Straight like me. (the Buzz).THE NEW SHOWTIME show·time or show time n. 1. The time at which an entertainment, such as the showing of a movie, is scheduled to start. 2. Slang The time at which an activity is to begin. Noun 1. SERIES Dead Like Me--about a teenage girl's adventures in the afterlife--comes out June 27, but one of its main characters is going back into the closet. "The story was that [the lead character] would find out after she died that her father was having an affair with one of his male graduate students," says out creator Bryan Fuller (Star Trek Voyager, the first airplane to circumnavigate the earth nonstop on a single load of fuel. Designed by Burt Rutan and flown by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager took off from California on Dec. ), 33. But when Fuller (right) left the show over creative differences after filming just a few episodes, the show's new keepers reportedly decided to make the father's lover a young woman. It wasn't a decision by Showtime. Fuller says, but by MGM Television Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television (commonly known as MGM Television and later MGM/UA Television among other names) is an American television production/distribution company launched in 1955 and a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc.. , which is producing the series. "The studio and the new [creative team] felt that that was not a storyline Noun 1. storyline - the plot of a book or play or film plot line plot - the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal" they were interested in pursuing--for whatever reason," he adds. Fuller, who has moved on to the Fox midseason series Wonderfalls, says he's "bummed that there's one less cool gay character on TV." A straight adulterous dad, he says, is "not as interesting to me anymore." |
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