Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

This product accompanied the Showtime Rotisserie and was used to inject solid ingredients into meat or other foods.

In Los Angeles, Smith appeared in theatrical productions of Living On Salvation Street, for which she was paid $ 14 for each performance, Boys and Girls / Men and Women and How the Other Half Loves, and played the recurring role of Luella Waters on the Showtime series Brothers.

In terms of programming, for example, after the launch of Showtime, GMA launched Diz Iz It !, but was cancelled due to the former's popularity, and the latter was called a copycat and cheap.

Straczynski ran the series for two seasons but was frustrated with the conflicting directions that MGM and Showtime wanted from the show, and even used the pseudonym " Fettes Grey " for the first time since Spiral Zone on one of the scripts.

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

Then in 2004, NCSE was represented by Scott on Penn and Teller's Showtime television show Bullshit!

* The role of Anne of Cleves was played by actress and singer Joss Stone in the Showtime cable television series The Tudors.

PBS and the cable network Showtime aired a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

In season 7, episode 5 of Penn & Teller's Showtime series Bullshit !, it was claimed and appeared to have been demonstrated that polygraphs can be confused or beaten by tightening up one's anal sphincter.

They signed veterans Brian Shaw, John Salley, Ron Harper, and A. C. Green, who was a Laker during the " Showtime " era.

Showtime logo used from 1984 to 1997 ; a 3D circle containing a TV screen was included with this logo from 1984 to 1988.

This logo was also used on Showtime Australia until 2009.

In the 2000s, Showtime began test marketing a subscription-video-on-demand SVOD system ; the subscription-video-on-demand channel called Showtime On Demand, which users are able to see episodes of Showtime original series, movies, adult programming and boxing, was launched officially in 2002.

The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television, now two separate arms, CBS Television Studios for production and CBS Television Distribution for syndicated program distribution ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET Networks, and ( until it was sold off in 2007 ) Famous Music.

In May 2010, it was reported that Showtime plans to launch a service to stream episodes of original series to subscribers.

Launched in 1991, the channel was rebranded as Showtime Too from 2001 to 2006.

The channel was previously known as Showtime 3 from 1996 to 2001.

Another Showtime series, Brotherhood, about the intertwining lives of the Irish-American Caffee brothers from Providence, Rhode Island: Tommy, a local politician and Michael, a professional criminal, was quite popular critically with some even comparing the show to The Wire and The Sopranos.

It was even said by one critic to be " the jewel Showtime has sought for years.

On November 22, 1993, Showtime signed exclusive first-run premium cable rights with MGM and United Artists which was renewed in 2000 for eight additional years.

Her daughter, Chloe, starred as one of her children in both A Christmas Romance and in the 2001 Showtime film The Wilde Girls.

Showtime also became one of the first cable TV networks to broadcast an HDTV version of its channel, along with Dolby Digital 5. 1 surround sound.

Showtime 2 carries one original program exclusive to the network, a late night program called Big Brother After Dark as a companion series to the American Big Brother series airing on sister broadcast network CBS.

She also wrote and directed an episode of Women for Showtime Cable Network, as well as Sax Cantor Riff, one of HBO ’ s Subway Stories for producers Jonathan Demme and Rosie Perez.

The film, about one hour long and originally produced as a Showtime television special, goes to great pains to recreate costumes, sets and situations that occurred in the original documentary.

The SOS was featured in the Original Battle of the Bands held at RFK Stadium and its drumline was named as one of Showtime Magazines top ten amongst HBCU ’ s.

The pilot made significant changes to the characters and premise as it moved the setting from London to Los Angeles, though according to Kevin Smith ( as stated in one of his SModcasts ), Showtime decided to shelve the series, having deciding instead to pick up Californication.

Although the majority of cable systems typically sell The Movie Channel as a package with sister premium channel Showtime, Dish Network and DirecTV do alternately sell The Movie Channel to non-Showtime subscribers ( it is one of only two premium channels to be offered in this manner, the other being Encore ).

Unlike other cable networks, premium services are almost always subscribed to a la carte cable television, meaning that one can, for example, subscribe to HBO without subscribing to Showtime ( In Canada, there are slight modifications, as most providers include U. S. superstations with their main premium package by default ).

Most pay television providers also offer a selection of premium services ( for example, the HBO, Showtime and Starz packages ) in one bundle at a much reduced price than purchasing each service separately, as an inducement for subscribers to remain with their company or for others to induce subscribers into using their service.

In the United States, Strange has been broadcast by the cable television network Showtime, on one of its specialist subsidiary channels and in July 2009 the series started airing on Chiller.

Early in her career, she appeared as one of the hosts of It's Showtime at the Apollo.

In 1985, she created Tall Tales & Legends, another one-hour anthology series for Showtime, this one featuring adaptations of American folk tales.

In 2007, Stanhope made two TV specialsone in the US for Showtime, recorded at The Gotham Comedy Club in New York City on March 12 ; and one for the UK's Channel 4 Comedy Lab, filmed at the Caves in Edinburgh, Scotland titled " Doug Stanhope: Go Home ".

Appearing in from the last episode of series one onward, Bayler played a variety of characters, including a shy and apparently forgetful announcer, the greasy presenter of ' Rutland Showtime ', and the Pink Panzer ( a pink-uniformed SS officer who greets the camera with an effete Nazi salute and a breathless " heil Hitler ").

Although the " adult " version is most closely associated with Showtime, it did go out on a few independent TV stations during the 1980s, playing as late-night fare, although the " clean " version is the one that was more commonly found in syndication.

She also played a small roles in Ginger Snaps 2 and Battlestar Galactica, as one of the counsellors working at Brigitte's rehab centre and a nurse taking a mammogram for Dana in the Showtime series The L Word.

Stone is one of the few comedians ever invited to perform at The White House, and in her stand-up career has appeared on " The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ," " Oprah Winfrey ," " Joan Rivers ," as well as multiple appearances on " Comic Strip Live ," three " Showtime " Cable Comedy Specials: " Pam Stone, A Pair of Jokers ," " Showtime's Comedy Club All-Stars " and " Showtime's Montreal Comedy Festival.

The 1980s Lakers were nicknamed " Showtime " due to their Magic Johnson-led fast break-offense, and won five championships in a nine-year span, including their first ever Finals championship against the Celtics in 1985.

Showtime, originally a service of Viacom, went on the air on July 1, 1976, first shown on a local cable system in Dublin, California.

Showtime debuted on South African television for the first time as part of the new TopTV satellite provider's package on May 1, 2010.

This includes the entirety of the soap opera Coronation Street which is now held at the Yorkshire Television archive, which itself possesses largely intact archives ( although some early colour shows from the late 1960s and the early 1970s such as the entire output of the drama Castle Haven, the first two series of Sez Les and the children's variety show Junior Showtime are missing and believed wiped ).

Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt traveled to Moscow in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet / American Peace Concert, later shown on the Showtime television network.

Viacom Cablevision in Nashville, Tennessee, the first system to offer the event, sold over fifty percent of its subscribers when companies like iN DEMAND, HBO, and Showtime started using the system to show movies and some of their productions.

The fight finally came up on March 10 of 1986, and it was the first fight televised by Showtime.

His later 1970s albums ( with the exception of Jazz, which explored ragtime / vaudeville ) do not fall under a single genre description, but his self-titled first album could be described as blues ; Into the Purple Valley, Boomer's Story, and Paradise and Lunch as folk and blues ; Chicken Skin Music and Showtime as a mix of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian ; Bop Till You Drop as 1950s ' R & B ; and Borderline and Get Rhythm as rock-based.

In the U. S., the show aired on Showtime: The first season aired on Wednesdays and the rest of the series aired on Sundays.

In 2009, Sparks recorded his first Showtime comedy special Charmageddon in front of a standing room only crowd at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, California.

Viacom accused TCI of using the issue of its affiliation contract, which expired in January 1993, to pressure Viacom into settling its lawsuit against them, in which Viacom stated that TCI threatened to hurt both Showtime and The Movie Channel unless Viacom agreed to acquire a stake in Encore, a channel Viacom claimed to be a concept first made by them four years earlier during failed negotiations that would have had TCI purchase a 50 % stake in Showtime Networks.

In 2010, Borstein joined the first season staff of the Showtime dramedy Shameless, as a writer and supervising producer.

Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada.

He also appeared in a cameo in the second episode of the first season as English teacher Oral Gershenoff in Showtime dramedy United States of Tara.

Ry Cooder's first Warner Bros. release was the 1977 live album Showtime and he remained with the label until his contract expired in the late 1980s.

Moloney appeared in the television film Bang Bang You're Dead with Thomas Cavanagh and Randy Harrison, which was first broadcast on October 13, 2002 on Showtime.

The device and its inventor were featured in the first episode of the seventh season of the Showtime show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!