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
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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
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Film: These Girls
Release Date: September 2005
Actress: Caroline Dhavernas
Video Clip Credit: Celeb Lover
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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
Video Clip Info: [28,10 Mo; 3 min 04 sec; 2 videos]



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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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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E06

Have the girl's arse pet, and I'll watch...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E06- Delicate Things)
Release Date: February 2010
Actress: Lucy Lawless
Video Clip Credit: raziel02
Video Clip Info: [40,40 Mo; 4 min 27 sec; 4 videos]



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Government monitors sex scenes on television

The Government could this week order television chiefs to include more references to condoms and sexually transmitted diseases in their story lines.
By Melissa Kite, Telegraph

Officials will reveal that they have analysed popular TV shows and concluded that not enough sex scenes feature the characters discussing contraception.

They will say that "careful" analysis of 350 episodes of soap operas and comedies show that only seven per cent of sex scenes include a discussion between the characters about safe sex.

A report, called Mis-selling Sex, to be launched by the Department of Health, will call on television writers to include more dialogue about condoms and plot lines featuring the consequences of unsafe sex such as unwanted pregnancies and disease.

It will also call for more slang words to be used in order to connect with teenagers.


The move comes after David Cameron hit out at the pop singer Lily Allen last week for her sexually explicit lyrics, which he said were unsuitable for children.

Gillian Merron, the Public Health Minister, said: "Young people relate to the programmes they watch on TV, so it's important that they see both realistic and responsible portrayals of sex and contraception.

"It's not for Government to say what happens on TV, but we can have conversations with broadcasters to help them have a more positive impact on attitudes to sex.

"I'm encouraged that some broadcasters are working to address these issues, and hope others will follow suit."

Her report analysed programmes popular with 16-24 year olds including EastEnders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Holby City, Home & Away and Neighbours.

"American favourites such as CSI, My Name is Earl, Grey's Anatomy, Lost and Desperate Housewives were also studied.

Researchers found that only seven per cent of sexual content featured discussion of safe sex. Of the 102 encounters of actual sex, only three couples used condoms.

Just 13 per cent of sexual encounters where contraception was not featured dealt with any kind of consequence, such as pregnancy or contracting a sexually transmitted disease.

Of the 99 instances of unsafe sex, just nine characters regretted their behaviour, the report said. It contrasted that with polling that suggests 41 per cent of people who have had unprotected sex worried about the consequences.

The report claims that more than a third (37 per cent) of young people turn to television for guidance on sex and relationships and almost half of young adults say they would feel more confident about using condoms if they were discussed more openly in the media.

Large numbers of young people find themselves too embarrassed to have open and honest conversations about sex and one in four wish they could talk more openly about it, it says.

The report was commissioned as part of the Government's "Sex. Worth Talking About" campaign which has also seen a major television advertising campaign calling on teenagers to use contraception.

It sets out a five point plan, calling on the actors who play popular characters to promote issues around unsafe sex by working with charities in real life.

Most controversially, it calls on scriptwriters to "liven" the language used to describe safer sex in order to give credibility to storylines.

It said: "The language used to describe sex and sex-related issues should mimic that used to discuss them in the real world."

Paul Marquess, the series producer of Hollyoaks, said: "It's really important to us and our audience that we're clear in terms of dealing with the issues of safe sex. The programme offers a great platform to promote good sexual health.

"We know that our audience relates to the characters and their situations in the show. With our young demographic, this is particularly important and reminding viewers about the importance of safe sex is something we take very seriously."

Though teenage pregnancy rates are declining and teenage births are at the lowest level for 15 years, rates of unplanned pregnancy remain high and incidences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia are increasing. Read more on this article...

True Blood S02E03

Anna Paquin, on her nude scenes: "I don’t think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting… It’s not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United States. I don’t share the [attitude] that you can have graphic violence, but – God forbid – you see someone’s nipples."


Television Series: True Blood (S02E03- Scratches)
Release Date: June 2009
Actress: Anna Paquin
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E04

Does it excite you to know that your very footsteps moisten my thighs?...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E04- The Thing in the Pit)
Release Date: February 2010
Actress: Lucy Lawless
Video Clip Credit: raziel02
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True Blood S02E02

For "True Blood" star Anna Paquin, filming the show's steamy fully nude bedroom scenes is a piece of cake, especially since she gets to share them with real-life boyfriend Stephen Moyer. "It's a sexy vampire show," Paquin told AOL Television, "and yes, there's more getting it on, so to speak."

As it turns out, Paquin is just about as brave as her HBO alter-ego Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid who stands up to vampires. "I feel fine," Paquin said of the nude scenes. "Although the way that people ask me about it all the time, I feel like maybe I should feel uptight about it. But I really don't."

She is thankful, though, to be so comfortable with her costar Moyer. "Obviously, if you're already with that person then you're not having to sort of get over the 'Wow, I'm naked with someone that I don't even know the middle name of!'" she said.

Lucky for Paquin, she's able to block out all the commotion that accompanies filming a TV show, and just focus on the scene at hand. "I think that regardless of what kind of scene you're doing, the better you know the person ... the more open and real your performance can be," she admitted. "And that goes for stunt scenes and heavy emotional scenes and sex scenes. OK, so I have a little bit of a leg up in that particular area with my on-screen [partner]."



Television Series: True Blood (S02E02- Keep This Party Going)
Release Date: June 2009
Actress: Anna Paquin
Video Clip Credit: DeepAtSea
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E03

I need your cock inside me and I need it in me now...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E03- Legends)
Release Date: February 2010
Actress: Lesley Ann Brandt & Lucy Lawless
Video Clip Credit: raziel02
Video Clip Info: [25,60 Mo; 3 min 20 sec; 3 videos]



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Skins S04E02

Your postman just looked at my tits...

Television Series: Skins(S04E02- Emily)
Release Date: February 2010
Actress: Kathryn Prescott & Lily Loveless
Video Clip Credit: DeepBlueSea

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True Blood S02E01

Anna Paquin has revealed that her character in HBO's "True Blood" will get more nude scenes in the second season. The actress who earned her first Golden Globe through the role, told E! Online "I get more naked this season than I did last season. We have a really great crew and everyone's really respectful. It's not an issue for me."

As a consequence, Paquin has to work out her exercise regime. "I work my ass off," she confessed. "I'm very careful about what I eat, and I work out a lot. My costume entails bathing suits, short-shorts and nude scenes, come on! I don't want to be perpetuating the myth that women actually do look exactly like the way they look in magazines and on television through absolutely no effort!"

But Paquin insisted that the season won't be mere sex and passion, but also "exciting and sexy and scary and engaging" that audience will be kept on the edge of the seat. "And every time you think things are going to go smoothly, something really effed up happens," she promised.

One thing that "True Blood" won't have though, is "Twilight" factor. Although both are about vampires, Paquin emphasized one difference between the series and the popular big screen flick. "They're completely different age groups that they're trying to appeal to," she explained. "It wouldn't be appropriate for teenagers to be watching our show. I wouldn't have been allowed to."


Television Series: True Blood (S02E01- Nothing But The Blood)
Release Date: June 2009
Actress: Anna Paquin
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Shameless S07E01/02

Watch where you're putting it...that was trap two!

Television Series: Shameless (S07E01/02)
Release Date: January 2010
Actress: Joanna Higson
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Skins S04E01

We can't, my mum will hear...

Television Series: Skins(S04E01- Thomas)
Release Date: January 2010
Actress: Lisa Backwell
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E02

I will always be with you; the Gods themselves could not keep me from your side...

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E02- Sacramentum Gladiatorum)
Release Date: January 2010
Actress: Erin Cummings & Lucy Lawless
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand S01E01

There is no life without you...

Erin Cummings discusses her graphic role in an exclusive interview with iesb.net...

Did you ever have any hesitation in doing the nudity on this series, or was it just about the context of it?

Erin: The way I feel about nudity, and how I think a smart actor approaches it, is that nothing can be done without putting thought into it. Every nude scene, for me, is on a case by case, show by show, episode by episode and even scene by scene basis. I don't think that there should be a general assumption of, "Oh, she'll do nudity," for any actress or actor. And, if you're going to do nudity, there is a way to do it.

In Spartacus, I'm the love interest to the lead actor and I am playing a character that is very well-rounded. Sura is not just there for the purpose of showing a naked body. She is there for showcasing a relationship, and it takes a very strong actor to be able to portray that role. The sex scenes are just one small part of that. In that context, I went, "Yeah, okay." I always look at it and say, "Is this a role that I would play otherwise? If she didn't have the love scene and there wasn't any nudity, would I really want to play this role?" And, if the answer is, "Yes," then you really have to go, "Okay, well then let me figure out what they're asking me to do, sexually speaking, and what I'm comfortable with."

IESB: Did it help that you knew and had worked with so many of the people involved with the series?

Erin: Knowing that Rick Jacobson had been brought on really made it a lot easier for me because I knew that Rick would never put me in a position of doing something that I felt uncomfortable with. And, I had read the script, so I knew how it was described. There was love scene that I had read, in a very early draft, and I called Steven DeKnight and said, "I am not doing that. That is not going to happen." Starz and the producers never made me feel pressured to do anything that I didn't feel was right and true for the character. When there was something that I went, "You know what? I don't know if this is really how Sura would go about this," they were very open and willing to make it work for the character. With most actors, if they want you to do X, Y and Z, whether it's sexual, physical or whatever, unless you give the actor a reason why their character would do it, they're not really going to be interested.

For me, playing the wife of Spartacus, I felt like the love scene was integral to telling the story of who they were. If you have the perfect marriage, it's not just about communication or having an understanding of one another. It's also about the chemistry and the passion that two people have for one another, and I think our scenes really showcase that. It was beautifully shot and I'm very proud of those scenes because I think they were very well done. I never found any of the love scenes to be gratuitous, in any way. Also, because of the fact that Andy was with me, every step of the way, wearing just as little clothing as I was, we went into it together. We said, "If we're going to do this, we're doing it together," and it made it a lot easier to be able to have him going through that with me.

Television Series: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (S01E01- The Red Serpant)
Release Date: January 2010
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Sex on TV

Sex on TV: It's increasingly uncut — and unavoidable
By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY

If sex sells, TV programmers are adding inventory to an already humongous sale.

Viewers are about to see full-frontal male nudity, heterosexual, homosexual and group sex, and graphic scenes rarely — if ever — seen on mainstream TV. And that's just on pay-cable Starz's fornication-heavy, 13-episode Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premieres Friday, 10 ET/PT), a 300-meets-Caligula epic about the Roman Empire's notorious slave/gladiator.

MTV plans a June launch of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted comedy about a nerdy 15-year-old whose cool quotient heats up when his anatomical gift is accidentally exposed. And basic-cable network Spike's just-launched raunchy college-sports comedy Blue Mountain State (Tuesdays, 10 ET/PT) showed a masturbating school mascot on the Jan. 12 premiere, while last night's episode featured a scene suggesting oral sex between a coed and jock before the opening credits.

"You need to get eyeballs. You need to be loud," says Spike programming chief Kevin Kay, who is pairing Blue Mountain with reruns of HBO's sex-centric Entourage. "Our viewers are experiencing content on other cable channels or the Web. Movies and video games are going after this audience, too."


TV's latest sexually charged offerings add to the current wave of attention-seeking — if less visually explicit — reality and scripted programs filled with frank themes and content, such as MTV's hookup-focused reality hit Jersey Shore.

ABC's Cougar Town — which had a memorable scene that implied Courteney Cox's character administering oral sex to her date — premiered last fall. Also new in the past year: HBO's Hung, a dramedy about a well-endowed teacher moonlighting as a prostitute; National Geographic TV's adult-themed documentary series, Taboo; and VH1's titillating Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew.

"You can definitely see an arms race," says FX programming chief John Landgraf, whose groundbreaking series such as Rescue Me and Nip/Tuck set new standards for mature content on basic cable.

Established shows are amping up, too. Nip/Tuck is wrapping its sixth and final season with boundary-pushing themes centered on its often sexually compulsive plastic surgeons, and ABC's Desperate Housewives has cast former Dexter star Julie Benz as a stripper for the series' fifth season.

Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl returns Monday with hooker Belle (Billie Piper) looking for source material for another book through new sexual experiences with clients.

Showtime's aptly titled Californication recently ended its third season with sex-addicted Hank Moody (David Duchovny) getting more booty than ever — juggling three women while pursuing a fourth. Moody's best friend and manager (Evan Handler) grappled with an ex-wife and randy boss (Kathleen Turner), while guest star Rick Springfield, playing himself, had several solo and group conquests.

A long history

The subject of sex has been part of the medium almost since its start. But displays of sex, intimacy and even body parts, for the most part, have been evolutionary, not revolutionary.

In the 1950s, TV couldn't show married couples sleeping in the same bed. In the '60s, exposing the bellybutton of I Dream of Jeannie's Barbara Eden was verboten. Braless jiggles on Charlie's Angels were considered daring in the '70s. But by the '90s, the expanse of adult-themed content on premium channels such as HBO and sex-infused music videos on MTV made baring the derriere of a hefty NYPD Blue cop acceptable to the masses on ABC.

"It's funny what's considered risqué these days," says Audrey Landers, whose sexpot image, burnished by eight seasons on '80s hit Dallas, led to a Playboy pictorial in 1983. Last year, the actress, singer and fashion designer was developing a cable reality show, which was rejected for its tameness. "They suggested my mother, 18-year-old niece and I sex things up by posing for Playboy," says Landers, 53.

Critics such as the Parents Television Council decry the mushrooming sexual content. "It's become downright ubiquitous," says council president Tim Winter. "Families are under siege, teenage girls are under siege. You don't know what the cultural impact will be down the road."

Others, such as Fordham University media observer Paul Levinson, say TV merely mirrors life. "It sounds radical, but this is healthy for popular culture," Levinson says. "Mainstream TV has been frozen in a very puritanical position by Congress, the FCC and the Supreme Court — all who don't seem to understand the First Amendment. Sex is part of life. If people are offended, there's a simple remedy: Don't watch."

Taste standards and broadcast guidelines aside, sexual content — and where to push boundaries — is largely established by programmers seeking traction among fickle viewers, then benchmarked by others who want to push the envelope.

"When advertising dollars are down you have to cut through — you have to get attention," says JD Roth, producer of NBC reality hit The Biggest Loser.

ABC programming chief Steve McPherson says he has faced no pressure to edge up content but acknowledges late prime-time slots offer opportunities. "If you can get a loud broadcast-acceptable 10 p.m. show, it's a time to take chances," McPherson says.

Moreover, broadcast executives acknowledge that premium-channel and basic-cable-channel rivals are altering the TV landscape.

"We don't want to be out of touch with the way society is going," says NBC's Angela Bromstad. "At the same time, you have to be careful what you put on air."

Says Doug Herzog, president of MTV Networks entertainment group: "The line moves every day, so you got to move with it. You can't put the genie back in the bottle."

'Spartacus': Roman hands

Initially pitched to NBC in tamer form, Spartacus: Blood and Sand oozes explicit content.

"The whole thing was pushing the boundaries on pretty much every level," says co-executive producer Robert Tapert, who is married to Spartacus star Lucy Lawless. "Once we wound up on (premium pay cable), we were able to really push the envelope."

Lawless portrays a conniving social climber who is nude in some scenes, commits adultery in others and uses sex to manipulate frenemies and family. One episode shows Lawless' character and her gladiator-camp-owner husband (John Hannah) manually stimulated by slaves before having sex. Upcoming episodes feature orgies and a gladiator whose large endowment ultimately leads to his downfall.

Noting the potentially off-putting content, the former Xena: Warrior Princess star concedes Spartacus isn't for everyone: "Pretty quickly, the audience has to realize they aren't in Kansas anymore. There will be (viewers) who are truly horrified and switch this off."

Of course, Starz executives hope for the opposite effect, and they believe Spartacus' underlying sex-and-gore themes will be provocative attention-grabbing devices to bolster viewership. They've already ordered a second season.

"People are going to stop in their tracks and say, 'Wow, that's something really different' — whether they approve of it or not," says Starz programming chief Stephan Shelanski. Starz is comfortable with content such as full-frontal male nudity because it has become more explicit in theatrical releases that eventually arrive on premium cable, such asBorat and Sex and the City , and on premium-cable originals such as HBO's Tell Me You Love Me.

Ironically, Showtime (The L Word , The Tudors , Weeds ) and FX, whose programming helped pave the way for harder-content offerings on rival networks, say they're pulling back on sexually provocative shows and stories.

"In terms of edginess, our content is less edgy today," Landgraf says. "Nip/Tuck is the edgiest show we've ever had, and we just haven't found a program to replace it with. Sons of Anarchy is less edgy than The Shield. At the end of the day, what makes a show like The Shield work is the quality from a storytelling standpoint. You watch because it's compelling, because it's good."

Says Showtime's Bob Greenblatt: "We're not trying to do things just to get attention and sell subscriptions. I'd say the network is a lot less sexy than it used to be. There's very little on United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie and Dexter. For me, its really just about having the freedom to go to those places if the stories and characters demand it."

'Natural evolution of things'

Californication creator Tom Kapinos says there'll be consequences for the central character's sexual rambunctiousness next season, and perhaps more of an attempt to keep his pants zipped. "I don't know how much further you can push things," Kapinos says. "But this is still a show about a single guy in L.A. There's a lot of trouble to get into."

Greenblatt notes Spartacus could raise the bar — or lower it — when it comes to both the pervasiveness and explicitness of TV sex. "I'm sure after Spartacus, there'll be more," he says. "It's the natural evolution of things."

Blue Mountain State producer Brian Robbins, whose credits include Smallville and One Tree Hill, says he's not surprised by the explicit sex on air these days.

The irony isn't lost on Robbins, perhaps best known as the long-haired lothario Eric Mardian on ABC's '80s sitcom Head of the Class. "I was the stud on that show, but I didn't get to do anything," Robbins says. These days, "anything goes."

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Explicit sex returns to TV

Explicit sex scenes are in vogue again on TV, with new series such as True Blood — and this time women are calling the shots
By Andrew Billen

When was it that I realised that Percy Filth — as Jack Rosenthal’s sitcom The Lovers called sex around the time that television invented it — had made a return to the box?

Was it in the early minutes of Rome four years ago when Polly Walker as the voluptuous Atia energetically turned a freeman into her sex slave? Was it two years later when Californication debuted with a nun performing oral sex on David Duchovny? Or was it during this summer’s run of Desperate Romantics , a riskily unstuffy drama about the Pre-Raphaelites that required its actors, in the interests of historical authenticity, to agree to wear pubic hair wigs?

Actually, I think it was in August in Midsomer Murders. Detective Constable Jones became transfixed by an undraped model at a modelling class, and so did the camera. Objectors would have got short shrift. Within weeks Ofcom, television’s regulator, had rejected 37 complaints attracted by nudity on a Channel 4 programme called Life Class, and that went out at 12.30pm. But if Midsomer Murders, the darling of Middle England, was casually showing naked breasts before the watershed then truly had television exorcised the spirit of Mary Whitehouse.


Let me be frank. I was a child of the Sixties, which made me an adolescent of the Seventies. I may have now reached the age when I want to fast-forward sex scenes to get back to the plot, but bliss was it in that dawn to be male and pubescent. Sex was saturating the culture. Sitcoms such as The Lovers tittered about it (pre-marital sex was the joke), documentaries agonised over it, American imports such as Charlie’s Angels traded on it, but the canny British teenager knew where to find it: on native drama productions shortly after the bewitching hour of 9pm.

Sometimes the female nudity — and it was always female in those days — was more or less integral. Few upmarket viewers in 1976 thought any less of I, Claudius for its nude scenes. You would not have had to be Dennis Potter (although it actually was) to write sex into Casanova in 1971. You might even argue that ITV’s tale of family incest Bouquet of Barbed Wire, described by Clive James as “The House of Atreus transferred to Peyton Place”, demanded more nudity than it actually got — years later the columnist Richard Littlejohn confidently averred Susan Penhaligon had taken her kit off, forcing her to protest, flattered, that she hadn’t. But what of the 1972 intelligent supernatural thriller The Stone Tape? Why 80 minutes in, did a breast poke from a dressing gown worn by an actress who was not even credited?

This may have been the era of clean-up TV campaigns, but deep within the cocoon of television, Kenith Trodd, who produced some of its most memorable and sexiest plays, recalls fighting very few battles about sexual explicitness, aside from the hard case of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle in which a disabled woman was raped. He does recall receiving a note from a suit regarding Dennis Potter’s Pennies from Heaven that read: “Please cut Eileen’s tits and all of Bob [Hoskins]’s cock.” “But I suppose what I am saying is that it came down not so much to policy as to individual quirks when dealing with sex.”

In 1989, however, a Potter series (not, after a falling out, produced by Trodd) delivered such an orgy of misogynistic sex that it provoked a rapid detumescence in television drama. Blackeyes told the story of an elderly male novelist making a lurid sexual fantasy out of his niece’s life. “His motives on Blackeyes were to speak up apologetically for all men,” Trodd recalls, “and he got it wrong. There was a discussion programme, some residue of Late Night Line-Up, after the first episode where everyone extolled it. But by the second, the feministic voices had got their act together and realised it was not friendly to them.”

Percy Filth did not suddenly cower and disappear. In 1990 A Sense of Guilt by Andrea Newman, the writer of Bouquet of Barbed Wire, required the very young actress Rudi Davies (who later left the business) to strip in front of a much older man (Trevor Eve, who did not). Two years later, The Camomile Lawn, directed by Peter Hall, featured Jennifer Ehle in a remarkably nude lovemaking scene. The same year Between the Lines, a gritty series about police corruption, rapidly earned the nickname “Between the Loins”.

It was quite a way to go out and the three series showed how sex bestrode the dramatic range: an upmarket soap, a historical saga and a piece of social realism (realism has always claimed nudity as a credential). But thereafter, there was less and less female flesh for the adolescent to admire.

Professor Jonathan Bignell, in An Introduction to Television Studies, notes that “although it had become common to discuss sexual activity in current affairs, documentary and other public service discussion genres, the dramatic representation of sexual activity had become increasingly self-censored by broadcasters as a result of the Aids crisis”. Television became as scared of sex as everyone else. The adaptor Andrew Davies earned in those years a reputation for slipping sex into the classics, but the sexual content of his Pride and Prejudice was actually confined to Colin Firth’s damp shirt. For Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth there would be no romps on a lawn, camomile or otherwise.

There was explicit sex on TV but to make sure of finding it you had to buy a satellite dish or wait for the arrival of Channel 5 and its avowed early policy of showing “films, f***ing and football”. On the main channels you were more likely to see a nude female stretched out cold on a mortician’s block than warming a bed. What that said about the period was a cause for concern all by itself. Inspired by the big screen’s hip new purveyors of violence such as Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, television thrillers from Prime Suspect and Cracker on, became increasingly bloody and explicit. Gore replaced groping.

Meanwhile, internal structures were changing in TV, leaving programme-makers with less autonomy and more bureaucracy, the management method that likes to say no. Trodd recalls that by the mid-Nineties he would go to a script meeting with the late Mark Shivas, Head of BBC Drama, and find an assistant head of drama sitting there too — “and what she was doing there was to try and second-guess and pre-guess what we were up to”.

It would, more and more, be a she. And here we reach a paradox. The first wave of women television executives frowned on their sex being exploited by middle-aged male writers. They are now in charge — and the corsets are being thrown off once more. Hilary Salmon, of the BBC, executive producer of Desperate Romantics, explains: “We are all women now and we can do what we like. We closed the male toilets on this floor! I just don’t think we have to wave flags about where we stand on these issues. There is a shared sensibility.”

Salmon believes that it is The Line of Beauty , made in 2006, that really demonstrates the change between sexual explicitness then and now. “The sex in it is very explicit and between men. We did think very carefully before showing men having sex in the park but we felt it was important to show it quite explicitly because the book and the adaptation took the view that homosexual sex was as natural as heterosexual sex.” One of four female producers on the serial, Salmon notes it was a long way from the day when as a junior programme-maker she rowed with Charles Denton, then Head of BBC Drama, over his opinion (probably correct at the time) that full-frontal female nudity was acceptable to audiences but full-frontal male was not.

So when it came to Desperate Romantics this summer, there was considerable freedom for a male writer, Peter Bowker, and a male director, Paul Gay, to produce explicit sex scenes. “We had,” Gay says, “many discussions about not wanting to make a dry, dusty period drama and to make it sexy and contemporary, fun and playful.” Far from there being no-nudity clauses in the actors’ contract, it was made clear during casting that full-frontal nudity might be required, although merkins would be provided, where necessary, to ensure pubic authenticity. The fair-share of filth policy resulted in an upmarket audience led by women.

But this autumn the surest way to see sexual explicitness is to watch imported American shows such as Californication, The Tudors and, a newcomer, True Blood, starting tomorrow on Channel 4 after its run on FX. Much more sexy than scary, its star Anna Paquin, who plays the telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, is regularly to be seen in hot sex scenes, which are then posted on the net. After decades in which American television, fearful of the Bible Belt and advertisers’ sensibilities, was our prudish cousin, the arrival of HBO changed everything. Indeed, even the most ardent admirer of The Sopranos might wonder why quite so many scenes were established with shots of topless pole dancers at the Bada Bing. Equally, the revered men who made The Wire displayed a strong preference for nude scenes featuring top-heavy young actresses. The influence of the mores of these prestigious cult dramas on British directors should not be underestimated.

And the fact is that if they show it, we are unlikely to complain. Research for Ofcom in 2005 concluded that sexual imagery was less of a worry to viewers than explicit language and nudity, per se, was no longer a concern at all. “While there is some concern about the prevalence of sexual imagery, particularly with regard to children, many regard it as a sign of a more open and tolerant society,” it reported.

Cynicism is an issue for us all. Executives know sex reaches those elusive young viewers (look at the early nude locker-room scenes in Skins). It is also true, as Ofcom also found, that older viewers can still be upset. When I recently wrote in a television review that I would be campaigning for more sex on television, an older reader wrote to me: “I feel that I am being made a compulsory voyeur, so I tend to close my eyes until the grunting is over.”

But although I am probably nearer my correspondent’s age than the Skins demographic I disagree. It seems to me that for once television is moving in the right direction, away from gratuitous violence and towards a more relaxed, more continental and less sexist attitude to one of the most pleasurable facts of life. That naked artist’s model in Midsomer? She attracted a solitary complaint to Ofcom. Quite right too. Long live Percy Filth, I say.
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