Gabriel Basso News

Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premieres of the hit SHOWTIME returning series THE BORGIAS, NURSE JACKIE and THE BIG C, two weeks before they premiere on the network.

Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premieres of the hit SHOWTIME returning series THE BORGIAS, Nurse Jackie and THE BIG C, two weeks before they premiere on the network. The premiere episodes can be accessed on the SHOWTIME website www.sho.com/preview, on YouTube www.youtube.com/SHOWTIME, and via select television providers' free On Demand channels and websites, reaching over 40 million digital households across 26 distributors. The series premieres are also available on Showtime ANYTIME®, Showtime apps on iPhone®, iPod Touch®, Android smartphones and tablets, and Nook® tablets, as well as the Showtime Social app for iPad®, on connected TV platforms, major web portals, and for download as a free video podcast on iTunes. The fourth season premiere of NURSE JACKIE airs on Sunday, April 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, followed by the third season premiere of THE BIG C at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT, and the second season premiere of THE BORGIAS at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The first three episodes of all three series will be made available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and Showtime ANYTIME the day after their series premieres.

On Sunday, April 8th, three hit SHOWTIME series will return to the network in a triple-header night of programming.

As the powerful second season of THE BIG C draws to a shocking conclusion on Monday, September 26th, SHOWTIME has picked up a third season of the critically-acclaimed comedy series starring Laura Linney as a reserved, suburban wife/mother/teacher whose terminal cancer diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find the light side of a dark situation. Ten new episodes will go into production starting early next year for debut in the second quarter of 2012. THE BIG C is created and written by Darlene Hunt, who serves as executive producer, along with showrunner Jenny Bicks, Laura Linney, Neal H. Moritz and Vivian Cannon. It is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

Parker Posey makes her first Special Guest Appearance in the hit SHOWTIME comedy series THE BIG C beginning Monday, August 22nd at 10:30p et/pt playing Poppy, a wacky, eccentric older woman who Adam (Gabriel Basso) meets online in a cancer support group for teens. A series of comic adventures bond the unconventional duo and distract Adam from his mother's illness. But Poppy's bizarre antics leave Cathy (series star and executive producer Laura Linney) cautious about her son's new May-December friendship...

Parker Posey makes her first Special Guest Appearance in the hit SHOWTIME comedy series THE BIG C beginning Monday, August 22nd at 10:30p et/pt playing Poppy, a wacky, eccentric older woman who Adam (Gabriel Basso) meets online in a cancer support group for teens. A series of comic adventures bond the unconventional duo and distract Adam from his mother's illness. But Poppy's bizarre antics leave Cathy (series star and executive producer Laura Linney) cautious about her son's new May-December friendship...

On Monday, June 27th, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) are back on SHOWTIME with the debut of the new seasons of WEEDS (10pm) and THE BIG C (10:30pm).

On Monday, June 27th, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) are back on SHOWTIME with the debut of the new seasons of WEEDS (10pm) and THE BIG C (10:30pm).

The Big C: The Complete First Season, Sony Pictures Television's critically acclaimed Showtime original dark comedy series, debuts on DVD and digital download June 7th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.