Gretchen Mol joins Boardwalk Empire

Gretchen Mol has joined HBO’s upcoming drama series Boardwalk Empire in a recurring role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Empire," written by Terence Winter and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, who directed the pilot, is set in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition and chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City who was equal parts politician and gangster. Mol, who has been hotly pursued for series roles since her starring turn last season on ABC's "Life on Mars.", will play Gillian, a showgirl.

At last night’s 'Darker Side of Green' debate, a launch for Lexus’s new hybrid car, Mol warned that even though she will be playing a twenties-era dancer in the series (currently filming, and slated to air next fall), we should not expect Showgirls II. "Showgirls then didn’t dance," she explained, "because it was all about looking nude without being totally naked. So you didn’t move, because that was considered to be too titillating and too pornographic, because then stuff would shake and move. This was supposed to be art. So it’s like, posing, and then you shift and pose again."





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The Pacific S01E03

Australian Claire van der Bloom didn't have to go far to research her role in HBO's WWII blockbuster The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The Rush and Love My Way star comes from a family of fighting men - her grandfather dropped bombs on Germany in WWII and her great grandfather was a Digger in Gallipoli. "When it's in your family you do go 'Shit, I can't believe I'm even here'," she said of discussing the family history with her mum.

Van der Boom plays local girl Stella, a Melbourne girl who shares a love affair with US soldier and The Pacific's leading man Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale). Her character first emerges in episode three with plenty of steamy sex scenes between the couple. "Doing a love scene is initially very daunting but in my experience everyone on the set is incredibly sensitive to the unnaturalness of the experience," she said. "I always have some trepidation towards doing them but if the scene is meaningful to the story then I am open to exploring that reality of our lives. As soon as I read the episode, it made complete sense - I believed in it."



Television Series: The Pacific (S01E03- Melbourne)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Claire van der Bloom
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E10

Viva Bianca plays the young Roman noblewoman Ilithyia in “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” set in the brutal Roman gladiator era. The spoiled, selfish daughter of Senator Albinius is also the loyal wife of Legatus Claudius Glaber. She may be trolling for male flesh, but her heart belongs 100% to her "gone on Roman business" Glabby. As Batiatus and Lucretia continue their social climbing, entertaining the Magistrate and the Roman snooty snoots along with Ilithyia, their ludus serves as the hippest hot spot in all of Capua, replete with glistening male flesh that does the bidding of their Roman overlords. Ilithyia engages in a subtle power struggle with Lucretia (Lucy Lawless), whilst admiring the attributes of the gladiators, yet harbors deep-seated ill-will towards Spartacus...

You are pretty naked in these future episodes. Is it all you or are you employing a body double? And what is it like acting sans clothing, more stressful or no big deal?

Viva: It's pretty nerve racking, I don't think that ever goes. But these scenes are always dealt with very sensitively on set and you only ever end up being exposed for a few seconds at a time before the director calls "cut!" and someone wraps a robe around you.

Sometimes these scenes are the funniest to shoot because it's hard to take yourself or the person acting opposite you seriously and the whole thing becomes very absurd. We had some bad laughing episodes!

The only other savior to any kind of nudity is the story. When it is story driven, when there is a reason for it and it makes sense in the world you are creating, then you can commit to it.



Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E010- Party Favors)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Lesley-Ann Brandt, Lucy Lawless & Viva Bianca
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Rosamund Pike is a Woman in Love

Rosamund Pike is to star in a new version of the wildly erotic classic Women In Love, playing the same part that won Glenda Jackson her first Oscar 40 years ago. In its day, Ken Russell's 1969 interpretation of D.H Lawrence's novel about sexual nature and grim industrial reality pushed the boundaries of sexual acts and nudity on screen.

Shooting on the new film, for BBC4, will begin in mid-April on locations in South Africa, standing in for a Midlands mining town. (Russell shot his movie in Derbyshire.) Bill Ivory, a writer known for his work on television's Common As Muck series, has combined Lawrence's Women in Love with what could crassly be termed its prequel, The Rainbow, for his screenplay. The aim is to explore sexual relationships between men and women, and how World War I hurled a rural community into the harshness of 20th-century industrial reality.


The root of the project is sexual relations and animal passions involving two sisters - sculptress Gudrun Brangwen (the part Rosamund will play) and her sister Ursula, a timid teacher - and two men from opposite sides of the social divide, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. In Ken Russell's famous movie, Jackson played Gudrun, Jennie Linden her sibling, with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed as Birkin and Crich respectively.

The full-frontal, candlelit wrestling match between Bates and Reed has become the stuff of screen legend. So, too, has a sensual scene where another character, Hermione (played by Eleanor Bron), begins to eat a fig, prompting Birkin to launch into an erotic discourse on the proper way to eat a rosy, moist fig.

The speech isn't in the novel, but Larry kramer, the film's screen- writer, borrowed the fruitful moment from a d.H. Lawrence poem, The Fig. It's not yet known whether Ivory will still include it in his new adaptation.

The part of Gudrun is a scorching role for Rosamund who, in the past few years, has become an actress of great stature. She has gone after challenging roles, including her spot-on depiction of a daffy sixties swinger in the Oscar-nominated film An Education and her City trader in Dominic Savage's BBC drama Freefall. she has come a long way since her ice-cool Bond girl Miranda Frost in die another day nine years ago.

Other roles for Women in Love are still being cast.
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Shameless S07E09

You're right, it's been too long...

Television Series: Shameless (S01E09)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Niky Wardley
Video Clip Credit: In The Best Possible Taste



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The fall of the Dark Cable Drama

Tales of nihilism and irredeemable men offer up artsy violence, but they can't touch David Chase's epic series
By Heather Havrilesky, Salon

During these dark times, do you prefer TV that plumbs the impoverishment of modern culture for comic relief ("30 Rock") or twists it into a horrific narrative in which every character is doomed to suffer until the final curtain call ("Breaking Bad")? Do you enjoy your gloom and nastiness softened by sly humor and nostalgia ("Mad Men"), or splattered with several gallons of fake blood ("Dexter")? Would you rather watch heartless lady lawyers trying to hurt each other with a subtle game of disconcerting gestures and veiled insults ("Damages"), or witness biker gangs plotting to blow each other's heads off as soon as possible ("Sons of Anarchy")?

Personally, as much as I once craved a dark tragidramedy back when every channel was filthy with hugging and learning, these days I find myself repelled by the unrelenting nihilism of a handful of the darker-than-thou cable shows: "Dexter," "Sons of Anarchy," "Breaking Bad," all well-written, imaginative dramas with wonderful casts that nonetheless present us with the same scenario, week after week: Things go from bad to worse to unthinkable, lead characters flinch and cringe and sweat and sigh deeply and then dig themselves in deeper, and everyone around them suffers.


And that's not to mention the bad guys. Since these shows revolve around likable but deeply flawed, not-very-good guys, the actual bad guys have to be very, very bad, indeed, straining during most of their time on-screen to embody pure evil. In fact, the narrative arc of these shows is propelled mostly by the looming threat of what these Very Bad Guys are capable of: We see them torturing their underlings or their wives or their dogs; we watch as one Very Bad Guy forces a woman to jump off the side of a building to her death, then witness another Very Bad Guy verbally taunting the man whose wife and daughter he stole, hinting that he might molest the girl. Then, as the tension mounts, the Very Bad Guys make spectacular displays of their cruelty: One decapitates his enemy, then uses explosives to blow his head to smithereens when the DEA finds it; another slits the throat of a pretty wife and leaves her baby sitting in a pool of her blood; another pulls a knife on a baby then absconds with him as he cries piteously and his father panics and then crumples into a heap.

See how, in the fallout of these hideous acts, we're meant to gasp and shake our heads at the unthinkable cruelty of it all. I can't wait to see how our Not Very Heroic Hero will respond to this one, we say to ourselves and each other.

Now that the Dark Cable Drama season is just beginning, we can look forward to the same opening scene on each show: Stunned, shaken, guilty, devastated Not-Very-Good Guys sit around, staring into the middle distance, trying to come to terms with the wreckage around them. We can guess that Jax (Charlie Hunnam of "Sons of Anarchy") will be despondent over the loss of his baby son, shaking his head and wondering how he could've let it happen, then snapping unnecessarily at Tara (Maggie Siff). Presumably Dexter (Michael C. Hall) will stumble, aghast and detached, through his new reality in the wake of his wife's murder, struggling to figure out how to take care of his baby and explain to his stepkids the nightmare that their waking lives have just become. Likewise, Walter (Bryan Cranston) spends the third season premiere of "Breaking Bad" (10 p.m. Sunday, March 21, on AMC) reeling from his wife's discovery of his gig cooking meth, not to mention the midair jet collision that he basically caused -- you know, the one that sent bodies flying to the ground in his neighborhood?

Oh, but don't worry, there's comic relief ahead! Walter goes to a high school assembly where the kids are asked to share a few words about the horrible tragedy they endured when the jets crashed over their heads. After listening to the kids say emotionally tone-deaf kid things, Walter takes the microphone and tells everyone to look on the bright side.

"First of all, nobody on the ground was killed and that ... I mean, an incident like this in a popular urban center? I mean, that's got to be a minor miracle. Plus, neither plane was full." This is exactly the sort of thing a scientist who doesn't know himself and walks around in a state of confused alienation might say, of course. This contrast between Walter's circumstances as a meth "manufacturer" and his polite, professional manners, the gap between his lying and ethical lapses as a husband and his insistence that he loves his wife and that they have a great marriage, form the tension that gives "Breaking Bad" its unique spark. But the intelligence and cleverness of this picture doesn't make up for an overriding feeling that creator Vince Gilligan and the other writers are hell-bent on torturing us with maximum bleakness and horror. After each blow to the gut, we wonder, Must I endure this purgatory, just to find out what happens next?

And if we aren't bothered by this running habit of serving up the most spectacularly devastating, soul-crushing moments possible, if we aren't unnerved by the fact that we're meant to chuckle or marvel at clever moments as the human suffering is at an all-time high, if we can still appreciate the artful, sly approaches to people fucking up their lives flatter than hammered shit (as "Deadwood" creator David Milch might put it, always leavening his particular flavor of darkness with so much charm and flair that you found yourself drawn into the picture rather than continually repelled by it), then that must mean that we're just as confused, alienated and detached as Walter himself is.

I'm not suggesting that blood and gore and tragedy and darkness don't form the core of plenty of dramatic works of art. From Hamlet to "The Sopranos" to Charles Dickens' novels, tragicomic explorations of the human condition have always helped us to navigate our own tragicomic lives. Nonetheless, there's something different about the Dark Cable Drama: Maybe it boils down to shocking CGI effects, or the supreme alienation of its lead characters, or the ways that the misery sustains itself over the course of several long, drawn-out seasons, or those peculiar strains of ironic distance and macho posturing, which insist that, despite making one messed-up choice after another, despite actively cobbling out his hellish fate, our distinctly UnHeroic Hero is a hero, just the same.

And in the context of a culture that loves its horror movies and savors two hours of creepiness and gore and pained screams, maybe the Dark Cable Drama can be viewed as a relatively thoughtful and richly layered and suspenseful exploration of the darkness that lives in human souls.

Nonetheless, there's an enormous difference between, say, "The Sopranos," and "Breaking Bad" or "Dexter." Even though all of the Unheroic Heroes of these shows, just like Tony Soprano, are constantly struggling with their humanity, always trying to find some way around their hideous responsibilities, always trying to emancipate themselves from the ignorance and cruelty of their worlds, the grim core of the Dark Cable Drama is pure agony, where escape is futile and hope is a mirage. There is no wider perspective offered, there are no insights into regular, everyday life reflected in these depraved scenes, there's nothing to learn about hubris or ignorance or greed here.

Or, as Jesse (Aaron Paul) tells Walter in the third season premiere of "Breaking Bad," "You either run from things, or you face them, Mr. White. I learned that in rehab. It’s all about accepting who you really are. I accept who I am."

"And who are you?" Walter asks him.

"I’m the bad guy," says Jesse.

This is the heart of the Dark Cable Drama, the rotten core of its swooning love affair with horrific murders and big flashy plane crashes and splintered marriages and traumatized children and a cascade of terrible mistakes piled on top of more mistakes: In the end, no matter what glimmers of humanity or sweetness you might encounter, you're a fool to do more than surrender yourself to your own worst instincts.

No one is aching for another Big Moral Lesson, but the slightest hint of a wider perspective beyond bewilderment and learned helplessness would go a long way. Simply training a camera on heartbreak and gore and destruction and never pulling back, except to tease out the inept and uncomfortable and utterly insufficient ways that human beings handle despair? As Livia Soprano would say, "It's all a big nothing."
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New electronic system 'censors DVDs'

A personalised censorship system, ClearPlay, which filters offensive content out of films shown on DVD players, is set to be launched in the UK.

ClearPlay could be a blessing for red-faced parents who watch films with their children, only to suffer awkward moments when characters become overly passionate or language too explicit. The technology automatically edits scenes containing nudity, violence, swearing, blasphemy and other offensive content according to a user's individual preferences.

The filtering system, which launches in the UK this weekend, uses technology integrated into the next generation of DVD players to skip and mute undesirable content based on seven categories. The system works with hundreds of films already released and will apply to new films with 48 hours of their release on DVD.


A censoring filter for a film is downloaded to the player from the internet via an online system, which will cost about £1 per week, and undesirable content is masked from the film.

DVD players featuring the necessary technology have just become available in France and will be on sale in the UK in July.

Andrew Duncan, head of ClearPlay International, said: "One of the biggest disputes over TV choices comes from arguments with kids about whether something is suitable for watching or not.

"Our system effectively ends the important but tiresome debates and enables families to get on with more important debate about who makes the popcorn."

The technology is also adaptable to video on demand services, and ClearPlay is currently in talks with digital TV operators in the UK about a potential launch on their platforms.

It has been developed by the same US team who invented the VideoPlus system, which simplified the recording of TV programmes on video recorders.

The seven categories it can filter out are violence, blood, nudity, sex, offensive language, blasphemy and offensive content.
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E09

The dog is finally house-broken...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E09- Whore)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Lucy Lawless & Katrina Law
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E09- Whore)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Katrina Law & Viva Blanca
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Hung S01E10

By sex therapist I mean someone who will fuck you so good you don't care what your husband does or doesn't do...

Television Series: Hung (S01E10- A Dick and a Dream or Fight the Honey)
Release Date: September 2009
Actress: Alanna Ubach & Rebecca Creskoff
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
Video Clip Info: H264; 12802x720

Alanna Ubach



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Rebecca Creskoff



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Hung S01E09

Hold on, it's time to diversify...

Television Series: Hung (S01E09- This Is America or Fifty Bucks)
Release Date: August 2009
Actress: Rebecca Creskoff
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
Video Clip Info: (3 Clips [includes Slo-Mo]; H264; 1280x720)



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Hung S01E08

I don't have any Red Bull but I do I know how to get you up...

Television Series: Hung (S01E08- Thith Ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right)
Release Date: August 2009
Actress: Jane Adams & Lauren Weedman
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
Video Clip Info: [XVID; 624x352]

Jane Adams



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Lauren Weedman



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Skins: Reality TV

Skins: it's not just about the sex and drugs
By Zing Tsjeng, Guardian

If you've only ever read about Skins, you may find it hard to see its appeal. Promo material tends to give the impression that Skins is Hollyoaks with a fistful of pills, a better taste in music and a predilection towards smashing up the local pub. And in fact, it's not that far off. Skins has taken the notion of post-watershed teen drama and hasn't so much as pushed the boat out as hopped in and started rowing for England. No wonder its viewers are looking forward to tonight's season finale.

But there's only so much a show can rely on casual vandalism and drug use, which is where the sex comes in. Drunk sex, lesbian sex, casual sex, unprotected sex, sex where one character repeatedly shouts "grab my balls!" - Skins has it all, and is considered groundbreaking for its explicit depiction of teenage sexuality. But people who focus on that explicitness are missing the point – Skins is also one of the few shows to depict teenagers working out their sexuality without criticism or judgment.


Unlike other teen dramas, Skins doesn't seem to have producers and writers hovering around the edges, anxious to make a point about Important Teen Issues. Just compare Skins to Glee – another much-loved teen drama with a similar sense of black humour (and slightly more showtunes). In episode four, Kurt comes out to his dad, who tells his son that he loves him anyway. While coming-out scenes that end happily are all too rare on television, you can't help but feel it comes off a tad preachily: "Don't worry, fledgling homosexuals of the world!" it seems to say. "You too wear McQueen jumpers and memorise the Single Ladies dance, and your parents will love you anyway!"

Luckily, that's sometimes the case. But more often than not, teenage sexuality can't be boiled down to a song-and-dance routine, or resolved by the warm embrace of a loving parent. Teenagers in Skins struggle with their sexuality, making huge mistakes along the way – and in a world where the grown-ups are ridiculous caricatures of adult authority or entirely absent, it's the teenagers who are left to sort out the resulting mess themselves. The relationship between Emily and Naomi (known to Skins fans as Naomily) provides a case in point. One of the best scenes in this season was one where Emily discovers that Naomi has cheated on her. Crying, Naomi tries to explain herself: "I was scared." "You're always scared," Emily replies.

It's a beautifully subtle comeback, and it tells us far more about both characters than any number of sex scenes set to pounding indie rock. The best scenes in Skins aren't about sex, they're about characters trying to figure out what to do afterwards. Take away the programme's outlandish plot devices and rampant sex scenes, and what remains is a surprisingly accurate portrayal of adolescence's emotional roller-coaster: the terror of falling in love, the attitude that mistakes insouciance and hardness for independence and strength, and the aggressive posturing that screams "don't touch me, I don't need you" but whispers "if you leave me I'll die". In short, it's about being a teenager.
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Hung S01E07

It felt different this time; it felt real...

Following on from yesterday's post here are the relevant scenes from Hung S01E07, featuring Natalie Zea's only other bit of action for the season and the introduction of Alanna Ubach.


Television Series: Hung (S01E05- The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench)
Release Date: August 2009
Actress: Alanna Ubach & Natalie Zea
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
Video Clip Info: [H264; 1280x720]

Alanna Ubach



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Natalie Zea



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Hung S01E05

To mark the start of Justified, the new series on FX based on Elmore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole", we offer this hot scene from female lead Natalie Zea. It comes from HBO drama Hung and dates from June last year. As far as I am aware, it is the most revealing thing Natalie has done so far.


Television Series: Hung (S01E05- Do It Monkey)
Release Date: August 2009
Actress: Natalie Zea
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
Video Clip Info: [10,8Mio for 22s; DivX 5 at 3994 Kbps; 1280 x 720]



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Wonderfalls

Before Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies there was a third Bryan Fuller production called Wonderfalls; and before Ellen Muth and then Anna Friel there was Caroline Dhavernas. The then twenty-five year old Montrealer played Jaye, a recent Brown graduate who is underemployed as a gift shop employee in Niagara, New York. One day a slightly malformed wax lion unexpectedly begins to talk to her and from that time on she receives messages from all manner of inanimate animals. Each episode sees Jaye obeying the inexorable and frequently baffling commands of the animals (if she doesn’t do what they command they torture her by endless droning of songs like “A Bicycle Built for Two” until she finally cracks and gives in) that force her to engage in behavior that not only alienates her from her friends but destroys her romantic prospects. Wax lions, cow creamers, plastic pink flamingos, cocktail bunnies on cardboard boxes, buffalos embroidered on aprons, and, most importantly, a brass monkey bookend that finally gives her some clues as to why they talk to her.

Along with the shenanigans of the animals, Jaye has to cope with her brother’s prying investigations. Played by Pushing Daisies’s Lee Pace (who starred as Ned the Pie Maker), brother Aaron is not certain what precisely is going on with Jaye, but he gains a fairly decent idea. Between her family and her slacker job and the trailer park she lives in and the unending weirdness surrounding her animal spirits, the show is an endless series of delights. Though not, it has to be said, for anyone hoping to catch a titillating glimpse of Ms Dhavernas. For those interested in such things- and if you're reading this blog that probably includes you- you would have to dig a little bit deeper for some decidedly more salacious non-network fare.



Film: Edge of Madness
Release Date: 2002
Actress: Caroline Dhavernas
Video Clip Credit: Celeb Lover
Video Clip Info: [13,1 MB for 1:09 min; 712 x 400]



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Film: The Tulse Luper Suitcases
Release Date: July 2003
Actress: Caroline Dhavernas
Video Clip Credit: arun 1895
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Film: These Girls
Release Date: September 2005
Actress: Caroline Dhavernas
Video Clip Credit: Celeb Lover
Video Clip Info: [13,1 MB for 1:09 min; 712 x 400]



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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E08

Your gods, do they answer your prayers?...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E08- Mark of the Brotherhood)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Lucy Lawless
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Skins survives again

Skins gets two more series – and another all-new cast
John Plunkett, Guardian

Channel 4's digital network E4 has commissioned two more series of its award-winning teen drama Skins, which will hire an entirely new cast for the second time in its short history.

Open casting auditions will take place in London and Bristol next month for the fifth series of the show, which has previously featured Nicholas Hoult, Jack O'Connell, Kaya Scodelario and Dev Patel.

The fifth and sixth seasons of the Bristol-based drama will continue to be made by independent producers Company Pictures and Stormdog Films for E4, scripted by a team of young writers and teen contributors and overseen by series creators Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain.

Channel 4 said the fourth run, which comes to an end next Thursday, 18 March, had outperformed all previous series with an average consolidated audience for its first E4 transmission of 1.3 million viewers.

The Channel 4 head of drama, Camilla Campbell, said: "Skins has always been about new talent, both on and off screen, and the decision to recast the series every two years is one of the reasons Skins stands out as a truly distinctive show. It's a testament to the talent and commitment of Bryan Elsley and his team that they are able to pull this off."
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Spartacus: "Rome" on steroids, Viagra and crack

From full-frontal nudity to splashing blood, is this the future of TV or just a pornographic video game gone mad?
By Heather Havrilesky, The Salon

What's wrong with modern life? When did our spontaneity and imagination and appetite for glory leave us, replaced by bloodshot eyes and a hard knot in the stomach, failure wrapped in neuroticism dripped with anxiety covered with dissatisfaction? When did we trade in our vibrant, lusty, devil-may-care recklessness and red wine-glazed dreams for the carpal tunnel and coffee breath of the professionally compromised? When did we go from carefree iconoclasts to distracted, sallow lumps who've wasted the better half of a decade rewriting inter-office e-mails so that they're less of a reflection of our bitter, dying souls?

Sure, when we're not impaired by the relentless drumbeat of empty tweets and Googled tragedies and breathless press releases about the latest jackhole to sign up for "Dancing With the Stars," we do try to reach out to each other, tenuously, through Facebook and Twitter and sometimes even by picking up our telephones, which haven't held a solid charge since Monica Lewinsky was running around the White House in capri pants.

But it's not the same. One decade into the new millennium, one too many irresistible up-to-date blurbs and blogs and snippets and tweets have smeared our once-lively spirits across the dirty windshield of life.

Except when we're in a really good mood, and then everything's fine.

Butt cheek of the gods

Thank the lords "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" (10 p.m. Fridays on Starz) is here to show us exactly when, where and how we went astray. Apparently, back in 73 B.C., human beings were gigantic and horny and all they did was have great sex and slash each other with steely blades, resulting in big bursts of blood that splashed everywhere. Hurray!

It seems that ever since that time, humans have steadily grown more vague and sullen, losing more muscle mass and joie de vivre each century that they walked the earth. With each passing decade came another reason to slouch and feel discouraged: the spinning wheel (ouch), barbed wire (drag), pasteurization (enough already), the electric nose-hair clipper (please). All of it led up to where we are today, namely, watching "House" while sobbing into a laminated cup of cherry Jell-o.

But fear not, because our new hero Spartacus is here to lead us out of the darkness, demonstrating exactly how we might get our souls back: namely, by having lots of frisky humpy time with meat-Chiclet-adorned macho men, then throwing big sharp knives at offensive strangers from across the room!

Of course, it all starts with the raping and pillaging of our home villages after being betrayed by the Romans. Next, our lovers are carried away and enslaved by Roman fiends and we're made to fight four men at once in the Colosseum (much like the Superdome but with more people sporting the then-fashionable boobs-out look). That ends in lots of blood splashing, and a rowdy mass of boobs-out heathens yelling out our (new, fake) name, which forces powerful men to harness our 15 minutes of fame for evil, rather than good. Next come the muscle men who lecture us menacingly in the shower while their gigantic penises bob along with every step, and then we do some defiant stuff that almost gets us killed, but finally we give in and agree to lug around huge logs and spar with other greased-up ding-dongs, so that, eventually? We're all puffy and fierce and ready to beat people's faces in until blood splashes across the camera. Mmm, it feels good to be alive, doesn't it? Who knew that our deliverance would come in the form of hand-to-hand combat, impromptu orgies and around-the-clock sipping out of fancy chalices of red wine? All right, I had some inkling.

Even if it doesn't free humanity from our current lackluster path, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" exists on an entirely different planet from other televised entertainments. This is HBO's "Rome" on steroids, Viagra, LSD and crack: The sex scenes feature bare asses, bare breasts, slaves on hand to help masturbate their masters into the proper state of excitement, and haunted lutes playing in the background. The fight scenes are half "300," half "Mortal Kombat," replete with rotating severed heads, slow-motion flying buckets of blood that occasionally expand to fill the entire screen with a sea of red, and warriors who bellow, "We'll fuck your women. We'll fuck them all!"

Hell, even the straightforward conversations between two characters typically feature some gratuitous twist: Spartacus' archenemy stands, berating him while fully naked, his big cock practically piping up with its own sidekick tag lines ("Yeah, like my boss just told ya! You're dead meat, mister!"); Lucretia (Lucy Lawless) lounges in a see-through top, having a long conversation with her husband that we can't understand because we're being glamoured by her huge breasts; some character whispers "cunt" or "fuck whore" or any number of salacious things (like this nastiness, from Lucretia: "It all comes back round to a pair of tits and a tight little hole"). Sure, it worked on "Deadwood," but without the Shakespearean adornments, "fuck" often feels like an extra bucket of fake blood that you didn't really need to get your point across.

But then, the point or story is just window dressing to the slugging and screwing that we came to see here. When extremely fit human beings growl their paint-by-numbers Hollywood historical epic lines ("Nothing will keep me from returning to your arms, not the Romans, not the gods themselves!"), making sweet lyrical Abdominizer love, then slash their opponents knees in half with their glittering hatchets, we're offered a glimpse into an animal world we traded in for the sterilized, vacuum-sealed alienation of modern life.

No wonder this basic formula -- seethe, slash, screw, repeat -- dressed up as it is by CGI effects and blue-eyed star Andy Whitfield, isn't shocking more audiences with its over-the-top flashiness and pandering. Sure, some have called it "too rude for British TV," but who are we sleazy, foul-mouthed Americans to judge? The blogs certainly lit up last week when the gay gladiator, Barca (Antonio Te Maioho), made athletic love to his partner Pietros (Eka Darville), who grinned from ear to ear as if to say, "This is really my favorite perk of being a slave boy."

But those two are actually fond of each other, and are engaged in the equivalent of a standard under-the-sheets, missionary position compulsory routine, compared to the frenzied humping unfolding elsewhere: Batiatus (John Hannah) takes his ample-bosomed slave woman from behind, Lucretia (Lawless) rides her gladiator Crixius (Manu Bennett) into the sunset, and all of it is merely foreplay for the decapitations and gory mess that comes after it. Somehow the special effects, the sandals, the swords, and the mystical lutes distract us from the fact that this sex-followed-by-blood-bath may be the closest TV has come to snuff.

Naturally, ratings are through the roof for Starz -- 1 million at last count. So what does this tell us about the state of cable television in 2010? Maybe that if you throw out the rules and boundaries of middlebrow network television and create something depraved and lascivious and gruesome, with plenty of slashed throats and greased-up abs and CGI flourishes, you will emerge triumphant.

Or, as Doctore (Peter Mensah) puts it, "Forget everything you learned outside these walls, for that is the world of men. We are more, we are gladiators!"
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E07

The gods led me to your bed...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E01- Great and Unfortunate Things)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Erin Cummings & Viva Bianca
Video Clip Credit: raziel02
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Underbelly Story Is Wrong

The third Underbelly series is under threat from a star of the real-life version - a former cop who claims she may be defamed by being intimately linked with Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim. Former NSW police constable Wendy Hatfield yesterday launched a pre-emptive strike against Channel 9 and production company Screentime, even though she hasn't seen a single episode of the series. Through her lawyers, she argued the TV show was based on the book - Underbelly: The Golden Mile - which defamed her by claiming she "had a sexual relationship with John Ibrahim, knowing him to be a criminal".

It also implied she was guilty of perjury, the court heard. Ms Hatfield also alleged she was defamed because the program implied "she is a person of little intelligence", that she "achieved promotion in the police force by granting sexual favours" and that she "is guilty of a number of acts of misconduct by reason of her relationship with Ibrahim, a criminal", court documents stated.


Her barrister Sue Chrysanthou sought access to five episodes of the series, with the next step being a defamation action - and possibly an injunction to stop the broadcast. Ms Hatfield, who lives in Victoria and whose married surname is Chambers, has long been linked to Mr Ibrahim. The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption in the mid-1990s heard the pair had a two-month affair and they had taken a mid-week getaway to go out on a dive boat off Forster on the state's North Coast.

When asked about it in the witness box, Mr Ibrahim declined to answer questions about their relationship. His lawyer Stephen Alexander yesterday said his client spent four hours in the cells for refusing to answer on grounds of relevance. Ms Hatfield, who resigned from the police force, still maintains her denial at the commission that she had a sexual relationship with Mr Ibrahim, but accepted she did go with him on the Forster trip.

Ms Chrysanthou said her client's reputation would be destroyed if the series was aired to millions of Australians. "She can't come back from that," she said.

Both Channel 9 and Screentime denied any wrongdoing and said they would vigorously defend any suggestion of defamation. Plenty of online material and other publications have confirmed the character of "Constable Wendy", played by former Home And Away actress Jessica Tovey, is a star of the series. Firass Dirani, the actor who plays Mr Ibrahim, has also reportedly said his "hardest scene" was when he got 'hot and heavy with Wendy'. "It was full on," said Dirani, who was okayed by Ibrahim to play him. "Getting naked in front of six people is quite bizarre. I've warned Mum; she's trying to prepare herself."

Justice Ian Harrison will hand his decision down next Friday.
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Shameless S07E07

Like everyone else in the country, Pauline McLynn has been feeling the cold a bit of late. The actress has spent the day (and indeed the last few months) filming the seventh series of Shameless. “It was freezing today. I’m only just thawing out,” she laughs.

Is it weird, acting opposite him [David Threlfall] while he’s directing?
He directed the first episode of the series, and in many ways I found that incredibly helpful. I’d only done one previous thing with David, which was a radio series called Baldi which he did on Radio 4, and I was in a few episodes of that. So I sort of knew him – and he’s one of those guys that you have an instant rapport with anyway – and because he started life as an actor he’s incredibly generous as a director, and I really trusted him to see me through that first episode. Occasionally he’d disappear for a little while, and that was him off checking on the monitors that he’d got the shot he wanted, but I found it great working with him as the director. It calmed me right down. If I’d started with somebody else, I think it would have taken me longer to get where I got to.

Have you had to do any love scenes with him?
Yes, plenty of them. Because like every couple who meet and fall for one another, it’s all kissing and sex for the first while.

I’m guessing it’s not all scenes filled with scented candles and soft music?
Well, you know what? They kind of are, in a way, because from Libby’s point of view it’s incredibly romantic. Her boudoir, which we see in the first episode, is very romantic. I’ve rarely been asked to kiss somebody on stage or on screen for work at all. I found myself asking David on the first day “Do you go right or left when you’re going in to kiss someone?” We didn’t want to knock noses – and we’re both very talented in that direction, we both have large noses. And then filming a sex scene, I was really lucky that he was really comfortable with it, because it put me at ease a bit. But it’s an odd experience, pretending to have sex with a strange man, and with another 17 people lighting your bottom and whatever else! And you don’t want to frighten the audience with the wrong angles! So I’d never been asked to do sex scenes before, and we did the one where the kit was off. Because that annoys me, when you watch shows where you think “Why have they got their underwear still on? They’ve already had sex how many times?” So we did a nude one. It was possibly the least glamorous thing I’ve done in my whole life. It’s just quite mechanical.

Was it quite terrifying beforehand?
It was. We were both being very brave about it. It was very short and very tastefully done, I have to say. Well, I haven’t seen it yet, but I would say so, from where the camera was. And now it’s done, and it was great, and I don’t expect they’ll ever ask me to do it again. But they might, and if you’ve done it once…

Hopefully you weren’t quite as cold as you were today.
Although that would tighten the body beautifully! You’d be toned if you had that kind of cold around you.



Television Series: Shameless (S07E07)
Release Date: March 2010
Actress: Pauline McLynn
Video Clip Credit: In The Best Possible Taste



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