Who else has seen "WEEDS"?

PotShot · 12-14-2005, 01:57 AM

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Showtime is rolling up a second season of Weeds, ordering a 12-episode slate of the original comedy series.

The series stars actress Mary-Louise Parker as a suburban widow who deals marijuana in order to help make ends meet after her husband's sudden demise.

Weeds notched three Golden Globe nominations Tuesday morning, with Parker getting a nod for best comedy actress, putting the gifted thespian up against all four principals from ABC's Desperate Housewives. Parker's co-star Elizabeth Perkins was nominated for best supporting actress, while the program itself was short-listed for best television series, musical or comedy.

In a nod to the series' subject matter, Robert Greenblatt, president of Showtime Entertainment, said that his team was "addicted the minute we saw the pilot."

Production on the second season will begin this spring, in the hopes of a summer premiere date.

Overall, cable snared 28 of the 57 TV nominations, with HBO in the running to take home the most hardware, with 17 nominations.

Cable continues to dominate the original-film categories, as all six nominees for best miniseries/motion picture originally debuted on pay TV channels. HBO earned a number of nominations for Empire Falls, Lackawanna Blues and Warm Springs, while corporate sib Showtime was recognized for Sleeper Cell. BBC America is in the running with its Viva Blackpool, as is TNT, which got a nod for the Steven Spielberg-produced mini Into the West.

Other cable nets getting recognition from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were FX, which got a best actress (drama) nod for Glenn Close's work on the Shield, and Lifetime, which saw Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland win nods for their work in the net's Human Trafficking mini.

Happy to hear it is coming back. I, in all serious, did not expect it too. The first season was nice, but the whole "half-hour episode" thing seemed to play it out like the show was half-hearted. It would be nice to see it as a full hour.

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