A suburban pot dealer and a frustrated Hollywood writer are teamed up in Showtime's new Monday night line-up.

At 10, Mary-Louise Parker returns for a third season of Weeds. The action picks up exactly where the Season Two cliffhanger left off -- Parker's character Nancy has all sorts of guns pointed at her as she searches for a missing stash, her son Silas faces police officers with a trunkload of weed, and her DEA boyfriend/almost-husband is d-e-a-d dead. Matthew Modine and Mary-Kate Olsen join the cast this season too.

Parker said she likes her Weeds character despite her many misgivings: "I think she can actually be passive and she was sort of buoyed into this life. She makes decision but she also kind of goes with where she's taken. But I like all of those scenes actually. I like her because to see her, its so incongruous to see this woman that looks a particular way functioning well with the gangstas."

At 10:30, David Duchovny makes his series television comeback in Californication. He plays a Hollywood writer biding his time between ideas with women, booze, and smoke.

Duchovny said his character's vices will be on display on the show but not to be gratuitous: "You see him smoking, you see him drinking, you see him drugging, you see him having sex. These things are important things for the guy's state of mind and for the show. It's not done in a gratuitous fashion, it's part of the character."




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