Al Pacino to Play Jack Kevorkian for HBO

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 9:37 AM on May 29, 2009

Al Pacino has been tapped to play Jack Kevorkian in a new HBO movie that will examine the notorious right-to-die activist’s legacy. ...  read more

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True Blood: The Complete First Season

By Jonah Flicker at 3:00 PM on May 19, 2009

Was Alan Ball’s latest HBO project, True Blood...  read more

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HBO Greenlights David Simon's Post-Katrina NOLA Series

By Gray Chapman at 10:50 AM on May 7, 2009

A drama series that follows the lives of musicians living in post-Katrina New Orleans is set for a Fall debut on HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is the brainchild of The Wire co-creator David Simon. ...  read more

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Evan Rachel Wood Joins Cast of True Blood

By Muriel Vega at 5:05 PM on April 24, 2009

With her recent departure from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, The Wrestler's Evan Rachel Wood now has time to dust off her fangs and join up with some Louisiana vampires. She has been cast to play a 500-year old vampire queen, Sophie-Anne, in the last two episodes of the upcoming second season of True Blood, according to Entertainment Weekly. ...  read more

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HBO plans movie about 2008 presidential election

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 1:30 PM on April 15, 2009

HBO already owns the most-anticipated documentary about the 2008 election, but the network has also optioned film rights to the book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, due out early next year. ...  read more

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Eastbound and Down renewed for second season

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 3:30 PM on April 10, 2009

When we talked to Danny McBride just before the premiere of Eastbound and Down, the HBO series he co-created with Jody Hill and Ben Best, he said he and his old friends first envisioned the story as a three-hour movie that viewers could consume for a half hour a week. The six-episode first season fulfilled that promise, but HBO has decided to bring the series back for a second go-around to premiere sometime next year. ...  read more

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Sopranos creator prepares HBO mini-series

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 1:07 PM on March 19, 2009

As HBO continues its attempt to revamp its creative identity, the network has turned to David Chase, the man behind its most successful series ever, The Sopranos....  read more

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Catching Up With... Danny McBride

By Jason Guerrasio at 1:00 PM on February 13, 2009

Not many actors had a better 2008 than Danny McBride...  read more

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HBO picks up black-comedy series Hung

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 12:20 PM on February 12, 2009

To be fair, HBO has always tended toward informative names for its series: Entourage, The Sopranos, Sex and the City. But in the case of the network's new black comedy Hung (about an embattled basketball coach who is, um, naturally gifted elsewhere), the double-entendre seems perhaps a little extreme. ...  read more

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Screen Actors Guild Awards go (mostly) to season favorites

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 9:22 AM on January 26, 2009

A low-key event by design, the Screen Actors Guild Awards benefit from a narrow scope—it is for actors, by actors—and an intimacy that allows each winner to thank the crowd in a way that seems at least partly sincere. The annual ceremony, held last night and aired live on both TNT and TBS, had the added benefit of unspoken drama always only a whisper away, even if none of the winners were exactly a surprise. ...  read more

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