In 2004, Jonathan Ames wrote and acted in a pilot for Showtime, yet it never aired. Until today. What's Not to Love? is based on Ames' 2000 memoir of the same name, which sprang from his "inflammatory, exquisitely worded, and often tastelessly brilliant columns for the New York Press," according to Showtime. The 30-minute show will debut tonight at 11:30 pm, and will be on Showtime On Demand until Jan. 15.

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"While it is easy to blame mean and nasty CEOs for trimming budgets, the fact is that our journalism, advertising and our content needs to be and are being re-conceived," Creative Loafing CEO Ben Eason says in a memo to employees leaked to Poynter's Jim Romenesko. In the memo, Eason tells his employees that most of the post-merger integration -- including staffing decisions -- of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper into the CL family is complete. "I'm very pleased with how the new company has come together," he says. "We are positioned well to take advantage of the future."

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