Is it time for Showtime to quit charging?

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With so many original hit shows on Showtime these days, it’s hard to remember the premium channel’s 1990s tagline, “Nothing but RoboCop and soft-core skin flicks.” OK, so maybe they never came right out and admitted it like that, but the fact remains that Showtime has pulled off an impressive evolution into the best paid channel that no one’s watching. Public-radio icon Ira Glass recently said fans constantly tell him they would watch the TV

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