Emmy Rossum News

SHOWTIME is airing a marathon of the first four installments of its newest hit series SHAMELESS on Saturday, February 5th, starting at 5:00 PM. SHAMELESS stars William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum and Joan Cusack. New episodes air on Sundays at 10:00pm. SHAMELESS is SHOWTIME's best performing freshman drama series in the past seven years.

Academy Award(R)-nominated actress Joan Cusack has joined the cast of SHOWTIME's new one-hour drama series SHAMELESS. Cusack, who will appear in all 12 episodes of the new series, will play the role of Sheila, an agoraphobic Chicago housewife with a sexually active teenage daughter who strikes up a special friendship with William H. Macy's character, Frank Gallagher. Production on the first season begins in mid-September, with the series premiering on SHOWTIME, Sunday, January 9th at 9:00 PM ET/PT.

SHOWTIME(R) will be available in a record 61 million households for a Free Preview Weekend from Friday, January 7 through Monday, January 10. Viewers across the country will have the opportunity to sample the premium network's award-winning programming on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD(TM) and SHOWTIME On Demand(R). The Free Preview weekend will include the anticipated series premieres of two new SHOWTIME original series SHAMELESS and EPISODES, the fourth season premiere of CALIFORNICATION, the Showtime Sports mixed martial arts series STRIKEFORCE Challengers live from Nashville, and the premium television premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.

Talk Show Listings for Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Talk Show Listings for Wednesday, January 5, 2011

SHOWTIME(R) will be available in a record 61 million households for a Free Preview Weekend from Friday, January 7 through Monday, January 10. Viewers across the country will have the opportunity to sample the premium network's award-winning programming on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD(TM) and SHOWTIME On Demand(R). The Free Preview weekend will include the anticipated series premieres of two new SHOWTIME original series SHAMELESS and EPISODES, the fourth season premiere of CALIFORNICATION, the Showtime Sports mixed martial arts series STRIKEFORCE Challengers live from Nashville, and the premium television premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.

SHOWTIME(R) will preview the first 20 minutes of its anticipated new series SHAMELESS to a nationwide audience immediately following the season five finale of the Emmy(R) Award-nominated series DEXTER, airing Sunday December 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The SHAMELESS preview will be available to SHOWTIME subscribers on-air and on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND(R), and to a nationwide audience online on SHO.com. Due to mature content, the online preview will require age verification.

SHOWTIME(R) will preview the first 20 minutes of its anticipated new series SHAMELESS to a nationwide audience immediately following the season five finale of the Emmy(R) Award-nominated series DEXTER, airing Sunday December 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The SHAMELESS preview will be available to SHOWTIME subscribers on-air and on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND(R), and to a nationwide audience online on SHO.com. Due to mature content, the online preview will require age verification.

Academy Award(R)-nominated actress Joan Cusack has joined the cast of SHOWTIME's new one-hour drama series SHAMELESS. Cusack, who will appear in all 12 episodes of the new series, will play the role of Sheila, an agoraphobic Chicago housewife with a sexually active teenage daughter who strikes up a special friendship with William H. Macy's character, Frank Gallagher. Production on the first season begins in mid-September, with the series premiering on SHOWTIME, Sunday, January 9th at 9:00 PM ET/PT.

Second Stage Theatre opened it's latest production, TRUST, starring Zach Braff, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, and Ari Graynor, on August 12. TRUST is written by Paul Weitz and directed by Peter DuBois.

The critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES opened Sunday, April 18 at the Longacre Theatre to RAVE reviews! Here's photos from the opening night red carpet!

NEW YORK'S DAZZLING YOUNG PHILANTHROPISTS GATHER AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY'S SPECTACULAR MUSEUM DANCE.

SHOWTIME, Warner Bros. Television and acclaimed Emmy(R) Award-winning television and film producer John Wells (ER, THE WEST WING, SOUTHLAND, WHITE OLEANDER, FAR FROM HEAVEN, SHOWTIME's AN AMERICAN CRIME) are bringing an adaptation of SHAMELESS, the long-running British series, to American premium television starring Emmy(R) Award winner and Oscar(R) nominee William H. Macy (Door to Door, Fargo, Pleasantville, The Cooler), Golden Globe(R) nominee Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera) and guest starring Emmy(R) Award winner Allison Janney (The West Wing) in a recurring role. SHOWTIME has ordered 12 episodes of the hour-long drama tracing the lives of a very unconventional family which will be executive produced by Wells and the series' original creator and Emmy(R) Award-winner Paul Abbott. The announcement was made today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. The series will start production at the end of summer 2010.

The Donmar Warehouse production of RED, a new American play by John Logan about the master of twentieth century abstract impressionism, Mark Rothko, opened on Broadway last night, Thursday, April 1 for a limited 15-week engagement at the Golden Theatre. Previews began on Thursday, March 11. BroadwayWorld captured the starry show arrivals.

NEW YORK'S DAZZLING YOUNG PHILANTHROPISTS GATHER AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY'S SPECTACULAR MUSEUM DANCE.

This week we are talking a trip to the Paris Opera and visiting some old friends on the eve of their re-appearance in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical sequel LOVE NEVER DIES, but before that review next week (clue: it's truly phantastic, with an 'f' and a 'ph'!) let us take a look at the best and most notable recordings of the score of the original show, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, including the Original London Cast Recording, the Canadian Highlights recording starring Colm Wilkinson, the 2004 Film Soundtrack, as well as two solo albums by the show's original stars, Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman...

RACE began previews on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th St.). The official opening night was Sunday, December 6, 2009 and BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the night!

Image Entertainment, Inc. a leading independent licensee and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, announced today that it has acquired all North American rights to 'Dare,' starring Emmy Rossum ('The Phantom of the Opera'), Zach Gilford ('Friday Night Lights'), Ashley Springer ('Teeth'), Ana Gasteyer ('Mean Girls'), and Rooney Mara ('Nightmare on Elm Street'), along with Sandra Bernhard and Alan Cumming. Image will release the film in theaters this Fall, starting with New York and Los Angeles on November 13, 2009.