Why HBO's New Download Service Won't Be a Hit
HBO is testing a new download service, HBO Broadband, in Milwaukee and in the home of the NFC runner-up Green Bay Packers. It has the makings of a sma...
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HBO To Go Online With Free Downloads
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 01.21.2008 | Media
, cable's most popular premium channel, is carefully entering the arena of Internet video. The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce H...
Bryant Gumbel Praises HBO: We Don't 'Grovel For Ratings'
Chicago Sun-Times | DOUG ELFMAN | Posted 01.20.2008 | Media
You can count the number of great TV news shows on one hand. There's "Frontline," "60 Minutes," "Bill Moyers Journal" and "Real Sports with Bryant Gum...
The Wire Isn't a Critique of Capitalism
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
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Whether creator David Simon thinks so or not, The Wire isn't a searing attack on the excesses of capitalism! That's not to say that the show isn't audacious.
Jeff Bewkes On Yale, Greenlighting "The Sopranos," And How He's Going To Boost Time Warner's Stock Price
New York | Lloyd Grove | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business
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Jeffrey Bewkes, the new chief executive of sprawling, stalled media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., hardly fits the mold of a swashbuckling visionary. ...
Mr. Simon, Consider This A Solicitation
Daniel Silk | Posted 01.04.2008 | Entertainment
Can Obama really bring about change in health care, in foreign policy, in conventional wisdom... or is he just another Tommy Carcetti, bound to face backbreaking compromises and ultimately, failure?
The Best Show in TV History is Finally Back
Dan Brown | Posted 01.03.2008 | Entertainment
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As an inner-city teacher, I felt the filmmakers for The Wire nailed their portrayal of the struggling school system and urban decay with eloquence and truth.
"The Wire" Central To HBO's Post-"Sopranos" Strategy
Wall Street Journal | LAUREN MECHLING | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business
Come New Year's, wine guru Robert Parker, rapper Mims and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner all expect to be in the same place: curled up...
Tina Brown's Next Move? HBO
New York Post | Liz Smith | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
'WHAT WILL Tina Brown do next?" people always ask. Here's the hot skinny on the queen of buzz. The amazing Tina Brown is in a newly struck, first-loo...
DVDs: Harry Potter Sees The Future
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.14.2007 | Entertainment
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ($34.99; Warner Bros.) is just out on DVD to satisfy the fans who've read the final book three times already...
HBO To Make Film On Barry Bonds Steroid Scandal
San Jose Mercury News | Charlie McCollum | Posted 11.29.2007 | Media
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The story of Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroids scandal is going to made into a film by HBO. The premium cable channel has acquired the rights to "Ga...
I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA Premieres Tonight
Patrick Waldo | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living
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As a long time vegetarian, animal rights supporter, and PETA member, I'm excited about the attention the documentary will bring to the organization's causes.
How to Get Your Passion Project Made...in Only Seven Years
Scott Burns | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
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Perhaps the only thing worse than a movie taking seven years to get made is giving up after six and giving yourself over to the dispassionate act of writing what we have all already seen.
Once Buds, "Sex And The City" Duo Locked In Frosty Rivalry
New York Times | Allen Salkin | Posted 10.20.2007 | Entertainment
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ON a Monday last January, Candace Bushnell was feeling ebullient. The author of "Sex and the City" had just heard that her latest novel, "Lipstick Jun...
Watch Bill Maher Throw 9/11 Conspiracy Hecklers Out Of His Audience
Posted 10.20.2007 | Home
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Bill Maher took matters into his own hands last night when 9/11 conspiracy theorists disrupted the audience of his television show, Real Time with Bil...
Plastic Fantastic!
Beth Lapides | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment
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Maybe in the next episode of Tell me You Love Me they'll realize that the estrogens may be partially responsible for the husband's lack of sex drive. Or maybe that won't happen for another year.
Real Or Simulated? The New Generation Of "Hard-Core Art" Sex Scenes
New York Times | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 09.30.2007 | Entertainment
A few years ago, Michelle Borth went topless for a movie, and she thought: "That's it. That's my last topless scene." Then she read the script for th...
Kevin Spacey Signs On For "Recount" With Laura Dern As Katherine Harris
Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 09.24.2007 | Entertainment
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Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Ed Begley Jr. and Bob Balaban have been set by HBO Films to star in "Recount," the dr...
Showtime Guns For HBO's Audience, Subscribers
New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 09.17.2007 | Media
Premium cable channel Showtime, having already narrowed the gap in terms of programming buzz, is making an aggressive pitch to do the same with subscr...
After Assault Scandal, Ex-HBO Honcho Lands Talent Agency Gig
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 09.17.2007 | Media
Chris Albrecht, the former chief executive of HBO who helped develop hits like "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City," is planning to join IMG, the tal...
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics
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Last fall, HBO's Sheila Nevins invited me to photograph injured soldiers and marines for a documentary. But the folks at Walter Reed changed their minds and cancelled the project.
Review Roundup: HBO's New Series "Tell Me You Love Me" Has Lots Of Sex, But It May Not Be Good
Huffington Post Entertainment | Posted 09.07.2007 | Entertainment
Reviews are in for HBO's much-ballyhooed "Tell Me You Love Me", and they're extremely mixed. The show is an intimate look at marriage, told through ...
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