HBO Renews "Entourage" For Sixth Season
Five episodes into its fifth season and on the heels of the third consecutive Emmy for co-star Jeremy Piven, HBO's comedy mainstay "Entourage" has bee...
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DR. C.K. & Mr. Hyde: The Two Faces of Comedian Louis C.K.
Sal Nunziato | Posted 10.06.2008 | Entertainment
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It was with great anticipation that I dove into Louie C.K.'s new stand-up special on Saturday evening, only to be crushed by how unfunny most of it was.
Norman Lear, HBO Team Up For 1970s Pro Wrestling Drama Series
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media
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In his first major collaboration with HBO, TV icon Norman Lear has teamed with the premium cable network for a drama series project set in the world o...
"Little Britain USA": Two Guys Being Silly, With A Few Fat Suits Thrown In
New York Times | Posted 09.27.2008 | Entertainment
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On their most recent visit to New York, the British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams were pleased to meet a woman they described as "our fan in...
HBO Big Winner At 2008 Emmys, Basic Cable Makes History
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
Of the 28 awards handed out at Sunday's 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, ten — or over 35% of the evening's total haul — were awarded fo...
HBO Renews "True Blood" After Just Two Episodes
Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
HBO has renewed Alan Ball's vampire drama "True Blood" after only two episodes. "Blood" debuted Sept. 7 on the premium network to a modest 1.4 millio...
Big Love: McCain/Palin Style
Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
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Cindy, the heiress, was exactly the kind of woman McCain needed to propel his burgeoning political career.
HBO Launches Web Series "Hooking Up" Starring Lonelygirl15
Hollywood Reporter | Andrew Wallenstein | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media
HBOlab, an experimental offshoot of the cable powerhouse focused on online programming, is launching a Web video series featuring a cast of the Intern...
Third Screen: Crime and Punishment and What I Wore
Vickie Karp | Posted 09.07.2008 | Entertainment
La Corona, the story of a glamorous competition most of us won't ever qualify for, is a heart-rending tale of beauty pageant chic with beauty pageant chicas you will not soon forget.
Entourage: Season 5 Spoiler Alert!
Jay Dyckman | Posted 09.02.2008 | Entertainment
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Think Entourage is an all-style-no-substance show about five guys living charmed lives? Well...you're right! But this season the writing staff digs deep and keeps it real.
Third Screen: The Black List Is Beautiful -- an Interview with Elvis Mitchell
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.24.2008 | Entertainment
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Mitchell: I said [to the celebrities we interviewed] "we just want to take this look at black life, and talk about your life, and get you on camera."
DVDs: How To Watch The Wire
Michael Giltz | Posted 08.15.2008 | Entertainment
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Okay, The Wire's fifth and final season is now out on DVD and you've heard all the rave reviews. Here are a few pointers for diving into this and really any drama available on DVD.
Rory Kennedy, RFK's Daughter, Chats About Her HBO Film on Helen Thomas
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment
The HBO doc about journalism legend Helen Thomas, Thank you, Mr. President, is now slated for is first airing next Monday. Joe Strupp of E&P interviewed the director, Rory Kennedy.
Chris Albrecht, Former HBO CEO, Leaves IMG In Shock Exit
New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
In a move that caught all of Hollywood flatfooted, former HBO boss Chris Albrecht yesterday resigned unexpectedly from his newly created position as h...
TV Dilemma: When the Set Dies, What's a Maven to Do?
Elaine Liner | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
Without a working television, a TV Maven is a fisherman without a net. When my 13-year-old Sony Trinitron blinked twice and died two weeks ago, it was...
Citizen Producers and Citizen Marketers Join Citizen Journalists at Comic-Con
Ed Martin | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
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I saw them at virtually every session I attended during Comic-Con: Fans armed with digital video cameras, collecting content for their own Internet sh...
HBO Greenlights New Comedy From "Entourage" Team
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
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HBO has the recipe for "How to Make It in America." The pay cable network has greenlighted a comedy pilot from Stephen Levinson's Leverage and Mark W...
HBO Cancels "Tell Me You Love Me"
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media
HBO has opted not to renew racy drama "Tell Me You Love Me" for a second season. The decision was made almost a year after the sexually explicit seri...
Susanna White on Generation Kill
Susanna White | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
The tagline for the Generation Kill, the HBO miniseries I directed is "the new face of American war." Of course, that is an apt description - but for me, the fascinating, fulfilling part was getting to know these "faces" on a deeper level.
Birth Controlled: China's Stolen Children Reviewed
Juli Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
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The furtive Chinese government does everything in its (far-reaching, for sure) power to silence the families of over 70,000 children a year who are being "snatched from the streets."
HBO Goes Online with Interactive Prequel Campaign for Sexually Super-Charged Vampire Series True Blood
Ed Martin | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home
Remember that wild Internet marketing campaign way back in 1999 that had people convinced there really was a murderous witch in the woods of Burkittsv...
HBO Orders Pilot On Post-Katrina New Orleans From "Wire" Creator David Simon
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
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HBO has given the green light to three television pilots: a comedy based on a book about the sexual exploits of a Capitol Hill staffer, a look at post...
The Third Screen: Larry Gelbart on the Future of Media
Vickie Karp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
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In the American media landscape, human viewers may be the only constant, but it remains hard to tell if media is about them and for them, or only, well, about money. Does it matter?
HBO Raises the Bar Again With Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card
Dan Brown | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
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Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.
Sneak Peek of My HBO Special Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies
Dana Carvey | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment
Check out an exclusive clip from my HBO Comedy special airing this Saturday, June 14 at 10pm.
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