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...
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...
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...
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...
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
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.
New York | Lloyd Grove | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business
Jeffrey Bewkes, the new chief executive of sprawling, stalled media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., hardly fits the mold of a swashbuckling visionary. ...
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?
Dan Brown | Posted 01.03.2008 | Entertainment
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.
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...
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...
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.14.2007 | Entertainment
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...
San Jose Mercury News | Charlie McCollum | Posted 11.29.2007 | Media
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...
Patrick Waldo | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living
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.
Scott Burns | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
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.
New York Times | Allen Salkin | Posted 10.20.2007 | Entertainment
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...
Posted 10.20.2007 | Home
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...
Beth Lapides | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment
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.
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...
Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 09.24.2007 | Entertainment
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...
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...
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...
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics
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 ...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 01.21.2008 | Business