Showtime Picks Up "Call Girl"

[toyah]

CAN'T WAIT!! ...Toyah plays the mom.....


Variety Magazine - 'Call' Goes To Showtime
Saturday 12th January, 2008....................................................Press Clips
Showtime is bringing racy Blighty comedy "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" to the States -- thanks to an assist from former HBO supremo Chris Albrecht.


In Albrecht's first big deal since landing at IMG, Showtime has snapped up 20 half-hour episodes of "Call Girl." Skein, toplined by former "Doctor Who" star Billie Piper, was produced for ITV2 by Tiger Aspect, a leading Brit production company owned by IMG.

First eight episodes of "Call Girl" will air this summer. Second season of 12 segs begins lensing in Blighty next year. Greenblatt said he sees "Call Girl" -- which gave ITV2 its best ratings of the year -- as a cross between "Sex and the City" and "Californication."

"It has a great sensibility to it," he told Daily Variety. "It's more emotional than you think it's going to be. It's sexy and funny, but there's other stuff going on.

"Call Girl" has Piper playing a character with dual lives. By day, she's a legal secretary named Hannah; at night, she morphs into high-class hooker Belle.

Source: Variety: December 2007

Toyah on TV

[WolverineSyr]

I absolutely love Toyah, unfortunately I haven't seen her in anything for over 20 years. I know she's still famous overseas though! The past few times I've looked her up on youtube I've only checked out the old stuff. I should take a look at her more recent work.

[toyah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-npWE3OJUQ