It’s Showtime Time

HBO, once the darling of cable TV, move aside: Here comes Showtime.

The cabler that Queer as Folk put on the map at the beginning of the decade is finally enjoying its day in the sun as the go-to cabler in Hollywood.

Hit shows like The L Word and Weeds helped usher in more hits, like Californication, Dexter, and The Tudors, and quite soon you will be able to add United States of Tara, an original idea from Steven Spielberg developed by Diablo Cody starring Toni Collette, to that list.

Collette will play a mom with multiple personalities opposite Sex and the City’s John Corbett (be still my heart!).

“It’s moving, it’s confronting, it’s outrageous,” says the actress.

And funny-looking, too. I’m already loving the fact that the trucker hat Collette wears as one of her personalities on the show looks exactly like the one a BFF used to wear all the frakkin’ time.

Photo: E! Online.