hey pervs, announcing HBO's new show "tell Me you love me' debuting this Sunday. Its about Sex, Sex, Sex and More Sex, How DULL !!

Its about the relations of three couples. Just looking at the cast and reading the plot. the show is SCREAMING EMMY AWARDS. Lots of Emmy Awards. So people. Watch out, coming this Sunday (monday for us)

1. with lots of sex.




Michelle Borth and Luke Kirby are the cute, engaged Couple No. 1 on "Tell Me You Love Me." Their coupling is shown the most.

2. Trying to get pregnant





3. NO SEX AT ALL





Ally Walker and Tim DeKay play a sexless married couple on "Tell Me You Love Me."


Official site: http://www.hbo.com/tellme/about/ : video preview available

About the show from HBO.com

A provocative and honest exploration of intimacy, 'Tell Me You Love Me' offers an unfiltered look at three couples as they navigate critical periods in their lives. With a candidness that breaks conventional boundaries, creator Cynthia Mort examines the moments - both significant and everyday - that form the basis and language of each relationship.

Twenty-somethings Jamie and Hugo (Michelle Borth and Luke Kirby), experience the vitality of sex but realize their intimacy serves as a drug-like escape from their disparate takes on fidelity and commitment. Katie and Dave (Ally Walker and Tim DeKay), two happy parents in their forties, instead question why their love and devotion to one another hasn't translated into sexual intimacy in nearly a year. Meanwhile, mid-thirties couple Carolyn and Palek (Sonya Walger and Adam Scott), come to learn how much their efforts to become parents and their inability to conceive has strained the intangible connections between them.

Therapist May Foster, (Jane Alexander) works to carefully guide the couples toward healthier relationships and despite a few unresolved issues within her own marriage, she and her retired husband Arthur, manage to share a partnership that is both deeply loving and passionately sexual.

Capturing both the awkwardness and closeness of each couple, Mort opens a window into the complexities of modern relationships. Thought-provoking, raw and immediate, 'Tell Me You Love Me' teases out the unspoken dreams, hang-ups and fears that materialize when sex and intimacy connect - or when they diverge.


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articles on the show:

Jonathan Storm | Sex, sex and more sex: How dull

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment...__How_dull.html

Tell Me You Love Me, demands HBO's new drama series, premiering Sunday at 9 p.m.
Sorry. I don't love you, and I'm never going to have sex with you.

Too bad some of the people in the show don't say that to each other. It would provide a little variety in the most monotonously copulative new TV series since Rome, which at least had history and wars and plenty of blood and guts to keep things interesting.

(Here's a little warning: This article is going to focus on sex and swearing - not that there will actually be any - but I'll be referring to them at length. So if you have tender sensibilities or better things to do than contemplate those topics, why not just move along to the Pearls Before Swine comic strip, which is very funny, or maybe the sudoku puzzle, which is supposed to be the latest rage.)

The two big premium networks, HBO and Showtime, are in a bit of a tizzy over sex and swearing these days. They don't have to abide by any particular rules, so they're trying to show you how wild and edgy they can be. Maybe they think it's "moving forward."

Actually, Showtime's slogan used to be "No Rules." Sort of snooze-inducing, so now they've changed it to "The Best . . . on Television." (The left-out word starts with "S," and isn't "stuff.")

The channel has devised a two-minute promo, which you can see at www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNu6xwyRwlk, with clips of its original programming set to a tune from the New York improv group Centralia. It's pretty funny.

So are its two current comedies, Weeds, about a suburban mom/gangster marijuana dealer, and Californication, about a lout with writer's block who tries to drown his sorrows in sex.

Weeds, which stars preternaturally adorable Mary-Louise Parker, doesn't have a whole lot of sex, but has plenty of swearing. The language is appropriate to the tone of the show and helps make it one of the best on TV.

Californication, which stars endlessly ironic David Duchovny, has so many sex scenes they become tedious. It took me a while to realize that I was actually fast-forwarding through them, when, as a diligent observer of the visual media, I had always watched similar activity, when it came along in my job, very carefully, often frame by frame.

Duchovny and his character and his family, acquaintances and milieu are reasonably amusing, but they would be much more so, and more sympathetic, if there weren't quite so much fornication, though it must be said that 21-year-old Madeline Zima has grown up nicely since she played little Grace Sheffield on The Nanny in the '90s.

It seems like Showtime needs a daddy, or a kindly teacher, to pat it on the head and remind it that all this excess might be endlessly diverting in the boys' bathroom, or late at night where it's resided for decades, but that it isn't necessarily amusing in prime time.

Which brings us back to Tell Me You Love Me, about three couples with intimacy problems, who all go to the same therapist, who has problems of her own.

And that's what it's about. There's no intrigue, no entertainment, and the show's motion, when there is any, is so s-l-o-w, it's virtually undetectable.

So how to put a little spice in such a dreary exercise? You got it.

Couple No. 1 is engaged, but she hears him tell his buddy he really doesn't expect to be faithful to her throughout the marriage, which makes her decide she probably doesn't want to marry him. Still, the sex is good, and since they're young and cute, it gets shown the most.

Couple No. 2 has been trying to get pregnant for a year, which has changed the nature of their sex, and they're all, "Maybe I'm not adequate."

Couple No. 3 (thankfully) doesn't have much sex. In fact, they don't have any, even though they are still very much in love and share all their family responsibilities, etc.

Even the therapist, played by Jane Alexander, 67, will get into the action, so to speak, which lots of people say is brave and wonderful.

Most of the other actors (Ally Walker of Profiler and Carnivale's Tim DeKay are the most famous) are brave and pretty good, too, saddled with their depressing situations and frequent need to bare more than their souls.

Therapists get - what? - $100 an hour to put up with this stuff, and HBO wants us to pay them?


Commentary: Sex? Explicitness? This series delivers

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/06/a...e.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Well, you think you've seen everything on TV. Then along comes HBO with "Tell Me You Love Me" to open your eyes.

On this spare-no-feelings drama about human relationships, brace yourself to see plenty -- including yourself, reflected in ways that may feel painfully familiar and register more forcefully than you bargained for. My response after watching the full 10-episode season in just three sittings: "I am SO busted."

I make no prediction how others will receive "Tell Me," and in what numbers. But I see it as the most important drama HBO has introduced since "The Sopranos."

Early reports about the series (premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT) have dwelled on its graphic sex scenes. But the sex only underlines what "Tell Me" is really about. For most of each hour, the characters engage in an even more intense brand of explicitness: Their beyond-the-flesh struggle to preserve, or recover, some measure of intimacy with the partner each of them is committed to.

Which is to say there's lots of talk going on, set against the relatably ordinary lives these people lead:

- Jamie, a 20-something restaurant chef (Michelle Borth), is betrothed to Hugo, a schoolteacher (Luke Kirby). Sexually, they can't get enough of each other. But their squabbling takes over when they're not in bed.

"Sex ruins everything," pouts Jamie, blending insight with pettishness. "Good sex just hides everything that's bad about a relationship."

- Carolyn, a mid-30s on-the-fast-track lawyer (Sonya Walger), and her real-estate investor husband, Palek (Adam Scott), seem accomplished in everything they touch, including each other. Except, for a year, they've been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. Growing pressure and resentment will push their marriage to the brink.

- Katie, a 40-ish stay-at-home mom (Ally Walker), and Dave, her salesman husband (Tim DeKay), are terrific parents of two sweet kids. But they've stopped having sex. Neither of them is eager to explore why. Dave doesn't even want to acknowledge any problem.

"I love you," he tells Katie. "Too bad that's not enough."

All six characters find their way to couples counseling with a wise, reassuring therapist, Dr. May Foster (Jane Alexander). Well into her 60s, she enjoys a lusty sex life with her devoted husband (David Selby). Here, too, viewers are made privy.

That's the series in a nutshell, which only does it a disservice by implying some sort of pat formula propels it. On the contrary, "Tell Me" is nothing if not finely wrought and nuanced, shifting between its parallel narratives (each couple seeing Dr. Foster has minimal contact or awareness of the others in this Southern California community) as the universal issues at the series' heart unfold at their natural pace.

But what are those universal issues? With one couple going hot and heavy in the front seat of their car in broad daylight ... another couple hugging the opposite sides of their bed every night ... just what do the characters on "Tell Me" have in common?

To begin with, each of them is healthy, bright, attractive. Each is demonstrably loved.

Partners who may or may not belong together, they are united by a goal that, at times, seems cruelly beyond their reach: fulfillment in monogamy. These are upper-middle-class Americans; we're not talking Darfur-level misery. And yet the series grants them permission to experience fear and pain from the deprivation they feel. (By extension, it grants the viewer similar permission, which helps explain its dramatic punch.)

"Tell Me You Love Me": The imploring title says a mouthful, setting the stage for doubt, disappointment, cross-purposes, disruption. Just note how Dave can tell his wife he loves her, then add defensively, "Too bad that's not enough."

Created by Cynthia Mort, a screenwriter with the sitcoms "Roseanne" and "Will & Grace" among her credits, "Tell Me" gives vivid expression to the plight of characters misreading themselves and the people they're closest to. It charts a struggle viewers will identify with, amid their fascination and unease. (Be careful who you watch this series with, by the way. Any given episode could spark a conversation that goes unexpected, unwanted places.)

"The one thing a therapist can do, in times of darkness, is turn a light on," says Dr. Foster, words that could also be a mission statement for the series. "The trick now is not to be so stunned by the glare that you want to turn it back off."

Watching "Tell Me You Love Me," see how you react when a light turns on.

This post has been edited by g5sim: Sep 7 2007, 01:52 PM

Cast:

Hugo : Luke Ferrel Kirby



Hugo, late 20's, a teacher, is somewhat idealistic in that he believes honesty is more important than anything in a commitment, especially if he and Jamie are going to get married. When Jamie can't deal with his honesty, their relationship ends, and Hugo, after taking a long look at how he really feels, finds himself coming back to her.

Jamie : Michelle Borth



Jamie, 20's, a line cook, breaks off her engagement with Hugo, the man she loves, because of her jealousy and her emotional ups and downs. Dealing with that loss, she tries to heal herself and not act out like she used to in the past. It's a fight she sometimes wins and sometimes loses, but through it all she never loses sight of who she truly wants.

David: Tim Dekay



Dave, 40's, sells steel, is a good man, a good husband and a good father, but the weight of being so has taken its toll. Dave has shut down - his dreams, his desires. All sexual intimacy with Katie, the wife he loves, seems to have ended, and he doesn't know what to do about it.

Katie: Ally Walker



Katie, 40's, works part time from home as a graphic designer. She's put her children and her marriage before her own needs, but after a year of not being close, not having sex, she goes to therapy to try and find a way back to herself and Dave, her husband.

Palek: Adam Scott



Palek, 30's, flips upscale buildings and houses for a living; he is ambivalent about having a child, loves Carolyn above all else but is losing her in her extremely focused quest to become a mother, finding himself losing the battle to stay close to her.

Carolyn: Sonya Walger



Carolyn, 30's, a lawyer, successful, loves the man she's married to but has become consumed with getting pregnant. With each failed attempt, she becomes more obsessed, more vulnerable and more emotionally separated from her husband, Palek.

Mason: Kate Towne



Mason, 20's, Carolyn's sister and Jamie's best friend, is often close to substance abuse and any other abuse imaginable. Mason's no bullshit, and despite her off-putting behavior, shows up for her friend and her sister.

Dr. May Foster: Jane Alexander



May, 60's, a couples therapist, is a complicated, intense woman, who has been married 43 years to a man she loves, yet, as in all relationships, she continues to navigate the emotional ups and downs of intimacy.

Arthur: David Selby



Arthur, 60's, retired and married to May, wants to enjoy this time in their life together. He feels they've earned it, and as much as he loves her, he doesn't want to wait for her, or be second priority in her life.

first epi out

OMG !! the amount of sex, chicken breasts, hotdogs and ballon shown!! full frontal male orgasm summore !!

can UL screen cap ah ?

Errr, I think I'll just stick to Californication or something.

i was just about to give up on Californication. They should change the title of the show to "the David Duchovny Show: (season 1 name) Midlife Crisis

Hmmmm

I rather HBO do more serious stuff than this.

well no matter wat shuld give few eps a try

VERY tempting...
when should it be released in the web (hehe)?
cast line also not bad..

third episode out already lor

not bad, lots and lots of sex scenes for a TV show..

the only thing that you notice