Six Feet Under News

This is a short primer for the independent dark comedy Cold Souls . It has its limited release on July 7th.

Gayle MacDonald Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 04:27PM EDT M any people would have slammed down the phone, but Thomas Jane merely snickers when asked: "So did you audition for your upcoming lead role with your pants down?" Normally, that would be a bizarre question, but given the subject matter of HBO's new drama, Hung , it didn't seem that, well, ballsy.

The summer has become cable's launchpad for new series, and this year is no exception, with some of the networks' biggest launches ever rolling out in the coming weeks.

A few weeks ago I marked the end of the 2008-09 TV season by asking " Which TV show should I start watching? " and soliciting for suggestions.

When it comes to Herculean challenges, Patrick Page says Scar, Lumiere and the Grinch are a walk in the park compared with the role he's playing now ---- the title character in Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival.

Justina Machado will play a summer stint in Broadway tuner "In the Heights." Machado, who will star in the CBS skein "Three Rivers" next season, will play the role of hairdresser Daniela in "Heights," the 2008 Tony winner set in an upper Manhattan neighborhood.

Stars Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Rated PG-13. Opens Fri., June 26. At Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Television's Justina Machado is heading to Tony Award winning Best Musical In the Heights on June 29 as sassy salon owner Daniela, the role created by Andrea Burns.

You might remember that we posted a promo trailer for the series back in March .

Dexter Morgan is a blood-splatter analyst for Miami police by day and a serial-killer-with-a-conscience by night.

At a time when tales of vampires are for some reason forefront in the culture, the best ongoing tale for adults is the one found on "True Blood" . The series from "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball has combined a clever premise with an overtone of impending violence or sex that has made it the premium network's most popular series since "The ...

KAREN NEALJada Pinkett Smith plays a widowed saintly nurse in TNT's ''HawthoRNe.'' At the height of "ER," doctors were the gurney-side heroes.

Woman against the world - The sky is falling, the sky is falling and it's up Christina Hawthorne, Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital, to hold it up.

"Tropic Thunder" co-writer Justin Theroux has been hired to direct the U.S. casino-themed comedy "Chief Ron," film industry sources told Variety.com. The movie is based on the true story of Chief Ron Roberts, a blond man with blue eyes who claimed he was of Native American heritage and set out to build a casino in upstate New York.

Even if you missed Peter Facinelli's breakthrough role in "Can't Hardly Wait," glanced over his time on "Six Feet Under," didn't catch him on "Fastlane" and skipped past his arc on "Damages," you undoubtedly saw the actor play Dr.

With the summer movie season upon us, it is time to look at some of the hot new faces coming up in films and television.

Home Box Office, or HBO as it is better known, has produced some the most compelling and well executed drama series in the history of television.

Television is famous for giving us idealized mothers, including June Cleaver, Carol Brady, and Olivia Walton.

TV Show: Brothers & Sisters Calista Flockhart stars as Kitty Walker on the ABC Television Network's "Brothers & Sisters." It's Kitty versus Robert, and Joan versus Annie.

Best known for his roles on 'Six Feet Under' and 'Dirty Sexy Money,' Emmy-nominated actor Peter Krause recently added "producer" to his many credits - as in music producer.