HBO announces series pickups - Entertainment News, TV News, Media
variety.com 7/30/2009 — 'Blood,' 'Entourage,' 'Hung' renewed HBO performed a hat trick Thursday afternoon, picking up all three series currently on the air -- "True Blood," "Entourage" and frosh skein "Hung" -- for another year. "The size of these shows have broken into the ...

HBO’s A Dog Year Trailer
dvrlife.wordpress.com 9/9/2009 — So we’re gonna let you in on a little secret. Keep it real quite, though, you know…On the down-low and all. HBO Films produced a movie called A Dog Year . They produced the film and even managed to get an awesome cast consisting of movie star Jeff Bridges (The Dude!), Six ...

THE 61ST PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS AND 2009 CREATIVE ARTS EMMY® AWARDS NOMINEES ARE...
thefutoncritic.com 7/16/2009 — "30 Rock" leads the nomination count with 22, followed by "Grey Gardens" (17), "Mad Men" (16) and "Into The Storm" (14).

2009 Emmy Award Nominations
tvthrong.ca 7/17/2009 — The nominations for the 61st Emmy Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced on Sunday the 20th of September at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. And the nominees are: Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) American Dad • Sixteen-Hundred Candles ...

HBO Imagine: Clues, Cubes and Mimes
news.tubefilter.tv 10/5/2009 — One of the things that initially fascinated me with storytelling on the web was that it had no rules. Who knew a girl talking to a web cam would engage thousands to try to come to her aid? Or that French maids explaining how to change the oil in a car could grow into one of the most ...

Is HBO the Next Destination for Science Fiction? [Hbo]
io9.com 8/18/2009 — With some networks offering mixed signals about their futures with science fiction, we may increasingly rely on cable for compelling television about the future. Fortunately, HBO is stepping up, developing two new science fiction series with X-Files ...

HBO First Look at Blue-Ray DVD
true-blood.net 4/27/2009 — For the first time ever, HBO will be previewing the first episode of season one on HBO On Demand, with enhanced featured taht will be included on the Blue-Ray DVD set. Beginning May 4 and continuing on during the entire month, viewers will be able to watch the entire first episode from the show ...

2009 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees
cinemarealm.com 7/16/2009 — Here is the complete list of this year’s Primetime Emmy nominees: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series 30 Rock · Reunion · NBC · Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studios Matt Hubbard, Writer 30 Rock · Apollo, Apollo · NBC · Broadway Video, ...

TCA press tour: HBO orders more 'True Love,' battles new Emmy plan
latimesblogs.latimes.com 7/31/2009 — There are more and more signs that HBO is getting its programming mojo back, but that was nearly overshadowed Thursday by a spat with the TV academy, a longtime friend to the premium network's shows. Executives arrived at the TV press tour in ...

Deggans heads west to cover Golden Globes and TV Critics Tour
blogs.tampabay.com 1/10/2009 — Given the awful news clogging headlnies these days, it might seem a bit jarring to spend a week in Los Angeles working the golden globes red carpet and shmoozing TV executives. But the nation's television and entertainment industry has never been ...

TV: Other Shows:Shark Tank - "Pilot" — The A.V. Club - TV Club 8/9/2009
Shark Tank debuts tonight at 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT on ABC. Shark Tank is just proof that reality TV impresario Mark Burnett never met a successful overseas reality show he couldn’t Americanize somehow. After a few quiet years for the producer, ...

TV: Entourage:"Fore" — The A.V. Club - TV Club 8/10/2009
Josh's HBO is out, and his cable company is being insufficiently concerned about the matter (as cable companies are wont to do), so I'll be checking out Entourage tonight. Since I live on the West Coast, though, and I'm covering True Blood AND Hung ...

TV: True Blood:"Timebomb" — The A.V. Club - TV Club 8/10/2009
Hey, True Blood fans. Emily's on vacation in a corner of our planet that doesn't have HBO and/or "the Internet" and/or, possibly, television, so I'm your guide for the week. Unfortunately, I'm on the West Coast, so I won't get to this for another ...

The Mayor and the Myths: A Case of Political Survival — NYT > Television 8/10/2009
Marion Barry, whose career includes four terms as mayor of Washington and a trip to federal prison for possession of cocaine, is the subject of a new documentary on HBO.

Jeremy Piven talks about 'The Goods' — From Inside the Box 8/9/2009
Jeremy Piven wasn't always a motor-mouth. The three-time Emmy winner, fast-talking agent of HBO's "Entourage," faster-talking hustler of scores of movies, says it's the nature of his career that gave him his patter.