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U.S. laffer "Nurse Jackie" has been acquired by the BBC in a move likely to infuriate rival webs. The corp. will air the dark half-hour Showtime comedy, starring Edie Falco as the eponymous health-care worker, on BBC2, whose controller Janice Hadlow hailed the skein as "witty and intelligent." She said: "I can't speak highly enough of 'Nurse Jackie.' I am thrilled to have it especially as the show boasts a great role for a woman."  

Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.  

DC media types like Chris Matthews , Candy Crowley and Richard Wolffe , and Team Obama- David Axelrod , Robert Gibbs , David Plouffe - all make frequent appearances, but Cho, the former campaign staffer turned admin staffer, was filmed working early morning hours in his boxer shorts.  

Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.  

"Running for president is like being an astronaut. You can go in the simulator all you want but until you're orbiting in, you don't really know what it's going to be like." Putting aside ideological politics for a minute (we know it's hard, but try), the act of running for president, with 24-hour cameras and a grueling, unending schedule of handshakes, smiles and stump speeches, must wear on anyone that attempts it. With 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,' filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama   -Amy Rice

 

Clinton and Bush also will appear at the Gibson Ampitheatre at Universal City for a public lecture sponsored by the American Jewish University, with tickets (starting at $75) going on sale on Thursday.  

Good documentaries tell us--and, even better, show us--something we don't already know.  

The film, which followed the Obama camp, offers only a few brief unguarded moments, but on reflection this doesn't come as much of a surprise.  

The Election of Barack Obama, which debuts tonight on HBO Canada. Yes, there have been controversial U. S. presidential elections, like in 1960 and 2000, where the result has been in question. But apart from those, isn't every election by the people," whether we like the result or not?  

V , which launches a four-episode "pod" Tuesday night (8/7c) that picks back up in the spring, is far less oblique and, judging by the fast-paced pilot, is more immediately satisfying and suspenseful. A rip-roaring twist on the alien-invasion scenario, this is a reinvention of a popular '80s miniseries-turned-series. It doesn't go much deeper than "Who can you trust?" paranoia—focused on the coolly sinister, sweet-talking "Visitors" with their advanced technology and cloaked reptilian innards—but V nice

We really didn’t have a firm idea of what this movie was going to be or that he was going to run for president.   -Edward Norton