Few holidays are as sadly compromised on television as the Fourth of July, with moronic car dealers urging you to “demand your independence from high prices.” So HBO has programming for some serious patriots: An entire day of the recent miniseries John Adams. (See our original John Adams preview.)
That’s every episode. 9 hours, 15 minutes of some hardnosed American Revolutionary […]
In the past couple of years, HBO has offered plenty of programming focused on the Iraq War, nearly all of them painful documentaries: Baghdad Hospital, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Alive Day Memories.
Now the network takes the narrative approach with the seven-part series Generation Kill, based on the first 40 days of the war as seen by […]
From the hippie-dippy weatherman to Buddy Christ, the late George Carlin reveled in bucking the mainstream and making us consider just how screwed up the world can be.
But when one man can make you crack up that much, with that level of genius, it ain’t all that bad. HBO, who established themselves as a comedy haven thanks […]
UPDATE: At this time, we’ve been told of only two actors for Season 2: Gabriel Byrne and Dianne Wiest, both returning from the inaugural season. As the regular “Monday through Friday” couch potatoes are announced, you’ll read it here. Stay tuned.
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HBO has just announced that In Treatment, the shrink-in-session series with the great Gabriel Byrne, has […]
Hot on the heels of their newest movie, Recount, HBO is collecting some top-flight talent to stop the sliding viewership. And possibly quiet the closed-minded masses who think the network sucks since the conclusion of The Sopranos…
:: Writer-director Alexander Payne, Oscar winner for Sideways, will develop a new series called Hung. It’s about a guy who’s, well, […]
While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fight tooth-and-nail for every last delegate, HBO’s Recount relives George W. Bush and Al Gore doing much of the same in Florida– with the 2000 Presidency up for grabs and an election process in question.
Oh, who are we kidding? By the time director Jay Roach (Austin Powers trilogy, Meet the Parents) wraps this entertaining […]
