Around the holiday season, there are three things you can depend on: more travelling to family and friends this year than you swore you would do last year; at least one present that will end up in your “regift” filing cabinet; and HBO reminding its subscribers just how much they’ve spent on programming the past […]
HBO is prepping their subscribers for a new slate of programming in 2018, releasing the first teaser for Alan Ball‘s (True Blood, Six Feet Under) upcoming series Here and Now. Set to premiere February 2018, the family-drama-with-a-twist stars Holly Hunter (The Piano) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) as parents of a multi-racial family made […]
Saturday Night Live‘s Bill Hader is stepping into the role of a lifetime: a walking personification of the “comedy/tragedy” duality in the form of Barry, the lead character in and title of HBO‘s upcoming comedy series. Created by Hader (IFC’s Documentary Now!, Comedy Central’s South Park) and Silicon Valley executive producer Alec Berg, the series is […]
Less than two months after Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus revealed publicly that she was battling breast cancer comes word that production on the HBO series’ seventh and final season has been put on hold while the actress undergoes cancer treatment. Veep executive producer Frank Rich confirmed that filming was temporarily on hold during an interview Wednesday on SiriusXM […]
If initial reports on Thursday are true, fans of HBO‘s critically acclaimed, award-winning limited series Big Little Lies are going to be pretty excited over news regarding a second season. TV Line is reporting that sources confirm exclusively that HBO is looking to start production on Season 2 in Spring 2018. HBO declined to officially […]
Sometimes it really doesn’t hurt to just ask, as one Westworld fan found out on Monday when star Evan Rachel Wood responded to their tweet with a reveal of the show’s second season premiere time frame: Spring 2018 https://t.co/qM5VqCwoPA — #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) November 6, 2017 Wood was responding to a tweet from Twitter follower @Mystasiaboss, who […]
HBO has confirmed that it has temporarily suspended production on the second season of Westworld after Zahn McClarnon (Fargo, Longmire) was hospitalized for an off-set injury. According to TMZ, the Season 2 recurring actor fell and hit his head at home. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was admitted into ICU care with […]
On November 18, comedian and one -time “America’s most trusted newsman” Jon Stewart hopes you find autism a laughing matter. Because on that night, Stewart and a line-up of celebrity friends from across movies, television and music team up for HBO’s Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs. Created by comedy writer and […]
Less than two weeks after she took home her record sixth Emmy for her role as former VP-turned-president Selina Meyer on HBO‘s Veep, series star Julia Louis-Dreyfus took to Twitter to reveal that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer: Just when you thought… pic.twitter.com/SbtYChwiEj — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) September 28, 2017 “1 in 8 women […]
Let me be the first to confess that I went into this post trying to line up a bunch of “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” “Red Wedding” and dragon jokes; but in the interest of love and marriage and all of that pleasant stuff, I’m going to avoid the snark and play this straight so […]
After spending seven seasons in Washington D.C., it’s no surprise that Veep creator Armando Iannucci would want to get as far away from the nation’s capital as possible… but this might be a little ridiculous. With HBO‘s Emmy-award dominating political comedy heading into its final season, the cable giant has greenlighted a pilot and back-up […]
For nearly 50 years, Steven Spielberg has changed the way we experience movies. Through films as diverse as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler’s List and Bridge of Spies, Spielberg has mostly let his craft to the talking for him…until now. The director finds himself in front of the camera as the […]
To either the delights or fears of comic books fans around the world, Damon Lindelof‘s adaption of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986 limited comic series Watchmen just took a major step towards full series status this afternoon when HBO confirmed that it has greenlit a pilot order and additional scripts. Though pilot and script orders don’t […]
With Game of Thrones looking to end its series run next year with a six-episode eighth season, HBO has apparently commissioned a fifth Game of Thrones prequel series penned by show writer/co-executive producer Bryan Cogman. Cogman joins the four previously announced writers who are each working on their own Thrones prequel series: Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull […]
HBO wastes no time appreciating a hit when they have it, announcing that the cable giant has renewed its critically acclaimed drama series The Deuce for a second season. Created by George Pelecanos (Treme) and David Simon (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Streets), the series was renewed after airing only the second episode of the show’s […]
You can tell that writer/director Steven Soderbergh is one of those people that when they say they’re going to “take a break,” what that usually means is that they’re “only” going to work on 12 projects at the same time instead of the usual 18-24 projects. So when Soderbergh came out of “retirement,” the filmmaker moved […]
Richard Shepard‘s (Girls) romantic short film Tokyo Project has found a home at a very familiar spot for Shepard, as HBO announced that it will be broadcasting the 30-minute short from the Girls director on Saturday, October 14th at 10 p.m. EST. Girls co-creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner are serving as executive producers with […]
HBO has a tradition of putting out videos where they essentially remind you of all the shows they’ve had on for the past year — I guess you could call it their version of taking a victory lap. Considering the cable giant has scripted series like Ballers, Big Little Lies and Insecure; and specials like […]
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On behalf of Twin Peaks fans everywhere, let me me just say this to all you Game of Thrones folks out there: we feel your pain. On the plus side? It’s pretty safe to say that you’re not going to have to wait 27 years before you find out how everything wraps up. On the downside? […]
