Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker has signed on for The Well, a psychological drama co-starring Guy Pearce and produced by Philip Seymour Hoffman is producing.
Empire Online reports that the project was announced at the Sundance film fest and will feature Parker and Pearce as a wealthy New York couple “whose obsessive pursuit of salvation ultimately leads to destruction.” Aside from that tease, details on the film are scarce.
The movie still has to line up a financier, but with three A-list names attached we’re guessing it’ll move forward fairly quickly.
Parker, shown here running errands in NYC this fall, had other news …read more

Long after they’ve left Showtime series — and sometimes before they’ve signed on officially — certain Showtime stars leave an impression with us. That’s certainly true of Glee’s Jane Lynch (formerly of The L Word), Modern Family’s Julie Bowen (the MILF who seduced Silas on Season 4 of Weeds) and of newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, the Precious star who is rumored to have signed on for the new Showtime series The Big C.
All three ladies made an impression at last night’s SAG Awards. Check out their red-carpet looks:

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She’s so wonderfully dead inside as Nancy Botwin on Weeds, we sometimes forget that Mary-Louise Parker is quite a warm, articulate person. The actress will show off that side of herself tonight, when she guest hosts Spectacle, Elvis Costello’s talk show for the Sundance channel.
Even better, Parker turns the tables on host Costello, interviewing him about his life as a songwriter, his favorite musical memorabilia and more. Here’s a preview:
The hourlong series airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern on Sundance. Costello’s guests this season include Bruce Springsteen, Ray LaMontagne and Lyle Lovett.

In a slight twist on all of the Best of the Decade/Best of the Year lists floating out there on the interwebs, The Chicago Tribune’s TV critic offers her take on the 10 key TV events of the decade. Some of them you might guess (the mocumentary aesthetic, the ascension of cable networks). But also on Maureen Ryan’s list is the rise of TV series starring women — and casting female leads “of a certain age” at that.
Shows like Weeds, Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara feature top-notch actresses in plum roles, she notes, and cable networks like Showtime …read more

Some of you felt Weeds jumped the shark this past season. And there’s plenty of evidence on that point: the two baby daddies, Esteban’s junkie princess of a daughter, the General Lee, Celia as hostage-turned-makeup-and-marijuana maven and the smashing of wieners in desk drawers. But say what you will about the series: Hank Stuever, a pop culture writer at The Washington Post, thinks you’re wrong.
Stuever placed Weeds at No. 3 on his Top 10 list of the best TV in 2009, slotting the series just behind Glee as one of the most entertaining scripted TV offerings this year …read more

When Weeds creator Jenji Kohan cares about a project, she puts her all into it. The exec producer of the hit Showtime series hoped to bring the TV version of stage comedy Ronna and Beverly a regular slot in the network. When those plans didn’t work out earlier this year, she and the show’s stars/co-writers, Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, convinced Showtime to air the pilot this month for Ronna and Bev fans. The pilot will air on Showtime 2 at 9:05 p.m. Eastern/12:05 a.m. Pacific on Dec. 29, Variety reports.
Chaffin and Denbo have played their Jewish divorcee characters for years on …read more

Oh Alexander Gould, we love you so much as Weeds accidentally homicidal teen Shane Botwin! Still, it’s nice to see from this video that you’re in fact a wholesome young man who buys his sister jewelry, treks to Home Depot for his dad’s present and makes homemade gifts for his mom.
Here, Showtime fans, are Alexander’s picks for the best places to buy holiday gifts:
And if his list doesn’t satisfy, there are plenty of Weeds-oriented gifts to give, including Season 5 available now on iTunes. You can also pre-order it on DVD and Blue-Ray from the Showtime Store.

Why yes, sharp-eyed Showtime fans – that is Weeds‘ own Hunter Parrish who you spied in a few frames of the TV trailer for It’s Complicated, the Meryl Streep/Alec Baldwin rom-com due in theaters later this month.
Parrish takes a break from his scruffy surfer dude persona on the Showtime series to play Luke, one of the couple’s grown children who is left to grapple with the messiness that results after Streep and Baldwin’s characters relapse on their divorce.
The film, directed by Nancy Meyers, has raised critical buzz already, but Parrish said for him the joy of It’s Complicated was in …read more

Clearly, Alanis Morissette fit in on the set of Weeds. The Canadian singer reveals  in the new issue of High Times that she smokes up to help stoke her creative fires.
“I’ve often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life,” she said in an interview in the January issue.
“I can stave those off when I’m not high. When I’m high — well, they come in and there’s less of a veil, so to speak.”
Her comfort level with smoking pot has risen because of her boyfriend, an advocate of medical marijuana, and thanks to cannabis-loving friends of his including …read more

“Best of” lists tend to be as great or as useless as the minds behind them. We’re happy to note, then, that the staff of Paste Magazine has used its collective brain power to come up with the 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade.
While we agree with the commenters who say Six Feet Under was tragically overlooked, most of the Paste picks are right on the money. Of course it helps that two outstanding Showtime series made the cut.

At No. 19, Dexter got a shout out for its complicated leading man. “The fact that Dexter is governed by a …read more