McConaughey and Harrelson in HBO’s True Detective NEW YORK CITY—Celebrated International Television Day Thursday (isn’t every day television day?) with other reporters from around the world by visiting HBO headquarters in New York. The premium cable company wasn’t specifically celebration International Television Day–in fact, it never came up–but were rather holding international press sessions for
A series likely to get lost amid the hype of the Breaking Bad finale Sunday night is Eastbound & Down. The fourth and final season begins Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO and HBO Canada.If you’re already a Kenny Powers fan you’ll want to coax one more hour out of a busy night of PVR
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–TV critics–who needs ’em!Alec Baldwin let us have it Thursday at the HBO TCA session for his documentary Seduced and Abandoned. The doc, which bows Oct. 28, follows the 30 Rock star and writer/director James Toback (Tyson) to the Cannes Film Festival as they pitch a script based somewhat on Last Tango in
HBO Canada has been rerunning The Sopranos lately and I have found myself drawn right back in to episodes I have seen two, three, four times already. The main reason? James Gandolfini. His performance as Tony Soprano remains one of the great achievements in television. News of his sudden death–I learned in a car getting
Damon and Douglas Michael Douglas does a great job of imitating Liberace in Behind the Candelabra (Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO and HBO Canada). Not just Lee’s nasal-y voice or his flamboyant mannerisms, but at the keyboard. Douglas’ fakes a mean boogie-woogie. The TV-movie does a great job re-creating the excesses of Libaraces Vegas
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, but the Airplane! actor-slash-basketball Hall of Famer sure knows Girls.He alcindor-ated the HBO series in an insightful article for The Huffington Post (did they pay him?) headlined, “Girls Just Want to have (White) Fun.”Abdul-Jabbar posts up on an oft-expressed criticism of Lena Dunham’s show–that the
It was odd at press tour last August when HBO paneled back-to-back sessions on Ethel Kennedy and Alfred Hitchcock.Ethel premiered Thursday and is a loving scrapbook, a daughter’s valentine to her famous parents. Both Ethel, now 84, and Rory, the director and youngest of the Kennedy’s 11 children, were at press tour, treated like royalty
It’s a little known fact, but two Canadian mountain tops play pivotal roles in the story of a famous American family: the Kennedys. It’s all revealed in Ethel, a highly personal look at political matriarch Ethel Kennedy, wife of crusading senator, presidential candidate and ‘60s icon Robert F. Kennedy. The documentary premieres Thursday night at