HBO has greenlit a comedy from “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci called “Avenue 5.” It stars Hugh Laurie (“House”) and is described as a “space tourism comedy set 40 years in the future when the solar system is everyone’s oyster.” The logline: Laurie is Ryan Clark, Captain of space cruise ship Avenue 5. Josh Gad plays […]
The final season premiere of HBO drama “Game of Thrones” was seen by a record 17.4 million viewers on Sunday, April 14, according to the cable network. This includes all HBO platforms — linear, HBOGO and HBO NOW. And it exceeds the prior high of 16.9 million for the season seven finale. The 9 p.m. debut […]
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HBO will reboot classic legal drama “Perry Mason” as a limited series starring Mathhew Rhys (“The Americans”) as the defense attorney. Timothy Van Patten (“Boardwalk Empire”) will direct and executive produce. The logline: “Perry Mason” is set in 1932, Los Angeles. While the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression, this city is […]
HBO is moving forward on a fourth season of pot comedy “High Maintenance.” Created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, “High Maintenance,” which began as a web series on Vimeo, follows Sinclair as the Guy, a nameless drug dealer in Brooklyn whose business allows viewers a look into a cross-section of New Yorkers and their […]
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HBO has decided to end production after three seasons on scripted drama “Crashing,” which featuring its now series finale last night. Debuting on Feb. 19, 2017, “Crashing” from Judd Apatow and Pete Holmes, featured Holmes in a a semi-fictionalized version of himself. In the series, Holmes’ decides to pursue a career in stand up comedy after […]
HBO has greenlit the Italian drama series “My Brilliant Friend” for a second season,with an unconfirmed number of new episodes. The eight-episode first season of the show is based on Elena Ferrante’s bestselling book of the same name, which is the first of her four-part series published in the U.S. by Europa Editions. Season two […]
HBO has given a series order to a comedy about a family of televangelists called “The Righteous Gemstones.” The series hails from Danny McBride and his frequent collaborators Jody Hill and David Gordon Green. McBride wrote the script and serves as executive producer, director and co-star with John Goodman (who, of course, is also headlining retooled […]
Pay cable network HBO announced on Thursday, Sep. 27 that it will cease coverage of boxing events by the end of 2018, after a 45-year run on the network that produced and televised more than 1,000 fights. Peter Nelson, executive vice president of HBO Sports, said in a recent interview to the New York Times, […]
Last week, from June 11 to June 14, was the PromaxBDA 2018 Conference at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Learn, create and connect: it was a potpourri of attendees and represented companies including ABC, Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, A+E Networks, AT&T Entertainment Group, BBC, Bell Media, BET Networks, Bravo, CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, […]
