Showtime announced it's picking up the sexy U.K. comedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl. "One of the UK’s leading young actresses Billie Piper takes on the challenging lead role," the network explained. "To her friends and family she is Hannah, a legal secretary clocking in regular hours and enjoying a “normal” life. To her clients, she is Belle, the answer to all of their fantasies. Her challenge is to keep her two lives separate. Inevitably they begin to blur." For those interested in the inside baseball spin here, the series, set to debut in spring or summer 2008, was delivered to the network via Chris Albrecht, the head of global media for IMG, whose eye for spotting hit shows helped define HBO until he left the cabler earlier this year.
