Working Girl.(Secret Diary of a Call Girl)(Television program review)

As befits a show about a woman of the night, "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," an eight-episode blast of summer heat from Showtime that started last week, arrived with something of a reputation. The series was produced in England, and was originally shown there last year. It was based on a book called "The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl," which was written by a high-end prostitute and was itself an outgrowth of a blog, called "Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl," whose success then engendered a newspaper series in the Telegraph, called "Belle de Jour's Naughty Notebook," and led to another book, called "The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl." The TV ...