Showtime Adds Original Series The Affair And Happyish

" School assembly on the network's free thrash of respected and captivating programming, Showtime will add two new creative arrange to its squad with tips for the one-hour recreation THE Event and half-hour comedy arrange HAPPYISH. The testimony was made today by David Nevins, Skull of Reduction, Showtime Networks Inc. THE Event, a one-hour recreation arrange starring Golden-haired Dirt nominees Dominic West (THE Line up) and Ruth Wilson (LUTHER), as well as Emmy contestant Maura Tierney (ER) and SAG Scholarship contestant Joshua Jackson (Aspect), received a ten-episode arrange order. HAPPYISH, a comedy starring Academy Scholarship come to Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote"), Kathryn Hahn ("Aggressive Aim") and Rhys Ifans ("Notting Hill") furthermore received a 10-episode order."THE Event is a beautiful misery. It is an biting exploration of two marriages and the responsibility that disrupts them - with great acting and a very astute, deeply-observed script by the superbly fair Sarah Treem," assumed Nevins. "Shalom Auslander and Phillip Seymour Hoffman make for a dedicated and unusual comedy force. The space to get one of the genuinely great actors of our time into a such an sharp and flow comedy was totally and largely irresistible."THE Event explores the emotional and psychological equipment of an extramarital responsibility. The unpleasant, one-hour recreation will be told unaided from the male and female perspectives - using the incisive protect biases to every misdirect and scheme. Wilson plays Alison, a young woman waiting tables at a popular Hamptons diner, trying to window her life back together in the wake of a farce. Her husband, Cole (Jackson), struggles to keep it all together, with his husband and with the financially-strained arable farm that has been in his family for generations. Their emotionally-charged marriage becomes unfailing arrogant complex when Alison begins an responsibility with Noah (West), a New York City mess instruct in teacher and aspiring instigator who is expenditure the summer at his in-laws' wine grower out on the isle. Tierney plays Helen, Noah's college be keen on, best friend, blood relation of his brood, lover and husband of 17 existence. Unbeatable author and writer/producer Sarah Treem (Pen OF CARDS) wrote the creative script from a story co-created with Hagai Levi. They first worked together on the American adaption of Levi's show In Response. Treem and Levi will every act as executive producers, fine hair with director Jeffrey Reiner (FRIDAY Evil LIGHTS).Oscar come to Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in the Showtime comedy HAPPYISH, a dark experiment of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that intensity just be the very affair causing our anger in the first place. Thom Payne (Hoffman) is 42, his new bosses at work are lacking his age and they say the words 'digital' and expansive far too frequently. His professor and stuck-up, Jonathan (Ifans) tells him to "rebrand" himself, his corporate headhunter tells him happiness is a parable, and Thom's not self-possessed if his Viagra will poke around with his Prozac, or vice versa. Well-known the person responsible for Kathryn Hahn stars as Lee Payne, Thom's husband, who is looking for a big goal, a intention, a meaning. Efficiently future with that. Happiness? In this world? Warmth after all is attractive high bar; in a world as mindless as ours, conceivably the best a person can depend on for is happyish. Bent, in print and executive bent by author and This American Survival contributor Shalom Auslander, HAPPYISH was developed by Ken Kwapis, who will executive swallow, and Alexandra Beattie, who will co-executive swallow, under their In Cahoots customary. John Cameron Mitchell ("Hedwig and the Accusatory Inch") directed the misery. Philip Seymour Hoffman will furthermore executive swallow under his Cooperstown Productions customary.