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Article: Getting hooked on Showtime's appealing `Call Girl'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2008
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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 ...