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Fuck you Alan Ball for cancelling the show! Could you perhaps consider a spin off with Olivier and Brenda's mom?

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Showtime has signed "Six Feet Under""Six Feet Under" thesp Michael C. Hall to star in the series pilot "Dexter."

Paybox entertainment chief Robert GreenblattRobert Greenblatt also has recruited "Six Feet" helmer Michael CuestaMichael Cuesta to direct the project, one of four hourlong pilots Showtime ordered in June.

Hall will play Dexter Morgan, a Miami Police Dept. forensics expert who moonlights as a serial killer -- murdering only guilty parties. Based on the Jeff Lindsay novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," series comes from scribe James Manos Jr.James Manos Jr. ("The Sopranos""The Sopranos"), who will exec produce with John GoldwynJohn Goldwyn and Sara Colleton.

Other pilots in the works at Showtime are "Filthy Gorgeous," about the world of high-end escorts, from producers Craig ZadanCraig Zadan and Neil MeronNeil Meron and writer Ron Nyswaner; "The Tudors," period piece about the younger years of Henry VIII, from writer Michael Hirst and producers Ben SilvermanBen Silverman, Eric FellnerEric Fellner and Tim Bevan; and "The Bastard," revolving around a lawyer looking to wrest his birthright away from his wealthy dysfunctional family, from scribe Robert Greenwalt.

Hall's credits include the John Woo feature "Paycheck""Paycheck" and the Broadway productions of "Cabaret" and "Chicago."

Whenever you get tired of the principals (something I could say of almost everyone at one point or another except maybe David), there's always Patricia Clarkson, Kathy Bates, Joanna Cassidy, and Catherine O'Hara having the time of their lives.

Some debate over the art-school stuff above. For me, the worst--it's a parody of a parody, a meta-parody of how movies fun of art school. Much of it is spouted by Olivier: worse even than the cocktail chatter in Woody Allen's Manhattan. (If it's accurate, so be it--doesn't make it any less horrifying, just makes me glad I never went to art school.)

"movies make fun of"

The first time I watched it through I was studying for a mixed arts-style undergraduate degree and the art school stuff - Claire and Russell's self-important disaffectedness, Jimmy's on-the-nose pseudo-celebrity, the cocaine photo exhibition...that all felt very otm. Hideous, but accurate.

I guess I got a bit of that taking a film degree in the early '80s, but not nearly as over-the-top (and, except for one course, we were studying films, not making them).