Article: Getting hooked on Showtime's appealing `Call Girl'

Television

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Starring: Billie Piper, Cheri Lunghi, Iddo Goldberg

On: Showtime

Time: Tonight, 10:30-11

There's something really telegenic about split lives - and I mean messy split lives, not the neat bifurcations of famous superheroes who are ordinary by day and brave by night. Especially at Showtime, TV writers are more eager than ever to milk the comic fallout and moral haziness of characters who do something rather unusual on the down low. Mild-mannered Miami police expert Dexter is in fact a vigilante killer, for example, while Nancy on "Weeds" is a kooky suburban mom secretly doing business as a pot dealer.

And, beginning tonight at 10:30 on Showtime's ...

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