Dan Savage, the foul-mouthed, openly gay, syndicated sex columnist and Chicago native, could be getting his own HBO series if all goes well....
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.21.2009 | Comedy
In this latest episode of, I reveal once and for all what REALLY goes on in a ref's replay booth, it's quite unexpected.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
What can I say? I wasn't feeling it tonight. "I Will Rise Up" has a few Sucker Punches, but it mostly functions as a placeholder.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Is health care a generational issue? We see a lot of older people in power and at these town halls, pushing the debate, but why aren't the young people showing up? Is this Obama's fault?
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
All of the eagerly professed ignorance of the Fed's operations begs the question: What is it about anything that has to do with money, finance or economics that enables otherwise thinking people to plead total cluelessness?
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment
Thomas Jane plays an unusually well-endowed basketball coach on HBO's 'Hung,' but how does he measure up in real life? The actor talked with Uintervie...
Art Levine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Entertainment
Nine Lives of Marion Barry illustrates the unique power of documentaries. They satisfy our cravings for true stories without the cheesy qualities that have so degraded the reality shows on TV.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment
Iximng ti pu. See what I did there? I took the phrase "mixing it up," and I mixed it up. That's because True Blood episode 2.8, "Timebomb," mixes up the meaning of two central metaphors. (I know, right? I'm so clever!)
Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
The documentary film Boy Interrupted not only tells the story of a 15-year-old's death by suicide, but it also tells the story of a mother's anguish dealing with her son's lifelong disease of bipolar mental disorder.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment
Are you serious, True Blood? Are you really going to spring Godric on me in the last moment of Episode 7 ("Release Me") and then cut to the credits? D
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment
In Hung Ray is a former pro athlete and teacher whose life is in the shitter. He's broke, his house has basically burned down, he has no insurance. But: he's really well endowed.
hollywoodreporter.com | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment
Diane Keaton is venturing into series television with a half-hour comedy at HBO. Written by Marti Noxon, the untitled project stars the Oscar winne...
Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment
In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment
Corporations don't always do what's right. Maybe they can't. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want to but the shareholders wouldn't like it. Cue: The Yes Men.
AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — HBO scored highest among 15 networks for its representation of gay characters last season, according to a report released Monday. In...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment
There are so many sucker-punchy scenes in this installment that I could get carpal tunnel syndrome writing about them all.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment
Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week's episode of True Blood.
William Bradley | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home
Why the big fade? It's actually not much of a mystery. Once you see the movie, the only mystery is why it wasn't predicted in the first place.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Much to its relief, HBO has finally discovered that there's life after "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City." The pay cable network,...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — Seventeen more cable TV networks said Tuesday they are joining an online video trial by Comcast Corp., a move that tacitly acknow...
New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The slump at HBO is apparently over. In "True Blood," the pay cable giant has its first hit since "Rome," and the numbers indicate it may be the bigg...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.12.2009 | Entertainment
Almost all the characters are weakened in some way, which creates a queasily exciting energy: We can sense a bomb's about to drop, but we can't quite tell where it's going to fall.
Posted 08.11.2009 | Entertainment
Season 6 of "Entourage" premieres on HBO Sunday night, and the cast came out for the premiere in LA Thursday night. All the guys were there - Adrien ...
AP | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah says the HBO series "Big Love" can't use the school's name or logo without its permission. University o...
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media
HBO has optioned Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex and is developing a one-hour drama series based on the 2002 book. Actor-...
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago