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  • July 2008

    • Larry David, Curb Returning

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 11, 08 10:06 AM CDT

      Larry David, Curb Returning

      Irascible Larry David will be bringing Curb Your Enthusiasm back for a seventh series, reports Reuters. New episodes of the edgy comedy are expected to air early next year, more than a year after last year's series ended in November 2007. HBO bosses says the Seinfeld creator is—you guessed it— enthusiastic about the return to the small screen. More »

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      television  • HBO  • sitcom  • Larry David  • Curb Your Enthusiasm  • Seinfeld

    • Generation Kill On Target

      newser  |  Variety  |  Jul 10, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Generation Kill On Target

      From the mean streets of Baltimore to the meaner ones of Baghdad, the force behind The Wire scores a direct hit with HBO's new Generation Kill , writes Brian Lowry for Variety . Following a cast of Marines during the Iraqi invasion’s first 40 days, the 7-episode miniseries may make you forget it's a work of fiction as it "offers offers a chance to see those troops in their full, unfettered, foul-mouthed glory." It begins Sunday. More »

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      television  • Baghdad  • HBO  • The Wire  • David Simon

  • May 2008

    • This Season's Hot Accessory: The Movie Tie-In

      newser  |  Forbes  |  May 27, 08 10:12 PM CDT

      This Season's Hot Accessory: The Movie Tie-In

      For the innumerable entities cashing in on Sex and the City, the movie due out Friday is the tip of the multimillion-dollar iceberg, reports Forbes. New Line Cinema, which has tie-in deals with eight companies, compares the likely blockbuster to “the Super Bowl for women.” Other high-end beneficiaries include Vivienne Westwood and, of course, Manolo Blahnik. More »

    • HBO's Recount Scathing But Fair

      newser  |  Salon  |  May 23, 08 10:11 AM CDT

      HBO's Recount Scathing But Fair

      "Recount," HBO’s “first-rate” docudrama about the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, takes the bold step of showing the harsh truth of the story, instead of “playing it safe,” writes Gary Kamiya for Salon. Leading players on both sides approved the script—surprising, Kamiya notes, “because 'Recount' shows just what an outrageous, profoundly anti-democratic coup” George W. Bush’s team achieved. More »

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      George W. Bush  • television  • film  • Al Gore  • HBO  • Election 2000

    • HBO: Coming to a Hard Drive Near You

      newser  |  Portfolio  |  May 12, 08 6:51 PM CDT

      HBO: Coming to a Hard Drive Near You

      Apple and HBO are close to an agreement that would let iTunes sell episodes of HBO shows, Portfolio reports. Sources say HBO has cut a good deal—either by breaking iTunes' $1.99 video price ceiling or getting a bigger share of the same rate. But at least one HBO source is still grumbling: "We should have done this a long time ago," the insider said. More »

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      Apple  • cable TV  • iTunes  • Time Warner  • HBO  • digital downloads  • TV shows

    • Sex and the City Star Misses ... the City

      newser  |  New York  |  May 5, 08 2:57 PM CDT

      Sex and the City Star Misses ... the City

      When Sarah Jessica Parker laments the old Manhattan that is slowly eroding—coffee shops and bodegas closing, Sex and the City bus tours parked outside Magnolia Bakery—her husband, Mathew Broderick, tells it to her straight: “That’s your fault!” New York magazine sits down with the star, who reminisces about the city of her youth. More »

    • Author Uses Costas Show to Blast Bloggers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 1, 08 6:31 PM CDT

      Author Uses Costas Show to Blast Bloggers

      The déclassé world of sports bloggers infiltrates the vaunted mainstream media today with New York Times sports media expert Richard Sandomir's take on Tuesday's episode of HBO's Costas Now. The live "town hall" setting included a segment on sports bloggers that quickly devolved into a tirade by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger, best known as the author of Friday Night Lights . More »

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      HBO  • Bob Costas  • Costas Now

  • April 2008

    • Movie Studios to Create Premium Channel

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 21, 08 8:50 AM CDT

      Movie Studios to Create Premium Channel

      Paramount Pictures, MGM Studios, and Lionsgate are creating a premium TV channel to compete with HBO and Showtime, reports the Los Angeles Times, which currently showcase their programming. The joint venture comes as those same channels look to pay studios less for movies and pursue production of their own content. More »

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      television  • HBO  • Viacom  • Paramount Pictures  • Showtime  • MGM  • United Artists

    • Is That You, Samantha?

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Apr 17, 08 6:55 PM CDT

      Is That You, Samantha?

      Kim Cattrall had to pull a quick-change to start filming the Sex and the City movie: she’d just come off the set of a PBS film in which she played the buttoned-up wife of Rudyard Kipling, the New York Daily News reports. “It was definitely a challenging transition” says the actress, best known for her portrayal of unfettered cougar Samantha Jones. More »

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      HBO  • Sex and the City  • Kim Cattrall  • PBS  • Daniel Radcliffe

  • March 2008
  • January 2008

    • HBO Offers Shows Online, Free to Subscribers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 21, 08 12:42 PM CST

      HBO Offers Shows Online, Free to Subscribers

      Time Warner’s category king, HBO, is looking for younger viewers as it launches an Internet service in partnership with several cable operators. HBO on Broadband bows tomorrow in Green Bay and Milwaukee, offering free web access to HBO programming for HBO subscribers. The company will make about 400 hours of movies and original content available monthly, reports the New York Times. More »

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      HBO  • broadcasting

    • 'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jan 16, 08 1:25 PM CST

      'Wire' Spotlight Burns Paper

      The portrayal of battered, prize-grubbing  and unscrupulous journalists in HBO's “The Wire”—based loosely on creator David Simon’s years at the downsizing Baltimore Sun —has provoked a furious internet outcry from some former colleagues who can't help but recognize themselves, the Washington Post reports. One highly regarded top editor dragged through the maybe-not-so-fictional muck calls Simon “a very angry guy"; another resents "Simon's dishonest efforts to revise history." More »

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      HBO  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

    • Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jan 6, 08 4:32 PM CST

      Critics Love Wire 's Media Turn

      Entering its last season, HBO's urban drama The Wire "succeeds strikingly at getting what's wrong just right," Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post . “Written and acted to the highest standards of the best TV drama,” the show has dealt with drugs, job loss, and school troubles, and now explores the trials of a major newspaper. More »

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      entertainment  • HBO  • reviews  • TV shows  • The Wire  • Baltimore Sun

  • November 2007

    • The Name's Bonds, Barry Bonds

      newser  |  Variety  |  Nov 29, 07 3:54 PM CST

      The Name's Bonds, Barry Bonds

      HBO is planning a movie about the recently indicted Barry Bonds, to be written and directed by Ron Shelton—the man responsible for Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and White Man Can't Jump. HBO has acquired the rights to the nonfiction book Game of Shadows , which detailed the unfolding scandal over Bonds and performance-enhancing drugs. More »

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      baseball  • movie  • steroids  • Barry Bonds  • performance-enhancing drugs  • HBO  • Hank Williams

    • 'Sopranos' Jersey Icon Whacked

      newser  |  Star-Ledger  |  Nov 12, 07 6:58 AM CST

      'Sopranos' Jersey Icon Whacked

      A "Sopranos" landmark has been demolished to make way for a New Jersey condo development that will be called—what else?—The Soprano. Satriale's, the Kearny pork store where mob boss Tony Soprano held countless espresso-fueled sitdowns, is now an empty lot littered with rocks and roped off with chains, reports the Star-Ledger . More »

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      HBO  • The Sopranos

    • Lights, Camera, Chads!

      newser  |  Miami Herald  |  Nov 7, 07 5:22 PM CST

      Lights, Camera, Chads!

      If you enjoyed the disputed 2000 election in real life, you get to experience it all over again by watching Recount , an HBO movie that will tell the story of intrigue among the butterfly ballots and hanging chads. The movie is now being filmed in Tallahassee, though some insiders sniff at the idea. "They won't be able to resist overdoing it," a former adviser to Katherine Harris told the Miami Herald . More »

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      accident  • HBO  • Election 2000  • Laura Dern

  • October 2007

    • Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Oct 15, 07 8:22 PM CDT

      Wire's Architect Begins His Final Chapter

      The final season of HBO critical darling The Wire lands in January, and will revolve around the newsroom—the last unscripted setting from creator David Simon’s own experience. The show has tackled drug runners, cops, dockworkers, and inner-city schoolchildren “with sociological precision,” reports New Yorker ’s Margaret Talbot, and will close with the onetime Sun reporter’s old haunts. More »

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      crime  • HBO  • Baltimore  • Baltimore Sun  • newsrooms  • David Simon

  • September 2007

    • 'Sopranos' Bags Top Emmies

      newser  |  Hollywood Reporter  |  Sep 17, 07 6:47 AM CDT

      'Sopranos' Bags Top Emmies

      "The Sopranos" took top drama honors at the Emmies last night, and won for writing and directing as well, making the HBO series the first drama in 30 years to nail all three for its finale season. Other Emmies were spread among a broad field, with ratings-challenged "30 Rock" winning outstanding comedy series. Executive producer, writer, and star Tina Fey thanked its “dozens and dozens of viewers” for their support. More »

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      television  • HBO  • awards  • Tina Fey  • 30 Rock  • Sopranos  • Emmys

    • Witness Fear Trumps Justice in Baltimore

      newser  |  Oxford American  |  Sep 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT

      Witness Fear Trumps Justice in Baltimore

      One witness to a double Baltimore police shooting reversed his story in the courtroom and another was driven to tears before publicly repeating what she’d told authorities after the incident. A juror in the eventual mistrial describes his experience in Oxford American , writing that witness intimidation—the defendant sat within arm’s reach of witnesses—was a far more potent force than the pursuit of truth. More »

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      crime  • court  • HBO  • Baltimore  • mistrial  • The Wire

  • August 2007

    • It's not HBO— It's Showtime

      newser  |  Esquire  |  Aug 25, 07 4:24 PM CDT

      It's not HBO&mdash; It's Showtime

      HBO was the network that was going to transcend television—and it did. But if you canceled your HBO subscription after the "Sopranos' " annoyingly ambiguous conclusion, Esquire has a suggestion to full the gap in your premium cable lineup. Showtime has been pushing the envelope with shows like "Weeds"  and "Dexter." More »

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      television  • HBO  • Showtime  • Weeds

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