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last week tonight
HBO's award-winning weekly late-night news/comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned for its 11th season this past Sunday night – and John Oliver didn't waste time setting a pretty high bar for the season How? By offering Justice Clarence Thomas $1 million per year (for as long as either Oliver & Thomas stay alive)[...]
last week tonight
Just to be clear? We know that the expression "putting your money where your mouth is" is one of those cliched expressions that's been beaten to death for decades – but that changed on Sunday night when HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver a deal that might be too tough for Supreme Court Justice[...]
true detective
Showrunner Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven) has made it known just how influential the Woody Harrelson & Matthew McConaughey-starring season of HBO's anthology series was – but the Jodie Foster & Kali Reis-starring True Detective: Night Country was something so much bigger than just a "sequel season." By the time the final credits[...]
Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams Admits Final Season “Fell Off”
Game of Thrones stars Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner had to grow up fast on the HBO high fantasy series as their characters, sisters Arya and Sansa Stark, lost their innocence at such young ages facing the brutal world of Westeros when they saw their father Ned (Sean Bean) executed on the orders of King[...]
Euphoria
Last month, HBO & Max Content CEO and Chairman Casey Bloys offered a number of updates on a number of 2025 projects with Deadline Hollywood "Because there's a lot of schedules that we have to align," Bloys wasn't able to offer a production date for the third season of series creator Sam Levinson's Zendaya & Hunter Schafer-starring Euphoria[...]
True Detective: Night Country Season Finale Images Make Us Nervous
After an early debut last weekend due to Super Bowl LVIII, HBO & Max viewers will both have to wait until Sunday night to see how Showrunner Issa López's (Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven) Jodie Foster & Kali Reis-starring True Detective: Night Country wraps up its run After an explosive ending to the season's penultimate[...]
Last Week Tonight Host JohnOliver Taunts Disney with Steamboat Willie
If you ask John Oliver if he ever feels his talk show Last Week Tonight would ever feel stale after 10 seasons on HBO, you wouldn't know it heading into his 11th season The host appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a very special guest, arguably the biggest member of the public[...]
Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams Admits Final Season “Fell Off”
Maisie Williams has had time to reflect on her time on HBO's Game of Thrones since the high fantasy's epic conclusion in 2019 after eight seasons that found her character Arya Stark as the savior of the realm slaying the Night King in the episode "The Long Night." Not to mention the infamous revenge assassination[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Finale Review: Joel’s Epic Moment of Truth
After adding how she and Mazin "geek out" and how she taught them how to play Spades, Merced added that she was heading back to Vancouver tomorrow (meaning today) to resume work on the season. Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us." Image courtesy of Liane Hentscher/HBO Behind the camera, Mazin and Druckmann will be[...]
the last of us
Discovery/YouTube Screencap Behind the camera, Mazin and Druckmann will be joined by Peter Hoar (S01E03: "Long, Long Time") are Mark Mylod (HBO's Succession), Nina Lopez-Corrado (HBO's Perry Mason), Stephen Williams (HBO's Watchmen) and Kate Herron (Loki) Now, here's a look at that clip from the red carpet for Madame Web, where Mercad discusses Season 2: Isabela Merced reveals she[...]
Wil Wheaton at the Premiere of Picard at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on February 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA, photo by Joe Seer/Shutterstock.com.
What a stupid, self-centered, tone deaf asshole…" Wheaton continues to break down his childhood trauma growing up with an abusive father, what Sesame Street meant in his youth and millions of children, why they might not understand the comedic stunt on the NBC show, and why David was abhorrent every step of the way right down[...]
true detective
What we will say is this… after an explosive ending to this weekend's episode, lines have been crossed as Danvers (Foster) & Navarro (Reis) head to the one place that could answer everything – and cost them more than that. Image: HBO Screencap And here's a look at the first five episodes of the official podcast, as[...]
The Regime: HBO Releases Trailer of Kate Winslett Political Fantasy
HBO has released a new teaser trailer for The Regime, the six-episode limited series The Regime, starring Oscar-winner Kate Winslet as a power-hungry dictator in a totally fictitious (thank God!) pan-European country and playing a fictional – very obvious – clone of Margaret Thatcher The series is written by Will Tracy and directed by Stephen[...]
game of thrones
Though HBO has no official comment, it would appear that the cable network is developing another "Game of Thrones" universe spinoff series With the second season of House of the Dragon on the way later this year and production on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight (based on George R.R Martin's "Dunk[...]
True Detective: Night Country
The season finale will still hit on Sunday, February 18th, at its normal linear and streaming times. Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO And here's a look at the first four episodes of the official podcast, as López, Foster, Reis, EP Mari-Jo Winkler, and more take viewers behind the scenes of the season – how it[...]
game of thrones
But in October 2019, the word came down that HBO had made the decision not to move forward on the Naomi Watts-starring project Now, we're getting a visual sense of what viewers could've expected from Hair & Makeup Designer Flora Moody (The Peripheral, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker), who shared some excellent looks[...]
the last of us
UPDATE: Max has made it official – though no details on her character have been released, Catherine O'Hara has officially joined the cast of HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 Here's a look back at our original reporting from earlier today: Image: Warner Bros Discovery ORIGINAL REPORT: Last month was a busy one when it came[...]
the last of us
Behind the camera, Mazin and Druckmann will be joined by Peter Hoar (S01E03: "Long, Long Time") are Mark Mylod (HBO's Succession), Nina Lopez-Corrado (HBO's Perry Mason), Stephen Williams (HBO's Watchmen) and Kate Herron (Loki). Image: HBO; Bravo Screencap The Last of Us: Craig Mazin on Season 2 & Beyond In an interview with Variety from Summer 2023, Mazin discussed how[...]
true detective
Speaking with Vulture, López responded to the shots that Pizzolatto reportedly took at the current season. Image: HBO Screencap "I believe that every storyteller has a very specific, peculiar, and unique relation to the stories they create, and whatever his reactions are, he's entitled to them That's his prerogative I wrote this with profound love for the[...]
Dolores wants some answers on Westworld, courtesy of HBO.
Discovery-owned HBO pulled the plug on a fifth & final season – one that was reportedly being negotiated over shortly before the news broke – and pulled the series completely from HBO Max While the Season 4 finale, "Que Sera Sera," could easily serve as a series finale (though a wee bit cliffhanger-ish), it was[...]
True Detective: Night Country
Earlier this week, we had a chance to check out the trailer for this weekend – now, we have a look at the preview images for the third chapter. Image: HBO #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO Image: HBO Image:[...]
Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington Developing "British Western" Thriller
Isn't that every third family in Britain these days? The Cost of Living Crisis is hitting everyone hard over there, yo! Image: HBO According to Deadline, Empire of Dirt is the working title, and the series is being produced by Harington and Netflix series Top Boy writer Daniel West's Thriker Films with New Pictures[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Finale Review: Joel’s Epic Moment of Truth
Joining Mazin, Druckmann, and Peter Hoar (S01E03: "Long, Long Time") are Mark Mylod (HBO's Succession), Nina Lopez-Corrado (HBO's Perry Mason), Stephen Williams (HBO's Watchmen) and Kate Herron (Loki). Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us." Image courtesy of Liane Hentscher/HBO The Last of Us: Craig Mazin on Season 2 & Beyond In an interview with Variety[...]
Game of Thrones Creators Benioff & Weiss’ Unexpected Early Regret
Weiss have been high fantasy royalty since pulling the once-thought unfilmable Game of Thrones to life on HBO The series, based on George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, lasted from 2011 to 2019 on the premium cable network with a controversial eighth and final season, much of the community accused of[...]
big little lies
It started with two of the show's stars & executive producers casually dropping huge news about a third season and then brought HBO and Max's Content Chairman/CEO into the mix – who offered even more promising words about what the future could hold for the franchise Thanks to Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and executive Casey[...]
The Last of Us Creators Defend Survivors Focus, More Infected for S2
After getting some promising words from Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, regarding the five scripts that he's read, we're getting some additional insights into the second season of Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Bella)-starring The Last of Us from someone who is definitely close to[...]
big little lies
At one point, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that HBO & David E Kelley's Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz & Shailene Woodley-starring Big Little Lies had said its goodbye with its Meryl Streep-starring second season But then, in November 2023, Kidman dropped a ten-ton jaw-dropper that a "third one' was on the[...]
euphoria
It was back in November 2023 when HBO & Max Content CEO and Chairman Casey Bloys rolled out a "sizzle reel" of upcoming projects during a press event that confirmed the third season of series creator Sam Levinson's Zendaya & Hunter Schafer-starring Euphoria would be hitting screens in 2025 Now, a little more than two months later and[...]