"We make Facebook friendlier than ever," an announcer says, "let ESPN go anywhere, make Showtime anytime and make Netflix more powerful".
Arguably, this makes Showtime's service more compelling, as it means you don't have to keep up with another app, account and service, but rather are able to switch over to Showtime – almost like you're changing channels – while on an app you already use.
The CBS-owned pay television network has enlisted the nation's largest cable and satellite operators to offer a "free preview" weekend running from Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 that will make Showtime available in 54 million homes - its largest audience ever.
The new work, to be called The Next People is being made for Showtime, a US cable TV network.
In the movie we made for Showtime, "Dog Days of the West," Stephen even came up with a way for him to wear chaps.
She had recently finished directing her first film, "Bastard Out of Carolina," an adaptation of Dorothy Allison's stark novel of child abuse in a small Southern town in the 1950's, which she made for Showtime in 1996.
Channel 4 have snapped up this new 12-part drama, made for Showtime in the US, which stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life sexual-behaviour researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
The board was also inadequately apprised of negative reaction to some of Mr. Small's initiatives, it said, like a deal he made with Showtime Networks in 2006 to set up an on-demand cable station whose programming would feature Smithsonian programs and collections.
"We're trying to make it Showtime and sometimes it doesn't work," said forward Brian Williams, a freshman from the Bronx.
