Tag: HBO

Comedian Bill Maher tells GOP jokes no one on the right could get away with against a liberal. Maher hits the “right” targets, so it doesn’t matter how low he goes. The Thought Police sit on their hands and wait

By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNEW YORKThe duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved such a success at hosting the Golden Globes in January that they’ve been signed up for the same job for the next two years. NBC, the

HBO host Bill Maher is no stranger to inserting himself into contentious debates, but this time the target of his latest harangue is fighting back. Maher teamed with PETA to decry cruel cat experiments being conducted on the campus of

It’s the second script in as many weeks for Wikileaks. Last week, the organization dropped what it alleges to be the script of an HBO-funded film on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, one the leaking organization claims received aid from the

Since the days of Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood has portrayed business leaders as greedy, evil and selfish. So when television shows start to tell a different story, the Moving Picture Institute takes notice. Our first annual Liberty on TV awards honor television shows that

Sunday night’s Emmy Awards contained a few major shockers. But none was bigger than Jeff Daniels winning Best Actor for his performance in Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom over Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (Netflix), Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad (AMC),

Michael Douglas got into the spirit of Liberace’s private life while accepting his Emmy for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra Sunday night. Douglas played the flamboyant, and closeted, entertainer in the HBO biopic, and when he won the Emmy for

Hannibal sounded like a very bad idea when the show was first announced, especially after the disappointing feature film Hannibal Rising in 2006. It seemed like Thomas Harris’ cannibal character would never be properly cracked again without the expertise and

By LYNN ELBERAP Television WriterLOS ANGELESWhen Netflix’s “House of Cards” vies with cable series “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” for best drama honors at the Emmy Awards, it will be a milestone in the coming-of-age of online entertainment. The political

HBO has worked long and hard to burnish its reputation as one of television’s most liberal outposts. The premium cable channel is responsible for biased documentaries (Reagan), hard-left original fare (Real Time with Bill Maher, The Newsroom) and two of

Writers are taught to avoid cliches in their art, but Oscar-nominated scribe Aaron Sorkin simply can’t help himself. Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom packs plenty of overt, and obvious, anti-conservative cliches in an average episode. Sunday’s season finale stuffed as

Tom Hanks has increasingly strayed from his apolitical public persona, but it hasn’t hurt his appeal with the movie going public. Yet. Hanks came in first place as the country’s “best-liked movie star” according to a new poll by Public

Jay Roach, the director of mainstream comedies as well as the politically charged Recount and Game Change, insists audiences can sense when a historical film is full of it. Even left of center sites like Entertainment Weekly and Slant Magazine

Actress Sharon Stone insists being nude on screen is an important way to ensure realistic storytelling. Lena Dunham of Girls fame says it’s far more important than that. Dunham told Marie Claire UK how much she values being naked on

(AP) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–In a drive to add subscribers, Netflix has expanded on a movie licensing deal with The Weinstein Co. that will add more films to its Internet video service beginning in 2016. The multi-year agreement announced Tuesday builds