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When it comes to splendid satellite television programming, one channel distinctively comes to mind: Showtime. You may count on Showtime to offer outstanding firstborn series, compelling documentaries and a wide selection of movies that every one is bound to enjoy. Showtime is oftentimes top bill at the Daytime Emmys, which is unsurprising given it is lineup of frequent programming. Besides Hollywood hits and distinguishable motion pictures, the channel is home to a collection of off-beat, intellectual shows that make you squirm in anticipation. Subscribers may get the whole package subscribing to Showtime Unlimited. This deal features nine channels with six of them in HD.
Showtime/Showtime HD: This is the main Showtime channel. It is here where you will find all the severely lauded pictures and series such as This American Life, Dexter, and the Tudors. The former, This American Life, features radio talk show host extraordinaire Ira Glass presiding over a series of stories, told in a few acts on one theme or red thread which connects the pieces together. Watch in HD to get the full effect of how radio may translate into moving images. Dexter, is of course, a bloody tale of a serial killer who only kills the bad guys. A blood splatter expert working for the Miami police department, Dexter ought to take extreme measures not to get caught. The Tudors is an award winning series which deals with intrigue, lust and loyalties in Tudor England. The channel likewise offers and splendid line up of top sports events.
Showtime West/Showtime West HD: This channel is basically a duplicate of Showtime, except that it is geared for the West coast and is broadcast three hours later.
Showtime 2/Showtime 2 HD: This channel fundamentally doubles all your observing options. Here you may watch primary Showtime series, such as Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union in which comedienne Tracey Ullman performs doing a whole gamut of strange and arousing and attention holding impressions and Weeds, a show regarding a suburban mother who deals drugs from her family’s home. Showtime 2 also gives you outstanding uncut movies, without commercials 24 hours a day.
Showcase/Showcase HD: This channel displays a good deal of of the satellite TV channel’s biggest hits. Here, you may find more original programming, more sports events, such as championship boxing, and more family programming.
Showtime Extreme/Extreme HD: This channel is filled with adrenaline packed action. The thrills never cease. You get action movies 24 hours a day.
The Movie Channel/Movie Channel HD: This channel, and it is HD counterpart, is the perfective destination for film buffs. Here, you may sit back and relax to over 150 dissimilar titles each and each month.
The Movie Channel West: Again, this movies is a repeat of the Movie Channel, geared for the West coast, airing the precise same movies three hours later.
FLIX: FLIX is a channel that is committed to movies from decades past the 70′s, 80′s and the 90′s. Some highlights include Harry and Son, Whatever It Takes and A Home of Our Own.
Sundance Channel: Finally, there’s the Sundance Channel; founded by actor and conductor Robert Redford, this channels showcases award winning documentaries, shorts, independent films and much more.
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18 of 18 humans found the following review helpful.
 Innovators In Radio NOW on TV
By Black Eagle Child
Ira Glass and company have been formulating the lovable radio show “This American Life” for years now. Fans of the radio show will undoubtedly be mesmerized in the television show.
The show is masterfully photographed, and very well produced. I thought at primary that if the television show was to be as effective as the radio show, it would be almost out of the question to produce, but apparently not so! Content-wise, it’s very similar to the radio show. Every story follows a mutual narrative arc, but each story likewise features the distinguishable setting that the radio show is known for. There’s actually little more to be said, peculiarly if you are already a fan of the radio show. This is real American journalism concentered on not common humans who each day pass for common. Ira Glass and his show fetch us these people’s stories and do so with outstanding artistry.
Often humorous, on occasion sad, but always interesting, “This American Life” is groundbreaking television!
22 of 24 persons found the following review helpful.
What You’d Expect Reality Television To Really Be Like
By SORE EYES
I’m continually impressed with Ira Glass as an editor, interviewer and now with his new Showtime programme, This American Life, TV host. I frankly can’t believe how good this series is. I’ve watched each episode back to back twice and I’m still reeling.
Quite simply, this is reality television or what reality television will have to have been before it got commandeered by posers in constructed atmospheres. Have you ever thought with regards to why it’s called “Reality TV” when there isn’t anything real regarding it? A bunch of persons who would never meet up in real life are thrown together in a wholly artificial situation-a house, an island-to compete for something evenly artificial-a modeling contract, a million dollars. That’s not real. This American Life is a hundred percent human, real, and down to world all the time. The stories are forthright, touching, amazing.
It’s a testament to Ira’s skill as an interviewer that he in some manner manages to find persons and tell their stories without artifice-there isn’t an ounce of cheese or a single turn of spun in any one of these stories. You don’t listen Ira or his staff ask a lot of questions on camera, but he must be awful at his occupation because he brings out the best in people. Also the camera shots in this series are outstanding. In one consultation a 13 year old boy rallies versus love while his red headed classmate floats dreamily altho a field of grass. In another consultation the viewers get to see Chance the Bull through the kitchen window of it’s owner. It’s beautiful. All of it. It’s plainly amazing. My husband and I were both teary eyed after various of these stories.
Besides meeting a 13 year old boy who has sworn off love, you’ll visit a Chicago hot dog stand where clients and staff swear at each other in a free for all that brings out the worst in humane nature, sit with a man who watches TV in his wife’s mausoleum each other day, walk the ranch of a kind hearted Texas man who had his beloved bull cloned and you’ll probably give up meat after “smelling” an Iowa pig farm. And after each single episode you’ll feel like the humane race isn’t headed for a huge black hole in space after all. You’ll feel like we’re good, like there’s hope for us because it can’t be that bleak if this is what humans are genuinely like-vulnerable, kind, interesting, good hearted.
If you’re looking for more culture like this-I’d commend The New Kings of Non-Fiction edited by Ira Glass and Best American Essays 2007 edited by David Foster Wallace. And for a movie that’s down to world (if a little quirky) Eagle v. Shark.
15 of 16 persons found the following review helpful.
But would it be as good as the radio version?
By James Hiller
…. was a question I’m sure a heap of people asked when hearing that the most innovative, fantasti NPR radio program “This American Life” was going on television. It seemed almost out of the question to believe that they would be taking their winning format and attempting it out in a wholly dissimilar medium. Would the intimacy that radio provides be possible on TV? Would seeing ruin the visuals the stories build in your heads? Rest assured, the show was in good, good hands and the result is a winning combination.
Host Ira Glass, with his nasally calm voice, introduces each week a theme, and spins stories on that theme from a wide pancea of possibilities, each a finish story within it’s own, each adding to the examination of the question without ever directly answering it. The television show picks up the same concept, even though in a shorter, half-hour version. More with regards to this later.
The opening episode tells when it comes to reality, and two disparate stories (and one of the funniest introduction stories I ever heard) that you may perhaps imagine. One when it comes to a tame bull named Chance and his improbable offspring, and the other with regards to a radical improv group in New York City. That’s the beauty of Glass’ radio show: taking these two stories, that in a literal sense occur in dissimilar worlds in our own country, and putting them together to make beauteous poetry. That’s Glass’ and the show’s genius.
I found the show’s visual distinct features to not be a detractor, but to heighten the storytelling of the show. One segment in the second episode tells in regards to a group of dastardly senior citizens resolving they were going to make a movie for Sundance. The story was unquestionably heightened by seeing the woman who was chosen playing the robber, a plastic mask covering her face, her hand shaking. Less needs to be said description wise as the stories are told (yes, I did miss that), but it’s nice to actually see the “reality” of it.
My only little beef is the length of the show. It cuts at a half hour, and each time the episode ended and the credits rolled, I did feel ripped off. I’m very applied to the hour format of the radio show, and the three act format (although even the radio show bends that format by doing one or two act shows, depending on the content). I merely want an hour of the show!
Glass manages to tells diverse stories of our diverse country, honoring the persons telling the stories, and giving them a terrifi sense of dignity. Their realities may not be one ounce similar to your or my realities, yet we find mutual themes that unite us together. This American Life expertly unites all of us by helping us grasp life in other people’s shoes just that much more. Bravo for that!
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