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Foxtel gets Dirty

The Movie Extra channel has announced it is picking up Courtney Cox’s series, Dirt.

Produced by FX Networks (Nip / Tuck , Damages) the series depicts Cox as a gossip mag editor. In the first series, Cox also featured a same-sex kiss with former Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston.

Produced with her husband David Arquette, it will air in Australia in December.

Press Release:

From MAD MEN to a mad woman: Movie Network Channels has acquired another sought-after series for its MOVIE EXTRA channel, the salaciously seductive DIRT.

Acquired from Disney ABC International Television, DIRT stars Courteney Cox in the lead role of ruthless tabloid magazine editor Lucy Spiller: an emotionally-detached, hard-driving businesswoman who thrives on uncovering the seedy truth behind celebrity in the Hollywood film industry – for reasons even she is yet to fully fathom. Armed with her trusty snapper who gets the money shots, schizophrenic paparazzo Don Konkey (Ian Hart), Lucy single-mindedly plays puppetmaster in the Hollywood fame game.

Her first television project since the hugely successful FRIENDS, DIRT (which Cox co-produces with husband David Arquette) is worlds away from the feel-good FRIENDS which made her a household name. DIRT made news earlier this year when an episode aired in the U.S. featured a girl-on-girl kissing scene between Cox’s character and fellow ex-FRIENDS favourite and real-life bud, Jennifer Anniston. But that’s tame compared to some of the other scenarios on offer. Australian viewers can expect to be confronted with a myriad of dark, scandalous and saucy situations that will both shock and seduce.

Having dealt with real-life attention from the tabloids for many years now, Cox grants herself the power to flip the perspective in this role. Consequently the world of DIRT is lurid but intriguing, despairing but amusing – and just like with a gossip mag, you’ll still want to look!

From a strategic standpoint, Movie Network Channels GM, Marketing & Content Strategy, Peter Jenetsky, said that DIRT is the perfect addition to MOVIE EXTRA’s expanding selection of series offerings, reinforcing the bold and edgy attitude of the channel.

“DIRT found strong success during its debut season on the powerful U.S. Cable Network, FX, as well as becoming one of the Top 5 programs downloaded on the iTunes website. FX recently commissioned a second season of the Cox / Arquette led production, which commences as we premiere the first season to Australian audiences on MOVIE EXTRA.

“In Australia, Courteney’s high profile has already attracted a lot of interest in her new show. Viewers are going to be very curious about DIRT, and they’ll certainly be buzzing about the juicy storylines. In these celebrity-obsessed times, it’s interesting to see a celebrity’s creative interpretation of the tabloid industry, as she obviously has real-life experience to draw from,” he said.

DIRT will make its Australian premiere this December, original and exclusive to MOVIE EXTRA.

7 Responses

  1. Guys, the show isn’t on one of Foxtel’s channels (like Fox8) because it belongs to MOVIE EXTRA -that’s part of Movie Network Channels, who are shown on Foxtel but not owned by them.

    MOVIE EXTRA do all the edgy shows like MAD MEN, The Henry Rollins Show, Chandon Pictures, and soon, The L Word (season 3 onwards)…

  2. Since I can’t get Foxtel where I live (and wouldn’t waste money on it even if I could), I would have missed this one. Luckily “illegal” downloading brought it to me back in January.

    If Seven had the rights, not surprised they passed them on. It’s a pretty nothing show.

  3. i’ve also previously read that Seven had picked up Dirt…well that’s what Wikipedia says anyway….i dotn get why Foxtel picks up half of these shows, they always put the good stuff on their extra channels…..it should at least be on Arena or Fox 8….o well, downloading from the net it is…

  4. No, in the TV Guide magazine you can buy at the supermarket it has Dirt on 7 some time in 2007. Well they got that wrong!! Still this mag is from Jan when they previewed all the new shows and I am a sad person for hanging onto it so long. LOL.

  5. I am not the same anonymous but the TV Week clearly stated Dirt will be coming to Seven at the beginning of the year. Not Dirty Sexy Money. I even heard from someone at seven they had the series.

    They either have watched the program and passed on it or sold the rights.

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