HBO On Demand is still streaming the full first season of “True Detective,” which is made up of eight one-hour episodes that concluded Sunday. I finished it last night and wasn’t terribly impressed. The central murder mystery involving an occult
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air wrote a column for The Week in which he quite literally “harrumphs” at the excessive nudity on pay cable television: Nudity in film and its effects on society have been debated since film began, and
Bill Maher actually said something politically incorrect this week. The comic entered the political space via his former series Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, but he usually echoes the same liberal sentiments of both his peers and the press now
Lena Dunham, star of the HBO ratings catastrophe Girls and toast of the urban provincial elites who run the media, told Glamour that she might quit acting. Apparently, this has nothing to do with the fact that she is ratings
1. Adult Swim Plays It Safe with ‘Black Jesus’ Deadline reports that Adult Swim (a cable channel that takes over the Cartoon Network at night) “is looking to stir up controversy” with “Black Jesus,” a series that will portray Jesus
Lena Dunham, the supposed epitome of liberal tolerance, doesn’t give a darn about Republicans. Dunham’s progressive bona fides were never in doubt, and that was before she shot a 2012 campaign spot for President Barack Obama. Earlier today, she addressed
1. Lena Dunham is Ratings Poison After a full week of traveling — three days in DC and four in Kentucky — you would think that the last thing I would have known about is who hosted “Saturday Night Live”
This weekend’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” married the story of the Original Sin in the book of Genesis in the Bible and HBO’s “Girls” in a skit featuring Lena Dunham, who hosted the show and plays the main character
Vitali Klitschko thought he knew corruption from boxing. Wooed by Don King, the Klitschko brothers were wowed when they heard the fight promoter gracefully play parts of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” on his piano. King’s worldliness especially captivated Vitali, a PhD
Archie Comics wanted to update its image, so it’s aligned with Girls star Lena Dunham for a new story arc. Dunham, an unabashed supporter of President Barack Obama, will write a four-issue storyline which finds the Archie girls meeting up
On his Friday HBO show “Real Time,” host Bill Maher used the term “darkey” to describe what he perceives as the sentiment of the Tea Party toward President Barack Obama. He said the Tea Party played their favorite game at
On his HBO “Real Time” program on Friday, host Bill Maher used fifth anniversary of the Tea Party this week to attack them as forming for purely racist reasons. Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, fired back at Maher’s
On February 24th, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was joined by HBO’s Jon Frankel to report that the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) fight to allow “young kids to access guns.” To make this case, Hayes
On her Monday broadcast of “OutFront” on CNN, Erin Burnett interviewed embattled and outspoken rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who has been the target of CNN for his inflammatory rhetoric. Nugent, who acknowledge he was indeed sorry for his remarks about
Netflix has reached an agreement with cable and internet giant Comcast so that the US video-streaming service’s programming can be viewed more smoothly, the two announced Sunday. The companies “have established a more direct connection between Netflix and Comcast, similar
HBO has a crime drama called “True Detective,” improbably starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, neither of whom seems like they would appear in a cable-TV crime drama. That’s part of why it works. It’s a densely-layered police procedural, largely
HBO’s Bill Maher and National Review’s Charles Cooke put MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on the defensive over her network’s coverage of Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)…
Lena Dunham will be honored in April for taking a “leadership role” on LGBT issues, but the Girls star is still on the defensive regarding her Vogue article. The star of the low-rated HBO dramedy will receive the Horizon Award
Readers will have to wait until October to find out if Girls star Lena Dunham’s advice was worth the million-plus dollar price tag. Random House won a bidding war in 2012 for the rights to publish Dunham’s advice/memoir, and now
Political satirist P.J. O’Rourke made a joke comparing the F-35 to Sochi and how both could blow up in the end on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”…
On HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday, host Bill Maher equated the mass gay-straight wedding ceremony at the Grammys to a mass shooting at the CMAs.
In his closing monologue on Friday, HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher attacked New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to the publicity surrounding former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY)and his girlfriend Lis Smith. Transcript as follows: If polls
Following in the footsteps of Bette Midler and her farewell to long-time late night host Johnny Carson, HBO’s Bill Maher and “Family Guy’s” Seth MacFarlane offered their own goodbye for outgoing “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno on his Wednesday night
On his Friday broadcast of “Real Time” on HBO, host Bill Maher drew an analogy between the 1971 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavyweight title bout and this year’s Super Bowl, which according to Maher is split by political ideologies.
RENO, Nev. (AP) A former lover of Liberace who was the subject of an HBO film on the pianist’s life has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in a Nevada prison for failing another court-ordered drug test while on
