united states of tara

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Small Screen

United States Of Tara Starts Tonight!

12:23PM Jess McGuire | Back in early May I told you I had fallen heavily for United States Of Tara, the Diablo Cody-penned television show starring our very own Toni Collette as a woman dealing with multiple personalities. I also was thrilled to discover that the ABC had nabbed the show, which means there’s actually a chance that the entire series will be broadcast weekly, in order, right to the last episode! ON AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION? MADNESS! More »
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Small Screen

United States Of Tara Is Excellent Viewing

8:29AM Jess McGuire | I’ve been looking for a new television show to fall in love with, and I think I’ve managed to find it. Why, it’s Our Toni’s United States Of Tara! More »
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What’s The Number to Cancel Showtime Again?

5:42AM Seth | Tara picked up, if they add “soul-diva, syndicated-TV-judge alter-egos.” [THR] More »
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Will ‘United States Of Tara’ Confirm Diablo Cody’s Genius?

9:42AM Seth | Diablo Cody—Patron Saint of Former Strippers Who Did It Just for the Experience but Ultimately Aspired to Something More—is the writer of The United States of Tara, a new Showtime series previewed in the promotional package above. Starring Toni Colette and based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, much is riding on Tara and its tale of an American mum who just happens to suffer from dissociative identity disorder. Diablo defends her lighthearted treatment of the illness as such: More »
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Diablo Cody and Seth Rogen Late Additions to ‘Upstart Screenwriter Clout Day’

9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It turns out we may have attributed the day’s Screenwriter Dream Come True to Justin Theroux too soon — we hadn’t yet browsed the news that Steven Spielberg anointed Diablo Cody to adapt another one of his stories as a comedy for DreamWorks, and we hadn’t heard Seth Rogen’s indirect riposte to the idea that he and his colleagues should deign to working with… well, he just tells the story better: More »
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