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BBCA's prime-time audience averages 76,000 viewers, a sliver compared with those of cable networks like FX or HBO, which have lured around 4 million viewers for hot shows like The Shield and The Sopranos. But BBCA's numbers are high enough to earn a Nielsen rating, which puts it beyond the fringe cable channels. In the chase for ad dollars, that places it in league with National Geographic, Oxygen and the Women's Entertainment network. "We deliver the most upscale targeted trendsetting audience in cable," says Lee, referring to a recently completed viewership study for the channel...
Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is in the midst of the largest tour his career has seen yet. His cleverly surreal humor is likely to make “Sexie” a show to rival the success of his HBO one-man show “Dress to Kill,” while his side project-appearance on Broadway’s “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” has earned him a Tony Award nomination. Runs through October 25. 8:00 p.m. $40-$60. Shubert Theatre, 246 Tremont...
...series in which Star cast Silverstone is unlike his HBO comedy in obvious ways (a TV-PG rating, for starters). But both are basically wish-fulfillment shows--with different body parts doing the wishing--about the desire to connect and the obstacles that modern life and career put in the way. Both are set in fantasy versions of city life--Miss Match, suitable to its tone, in a Sheryl Crow-scored Los Angeles rather than haute, edgy Manhattan. And it has Sex's astute sense of people's weirdnesses. Kate auditions a parade of lonely hearts, including a high-powered...
...HBO expressed interest in Bezreh’s screenplay and invited her to an interview which ultimately landed her a spot in the festival. She attributes her success to two key factors. “I had just gone on this meditation retreat and I was just so relaxed,” she says. “And they liked the Harvard girl gone bad storyline...
Bezreh decided that she should star as the spanked strawberry that bares all. “It was unclear whether HBO would be kind,” she says. “I didn’t know if it was going to be exploitative and if anyone was going to be exploited I wanted it to be me.” Bezreh easily recruited friends for chorus members, but had trouble casting the dominant stagehand. “He had to have a terrifying presence,” she says. She eventually found an actor at Spooky World...