Showtime is well positioned to continue building on this remarkable growth.

In 2009, Showtime will add two highly anticipated shows to its growing slate of quality original series:

United States of Tara is a half-hour series from Executive Producer Steven Spielberg starring Academy Award–nominated actress Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine) as a wife and mother who suffers from dissociative identity (formerly known as multiple personality) disorder. The show is created and executive produced by Academy Award–winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno). Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Dreamworks Television and Alexa Junge are also executive producers. John Corbett (Sex and the City) plays Tara’s husband, and Rosemarie DeWitt stars as her sister. United States of Tara premieres Sunday, January 18.

Nurse Jackie marks the return to premium television of three-time Emmy Award–winner Edie Falco in a dark comedy about a strong-willed, iconoclastic nurse struggling to find a balance between the demands of her frenetic job at a New York City hospital and an equally challenging personal life. The series, a coproduction of Showtime and Lionsgate Television, will premiere in June 2009.

Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation and owns and operates the premium television networks Showtime, The Movie Channel, and Flix. It also manages Smithsonian Networks, a joint venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution.
 

A Look at Carl Reiner

Depending on who you talk to, Carl Reiner is best known as a costar on the legendary television program Your Show of Shows . . . or as the creator and costar of The Dick Van Dyke Show . . . or as The Interviewer of "The 2000 Year Old Man" . . . or a director of feature films, including The Jerk, All of Me, Oh, God!, and Where's Poppa? . . . or as father of actor-writer-director-producer Rob Reiner and husband of jazz vocalist Estelle Reiner . . . or as the recipient of twelve Emmy Awards . . . or . . .

Born in the Bronx, Reiner is the son of a watchmaker. At Evander Childs High School his interest was baseball, but at age sixteen he took a job as a machinist's helper in the millinery trade. He simultaneously enrolled in drama school for eight months and landed a part as a second tenor in an updated version of The Merry Widow.

Reiner subsequently served in World War II, first training as a radio operator in the Air Force, followed by an assignment to Georgetown University to study French in order to become an interpreter, then as a teletype operator in the Signal Corps, and later as a comedian and actor with Maurice Evans' Special Services Entertainment Unit. He toured the Pacific for eighteen months in G.I. revues.

Upon his honorable discharge in 1946, he won the leading role in the national company of Call Me Mister, and after three more years in various Broadway musicals, joined Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca on Your Show of Shows.

In 1958, his first novel, Enter Laughing, was published. An autobiographical work, the book chronicled Reiner's frustrations as a young machinist helper in the millinery trade and his eventual entry into show business. The book subsequently became the basis for a Broadway play adapted by Joe Stein and feature film (directed and coproduced by Reiner) of the same name.

In 1961, Reiner conceived The Dick Van Dyke Show, which would become one of the most famous and best loved sitcoms in television history. Of course, audiences have never forgotten his costarring role on the show as the toupee-wearing producer, Alan Brady. That same year, he wrote his first feature film, The Thrill of It All, for Doris Day and James Garner.

Reiner's other feature film credits as a director include: The Comic, cowritten by Reiner and Aaron Ruben; Where's Poppa?, starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon; Oh, God!, starring George Burns; films with actor Steve Martin: The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man With Two Brains, and All of Me; Summer School, with Mark Harmon; Bert Rigby, You're A Fool, which Reiner also wrote; Sibling Rivalry, with Kirstie Alley; Fatal Instinct, with Armand Assante and Kate Nelligan; and That Old Feeling, with Bette Midler and Dennis Farina. Reiner and Mel Brooks released a CD and book with new material in 1997, The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000, which garnered a Grammy Award for the Best Spoken Comedy Album the following year.

His motion picture acting credits include a starring role in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, and featured or cameo roles in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Gazebo, Generation, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The End, and The Slums of Beverly Hills. His most recent acting role was as Sol in the trio of Ocean's 11 films. His TV acting credits include feature roles in Beggars and Choosers, Family Law, The Bernie Mac Show, Crossing Jordan, The Bonnie Hunt Show, and Boston Legal. He was also a character voice in the DreamWorks animated series, Father of the Pride. TV Land produced and broadcast an animated half-hour pilot of Reiner's famous character, Alan Brady.

CBS Television produced, along with TV Land, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited in 2004.

His second novel, All Kinds of Love, was published in 1993. His third novel, Continue Laughing, was published in 1995. How Paul Robeson Saved My Life, a book of short stories, was published in 1999. My Anecdotal Life, was published in 2003, as was his childrens' book, Tell Me A Scary Story. In 2005 The Two Thousand Year Old Man Goes to School was published, followed by NNNNN in 2006.

Reiner and his wife of more than sixty years, Estelle, are also parents of two other children: Annie Reiner, a poet-painter-playwright-psychoanalyst, and Lucas Reiner, a painter-screenwriter-director. They are proud grandparents of five grandchildren. He calls all three of his children, "terribly civilized, wonderful human beings."