The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has a new list of the 101 best-written TV series of all time. The Sopranos finished on top. The WGA wrote of its top choice: The Sopranos received the most votes, and no show has
(AFP) Edie Falco, the on-screen “Sopranos” wife of James Gandolfini, on Thursday paid tribute to her late co-star, saying their on-screen relationship was “one of the greatest” she had ever known. “I am shocked and devastated by Jim’s passing. He
James Gandolfini, who made Tony Soprano one of the most iconic characters across the television landscape, has died at the age of 51. The husky actor was in Italy at the time of his death. Deadline.com reports a heart attack
The hosts of the Fox News show The Five went all Big Hollywood on Aaron Sorkin and his HBO show The Newsroom last week, lambasting the series and its creator in a tour de force segment that said many of
On The Five on Friday, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld blasted the second season of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom on HBO as a “liberal fantasy” that, like Hollywood, “gets everything wrong” and tries to rewrite history. After watching the trailer for
On HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher attacked President Obama for acting on Syria after Bill Clinton’s comments that Obama risks looking like “a total fool” if he listened too closely to opinion polls and didn’t act.
On Friday, President Barack Obama rewarded some of his top 2012 campaign fundraisers with appointments to coveted European ambassadorships. John Emerson, who raised $500,000 for Obama, was given an ambassadorship to Germany. In the 2008 campaign, Emerson raised between $100,000
HBO routinely serves up content that either denigrates conservatives or fetes liberals. Think Real Time with Bill Maher, Game Change and The Newsroom for three examples. Some of the channel’s power brokers often do more than that on the Democratic
What sounds like hyperbole coming from the Oscar-winning director, really isn’t. Steven Spielberg is watching studio after studio put all its chips on one tent-pole film after another and understands that eventually “a half dozen or so $250 million movies
Conservative Ron Futrell knew to expect plenty of left-of-center jibes when he settled into his seat to see Bill Maher at The Pearl Theater in Las Vegas June 8. Futrell didn’t think he’d hear the HBO personality mock former Gov.
Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, whom new CNN boss Jeff Zucker reportedly ousted, is now joining HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.” The network has even signed a “first look” deal with O’Brien’s production company, and she will likely produce
When we last left heroic, truth-telling Republican anchor Will McAvoy he was telling viewers the Tea Party was the American Taliban. Just another day in the office for liberal storyteller Aaron Sorkin and his HBO drama The Newsroom. The trailer
There is so much content out there that sometimes, things just get lost in the mix, and great participants don’t always get their due. I’m beginning an occasional series focusing on the most under-appreciated talent in Hollywood. There are no firm
Michael Broderick, a friend of Andrew Breitbart’s and an early contributor to Big Hollywood, has spent over a year gathering signatures on a poster for HBO’s “Band of Brothers” miniseries first signed by six members of Easy Company, the series’
The HBO series Sex and the City embraced not only casual sex but the glory of Manolo Blahnik shoes. That materialism irked Cynthia Nixon, who co-starred as the sensible Miranda on the long-running show (and subsequent movie franchise). The actress,
I did a double take when I saw this headline: “What Will the ‘Game Change’ Sequel Be About?“ I shouldn’t have. If the past five years have taught us anything, it’s that Hollywood will never tire of reliving the 2008 election,
Director Steven Soderbergh famously said no movie studio would touch Behind the Candelabra, the biopic of late pianist Liberace, because the tale was “too gay.” HBO had no problem with such content, and now the pay channel is reaping the
Memorial Day is a time for all Americans, no matter their party affiliation, to remember the sacrifices and heroism of our troops. Girls creator Lena Dunham figured the holiday was a grand excuse to uncork a potty joke via social
(AP) Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy showbiz affairBy FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKThe idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, forever hailed as Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and
Most people recognize that America’s recent natural gas boom ignited an energy renaissance with the potential to put this country on a path–should we choose it–toward North American energy independence and economic growth. But filmmaker Josh Fox is certainly not
By DERRIK J. LANGAP Entertainment WriterREDMOND, Wash.Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, a next-generation entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It
During a segment on guns on the May 18 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher told Michael Moore, “As long as we live in the gun country, I ain’t giving up my guns.” Maher said there have
Four gay-themed broadcast shows recently got the ax, but HBO is trying to reach that demographic with a new comedy set in San Francisco. The premium cable network has handed out series orders to its untitled Michael Lannan project, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Hollywood denizens opened up their considerable check books for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign last fall, and now it’s payback time. A number of prestigious diplomatic posts have opened up recently, and some of the entertainment industry’s more generous donors
Movie stars are the coin of the realm in Hollywood, but casting recognizable actors in some roles can work against a film. So far, the first official look at The Butler, the new film from director Lee Daniels, finds seeing
