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Valhalla

The main theme of the Showtime series Jeremiah (2002-2004) had the eponymous character searching for "Valhalla Sector".


Alexandra Socha

Her television work includes the character Mia in the Showtime series The Big C, single appearances on White Collar, A Gifted Man, Made in Jersey, and a recurring role on the FX series, Damages.

Angee Hughes

She played the role of Sara Bardshar in the Spanish-American War themed miniseries Rough Riders and appeared in the Showtime production Lily Dale, alongside Mary Stuart Masterson and Stockard Channing.

Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

In two 2007 episodes of the Showtime television series, The Tudors, Anne Stafford, portrayed by Anna Brewster, is presented as the 3rd Duke of Buckingham's daughter (she was his sister), and is involved not with Henry VIII but with a fictionalized version of the King's future brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 In. Women

Women is a 1994 Showtime television movie that parodies two sensational news stories from the 1990s: The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan incident, and the John and Lorena Bobbitt incident.

Bob Einstein

In 1987, Einstein got his own variety show named Super Dave, which ran from 1987 to 1991 on the Global Television Network in Canada (where the show was produced at the network's Toronto studio) and Showtime in the U.S..

Boyd Terry

In the fall of 2009, he briefly re-joined the band to play a series of holiday shows throughout Southern California, and in 2012, he made a cameo appearance in the "Showtime!" episode of The Aquabats' television series The Aquabats! Super Show!, playing a superhero appropriately named "Catboy".

Brigitte Bako

Bako worked with David Duchovny again in a 2007 episode of the Showtime series Californication (Episode 9, "Filthy Lucre," as a Porsche saleswoman).

Carole Montgomery

She has been featured in over 2 dozen television shows, including Showtime's Comedy All Stars 6 with Don Rickles and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

Caryn Mandabach

Most recently she executive produced Nurse Jackie, with Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius, a half-hour dark comedy about a "flawed" emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital, starring Edie Falco, which is a hit on Showtime in America, and on BBC2 in the UK.

Charlene Fernetz

Fernetz was born on a large farm in the center of Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; but in 1990 it was while doing regional theater in Portland, Oregon, that she caught the eye of a Manager from Los Angeles, and within months she was a guest on the Showtime series, Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House.

Cheryl West

A film version of her play, Holiday Heart, premiered on Showtime in 2000 starring Ving Rhames and Alfre Woodard.

Christine Willes

Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper.

Cool and the Crazy

Cool and the Crazy first aired on the cable television network Showtime in 1994 as part of the series Rebel Highway.

In 1993, Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, approached Bakshi to write and direct a low-budget feature for Showtime's Rebel Highway series.

Dale G. Madison

He received his first performer screen film credit in the original 1988 John Waters movie Hairspray and has appeared on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Streets as well as Showtime's Barbershop: The Series.

Daniel Zacapa

Zacapa played Tio Ruben of the Santiago family in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., Renda in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and a leading role in the independent film Coronado.

Danny Fingeroth

From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of Showtime's WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor.

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth

The performance was recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California in June 2004, and it premiered on September 4 later that year on Showtime.

Deacons for Defense and Justice

Produced by Showtime starring academy-award winner Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, and Jonathan Silverman, the film is based on the struggle of the actual Deacons for Defense against the Jim Crow South in a powerful area of Louisiana controlled by the Ku Klux Klan.

Elmarie Wendel

She appeared in the acclaimed original cable films And the Band Played On for HBO and in Far from Home for Showtime.

Emma Stansfield

She also guest starred in the fourth season of Showtime's show The Tudors as the Protestant martyr Anne Askew.

Eric Canuel

After shooting a number of TV commercials, several of them award-winners, he worked as a director on the television series Big Wolf on Campus, for the Fox network, and The Hunger, broadcast on Showtime and The Movie Network.

Esther Bell

Godass (2000), starring Julianne Nicholson, Fred Schneider of the B-52's, and Tina Holmes, sold and screened on Showtime and Sundance Channel.

Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II

Bobby Czyz, who was calling the fight with Steve Albert for Showtime, said, "I wonder how this would have played in Mitch Halpern's eyes," and Albert told Czyz, "Oh my goodness, that's a thought, Bobby."

Florida Scrub Jay

The Florida Scrub Jay was featured in episode 11, season 3 of the Showtime television series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

Home Theater Network

Prior to The Disney Channel's April 1983 launch, Walt Disney Pictures licensed select live-action films to many premium cable networks (including HBO, Showtime and Spotlight); as a result, HTN featured Disney fare such as Freaky Friday, Snowball Express, Pete's Dragon, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The North Avenue Irregulars.

Jeff Mercel

His work has appeared in numerous television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, and Showtime’s This American Life.

John Farris

His short story I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream. was adapted for the Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror in 2007.

Lavolta

What is said to be The Volta (but is actually another dance) can be seen in the dance being performed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in the second season's seventh episode of Showtime's original series The Tudors.

Louise DuArt: The Mouth That Roared

Louise DuArt: The Mouth That Roared is a 1989 Showtime special featuring Louise DuArt's spot-on impersonations of Woody Allen, Dr. Ruth, Carol Burnett, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Tammy Faye Bakker, George Burns, Gracie Allen and many more.

Mary Ann Pascal

Pascal broke into television in 1984, at first in guest roles on such series as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Hotel, and in a few made-for-TV movies before landing what is perhaps her best known role to date on Showtime's Brothers, in 1986.

Matty Newton

Matty also performed as a Bass player for other shows produced by Showtime Entertainment during this time, including an ABBA show and a Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus production.

Michael Parenti

In addition, he was interviewed for two episodes of the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, speaking briefly about the Dalai Lama (Episode 305 – Holier Than Thou) and patriotism (Episode 508 – Mount Rushmore).

Papa CJ

He has toured sell-out shows across four continents and in October 2011 he taped a Showtime USA Stand-up Comedy Special with Russell Peters in Amsterdam.

Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg

Philip, Count Palatine is portrayed as Duke Philip of Bavaria by Colin O'Donoghue in the third season of Showtime's The Tudors.

Remember the Monsters?

Showtime president David Nevins praised the series finale against fan backlash by saying "The fundamental design of where they ended Dexter was really well conceived. He had to sacrifice the one person who was closest to him in the world, and he had to leave. That was where it was headed for a very long time."

Ron Shock

Shock's blend of stand-up comedy and storytelling, which he referred to as "comedy from a life fully lived", made him a favorite at comedy clubs across the country as well as on such television shows as Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road and Showtime's Bad Gig Blues.

Rotisserie

Ron Popeil, inventor of the Ronco "Showtime" rotisserie oven, claims that 6 rpm is an ideal speed for cooking a variety of food.

Scott Pask

Additional credits include On an Average Day (West End) and Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse) both directed by John Crowley; Bash (Almeida Theatre, New York, Los Angeles, and Showtime); Albert Herring (Opera North U.K); The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show (NY, London, Edinburgh, Cambridge), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love's Fowl, The Beginning of August, Refuge.

Stand Up to Cancer

The Telethon returned on Friday, September 7, 2012 at 8/7c to ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, E!, VH1, Style Network, Smithsonian Channel, VH1 Classic, Ion Television, TBS, Encore, Starz, HBO, Showtime, HBO Latino, Bio., MLB Network, LMN, Mun2, Palladia and Logo TV.

Super Six World Boxing Classic

The Super Six World Boxing Classic was a 2009 through 2011 super middleweight boxing tournament organized by Showtime television network in co-operation with Sauerland Event.

The Experts Network

Cris Collinsworth is the Emmy Award-winning analyst and the lead analyst of NBC Sports Sunday Night Football and contributor to Showtime's Inside the NFL.

The Pin Up Girls

In 2008 The Pin Up Girls first recorded single "There She Goes...She's Real Fly" was picked up to be played on Showtime's hit lesbian series The L Word.

Tom Simmons

He has appeared in BET's ComicView, Showtime's White Boyz in the Hood, and Comedy Central's Live at Gotham.

Tyler Knight

In addition to his pornographic film appearances, Tyler appeared in season one and two of the Showtime series, Zane's Sex Chronicles.

William Sommers

David Bradley played Will Sommers in Episode 3.5 of the Showtime series The Tudors (2009).

XHTVM-TV

TV Azteca and Showtime in the United States signed an agreement in September 2008 under which Proyecto 40 began to carry Dexter, Nurse Jackie and other Showtime programs.


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