Welcome to my first live-blog for the July 2014 Television Critics Association press tour! Up first, HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo take the stage to discuss "True Detective," "Game of Thrones," "The Leftovers" and whatever else we feel like we want to talk about. Follow along! That's Richard Plepler above. He looks like a character on "Mad Men," doesn't he? 2:01 p.m. We may be delayed a few minutes by rumors of an ice cream bar. Ladies and gentlemen... HBO! Today's panels include "The Knick," "The Comeback," "Getting On," the Foo Fighters docu-series and "Olive Kitteridge." 2:05 p.m. HBO's first announcement is that HBO will be filming the last two nights of Beyonce & Jay-z's concert tour in September. Those shows will be in Paris. 2:05 p.m. As was previously rumored, Meryl Streep will win an Emmy for Mike Nichols' adaptation of "Master Class.
- 7/10/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
The Silicon Valley presented in the terrific new HBO comedy of the same name (it debuts Sunday night at 10) is a kind of Wild West for nerds: a lawless territory where they can be among their own kind rather than struggle to fit into a more structured world that doesn't understand them, and a place where they can seek massive fortune along the way. That vision of the Valley also fits HBO itself in a way, since it's long been a place where creative types with idiosyncratic personalities and specific, uncompromising creative visions could go to find success in a safer, more wide-open environment. It's where David Chase could go when he was on the verge of quitting the TV business altogether and tell the story of a wiseguy in therapy. It's where David Milch could go to be given the absolute freedom to succeed so beautifully with "Deadwood" (and...
- 4/4/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
We’re only hours away from the highly anticipated premiere of NBC’s live adaptation of The Sound of Music. EW was on set for rehearsals a few weeks ago and got a chance to chat with True Blood star Stephen Moyer, who is playing the stern Captain Von Trapp. Moyer talked about working with Carrie Underwood and the perils of doing live television.
Entertainment Weekly: How did this come to you?
Stephen Moyer: Interestingly, I got the offer before. It came through at the end of the first week of rehearsals, so weird. I had just finished True Blood literally the week before.
Entertainment Weekly: How did this come to you?
Stephen Moyer: Interestingly, I got the offer before. It came through at the end of the first week of rehearsals, so weird. I had just finished True Blood literally the week before.
- 12/5/2013
- by Tim Stack
- EW - Inside TV
When an acclaimed TV drama comes to an end, the showrunner of said acclaimed TV drama is in a unique position. For the first time in years, their schedule is wide open. Often, various people are fighting to give them lots of money to create something. And pretty much everyone agrees that whatever they do next will be considerably less impressive than the acclaimed TV drama they just ended. Some showrunners get weirder, embarking on complex, fascinating, self-indulgent passion projects: Think David Simon and Treme, or David Milch and John From Cincinnati.
When Lost ended, Damon Lindelof started writing movies; when Battlestar Galactica ended,...
When Lost ended, Damon Lindelof started writing movies; when Battlestar Galactica ended,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
HBO executives Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo didn't have a lot of big news to break at the TCA press tour session Thursday (July 25), but they provided a lot of little bits of news on shows that are currently on the air and projects in development. A rundown:
- The odds are "excellent" for a third season of "The Newsroom," Lombardo says, noting ratings for the first couple of episodes are up over last season.
"The conversation with Aaron [Sorkin] are all about schedule," Lombardo says. "... If we can figure out scheduling in terms of his time and being on the air next year, I would be shocked if you weren't hearing an announcement soon."
- The final (half-) season of "Treme" is scheduled to premiere Dec. 1, taking the Sunday-night spot "Boardwalk Empire" will hold in the fall.
- A miniseries from "Sopranos" creator David Chase that HBO announced four years...
- The odds are "excellent" for a third season of "The Newsroom," Lombardo says, noting ratings for the first couple of episodes are up over last season.
"The conversation with Aaron [Sorkin] are all about schedule," Lombardo says. "... If we can figure out scheduling in terms of his time and being on the air next year, I would be shocked if you weren't hearing an announcement soon."
- The final (half-) season of "Treme" is scheduled to premiere Dec. 1, taking the Sunday-night spot "Boardwalk Empire" will hold in the fall.
- A miniseries from "Sopranos" creator David Chase that HBO announced four years...
- 7/26/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
They are young, handsome and very talented. And the American studios are fighting to sign them up
They are the new generation of YBAs, but this cohort has no interest in shaking up the art galleries of London. Their reputations are being made on the west coast of America. They are the Young British Actors.
Hollywood is looking for its next matinee idols – this decade's DiCaprio, Pacino, Heston, Newman or Brando. A surprising number of the candidates are twentysomethings from the UK.
Eddie Redmayne, Toby Hemingway and Max Irons are just some of the names turning heads on Sunset Boulevard. When the Los Angeles Times listed "nine newbies" to Hollywood who merited close attention, five were Britons in their 20s – Redmayne, Hemingway and Irons, plus Jack Huston and Sam Claflin. With Andrew Garfield hitting the big time in last year's The Social Network, Robert Pattinson's success in the Twilight...
They are the new generation of YBAs, but this cohort has no interest in shaking up the art galleries of London. Their reputations are being made on the west coast of America. They are the Young British Actors.
Hollywood is looking for its next matinee idols – this decade's DiCaprio, Pacino, Heston, Newman or Brando. A surprising number of the candidates are twentysomethings from the UK.
Eddie Redmayne, Toby Hemingway and Max Irons are just some of the names turning heads on Sunset Boulevard. When the Los Angeles Times listed "nine newbies" to Hollywood who merited close attention, five were Britons in their 20s – Redmayne, Hemingway and Irons, plus Jack Huston and Sam Claflin. With Andrew Garfield hitting the big time in last year's The Social Network, Robert Pattinson's success in the Twilight...
- 3/20/2011
- by Joanna Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
HBO has picked up a series called "Luck" for next year, and the list of names involved kind of blows us away.
The series about the world of horse racing stars Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte and Dennis Farina, among others. (Hoffman and Nolte are doing their first TV work in ages.) But what really has us curious about "Luck" -- and has from the time the show's pilot was greenlit -- is the people behind the camera.
"Luck" was written by David Milch, the man behind "Deadwood" and a driving force in the early years of "NYPD Blue" (he's also written for "Hill Street Blues" and many other shows and created "John From Cincinnati"). The pilot was directed by Michael Mann of "Heat," "Collateral" and "Miami Vice."
Now, both Milch and Mann are both noted for liking things just so, so who knows if their collaboration will last for however...
The series about the world of horse racing stars Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte and Dennis Farina, among others. (Hoffman and Nolte are doing their first TV work in ages.) But what really has us curious about "Luck" -- and has from the time the show's pilot was greenlit -- is the people behind the camera.
"Luck" was written by David Milch, the man behind "Deadwood" and a driving force in the early years of "NYPD Blue" (he's also written for "Hill Street Blues" and many other shows and created "John From Cincinnati"). The pilot was directed by Michael Mann of "Heat," "Collateral" and "Miami Vice."
Now, both Milch and Mann are both noted for liking things just so, so who knows if their collaboration will last for however...
- 7/15/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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