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United States Of Tara Officially In Production!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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For those of you as excited as I am for The United States Of Tara to make it’s way to Showtime, you’ll be happy to know that the first official filming day was today! This means we might just get to see pictures of the cast hard at work on Diablo Cody’s site. And to add to the coolness, Leah Peah will be posting regular updates on the status as well … she’s been hired to consult on the set, helping ensure things are as “reality based” as possible when it comes to dissociative disorder.

Sounds like the show’s going to be amazing, and they’re just filming the pilot! If this show doesn’t make it to regular series, there’s going to be a large group of people, myself included, who will be super pissy about it!

United States Of Tara Still Looking Good

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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As weeks pass and the pilot of United States of Tara gets closer and closer to beginning filming (in the middle of this month, in fact), more and more names are signing on to the production. We’ve already got Toni Collette in the title role of Tara, a housewife suffering from multiple personality disorder, and John Corbett signed on to play her husband struggling to understand the changes she’s going through. Now we’ve also been given their two children, played by Portia Doubleday and Keir Gilchrist.
And if the show should make it past pilot to series? Friends veteran Alexa Junge has already been confirmed as executive producer. It would seem this show is all but sold as a series to Showtime, and with a cast and crew such as they’ve got, I can’t imagine it won’t make it past pilot stage. Don’t forget Diablo Cody (of Juno fame) wrote the pilot, and is already writing episodes “in case” it gets picked up! I’m betting this will be a new show in 2009 almost certainly!

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