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This week’s new episode of the HBO series The Newsroom apparently took some factual liberties from its “ripped from yesterday’s headlines” format. The July 28 episode featured several reporters, including the show’s senior producer Jim Harper (played by John Gallagher Jr.), getting

HBO’s Real Time Friday host Bill Maher said “God in the Old Testament is a psychotic mass murderer”

Fox News’ Shepard Smith seems to be a big fan of HBO’s vampire drama “True Blood,” because while discussing the royal baby’s potential names, he couldn’t help but mention the naming process for fairy children on the TV show.

The Weinstein Company has graciously invited former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush to screen its newest drama, Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Will the ex-presidents face a heartfelt drama or a liberal sucker punch? Presidents George H. W.

The streaming revolution has officially crashed the Emmys. House of Cards, the political drama from streaming powerhouse Netflix, picked up an Emmy nomination today for Best Drama among nine overall nominations. Emmy voters also selected stars Kevin Spacey and Robin

HBO viewers weren’t exactly salivating over the prospect of a second season of The Newsroom. Aaron Sorkin’s liberal showcase returned Sunday night, and the ratings were only slightly better than the show’s 2012 debut. It still could only hold roughly

David Simon, creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, applauds how people of color haven’t reacted violently to the July 13 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Travyon Martin. It isn’t how Simon, who blogged about the

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down California’s Proposition 8, a move that struck a huge blow for same-sex marriage proponents, is already part of a planned documentary at HBO. The pay giant is currently producing a film chronicling the

The government will reportedly take $30 million from James Gandolfini’s estimated $70 million estate because of a will that has been called a “nightmare” and “catastrophic” from a tax standpoint.  According to reports, the late actor, who gained fame by

On Friday night, HBO host Bill Maher suggested that America’s real racists include Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, and Antonin Scalia. Maher said that all were worse racists than Paula Deen, the Food Network host who recently lost virtually

The women whom Anthony Weiner made the objects of his salacious texts and conversations have been hounded by the press and media ever since Weiner’s exposure. The consequences have been harsher than they expected.  Gennette Cordova, the 21-year-old college student

By FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKThe creator of “The Sopranos” said at James Gandolfini’s funeral that the actor brought the traits of a sad boy, “amazed and confused,” to the role of Tony Soprano. One of four speakers at the

We’re learning more about Aaron Sorkin’s creative process than most of us needed to know. Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Social Network and The West Wing, is putting the finishing touches on season two of his HBO progressive drama

By JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment WriterNEW YORKJames Gandolfini left behind numerous projects in various states of development, including two films that have already completed production. The 51-year-old actor, who died Wednesday, had been busy, appearing in a flurry of late 2012

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

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