Wednesday 1 September 2010

Just in from Showtime: Eddie Izzard, Frances Conroy, Joan Cusack

Eddie Izzard and Frances Conroy will guest on the Showtime series United States of Tara.

Izzard will seem in eight episodes to playing Tara's brilliant psychology professor who is at first a doubter, but then becomes fascinated with Tara as a subject. Conroy will have seem in one episode as Max Gregson's (John Corbett) mother. Joan Cusack has joined the cast of new Showtime drama on Shameless. Cusack, who will appearof the new series in all 12 episodes, will play the role of Sheila, an agoraphobic Chicago housewife with a sexually active teenage daughter who strikes up a special friendship with William H. Macy's character, Frank Gallagher. Production on the first season begins in mid of the September premiering on Jan.