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MOVIE REVIEW

 By the People Has 
 Access, Little Else 

Critics split on virtues of Obama doc with little dish

Nov 3, 09 12:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Critics agree the HBO's By the People, a record of the Obama campaign produced by Edward Norton, offers behind-the-scenes access but no real scoops. But what some see as a heartwarming tale of triumph, others find fawning. A sampling:
  • The naivete of the filmmakers shows through for Hank Stuever
... More »

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HBO • movie review • Election 2008 • documentary film • President Obama • Obama campaign • access • political campaign • By the People reviews

 Juno's Ellen Page 
 to Write Comedy 
 for HBO 

She'll team up with Alia Shawkat, Sean Tillman

Oct 8, 09 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ellen Page is expanding her horizons: the Juno and Whip It star will write and produce Stitch N’ Bitch, a new comedy for HBO. Page is collaborating with Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillman, also known as the musician Har Mar Superstar. The comedy centers on two hipster... More »

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HBO • Los Angeles • Brooklyn • comedy • Arrested Development • Ellen Page • Alia Shawkat • Sean Tillman

tv preview

 'Pathetic' Seinfeld 
 Reunion Invades Curb 

HBO show resuscitates Larry David's other brainchild 10 years later

Oct 4, 09 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tonight's episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm will go farther than usual to satisfy your Seinfeld craving, but it's hardly the real thing—nor is it meant to be. The eagerly awaited reunion arc kicks off with Jerry Seinfeld himself deeming the very idea "desperate" and "pathetic,"... More »

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entertainment • television • cable TV • HBO • Jerry Seinfeld • Larry David • Curb Your Enthusiasm • Seinfeld • Julia Louis-Dreyfus • sitcom • Michael Richards • network television • sitcoms • Jason Alexander • improvisation

 'Midwest Diva' 
 Aims to Be 
 Next Britney 

'I think I can take this all the way to Hollywood,' says Web sensation Leslie Hall

Sep 18, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - She’s a size 16, loves plastic-jewel-encrusted sweaters, lives with her parents, and marries gay couples in her spare time—but Leslie Hall, a white rapper from Iowa, sees herself as a peer of  “Britney, Rihanna, Beyoncé, we’re all doing the same thing,” she tells CNN. Hall... More »

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Britney Spears • Iowa • gay marriage • HBO • rapper • Beyonce • rap music • Rihanna • Jay-ZTV • Leslie Hall

 Sissy Spacek Joins Big Love 

Actress will play lobbyist in show's 4th season

Sep 17, 09 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sissy Spacek will join the cast of HBO’s Big Love, the LA Times reports. Spacek will be a regular cast member on the show’s upcoming fourth season, playing a DC lobbyist. Her first appearance comes in the third episode. Spacek raises the cast’s profile considerably: she won... More »

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television • Academy Awards • HBO • Big Love • TV series • Oscars

Time Warner Enlists Networks for Internet TV Test

'TV Everywhere' to include CBS, HBO, and more

Aug 28, 09 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Time Warner has signed up at least a dozen networks for a new Internet TV service, and plans to test the service in select markets soon, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. Onboard are CBS, HBO, Syfy, AMC, and Time Warner’s own TNT and TBS, among others. Time Warner... More »

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television • Time Warner • CBS • HBO • online videos • AMC • TV industry • Time Warner Cable • Sci-Fi Channel • Syfy

tv review

 True Blood Kills 
 With Metaphors 
 (and, Uh, Sex) 

Kinky sex meets social commentary

Aug 28, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are gushing about HBO's hit True Blood, which manages to marry kinky vampire sex to social commentary, writes Gina Bellafante in the New York Times. The barrier-busting series touches on gay marriage, racial profiling, capitalism run amok, and right-wing religious extremism. In the current season, a crazed Christian cult... More »

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gay marriage • HBO • blood • racial profiling • right-wing extremism • True Blood • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

(Newser) - Sassy Anna Paquin has absolutely no trouble stripping down for scenes in HBO's steamy series Tru Blood, she tells Nylon in a let-it-all-hang-out interview. "I'm sorry, maybe there are women who keep their bras on while they have sex. I don't happen to be one of them," quips... More »

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HBO • nudity • sex • stripping • vampire • TV series • monster • sex scene • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer • Tru Blood

(Newser) - True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are engaged, People reports. The two have been open about their 6-month relationship and how it affects their onscreen romance. Says Paquin, 27: “If you're already with that person, then you're not having to sort of get over... More »

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entertainment • television • HBO • actor • celebrity engagements • celebrity marriage • True Blood • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

(Newser) - So what are Kramer, George, Jerry, and Elaine up to 11 years after Seinfeld went off the air? Larry David says fans can get an idea of how the characters turned out on the seventh season of his Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO, reports the Star-Ledger. He shed more details... More »

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HBO • Jerry Seinfeld • Larry David • Curb Your Enthusiasm • Seinfeld • Julia Louis-Dreyfus • sitcom • Michael Richards • Jason Alexander

MOVIE REVIEW

 HBO Campaign Doc 
 Shows Same Cool Obama 


Jul 30, 09 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new documentary on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign depicts not much more or less than the restraint and measured response we’ve come to associate with our president, Ted Johnson writes for Variety. HBO’s By the People, to air Nov. 3, was not intended as an “exposé... More »

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HBO • Chicago Sun Times • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • documentary film • Edward Norton • Obama administration • President Obama • Obama campaign • Lynn Sweet

(Newser) - NFL Hall of Famer and activist Jim Brown recently ripped Tiger Woods for not giving back to his community, and that’s just "dead wrong," Michael Wilbon writes in the Washington Post. Brown seems to think Woods' Learning Center in Anaheim exists to teach kids how to... More »

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education • African Americans • golf • Tiger Woods • HBO • football • social services • youth • Jim Brown • community outreach

TV REVIEW

 Gigolo Comedy 
 Pays Off for HBO 

HBO's newest is more than a sex gag, but needs to develop further

Jun 26, 09 3:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are split on Hung, HBO's new series starring Thomas Jane as a down-on-his-luck dad who becomes a gigolo. Though it's deeper than its salacious premise, the show, which makes its debut Sunday, isn't living up to its potential.
  • Hung "represents a wonderfully positive step for HBO,
... More »

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television • HBO • critic • reviews • Thomas Jane

 Stern Sidekick 
 Hijacks New HBO Show 

Comedian attacks host, other celebrities

Jun 16, 09 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Artie Lange appeared on the premiere of HBO's Joe Buck Live last night, and it sounds as if the host wishes he hadn't. Buck told USA Today he couldn't wait for Lange to finish his obscene, homophobic routine. "I thought that spending time on a treadmill felt long,... More »

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entertainment • television • cable TV • Dallas Cowboys • HBO • Tony Romo • Howard Stern • Jessica Simpson • comedian • Artie Lange • Chris Farley • Joe Buck • Joe Buck Live

(Newser) - A Nevada brothel featured on an HBO reality show is offering Rod Blagojevich the chance to recoup some of the cash he missed out on by being barred from leaving the country to film for NBC, Gawker reports. The former Illinois governor’s PR flak is taking “very seriously”... More »

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reality TV • HBO • Nevada • brothel • Rod Blagojevich • Moonlite Bunny Ranch • Cathouse

TV REVIEW

 Grey Gardens a Grim  
 Retelling of Odd Duo's Life 

Latest incarnation has its 'flaws'

Apr 17, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The riches-to-rags story of an eccentric mother and daughter—relatives of Jackie O, no less—who gained fame for their destitute existence in a 1975 documentary gets another retelling in HBO's Grey Gardens. Critics aren't overly excited:
  • The movie "fills in bittersweet blanks” left by the original documentary,
... More »

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entertainment • television • HBO • movie review • reviews • Drew Barrymore • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Jessica Lange • Maysles brothers • Grey Gardens • Edie Beale

HBO Plans Film Version of 2008 Election Book

Film will look at events from candidates' perspectives

Apr 14, 09 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - HBO Films has picked up Game Change, a book about the 2008 election, to adapt for the small screen. The book, to be published next year, takes a character-driven look at the campaigns from the perspectives of the candidates and their camps, says Variety. The option continues the network’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • HBO • Recount • Mark Halperin • Election 2008 • adaptation • Frost/Nixon • John Heilemann • The Queen

Sports, Edgier Fare Dominate the White House TiVo

Sports channels are expected; edgier fare may surprise you

Apr 8, 09 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you judge a man by the channels he turns to, then President Obama is sporty, but with a hip edge. There’s no chance he passed up a replay of Monday's NCAA men’s basketball championship on his flight home from Iraq, sources tell Politico, but Obama is equally... More »

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Barack Obama • ESPN • Michelle Obama • HBO • Entourage • SpongeBob • The Wire • Hannah Montana • SportsCenter • 2009 NCAA Tournament

YouTube, SNL Receive Peabody Awards

Organization honors new media for first time

Apr 1, 09 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - YouTube, Lost, and CNN were all honored with a 2008 Peabody Award for contributions to broadcasting, the Hollywood Reporter writes. For news, NPR’s coverage of the earthquake in Chengu, China, and CNN’s 2008 election coverage were recognized, along with Saturday Night Live for the razor-sharp political satire it... More »

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Saturday Night Live • YouTube • Lost • HBO • Entourage • The Onion • Peabody Awards

Quaid, Moore
to Play Clintons
in HBO Movie

Film will examine rocky US/UK relationship  during Blair years

Mar 25, 09 2:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore have been picked to play Bill and Hillary Clinton in a planned HBO film, Variety reports. Special Relationship will examine the often rocky relationship between Bill and Tony Blair in the late '90s. Michael Sheen and Helen McCrory are set to reprise their Queen roles... More »

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Hillary Clinton • HBO • Bill Clinton • Dennis Quaid • movies • Julianne Moore

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