Showtime picks up "Juno" scribe's comedy (Reuters)

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Reuters - Showtime has ordered 12 half-hour episodes of "The United States of Tara," a comedy from Oscar-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody. [link]

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"Juno" Writer Gets Showtime Deal
Published 6/5/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
... "Juno" screenwriter and former pole-dancer-because-she-was-writing-about-it Diablo Cody has signed a deal with Showtime for 12 episodes of her comedy series "The United States of Tara." It's about a woman with multiple personality disorder. Because, you know, mental illness is funny. There are some good signs, though. Toni Collette will play Tara, who has "dissociative identity disorder." And the pilot was directed by Craig Gillespie, who did "Lars and the Real Girl," a sweet comedy - no, really, it was - about a guy and ...

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