Happyish


Showtime to launch in Canada

CBS Corp. will launch branded programming from its premium cable channel Showtime in Canada for the first time after a deal with local giant Bell Media. The exclusive, long-term licensing agreement means catalogue, current and future Showtime programming will roll out in English and French on Bell platforms, including new SVOD service Crave and premium […]

Showtime feels Happyish as CBS dramas go on

US cable channel Showtime has greenlit a full season of Happyish, the dark comedy-drama that the late Philip Seymour Hoffman was attached to star in. Following the actor’s death last year, Britain’s Steve Coogan took over the starring role, and the series has been given the greenlight. The pilot starred Seymour Hoffman as a middle-aged ad […]

Seymour Hoffman’s Showtime series in doubt after death

The Showtime series actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was working on before his death yesterday looks likely to be shelved. The Capote actor’s untimely passing means future of Happyish is unclear just two weeks after CBS-owned Showtime announced the 10-part series at the TCA tour. Seymour Hoffman, considered among the finest movie actors of his generation, […]

Showtime orders Dominic West, Philip Seymour Hoffman series

CBS-owned US cable net Showtime has ordered two new scripted projects, The Affair and Happyish. Half-hour comedy Happyish is billed as “a dark examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place”. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) stars as a middle-aged man dealing […]