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True Blood Premiere Scores Big Ratings for HBO

After an omnipresent ad campaign over the past several weeks, HBO’s True Blood delivered better-than-expected ratings for its second-season premiere on Sunday, with viewership up 157 percent over the premiere episode last year....  read more

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Zac Efron, Lil Wayne, More to Guest on Entourage

Entourage came back to life in its fifth season, and with the sixth round set to debut on HBO on July 12, new major-wattage cameos have begun to take shape. Among the first announced this year is Zac Efron, who will play a lightly caricatured version of himself in an episode later this summer....  read more

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Al Pacino to Play Jack Kevorkian for HBO

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

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

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HBO Greenlights David Simon's Post-Katrina NOLA Series

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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