Showtime’s Free Preview Weekend Starts Tomorrow

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Dying to know why your friends keep talking about Dexter? Haven’t had a chance to catch up on your Weeds? Hoping to see The Tudors before the series comes to an end? Then it’s time to clear your schedule.

Beginning tomorrow, Showtime will be hosting an ALL ACCESS Free Preview Weekend. During the four-day event, non-subscribers will get the chance to view programs normally stacked up in their Netflix queue. In addition to a host of movies on the cable network’s regular channels, viewers will be able to tap into On Demand programming through Sunday, March 28.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (6/22)

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Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come:

• I Get That a Lot (CBS) **3 more specials ordered**
• Stager Invasion (TLC) **12 more episodes ordered**

• Nurse Jackie (Showtime) - Season 2
• Tracy Ullman’s State of the Union (Showtime) - Season 3

• The Beast (A&E)

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2009 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations (TV)

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Even though SAG members are currently debating whether to strike, today’s award nominations gave them all a brief distraction. If the upcoming Oscars telecast doesn’t go on as planned, next month’s Screen Actors Guild Awards (scheduled for January 25th on TNT and TBS) could be the last time actors have a reason to celebrate.

Here are some of the noteworthy mentions from this year’s list of television nominees:

• 30 Rock, Boston Legal, The Closer, John Adams and Mad Men all scored three noms each.
• Dexter is up for its first win in the Outstanding Drama Series Ensemble category.
• Desperate Housewives - a nominee for Best Ensemble - received no individual honors.
• Debra Messing (The Starter Wife), Kevin Connolly (Entourage), January Jones (Mad Men), Anna Paquin (True Blood) and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) all received Golden Globe nominations, but no SAG noms.

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