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Post by sissa on Aug 6, 2013 3:59:06 GMT 10
Some info about the pilot. I´m already crossing my fingers because TVland is a cruel world for pilots. Showtime Orders Drama Pilot 'The Affair'Written By Sara Bibel February 8th, 2013 SHOWTIME® FLIRTS WITH NEW DRAMA THE AFFAIR Network Orders Pilot By Award-Winning Playwright Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi LOS ANGELES, CA (February 8, 2013) –SHOWTIME has ordered a new drama project from award-winning playwright and writer/producer Sarah Treem (House Of Cards, In Treatment) and co-creator Hagai Levi (In Treatment). THE AFFAIR is an intimate exploration of two marriages and an affair that disrupts them -- with all of the complexities and consequences that result. Written by Sarah Treem, this provocative, one-hour relationship drama will be told separately from the male and female perspective. THE AFFAIR is an original concept by creators Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi, who will serve as executive producers alongside director Mark Mylod (Shameless, Once Upon A Time). tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/02/08/showtime-orders-drama-pilot-the-affair/168826/Maura Tierney & Dominic West on Tap for Showtime Pilot The Affair by Sarah TreemNEWS By Lindsay Champion August 5, 2013 - 11:06AM Maura Tierney and Dominic West will lead the new drama pilot 'The Affair.' Broadway alums Maura Tierney and Dominic West will play an unhappily married couple in the new Showtime pilot The Affair, according to Deadline.com. Written by playwright Sarah Treem and co-created by Hagai Levi, The Affair will also star Ruth Wilson (Anna Karenina). No additional casting or filming dates have been announced. The new drama tells the story of Noah (West), a New York schoolteacher and a father of four who is devoted to his wife (Tierney) and family. But when he meets a woman (Wilson) that he thinks is his soul mate, his life is turned upside down. The Affair details the range of emotions Noah’s wife experiences during his infidelity. Tierney made her Broadway debut in Lucky Guy opposite Tom Hanks. Her off-Broadway credits include Three Changes, An Oak Tree and Some Girl(s). Her many film and TV appearances include The Good Wife, ER, Liar Liar, NewsRadio, Semi-Pro and Ruth & Erica. West appeared on Broadway in Design for Living and in Rock ‘n’ Roll in the West End. His film and TV credits include 300, The Wire, John Carter, The Hour and the 2002 film adaptation of Chicago. Treem’s play A Feminine Ending ran at off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons in 2007. Her new play When We Were Young and Unafraid will begin performances at New York City Center in June 2014, starring Cherry Jones. She has written episodes for TV’s House of Cards, In Treatment and How to Make It In America. www.broadway.com/buzz/170979/maura-tierney-dominic-west-on-tap-for-showtime-pilot-the-affair-by-sarah-treem/
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Post by sissa on Aug 7, 2013 3:24:44 GMT 10
Pilot role for Maura Tierney on ‘The Affair’By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein | GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 05, 2013 Actress Maura Tierney, the “ER” alum whose father was the late Boston city councilor Joseph Tierney, is joining the cast of Showtime’s “The Affair.” The pilot, costarring Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, is described as an intense exploration of two marriages and the affair that disrupts them. Tierney plays the wife of West’s character, a high school teacher who has an affair with a woman he thinks is his soul mate. Most recently, Tierney had a recurring role on CBS’s “The Good Wife” and appeared opposite Tom Hanks in “Lucky Guy” on Broadway. www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2013/08/04/maura-tierney-has-affair-with-showtime-pilot/hCV77X5VOLFKpRvkDhXBcL/story.htmlHummm, Maura Tierney + intense exploration = happy sissa News Briefs: MTV Orders a Reality Series About VirginsBy Tim Surette ... Showtime's upcoming adult drama pilot The Affair has booked Maura Tierney as a nice lady who gets cheated on. She'll play the wife of Dominic West's character in the pilot about an affair that ruins a pair of marriages. How could anyone even pretend to cheat on Maura Tierney? She's adorable! Like two puppies made love and had a super puppy. [TV Line] www.tv.com/news/news-briefs-mtv-orders-a-reality-series-about-virgins--137574073358/
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Post by sissa on Aug 27, 2013 10:21:15 GMT 10
Joshua Jackson commits to 'The Affair' for ShowtimeBy Lindsey Bahr on Aug 26, 2013 at 7:40PM Fringe and Dawson’s Creek alum Joshua Jackson is making the jump to Showtime for the cable channel’s pilot The Affair. Jackson will play a Long Island cowboy (that’s not a metaphor, his character actually manages a ranch) in the drama that deals with spouses, wandering eyes, and the effects of an affair on two families. The Wire’s Dominic West was previously announced as a cast member. He’ll play Noah, a high school teacher with four kids who begins an affair with Cole’s (Jackson) wife Allison (Luther’s Ruth Wilson.) Maura Tierney (The Good Wife) also stars in the pilot as Helen, Noah’s college sweetheart and wife of 17 years. House of Cards producer and writer Sarah Treem is heading up the project with her In Treatment colleague Hagai Levi and Mark Mylod (Shameless). The press release announcing the news notes “this provocative, one-hour relationship drama will be told separately from the male and female perspective.” insidetv.ew.com/2013/08/26/joshua-jackson-the-affair/
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Post by sissa on Aug 28, 2013 22:33:45 GMT 10
as the fourth member of the love trapezoid hahaha NEWSWIRE Joshua Jackson and Maura Tierney join Dominic West in Showtime's The AffairBy Mike Vago August 27, 2013 Since it was announced in June that The Wire's Dominic West would be headlining Showtime's The Affair, the network has been quietly building a solid cast for its drama about marital infidelity, signing Maura Tierney as West's soon-to-be-long-suffering wife, and Ruth Wilson as the also-married object of his affections. This week the show added Fringe and Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson as the fourth member of the love trapezoid. Jackson plays "a hard-edged cowboy who manages a ranch" on the bitter unforgiving prairies of... Long Island. West, Tierney, and their four kids go on vacation in that land where the buffalo roam, the Hamptons, and West and Wilson discover they have an instant connection, presumably while the deer and the antelope are off playing in the distance. We still haven't ruled out the possibility that this is a Fringe spin-off, and this Long Island cattle ranch doesn't exist in an alternate universe—perhaps the same universe of cheating spouses where Jackson's former co-star Anna Torv will soon reside. But plot contrivance aside, the cast's pedigree, and scriptwriters from House Of Cards and In Treatment, leave us cautiously optimistic. www.avclub.com/articles/joshua-jackson-maura-tierney-ruth-wilson-join-domi,102133/
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Post by sissa on Sept 6, 2013 9:35:58 GMT 10
Hollywood Reporter: Sexual Infidelity ‘Fall TV’s Hottest Topic’By Katie Yoder | September 5, 2013 | Ready or not, here it comes: the TV fixation with sexual infidelity. The upcoming shows this fall more than confirm a lust for forbidden love on the screen – or so says The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter (THR) revealed the trend in a recent article by citing shows such as Showtime’s “The Affair” and HBO’s “Open.” THR’s Lesley Goldberg highlighted the fascination, noting, “Forbidden love seems to be in the air at television networks as infidelity has become the latest theme to sweep development executives off their feet.” Showtime’s “The Affair” proves the point only too well. Starring actors Joshua Jackson, Maura Tierney, Dominic West, and Ruth Wilson, the show depicts memories of an affair – which also consequently ruined two marriages. But not to worry, as Wilson praised the show as “brilliant, really relevant to modern society” because “You get their [man’s and woman’s] points of view as to why they had the affair, their justification for it, if they have one.” THR quoted HBO Executive Vice President of Original Programming Gary Levine saying, “We always wanted to go deep inside two marriages and threaten them with an affair.” Well, its good to have goals. He continued “Can we be as explosive within two honest and intimate relationships as we can be with a serial killer and the world's freedom at stake?” Another drama, from “Suits” producer Sean Jablonski, was greenlighted by USA. While still in want of a title, the production’s name might look something like, “Husband Finds Wife’s Escort’s Phone.” Not to be left out of the infidelity mix, HBO’s advertised Ryan Murphy’s “Open,” which reviewers describe as “a multi-character exploration of the complex, ever-evolving landscape of sexuality, monogamy and intimacy in relationships.” Murphy created “Nip-Tuck,” “Glee” and the mercifully short-lived “The New Normal,” and has said his goal is to bring explicit sex scenes to broadcast TV. FX’s anticipated but still untitled comedy, starring Judy Greer and Nat Faxon, is the story of a wife who permits her husband to obtain sexual satisfaction elsewhere to save their marriage. Last but not least, ABC's “Betrayal,” portrays a photographer, played by “Boss’” Hannah Ware, who sleeps with her attorney husband’s opposing counsel. “Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas,” said “Betrayal” Executive Producer David Zabel. He concluded, “The lure of infidelity is a universal and deeply personal moral crisis that everyone can identify with or relate to in some way." THR credited Shonda Rhimes’ dramas for having “helped audiences root for the other woman” with affairs like “Grey's Anatomy's” Derek and Meredith and “Scandal’s” Fitz and Olivia. newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2013/09/05/hollywood-reporter-sexual-infidelity-fall-tv-s-hottest-topic
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Post by sissa on Sept 17, 2013 23:44:03 GMT 10
Two Showtime pilots, ‘The Affair’ and ‘Trending Down’, filming in NYCby CHRISTINE on SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 in DAILY FILMING LOCATIONS, NEW YORK CITY Two new pilots for Showtime are filming in NYC this month. The first, Trending Down, is an ad-exec comedy starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The series, if picked up, will focus on Thom Payne, who is adrift when his ad agency is taken over. Showtime describes the show as a “blistering attack on our youth-obsessed culture and a darkly comic examination of what it means to matter. Or matter not.” The second pilot stars Joshua Jackson as a Long Island rancher whose wife Allison (Ruth Wilson) is having an affair with Noah, a high school teacher played by Dominic West. Maura Tierney also stars in the aptly titled pilot, The Affair, as Noah’s wife. Showtime has said “this provocative, one-hour relationship drama will be told separately from the male and female perspective.” Today, The Affair is filming in Brooklyn. If you spot The Affair or Trending Down filming in or around NYC, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com! www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/09/16/two-showtime-pilots-the-affair-and-trending-down-filming-in-nyc/Two Showtime pilots, ‘The Affair’ and ‘Trending Down’, filming in NYCby CHRISTINE on SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 in DAILY FILMING LOCATIONS, NEW YORK CITY Two new pilots for Showtime are filming in NYC this month. The first, Trending Down, is an ad-exec comedy starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The series, if picked up, will focus on Thom Payne, who is adrift when his ad agency is taken over. Showtime describes the show as a “blistering attack on our youth-obsessed culture and a darkly comic examination of what it means to matter. Or matter not.” The second pilot stars Joshua Jackson as a Long Island rancher whose wife Allison (Ruth Wilson) is having an affair with Noah, a high school teacher played by Dominic West. Maura Tierney also stars in the aptly titled pilot, The Affair, as Noah’s wife. Showtime has said “this provocative, one-hour relationship drama will be told separately from the male and female perspective.” Today, The Affair is filming in Brooklyn. If you spot The Affair or Trending Down filming in or around NYC, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com! www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/09/16/two-showtime-pilots-the-affair-and-trending-down-filming-in-nyc/... Filming in New York:... The Affair is filming at Congress and Clinton in Brooklyn and at Court St and Warren St in Brooklyn. (Thanks @thegirlsny @johnnybombola) www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/09/17/tuesday-sept-17-filming-locations-for-the-fault-in-our-stars-castle-criminal-minds-focus-hostages-svu-more/'Bunheads' Star Julia Goldani Telles Signs On to Showtime's THE AFFAIRSeptember 11 2013 TVGuide reports exclusively that Julia Goldani Telles, who played Sasha in the newly canceled ABC Family series 'Bunheads' has signed on to the upcoming Showtime drama pilot THE AFFAIR. The actress will join previoulsy announced cast members ominic West (The Wire), Maura Tierney (ER), Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek) and Ruth Wilson (Luther). From award-winning playwright and writer/producer Sarah Treem (House Of Cards, In Treatment) and co-creator Hagai Levi (In Treatment), the drama is an intimate exploration of two marriages and an affair that disrupts them -- with all of the complexities and consequences that result. Telles will portray 16-year-old Whitney, "Noah and Helen's eldest child." first television role. The provocative, one-hour relationship drama will be told separately from the male and female perspective. THE AFFAIR is an original concept by creators Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi, who will serve as executive producers alongside director Mark Mylod (SHAMELESS, Once Upon A Time). Photo courtesy of ABC Family www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Bunheads-Star-Julia-Goldani-Telles-Signs-On-to-Showtimes-THE-AFFAIR-20130911
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Post by Martine on Jan 17, 2014 5:20:56 GMT 10
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Post by sissa on Jan 17, 2014 22:29:34 GMT 10
Great news, Martine. There are tons of reasons to watch this show: Maura, Maura, Maura (to me she´s the human version of location)and some other things I read in this article written by Jen Troliofrom - from www.tv.com/news/showtime-the-affair-happyish-138989954461/ OMG, many promisses... Showtime has ordered two new shows with some pretty bomb casts: The Affair, starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, and Joshua Jackson, ... and both of them look pretty good! On paper, The Affair (pictured above) sounds like ABC's Betrayal, but with a fancier cast, more nudity, and most importantly, much better writing. from executive producers Sarah Treem (House of Cards, In Treatment) and Hagai Levi (In Treatment), and director Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights), There will be sex! There will be outdoor showers! There will be dramaaaaaaa! The Affair and Happyish will run for 10 episodes, though no premiere dates have been set. Nevins said the earliest we can expect either show would be this summer, but both will hit the air within the next year. I can´t wait
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Post by sissa on Jan 20, 2014 21:56:56 GMT 10
Showtime Executive Session with David Nevins Press Tour Live-BlogExpect lots of 'Dexter' finale and 'Homeland' questions BY DANIEL FIENBERG THURSDAY, JAN 16, 2014 12:34 PM Credit: Showtime I'm a live-blogging fool! Up next on the network executive carousel? Showtime's David Nevins. I'm assuming we're going to ask about Lumberjack "Dexter," the "Homeland" finale (expect spoilers) and more. Click through to see what's what! 9:37 a.m. David Nevins thanks us for our interest in "Homeland," even if we maybe didn't love it. Ratings have been up. So... whatevs! Showtime's newest shows are its highest rated shows. 9:38 a.m. "Penny Dreadful" is premiering on May 11. We're going to get an "exclusive" first look. 9:39 a.m. Showtime has ordered "The Affair," which stars Joshua Jackson, Ruth Wilson, McNulty and Maura Tierney. It comes from a pair of "In Treatment" veterans. We're getting some "Affair" footage. Joshua Jackson has a beard. Everybody is acting hard. Footage seems weirdly gauzy. I think Ruth Wilson may be playing "plain." And yes, there will be lots of sex and "intimacy."9:42 a.m. Showtime is also going forward on "Happyish," a kinda comedy starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Katheryn Hahn. Guess what? Philip Seymour Hoffman is going to be nominated for an Emmy for this. Yep. I'm going out on a limb. "Happyish" looks like a misanthropic good time. I'm so there. The final laugh in the teaser, which I'd rather not spoil, is AWESOME. 9:45 a.m. "Californication" and "Nurse Jackie" will premiere on April 13. This is the final season of "Californication." "Jackie's back to her old tricks, which is using and lying about it," Nevins teases. 9:46 a.m. The 10-hour event documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously" will also launch on April 13. 9:48 a.m. Question time! 9:48 a.m. The first question is pure ass-kissing. "What made Showtime prime?" or some nonsense. Nevins gives Matt Blank and Les Moonves credit. "These last few years have been good for us," he says, referring around to how successful they've been at replacing the old shows. They're taking risks and trying hard not to copy themselves. "I think we've been sort of broader in the kind of shows that we're putting on. The good thing is that now we've become a destination," he says. 9:51 a.m. Nevins doesn't have dates yet for "Happyish" or "The Affair." Neither will premiere before summer press tour. 9:51 a.m. What conversations has Nevins had with the "Homeland" team about the next season? "Obviously there's a big reset. This is a show that is fundamentally about a field operative," Nevins says, but he admits that we haven't seen Carrie out in the field operating. "The likely plan for next year is you will see her on the ground in a foreign capital doing her job," Nevins teases. Gordon and Gansa are spending next week in Washington, staying at a CIA club and talking to real agents and they'll come back with something in a month. 9:52 a.m. Does Showtime have a target demo for "The Affair"? "We don't spend a lot of time thinking about target demos. We program for adults," he says. He calls it "a gorgeous script." He thinks it will have male and female appear. "It looks at all the small nuances of relationships" from both male and female perspectives. "Not every show needs to appeal to every one," Nevins says of shows and demos, but he hopes Showtime as a whole will appeal to a broad audience.9:55 a.m. What does Nevins watch and what shows would he like to see on Showtime if he could have grabbed them? He watches a lot of comedy. He watches "Mad Men." He watches "Girls." He watches "Louie." He watches "Daily Show" and "Colbert" and sports. "It's an incredible time to work in television. TV's where it's at," he says. "Every actor is interested in television right now," he says. "There's good people programming most of the premium services and it's exciting. I feel very lucky," Nevins says. 9:55 a.m. What does Nevins think of the anthology/limited series model? He notes it's not new and the miniseries has been a staple since the '70s. "I believe fundamentally in renewable resources," he says, praising "American Horror Story" in this model. He thinks that "Homeland" has aspects of that, because it's going to be different next year. "A lot of the narrative forms are sorta morphing," he says, but he emphasizes that the best thing is to have shows people love and to bring them back. He talks about docu-series as forms of limited series. 9:58 a.m. Is there a threshold for what gets people to subscribe these days? One show? Two? What gets people to subscribe? "It's probably a different threshold for each household," he says. He wants people to be connected to "three shows plus boxing" rather than just one. He doesn't, however, have a "pithy stat," but says it's better to have multiple show. 9:59 a.m. The "Happyish" clip had a piece of amusing branding that he tells us has been "legally cleared through fair use." He wants that show to use real brands. He has raves for the show's creator. 10:01 a.m. "We're incredibly well positioned for whatever... the current ecosystem works real well for us," Nevins says of the possibility that things may change with the structure of cable and cable bundling. They're a subscription service. "We see a lot of opportunity, but it's premature. We're sorta waiting to see how things develop," he says. 10:02 a.m. "My expectation is he'll be central. He'll be important," Nevins says of Mandy Patinkin's involvement in Season 3. Did he expect the criticism of this season? "This season was, I think, pretty brilliant in its architecture," he says, praising the Iran regime change arc and its prescience. "I thought it was very clever and very audacious," he says. "We always knew we were heading to a major reset," he notes. 10:04 a.m. Showtime is emphasizing the value of its subscriber viewing systems, particularly for watching new shows. Once shows have completed their runs, they may still go to Netflix. "Stacking rights" has been one of my favorite terms to come up over and over on press tour. Showtime Anytime will still have Showtime shows, but Netflix will have other stuff, once it's off air. 10:06 a.m. How is the pilot process working at Showtime? "I like how we do it," he says. "Happyish" is a script they've loved for a long time and it took them a long time to get to Philip Seymour Hoffman, but they didn't have to rush. "Totally worth it for the wait," he says. "Penny Dreadful" didn't even shoot a pilot. They just ordered it, because John Logan had written the entire series. "I believe in pilots," he says. When it comes to the busted pilot "The Vatican," he says that the world changed with Pope Benedict's departure. 10:08 a.m. "I was wondering if we could talk about sex a little bit," asks a reporter. "Alyssa!" Nevins says to Friend of HitFix Alyssa Rosenberg. "You're always looking at things that can differentiate you from the advertiser-supported networks," he says. "Sexy is certainly one of them. I just want to be interesting about it," he says. But he notes that "Time of Death" got a lot of attention and "surprisingly high viewership numbers." "It's not only sex and violence. But you only want to talk about sex," he kids. Is Showtime shifting to focus on the emotions behind sex more than sex and sleaze? "Just having sex on television is not so amazing anymore, so you have to have something interesting to say about it, something interesting to explore," he says. That's all, folks... The HitFix Weekly Fix Get the 10+ biggest stories of the week every Friday SUBSCRIBE Dan-feinberg-sm Daniel Fienberg Executive Editor Read more at www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/showtime-executive-session-with-david-nevins-press-tour-live-blog#chZFiZMuZVdBGLpM.99
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Post by maya on Jan 25, 2014 11:59:18 GMT 10
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Post by Martine on Jan 27, 2014 8:19:05 GMT 10
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Post by sissa on Jan 30, 2014 0:37:20 GMT 10
Thanks Martine. Nice to see Maura as the new character. I´m always surprise looking at all these people behind the camera. Huge crew. If I could get a job as extra I think I would stare Maura too - just like that woman hahaha
Maura is a beautiful woman, but at the same time she can play and convince as a betrayed woman. I´m sure I´ll believe the plot and think "silly husband!"
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Post by loopyallie on Feb 13, 2014 2:03:47 GMT 10
Still stunning after all these years...
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