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Elizabeth Perkins reports her character’s antagonistic relationship with Nancy Botwin, the pot-selling mom played by Mary Louise Parker on “Weeds” “is going to change” as the just-launched new season of the Showtime series unfurls.  “I love it when we’re at odds, because it’s so much fun to play,” says Perkins, who’s garnered two Golden Globe [...]

Just one month after shattering Showtime records for original program ratings, “Weeds” has been renewed for two additional seasons.
Showtime revealed the renewal as part of a slew of announcements made during its Television Critics Association press tour session on Friday (July 18).
Network executives also announced another renewal for the long-running “Penn & Teller Bulls***!” and [...]

The little boxes went away in a tidal wave of flames.  Agrestic is no longer the location for Mary Louise Parker’s pot-dealing widowed mom character, Nancy Botwin. She has moved down south to “Ren Mar” where the border beckons ever so seductively. 
 
Showrunner Jenji Kohan revealed her plans at the TCA (Television Critics’ Association) press tour today in [...]

PHILADELPHIA - “Sometimes I listen to my music,” Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in a cafe here.
“And I think, ‘How is it that you have a job? You really suck.’ And then sometimes I listen to it and I say to myself: ‘How come everybody in the world doesn’t say that you’re [...]

On Wednesday’s CBS “Early Show,” co-host Julie Chen teased an interview with actress Elizabeth Perkins from Showtime’s ‘Weeds’: “We’re going to see what she thinks about weed. Not the show, the plant.” Later, Chen offered yet another tease: “You know her from ‘Weeds’ on Showtime. Elizabeth Perkins. We’re going to find out if she thinks [...]

With Showtime’s breakthrough show peaking at an all-time high (ratings have almost tripled), Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan took a tip from Talking Heads. At the end of last season, she had Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker), the pot-dealing widow, burn down her suburban house to thwart DEA sleuths.
Gone is the great but grating “Little Boxes” theme song, [...]

Once upon a time, Sunday was the best night on TV. From 1998 pretty much through last year, Tony, Carrie, Nate, Larry and Omar made my least favorite day of the week (who doesn’t get the Monday dreads every week around 9 p.m.?) a destination for the best entertainment on the small screen.
And so it [...]

(CBS) In the Showtime comedy series “Weeds,” Elizabeth Perkins stars as Celia Hodes, the tough-talking frenemy of a drug-dealing soccer mom played by Mary-Louise Parker.
Perkins has played the complex character for four seasons, twice earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her work.
“Well, as an actress, you always want to play somebody who is ultimately really [...]

Watching Weeds we sometimes wonder, What’s the point? Not of life, but the show: last season’s shoot-’em-ups, Tarantino-esque standoffs, senseless tattoos; even the patently absurd premise, the pot-dealing sweetheart who never gets caught and owns a big house. Is all this just a vehicle for the deliciousness of California domesticity and, more important, the deliciousness [...]

As it turns out Nancy, on a real run this time, will not only be smuggling pot over the border, but a fugitive Mexican as well.
Not happy about that.
Celia, having one shot at clearing her name, finally tracks down Nancy and the gang via a text message from Shane to Isabelle.
At the same time [...]