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While it's cliché to say how being part of a cast on a hit television could feel like a family, it's a bit of an understatement when it comes to HBO's The Sopranos Jamie-Lynn Sigler owes a lot to star James Gandolfini, who played family patriarch Tony The Big Sky star played his daughter Meadow[...]

Antique stores, cursed jackets, and character arcs helped us fall in love with the latest episodes of Max's Our Flag Means Death Season 2.

"And I don't know what the hell he's talking about." Image: HBO Of course, what Seinfeld teased doesn't necessarily mean a "new" series finale or a series return is in the works – Seinfeld and David could also be looking to go the same reunion route that Max did with Friends (a big score for the Warner[...]

And when it comes to takedowns, very few match up with HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver Because with Oliver, you never see it coming – even in the middle of a larger segment on the issues surrounding homeschooling Oliver showed a segment of a news interview with a fifteen-year-old who asked to be[...]

But HBO got a bit of a jump on that over the weekend, with Bill Maher returning to Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night and John Oliver returning with Last Week Tonight on Sunday night With being off the air for five months, there were clearly a ton of topics to be covered[...]

That's the reason why Bill Maher was able to bring back Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night and not have to spend any more time on Twitter/X losing his collective s**t over Barbie. Image: WGA, HBO Screencap In between giving Florida Gov Ron DeSantis a friendly platform to sell himself on (which he still couldn't[...]

Coincidentally, Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann shared what some might say was a cryptic post concerning his pride and joy franchise, The Last of Us, commemorating the day of the Cordyceps outbreak on September 26th on social media. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us." Image courtesy of Liane Hentscher/HBO A Tease for "The[...]

Serving as the premier destination for Halloween on Max, the spotlight page separates content into various scare levels, featuring categories such as Sweet Treat, which highlights titles like Coraline, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Halloween Cookie Challenge, Scary, But Not Scary-Scary, which includes HBO's The Last of Us, True Blood, and Lovecraft Country,[...]

It's been a very long five months for those in the entertainment industry, and among several talk shows celebrating and promising to deliver big is HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The series' social media account was posted following the announcement of the Writers Guild of America ending their strike against the major studios[...]

Along with the release of a very intense new teaser, as well as a preview image, we've learned that we won't have to wait too far into the new year – with HBO confirming that the series will premiere its new season on Sunday, January 14th. Image: HBO Joining Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are Finn Bennett,[...]

On the HBO side, Bill Maher will be bringing back Real Time with Bill Maher this Friday, September 29th – with John Oliver returning with Last Week Tonight on Sunday, October 1st And then, on Monday, October 2nd, we have Jimmy Fallon & NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert & CBS' The[...]

After actress/talk show host Drew Barrymore announced that The Drew Barrymore Show would not return with new episodes until after the AMPTP works out a deal with the writers' union (with The Talk and The Jennifer Hudson Show following suit), we made the case for why the WGA needs to go even harder at HBO's Real[...]

So now that's out of the way, we're really, really hoping that the WGA on both coasts is ready to go after HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher host Bill Maher with twice the intensity that it went after Barrymore Why? Because Maher is a WGA member who took to Twitter/X last week to announce[...]

A day after HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher host & WGA Member Bill Maher took to Twitter/X to announce that his show would be returning "sans writers or writing" despite the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes, the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher host & WGA Member was put on notice regarding the[...]

Both the sea and love are unpredictable in the trailer for the second season of Max's Our Flag Means Death, premiering on October 5th.

On Wednesday night, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher host… AND WRITER… Bill Maher took to Twitter/X to announce that his show would be returning "sans writers or writing" despite the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes Now, if you're wondering how Maher is going to resume his role on the show as host without violating[...]

Earlier tonight, the late-night talk show host announced that HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher will be returning to David Zaslav's favorite cable network. "'Real Time' is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work The writers have important issues that I[...]

So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter." That includes monies from projects like HBO & Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel spinoff/remix of Moore, artist Dave Gibbons & colorist John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen, the Natalie Portman & Hugo Weaving-starring V for[...]

The most recent was the cancellation of the near-completed Batgirl movie that was slated for streaming on HBO MAX The DC Extended Universe has crashed and burned at the movies, and DC's TV projects have been cancelled or shuffled around where the DC CW shows before were the peak of superhero TV shows, sharing a[...]

One question down, 819 more to go… SUCCESSION – Image: HBO Screencap In the following featurette, Armstrong and director & executive producer Mark Mylod discuss the Succession series finale and reflect upon the series now that it's come to an end – with a rundown of Armstrong's thoughts following: After Shiv (Sarah Snook) lives up to her name[...]

"My job is really strange, I'm given feedback on this theme park thing, I'm working on the TV show, and I'm working on another game, so I'm just kind of jumping around on different projects," Druckmann shared with EW, with The Last of Us game series being included in this year's "Halloween Horror Nights" from Universal[...]

"Such a profound piece set up in Alaska that looks at the indigenous community, the Inuits, and some of the struggles they face opposite the world of mining and some of the more social conflicts that they continue to also face in the world of violence and domestic abuse," shared HBO's head of drama, Francesca Orsi,[...]

With the spinoff series finding Reedus' Daryl tasked with delivering Louis Puech Scigliuzzi's Laurent somewhere so that he could potentially become the savior of humanity, some folks have pointed out some similarities with HBO's award-winning series adaptation of the video game franchise The Last of Us But don't think for one second that was lost[...]

Stede is writing love letters & Blackbeard promises objections in the teaser for season 2 of Max's Our Flag Means Death, set for October 5th.

Though there were some rumblings from the cast and creative team that a second season was a possibility, HBO confirmed earlier today that Sam Levinson (Euphoria), Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim's Tesfaye & Lily-Rose Depp-starring The Idol would not be returning for a second season "'The Idol' was one of HBO's most provocative original[...]

New and familiar faces join Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard in first-look images of Max's upcoming second season of Our Flag Means Death.

One person, in particular, we have to thank is Mazin – who's done a fine job balancing what he can discuss about the HBO series while also driving home the point of what the union strikes are important to his and dozens of other shows During an interview with EW's The Awardist podcast (which "was[...]

Levinson also teased that he sees Season 3 as a "film noir" and that – through Rue – the show plans to "explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world." Image: HBO During a wide-ranging interview from May of this year, HBO's head of drama Francesca Orsi explained that the combination[...]

What do you do when you're the crew of an unloved franchise movie fighting for your place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe? If Sam Mendes, Armando Iannucci & Jon Brown have their way, the HBO series The Franchise will be there to answer that very question – and more that you didn't even[...]

As far as series adaptations go, HBO's take on Stephen King's 2018 bestseller The Outsider was a powerhouse on intensity that we didn't see coming But as the season stalked along, it found itself not only gaining more critical praise but also earning enough eyeballs to put it above some of the cable giant's other[...]