"Diary of a Call Girl" to air on Showtime soon
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This show looks awful and very unrealistic. I doubt we the civilian population is going to get a real and unedited glimpse into our world with this pile, she is already irritating me just from the previews. It just looks like another one of those "want to be sexy" UK shows which are usually crap with the exception of Footballers Wives. I wish they would bring that back, that was a great guilty pleasure.
Here's the New York Times review. Not favorable but the reviewer also disapproves of the subject matter, no big surprise there. I don't know, I suppose I'm one of those delusional males but I've met a few escorts who sort of like what they do. Maybe they don't love it every single day and retain all sorts of ambivalent feelings about their customers ect. Its not a job for everybody, that's for sure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/arts/television/16secr.html?ref=television
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/arts/television/16secr.html?ref=television
Daily News Today:
'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' is sexy enough, but 'tis a pity she's a bore
Monday, June 16th 2008, 4:00 AM
Billie Piper is ***** in 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl.'
If you're one of those folks who wants more sex and less city in your scripted drama, you can stop panting. "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" is here to answer your prayers.
This British import, rough enough to be appropriate only for pay cable here, does echo "Sex and the City" in that it follows a young, attractive woman around the glamorous side of a big city — in our gal *****'s case, London.
But where Carrie, Miranda and company look on sex as a kind of dessert, one of the benefits of their regular lives, Billie Piper's ***** has sex for a living, and everything else flows from there.
You'd expect, then, that "Diary" would serve up a more graphic version of "Sex and the City," and in some ways it does — though it doesn't offer a particularly flagrant display of private parts.
Discreet camera angles and small, strategic items of clothing keep most of the activity on the level of explicit suggestion rather than full monty.
Still, it's clear what ***** is doing with her clients, and while it usually stops short of whipped cream and trapezes, you probably don't want to TiVo it for replay during family hour.
"Diary" is billed as a comedy, of course, and in many ways it's chasing "Sex and the City" less than it's aiming for a saucier version of "Bridget Jones's Diary," which became a huge international hit by dramatizing the traumas of a smart, neurotic single woman.
Bridget was frequently in crisis, but we knew that on some level she understood, and since she was laughing, it became safe for the rest of us to laugh as well.
The problem with this "Diary" is that ***** simply isn't as interesting as Bridget. Her crises seem more staged and her reactions more calculated. She's less of a plucky Everywoman.
One suspects the producers felt that ***** having more sex would compensate for any narrative shortfalls. It doesn't work out that way.
While the fact she's a well-dressed escort may get some initial attention, our shock over her naughty confessions isn't enough to hold us for eight episodes. After seeing the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda and Julia Roberts portray call girls, we frankly need a little more than *****'s unsurprising double life to keep us, uh, hooked.
All that said, former British pop star Piper plays the role well, and some of her reflections on her profession are interesting — like how she always wears men's cologne, not perfume, because that eliminates one potentially awkward question her clients may hear when they get home.
But with the exception of her puzzled boyfriend, Ben (Iddo Goldberg), and her tough-talking boss, Stephanie (Cherie Lunghi), hardly anyone in *****'s life is more than a passing ship. So in the end, this "Diary" puts almost all its chips on ***** and sex.
It's not quite enough.
'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' is sexy enough, but 'tis a pity she's a bore
Monday, June 16th 2008, 4:00 AM
Billie Piper is ***** in 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl.'
If you're one of those folks who wants more sex and less city in your scripted drama, you can stop panting. "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" is here to answer your prayers.
This British import, rough enough to be appropriate only for pay cable here, does echo "Sex and the City" in that it follows a young, attractive woman around the glamorous side of a big city — in our gal *****'s case, London.
But where Carrie, Miranda and company look on sex as a kind of dessert, one of the benefits of their regular lives, Billie Piper's ***** has sex for a living, and everything else flows from there.
You'd expect, then, that "Diary" would serve up a more graphic version of "Sex and the City," and in some ways it does — though it doesn't offer a particularly flagrant display of private parts.
Discreet camera angles and small, strategic items of clothing keep most of the activity on the level of explicit suggestion rather than full monty.
Still, it's clear what ***** is doing with her clients, and while it usually stops short of whipped cream and trapezes, you probably don't want to TiVo it for replay during family hour.
"Diary" is billed as a comedy, of course, and in many ways it's chasing "Sex and the City" less than it's aiming for a saucier version of "Bridget Jones's Diary," which became a huge international hit by dramatizing the traumas of a smart, neurotic single woman.
Bridget was frequently in crisis, but we knew that on some level she understood, and since she was laughing, it became safe for the rest of us to laugh as well.
The problem with this "Diary" is that ***** simply isn't as interesting as Bridget. Her crises seem more staged and her reactions more calculated. She's less of a plucky Everywoman.
One suspects the producers felt that ***** having more sex would compensate for any narrative shortfalls. It doesn't work out that way.
While the fact she's a well-dressed escort may get some initial attention, our shock over her naughty confessions isn't enough to hold us for eight episodes. After seeing the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda and Julia Roberts portray call girls, we frankly need a little more than *****'s unsurprising double life to keep us, uh, hooked.
All that said, former British pop star Piper plays the role well, and some of her reflections on her profession are interesting — like how she always wears men's cologne, not perfume, because that eliminates one potentially awkward question her clients may hear when they get home.
But with the exception of her puzzled boyfriend, Ben (Iddo Goldberg), and her tough-talking boss, Stephanie (Cherie Lunghi), hardly anyone in *****'s life is more than a passing ship. So in the end, this "Diary" puts almost all its chips on ***** and sex.
It's not quite enough.
You can see the first 2 shows at www.sho.com but I think only until it airs
I was in London earlier today, and was checking out the theater (theatre) listings and found this:
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london_shows/show/item100751/The-Girlfriend-Experience/
The Girlfriend Experience
"Tessa has set up a business; a brothel by the sea where mature women specialise in the Girlfriend Experience, a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.
As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble. Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?
The Girlfriend Experience was created entirely from edited conversations recorded inside an actual brothel.
previews from: 18 Sep 2008
opening night: 23 Sep 2008
closing: 11 Oct 2008
show times: Mon-Sat 19:45 (23 Sep 19:00)
ticket prices: £10-£15"
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london_shows/show/item100751/The-Girlfriend-Experience/
The Girlfriend Experience
"Tessa has set up a business; a brothel by the sea where mature women specialise in the Girlfriend Experience, a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.
As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble. Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?
The Girlfriend Experience was created entirely from edited conversations recorded inside an actual brothel.
previews from: 18 Sep 2008
opening night: 23 Sep 2008
closing: 11 Oct 2008
show times: Mon-Sat 19:45 (23 Sep 19:00)
ticket prices: £10-£15"
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The whole first season is available on DVD and thus on any repuatable torrent site. Why bother waiting for the whole season to be aired on Showtime when you can watch it all in one sitting now. I"ve watched the first 3 episodes and being that its told from a "providers" perspective it not for me to asy how acturate it is...***** the main character is a self proclaimed addict of sex and money - so call her what you like. The show skips over the details - Agencies, how to keep control over a john, make the session short, keeping professional seperate from personal on a very basic level. Instead the show is more like a series of event rather than an insitefull diary.
Episode 1: I could like the john story - Does he want Hannah or ***** (Provider Alter-ego)
Episode 2: I been asked to a orgy party
Episode 3: I can rack in $1,500 Lbs for an all nighter. (seem cheap)
Anyway - As many of you have surmised this is hardly a tell all.
Episode 1: I could like the john story - Does he want Hannah or ***** (Provider Alter-ego)
Episode 2: I been asked to a orgy party
Episode 3: I can rack in $1,500 Lbs for an all nighter. (seem cheap)
Anyway - As many of you have surmised this is hardly a tell all.
Checked out the show tonight. Been meaning to view it. Just have been busy.
Its interesting that in the in the first few minutes she mentioned about GirlFriendExperience but yet sucks the johns dick with a condom. I guess the definition of GFE is changing right before my eyes.
Although the scene with the other john while the all nighter is going on, where she sticks her finger in his ass to make him pop. That was fucking hilarious to me!
I think I'd be very angry if that happened to me. Isn't that a violation of trust? Shouldn't there be a discussion about that?
Its interesting that in the in the first few minutes she mentioned about GirlFriendExperience but yet sucks the johns dick with a condom. I guess the definition of GFE is changing right before my eyes.
Although the scene with the other john while the all nighter is going on, where she sticks her finger in his ass to make him pop. That was fucking hilarious to me!
I think I'd be very angry if that happened to me. Isn't that a violation of trust? Shouldn't there be a discussion about that?
On a post from Ms Quan today responding to the claim that she is a fraud, and when someone asked about that statement, was followed up by
"No one who was a player in the business (as I was) when she claimed to be a "working girl" ever has any remembrance of coming in contact with her. This is a subject we've discussed for years on my site, and no agency owner, booker,etc has ever been able to corroborate her story (except that they knew the stories, they just came from different girls... See More). Also look up who her BF was at the tie she first came out and who he worked for.
I've gone to several of her speaking engagements with industry people and we all had the same thoughts about what she had to say every time."
Ms. Quan's response was:
"Hi ****, thanks for coming to my event(s). I've never claimed to be associated with anyone who was a "player" in the business. Very low key, so your pals would not have known me. And the agency I worked for (briefly) was very smalltime and kinda tacky! (The owners were sweethearts, but it was not a class act.) The industry is diverse, and it's normal for people to think their own small corner of that world is the only one. My fiction work is inspired by the stories of many, but my personal history is my own.
Sounds like you and I have lived in different parts of the industry, that's all. "
What do Y'all think about that? Especially "My fiction work is inspired by the stories of many" ...... sounds like a different story than she's told before, doesn't it?