HBO Announces Treme Soundtrack, Live Video Performances

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 1:00 PM on September 28, 2010

Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 1 will be available digitally beginning today....  read more

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HBO Renews Boardwalk Empire After One Episode

By Bonnie Stiernberg at 3:30 PM on September 21, 2010

Following Sunday’s massive premiere, HBO has ordered a second season of Boardwalk Empire....  read more

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TV on the Radio, Lykke Li, M. Ward Featured on Bored to Death Soundtrack

By Beca Grimm at 5:00 PM on August 23, 2010

HBO series Bored to Death stars Jason Schwartzman (Jonathan Ames) as a semi-failed writer moonlighting as a Craig’s List P.I. In real life, Schwartzman happens to be a successful actor moonlighting as a musician under the Coconut Records moniker. Unsurprisingly, the music in Death kinda kills....  read more

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Meet Frances McDormand, Producer

By Caroline Klibanoff at 2:00 PM on August 12, 2010

Frances McDormand has stepped into a producing role for two upcoming projects, one of which may see her in an acting capacity as well....  read more

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Entourage to End In 2011

By Whitney Baker at 3:00 PM on August 10, 2010

Entourage, the long-running HBO show about an actor and his posse of Hollywood ne’er-do-wells, will end next year with an abbreviated six-episode eighth season....  read more

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HBO to Show Bruce Springsteen Documentary

By Whitney Baker at 1:30 PM on August 10, 2010

Next month at the Toronto International Film Festival, fans of the Boss will get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. The documentary feature making its debut at the festival is called, appropriately, The Promise: The Making of ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town.’...  read more

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HBO Developing I Don't Care About Your Band, Lizzy Caplan to Star

By Lindsay Eanet at 11:28 AM on August 2, 2010

Some good news for readers still weeping/wailing/gnashing teeth over Party Down....  read more

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Susan Sarandon to Join Cast of Kathryn Bigelow's HBO Series, The Miraculous Year

By Jennifer Ross at 3:50 PM on July 28, 2010

Susan Sarandon is the latest addition to the all-star cast for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow ’s upcoming HBO series, The Miraculous Year. According to TV Squad, Sarandon will play director/choreographer Patty Atwood in the Broadway-themed show....  read more

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High Definition: A Small Act makes a big difference

By Josh Jackson at 8:00 AM on July 13, 2010

Watching the documentary, A Small Act, which debuted last night on HBO, I was reminded of my friend Dr. John Oduro Boateng. He grew up in rural Ghana, the youngest of his father’s 15 orphaned children, living with relatives who would have him do the most menial labor—carrying so many buckets of water and wood that he wore a bald spot on his young head. He would have had no hope for education if not for a small Catholic mission, where a teacher recognized his intelligence and sent him on to secondary school. From there, he received a scholarship to...  read more

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True Blood Creator Alan Ball to Produce Yet Another HBO Show

By Lindsay Eanet at 5:00 PM on July 12, 2010

Whether it’s an ill-fated family of undertakers, homicidal suburbanites or the literal undead, writer/producer Alan Ball is never one to shy away from mortality....  read more

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