Article courtesy The New Yorker: Showtime’s two creepy-guy series, Californication (sex addict) and Dexter (serial killer), finished their seasons in December, making way for a trio of troubled-women shows – a new series and new seasons of two existing series – that begin this Sunday. In the première of “The L Word” ’s sixth and final season, the body of Jenny, a writer whose turn toward lesbianism provided the original story line of the show, is pulled from a swimming pool, and some of her friends are under suspicion; in “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” a young woman in London leads a problematic double life as a regular gal and as a good-time gal; and in the new series, “United States of Tara,” Toni Collette plays a woman with dissociative identity disorder (the term now sanctioned by the American Psychiatric Association for what used to be called multiple personality disorder). The full article can be read here.

Three talkshow appearances have been announced in which Toni will be promoting “The United States of Tara” this coming week. I’ll do my best to bring both appearances online. If someone out there is able to provide any kind of clips or caps from these programs, please drop me a line.

Upcoming appearances:

January 13 – The Early Show – Toni Collette
January 13 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – Toni Collette
January 16 – The View – Toni Collette and Diablo Cody