Showtime has picked up both of its drama pilots, Ray Donovan and Masters
Of Sex, to series. Ray Donovan, which stars Liev Schreiber as a
professional fixer, and Masters Of Sex, which stars Michael Sheen and
Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality,
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, have both received 12-episode
orders and will film in Los Angeles for premieres in 2013. The third
pilot from Showtime’s most recent crop of pilots, Andrew Gurland’s
docu-comedy Gurland on Gurland, will likely not go forward, but Showtime
still has picked up four of the five pilots ordered by Nevins. In
starring vehicles, he has gone 4 for 4. That was not intentional, Nevins
said. “But we do make pilots with the strong intention to put them on
the air and a strategy how to schedule them,” he said, adding that not
having the pressure of broadcast network deadlines has allowed the
network to take its time with the pilots and overcome a casting issue it
had early on with Masters Of Sex when originally cast Paul Bettany
exited. “It couldn’t have worked any better,” Nevins said of Masters Of
Sex, which cast Sheen in the role. According to Nevins, both series “in
their own way are broadening the Showtime brand” — Masters by tackling
an universal subject like human sexuality and Ray Donovan by offering “a
deep and broad show with an incredible cast going 6 and 7 actors deep
that has the makings of a great pay cable drama that is gripping,
complicated and I think extremely watchable.”Click here to read the rest of the article
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