Dirt (styled d!rt for logos) was an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt (a tabloid) and Now (a glossy magazine with a more respectable reputation). The show centres on the publication of the DirtNow magazine and the lives of Spiller and her long time friend Don Konkey, a paparazzo and functioning schizophrenic who is deeply loyal to her. Also included are the lives of some of the celebrities covered by the magazine, including Holt McLaren and Julia Mallory, a celebrity couple. A 13 episode second season was announced on May 8, 2007. Only seven episodes were produced prior to the 2007 WGA strike shut down production. The shortened second season began airing on March 2, 2008.The show was produced by Coquette Productions and ABC Studios (Disney). It is distributed outside the US by Disney. On June 8, 2008, Fox revealed that the series had been cancelled after two seasons.

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Jessica Dubow teaches cultural geography at the University of Sheffield. She has published on spatial aesthetics and colonial identity as well as on the work of W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin. Her articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including Critical Inquiry, Interventions: The Journal of Postcolonial Studies and Art History.