This new series is a single-camera comedy about a single mother who makes ends meet by selling marijuana in the fictional suburb of Agrestic, California. The series exposes the dirty little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns and shiny closed doors of homes in the of this gated community. Mary Louise Parker stars as the suburban mom who resorts to selling weed to support her family after her husband unexpectedly dies. Jenji Kohan will executive produces and writes the series.
Airing Information:
First Season:
Preview of pilot aired on Sunday, August 7, 2005 on Showtime at 10 PM EST with repeats on the following Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10PM EST.
From then on episodes aired first on Mondays at 10PM EST with repeats on Mondays right after the episode premiere and on Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:00PM EST and approxiamately 10:30PM EST and Sunday at 10:30PM EST.
Second Season:
The season premiere will air on Monday, August 14, 2006 on Showtime.
Production Information:
Produced by Lions Gate Television in association with Titled Productions. Weeds has received a 10-episode commitment for it's first season. It was renewed after Weeds received a Golden Globe Nomination and the two leading ladies received nominations also. The 13 episodes of the second season are currently being filmed.
Theme Song:
"Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds
 Role: Celia Hodes Elizabeth Perkins is a graduate of the Goodman Theater School, one of America's oldest and most respected theatre training schools. Founded as the Goodman School of Drama in 1925, The Theatre School is the Midwest's oldest theatre conservatory and is recognized nationally as one of the top conservatory programs in the United States. Ms. Perkins moved to NYC in the early 1980s and landed a role in Neil Simon's touring company's production of "Brighton Beach Memoirs", later reprisi...
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 Role: Nancy Botwin Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina and remains the youngest child of an Army brat family. She grew up in places such as Arizona, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Germany and France while her father served in the US Army. She became interested in acting in high school and was a Drama major at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
She's starred in many productions of the stage and screen. By 1990 had already earned her first Tony Award nomination for her performance as a young brid...
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 Role: Conrad Shepard Romany Malco was the first American born into his West Indian family. He began his career at the age of seven, when he picked up a microphone and started rapping. As a teen, he moved to Texas and formed the rap group, R.M.G. When Malco relocated his group to Los Angeles from Baytown, Texas in the early '90s, his perseverance paid off almost immediately. He fell into a crew of up-and-comers like Snoop Dog, Ricky Harris and Chris Tucker who made the VIP record store in Long Beach their headqua...
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 Role: Shane Botwin Alexander is an accomplished actor, even though he is still young. He has played the voice of two major characters in two Disney movies: 'Nemo' in Finding Nemo , and 'Bambi' in Bambi II .
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 Role: Doug Wilson Tall, droll former stand-up comedian who, after tending bar and sometimes performing at Los Angeles's legendary Improvisation Comedy Club in the late 1970s, joined "Saturday Night Live" as a cast regular in 1986. Best known for his characters "Pump You Up Franz", the Austrian bodybuilder, "Mr. Subliminal" who says the correct thing, but then blurts out his real thoughts, and for four years of Weekend Update, Nealon made his feature debut in a bit part as a drunk in "Roxanne" (1987) and playe...
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