Beloved kids-classic “Sesame Street,” which moved from PBS to HBO last year and it cutting its telecast from one hour to 30 minutes, has shown the door to three of its human cast members: Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman and Emilio Delgado — who play Bob, Gordon and Luis, respectively. The layoffs are a result of […]
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HBO Cancels ‘Project Greenlight’
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HBO has opted against a fifth season of “Project Greenlight,” Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s docu-reality series about first-time filmmakers featuring a feature-length movie. “When we picked up a new season in 2014, we imagined a one season revival and decided in early 2016 another season did not make sense for us,” said HBO to […]
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From Campaign US: As a fan of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” I was certainly happy to hear the news of an upcoming ninth season on HBO in 2017. After a six-year absence, “Curb” will go down in the record books as the TV show with the longest hiatus between seasons in history. “Curb,” of course, is […]
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ to Return on HBO
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Larry David, who had an open invitation to return to HBO at any time, will be back for a ninth season of docu-sitcom “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” We’re thrilled that Larry has decided to do a new season of “Curb” and can’t wait to see what he has planned,” said Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming. There […]
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Oprah Winfrey will executive produce and star in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” an HBO movie based on the best-selling nonfiction book by Rebecca Skloot. “The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks” tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told […]
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Saturday night belonged to TBS with coverage of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Final Four”. In conjunction with “Team Stream” telecasts of each game on TNT and truTV, both college basketball games averaged 11.7 million viewers across the three Turner networks. But the news was far from positive when comparing the games to previous […]
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CBS was the runaway winner on Saturday night with the network’s final night covering the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament”. It was a doubleheader of Regional Final games that began airing at 6:00 p.m. ET: Oklahoma/Oregon in the West and Villanova/Kansas in the South. Compared to ABC, NBC and Fox combined, CBS outdrew their […]
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HBO Cancels ‘Togetherness’
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HBO has passed on a third season of sitcom “Togetherness,” which in season two was averaging just 330,000 viewers. Debuting on January 11, 2015, “Togetherness” from Mark and Jay Duplass focused on marriage and friendship and it starred Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, Amanda Peet, Stve Zissis and Abby Ryder Forston. The now series finale of […]
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The upcoming eleventh season of the Emmy-award-winning HBO docuseries “Hard Knocks” will feature the newly-relocated Los Angeles Rams. HBO and the NFL officially announced the Rams’ involvement on Wednesday, March 23. Through the cameras of NFL Films, “Hard Knocks” documents training camp as a team gets ready for the regular season in September. The Rams […]