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
Boxer Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao has decided his next boxing match will take place overseas because of the high United States income tax rate. The former pound-for-pound champ who, along with Floyd Mayweather, is one of the sport’s biggest draws, will
There’s a simple reason why Fox News decimates its competition. The news channel understands the media tilts to the left, so it offers a blend of conservative opinion and stories that matter to right-of-center audiences. See a need in the
On the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher went into a rant criticizing America over reaction to terrorism
Garry Trudeau, the creator of Amazon’s Alpha House, uses up so many anti-GOP cliches in the show’s pilot it’s a wonder any remain to fill out a full season. Alpha House, part of Amazon’s foray into original programming, plays out like
(AP) ‘Kinky Boots’ gets a leading 13 Tony Award nodsBy MARK KENNEDYAP Drama WriterNEW YORKThe Cyndi Lauper-scored “Kinky Boots” has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import “Matilda: The Musical” close behind with 12. Tom Hanks,
HBO’s “Real Time” Host, Bill Maher, played a video of police opening fire in Watertown on the boat where the second Boston bomber suspect was hiding. Maher attacked the police as “unprofessional.”
The upcoming documentary Gasland Part II stirred up plenty of unwanted attention Sunday as ticket-holding farmers were barred from seeing the film and a reporter was arrested at the scene of the premiere. The film is slated to be shown
Every once in a while the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher shelves his talking points to get at the truth. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it serves as a tonic to his HBO audience
The second seasons for two highly touted shows represent both the current media landscape as well as its future. HBO’s The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s latest liberal indoctrination drama, will debut its sophomore season starting in July. The series stars Jeff
By JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONWatch out, Joe Biden. The other vice president is in the house. The White House says Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy “Veep,” is at the White House to have lunch
It is nearly impossible to read a review of David Mamet’s work now without the critic noting the playwright’s conservative politics. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, because politics is downstream from culture. The problem is that most critics are liberal,
VICE debuted its eponymous TV show on HBO Friday evening, and it’s a promising start. The show begins with a sequence of videos showcasing the Brooklyn-based media group’s wide range of international coverage, and declares that the intention of the
Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time”: “New rule: both sides of the gun control debate have to come together and agree that you can’t sell firearms or ammunition to anyone who looks like this. [shows student ID photo of Adam
I’ve been a fan of Shane Smith and his VICE crew ever since their bizarro tour of North Korea, which exposed the sheer madness of the regime even within the confines of an official visit. Now VICE has a cable
When HBO wanted to make a movie about Sarah Palin the channel consulted McCain/Palin campaign officials who had Paul Bunyan-sized axes to grind against the former governor. After all, the media tried to blame the ticket’s loss in 2008 on
Formerly unknown actor Christopher Abbott had fame right where he wanted it. Abbott co-stars on the HBO series Girls, the media’s favorite new show created by liberal “It” actress Lena Dunham. He plays the off-again, on-again mate for Allison Williams’
Maryland legislators are doing all they can to attract more Hollywood productions to their state. All the while local residents anticipate higher gas prices and watch as their taxes continue to climb, according to the Maryland Reporter. An emergency bill
The final installment of The History Channel’s The Bible had two very big reasons for failing to live up to ratings expectations. The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones. The former aired the final episode of its third season last night
Jay Mohr isn’t laughing at Bill Maher’s nonstop Catholic bashing. Mohr, who is open about his faith and headlines both a successful podcast (Mohr Stories) and a syndicated sports talk show, let loose on Maher in the run-up to Easter.
According to Nielsen, ABC’s annual rebroadcast of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956) pulled in 5.9 million viewers Saturday night. The religious epic, which stars Charlton Heston as Moses, has been a ratings winner for ABC every year since
Comedian Artie Lange used to love sharing stories of his time on the set of the film Dirty Work with co-star Don Rickles. The legendary insult comic tore into both Lange and director Bob Saget, and even Rickles’ improv jokes
If HBO personality Bill Maher habitually attacked any other group in the same way he slurs the Catholic Church he would be summarily dismissed, says the president of The Catholic League. The organization compiled a “greatest hits” package of Maher’s
Move over Netflix, Amazon Prime and Redbox. Spotify wants in on the streaming video action. Spotify, known for its popular music distribution service, is plotting to compete in the streaming realm, Business Insider reports. According to two sources briefed on the company’s
On HBO’s Real Time Friday, Bill Maher complained that red-state Democrat Senators bow to pressure from their constituents on gun control “because we are such a gerrymandered country.” Guest John Feehery quickly reminded Maher that Senate races cannot be gerrymandered,
Lena Dunham’s Girls is a wryly observed comedy centered around four young women in present-day New York City. With its frequent scenes of nudity, casual sex, and drug use, the show comes across as a defiantly liberal assault on traditional
I’ve never seen “Girls” because I’m too cheap to pay for HBO or any other premium channels. There have been some interesting discussion of it on Breitbart (see here and here). Given that “Girls” is held up by women on Left as
Conservatives know the sky is blue, the sun comes up in the morning and rich Californians pay a large portion of their salaries to Uncle Sam. Apparently, the latter is breaking news to the host of HBO’s Real Time with
In response to ‘Girls’ Fail: Viewership Collapses For Season Finale of HBO ‘Phenom’: I wondered if Girls‘ ratings were good for HBO. After all, a lot of people might watch programs later, on demand, and maybe HBO defines “good ratings”
For the past couple weeks my Conversation pals and I have made great sport of the fact that our provincial, narrow-minded media treats HBO’s “Girls” like it is some sort of pop culture phenomenon, even though only 866,000 people watch.
Is Bill Maher listening to Adam Carolla’s podcast? First, Maher rejected New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s soda warfare. Now, the reliably liberal HBO host is coming out against the left’s desire to raise taxes on the rich. “You know what?
When I first read the Entertainment Weekly headline “Where’s the Love? The Sudden Death of the Hollywood Sex Scene,” I was skeptical. All we hear is that Hollywood is a cesspool of sex, drugs an violence. Then I tried to think
We’re currently living through “30 Rock II: Electric Boogaloo,” where the elite media manufactures a reality that says a ratings disaster they happen to like is some sort of cultural phenomenon. This is an old trick the left plays to
Nobody watches HBO’s “Girls.” Nobody. In a country of over 300 million, 866,000 viewers is statistically zero. And yet: Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO series ‘Girls,’ has quietly shaken up the writing staff for her breakout comedy-drama about a group of
(AP) Dunham tweets about alma mater’s racism troublesOBERLIN, OhioLena Dunham is urging her fellow “Obies” to stick together as her alma mater in Ohio wrestles with reports of racism. The creator and star of HBO’s “Girls” wrote on her Twitter
Dennis Rodman was reportedly booted out of a swanky hotel in New York on Sunday after he spent hours loudly yelling at everyone within earshot about how great North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is while waving a copy Kim
The minds behind the new HBO show VICE probably wished the Worm had turned the other way. Former basketball great Dennis Rodman joined a delegation of athletes–including the Harlem Globetrotters–as part of a cultural outreach effort with North Korea. The
In what can only be described as a bizarre bit of “worm diplomacy,” Dennis Rodman met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and watched an exhibition basketball game with him on Thursday in North Korea. The Associated Press released the
