Thursday, January 31, 2008

 

USA Weekend Who's News Blog

Tracey was interviewed today by Lorrie Lynch for the USA Weekend Who's News blog, thereby getting some early promotion for State of the Union. Readers were asked what questions they wanted to ask, and those formed the basis of the interview. We learned why SOTU is on Showtime rather than HBO (executive Bob Greenblatt moved from HBO to Showtime, and Tracey wanted to continue working with him, so she made the move too), why there are only five episodes in this first series (that's all the budget allowed), what it was like to become a US citizen ("mind-blowing", she said) and who her favorite guilty-pleasure cable news personality is (Rita Cosby of Fox News).

Two months and counting....

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Monday, January 28, 2008

 

9 Weeks and counting...

It's now 9 weeks until the premiere of State of the Union. I know this because Showtime has just started airing a repeat run of the first season of The Tudors. The tenth and final episode is slotted to air March 30, leading into the first episode of its second season, which in turn leads into the debut of SOTU.

This should be a prime time to watch out for SOTU previews. There was a partial preview last night ("partial" because the promo covered all of Showtime's original programs), and I think I saw a familiar character: airport security guard Sheneesha. Same uniform, but different hairstyle. I wonder how many familiar friends we'll be seeing?

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

 

State of the Union -- March 30

Mark the date on your calendars: March 30. That's when the first episode of State of the Union (SOTU) premieres on Showtime. It'll premiere at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific, right after the premiere of the second season of The Tudors. To shamelessly rip off NBC's slogan, that'll be some Must See TV for me.

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