La Corona, the story of a glamorous competition most of us won't ever qualify for, is a heart-rending tale of beauty pageant chic with beauty pageant chicas you will not soon forget.
Jay Dyckman | Posted 09.02.2008 | Entertainment
Think Entourage is an all-style-no-substance show about five guys living charmed lives? Well...you're right! But this season the writing staff digs deep and keeps it real.
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.24.2008 | Entertainment
Mitchell: I said [to the celebrities we interviewed] "we just want to take this look at black life, and talk about your life, and get you on camera."
Michael Giltz | Posted 08.15.2008 | Entertainment
Okay, The Wire's fifth and final season is now out on DVD and you've heard all the rave reviews. Here are a few pointers for diving into this and really any drama available on DVD.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment
The HBO doc about journalism legend Helen Thomas, Thank you, Mr. President, is now slated for is first airing next Monday. Joe Strupp of E&P interviewed the director, Rory Kennedy.
New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
In a move that caught all of Hollywood flatfooted, former HBO boss Chris Albrecht yesterday resigned unexpectedly from his newly created position as h...
Elaine Liner | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
Without a working television, a TV Maven is a fisherman without a net. When my 13-year-old Sony Trinitron blinked twice and died two weeks ago, it was...
Ed Martin | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
I saw them at virtually every session I attended during Comic-Con: Fans armed with digital video cameras, collecting content for their own Internet sh...
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
HBO has the recipe for "How to Make It in America." The pay cable network has greenlighted a comedy pilot from Stephen Levinson's Leverage and Mark W...
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media
HBO has opted not to renew racy drama "Tell Me You Love Me" for a second season. The decision was made almost a year after the sexually explicit seri...
Susanna White | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
The tagline for the Generation Kill, the HBO miniseries I directed is "the new face of American war." Of course, that is an apt description - but for me, the fascinating, fulfilling part was getting to know these "faces" on a deeper level.
Juli Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
The furtive Chinese government does everything in its (far-reaching, for sure) power to silence the families of over 70,000 children a year who are being "snatched from the streets."
Ed Martin | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home
Remember that wild Internet marketing campaign way back in 1999 that had people convinced there really was a murderous witch in the woods of Burkittsv...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
HBO has given the green light to three television pilots: a comedy based on a book about the sexual exploits of a Capitol Hill staffer, a look at post...
Vickie Karp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
In the American media landscape, human viewers may be the only constant, but it remains hard to tell if media is about them and for them, or only, well, about money. Does it matter?
Dan Brown | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.
Dana Carvey | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment
Check out an exclusive clip from my HBO Comedy special airing this Saturday, June 14 at 10pm.
Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
HBO is getting into bed with Will Ferrell's FunnyorDie.com Internet vid venture. Pay cabler has bought a small equity stake in the 2-year-old comedy ...
Ed Martin | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment
Would a new version of Sex and the City that focused on four twenty-something women navigating the New York City of this new millennium find an audience of its own?
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment
Kim Cattrall, the co-star of new box office champ "Sex and the City," is back at HBO with another sex-themed comedy project set in New York. Cattrall...
Charlie Rose | Posted 05.28.2008 | Entertainment
Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King about the new Sex and the City film.
Brad Friedman | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Recount is a taut, often hilarious, consistently engaging, still-maddening and sick-making political thriller. History would thank you for watching it.
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
Over the past few weeks, HBO has announced a series of moves to stem the tide of speculation that the network is faltering. After canceling 12 Miles o...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
Recount is long overdue. Now it's time for the media to finally face up to Act 2 of the GOP's rape of the American electoral system, and produce a piece of equal heft and clout about Ohio 2004.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice...
A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday...
A John McCain campaign aide tells Jay Carney that she sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to...
I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this...
For all the hullabaloo about whether John McCain would...
On July 20, 2008, the pastor of...
Below is reaction to John McCain's Republican convention speech. David Gergen thought the...
Oprah Winfrey, who made the first political endorsement of her life this year in...
As Cindy McCain came under criticism for wearing an outfit that some estimate was...
This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists...
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as...
First, read this list of relationship tips below. When you get to the bottom, I...
Vickie Karp | Posted 09.07.2008 | Entertainment