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The Case Against Adnan Syed: The story from Serial is becoming an HBO series

The Case Against Adnan Syed: The story from Serial is becoming an HBO series

May 16, 2018 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

HBO says the four-part series will be “a cinematic look at the life and 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and conviction of Adnan Syed.”

Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac will star in a ‘comedic docu-series’ on HBO

Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac will star in a ‘comedic docu-series’ on HBO

October 16, 2017 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

The actor and Emmy-winning Daily Show writer and correspondent Wyatt Cenac will have his own docu-series on HBO next spring.

Meet the white nationalist protesters who Trump called ‘very fine people’

Meet the white nationalist protesters who Trump called ‘very fine people’

August 16, 2017 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

Who exactly are those white nationalists/white supremacists/Nazis that Donald Trump called “very fine people”? Here’s a 22-minute documentary that explains.

Slenderman murders, tickling video horrors, and 12 other documentaries airing on HBO

Slenderman murders, tickling video horrors, and 12 other documentaries airing on HBO

January 17, 2017 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

A list of documentary films airing on HBO in early 2017, including Tickled, Beware the Slenderman, Becoming Warren Buffet, and Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends).

The 10 documentaries HBO will air the rest of this year

The 10 documentaries HBO will air the rest of this year

August 1, 2016 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

Trailers and descriptions for the docs HBO will air this summer and fall, including The Trans List, Marathon: the Patriots Day Bombing, and Meet the Donors.

Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt & Hoarders, plus 17 more HBO docs

Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt & Hoarders, plus 17 more HBO docs

January 8, 2016 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

HBO routinely and reliably broadcasts excellent feature-length documentaries, and today the network announced the documentaries that will air this spring and early summer. Among the diverse array of nonfiction films is one about former The Mole host Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, his mother. Judging from clips and their interaction during their appearance at the Television Critics Association winter… continue reading

John Oliver eviscerates Miss America–and Chris Harrison, Donald Trump

John Oliver eviscerates Miss America–and Chris Harrison, Donald Trump

September 23, 2014 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight has quickly become reason enough to subscribe to HBO. It’s nowhere near a Daily Show clone, but instead is an exceptionally intelligent, ridiculously amusing, irreverent take on current events that usually aren’t getting attention elsewhere. (All of Last Week Tonight‘s main stories, and many of its shorter segments, are on YouTube.) Sunday,… continue reading

The best fake reality star ever is coming back to TV

The best fake reality star ever is coming back to TV

April 28, 2014 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

Valerie Cherish, Lisa Kudrow’s washed-up actor turned desperate reality star, will return to television, as HBO is resurrecting The Comeback almost nine years after its first and only season aired. The scripted series was both impossibly entertaining and an incredible send-up/illustration of how reality TV can be produced. E! News’ Kristin Dos Santos reports that… continue reading

HBO, Sports Illustrated show wants stories about how sports moments impacted your life

HBO, Sports Illustrated show wants stories about how sports moments impacted your life

December 4, 2011 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

HBO is partnering with Sports Illustrated to produce a documentary series called Sport in America that will explore major moments in sports and how they affected the lives of regular fans and those involved. The show will be “about how our nation’s most compelling sports moments have affected the lives of the people who watched… continue reading

Hard Knocks airs a behind-the-scenes special that highlights how great the series is

Hard Knocks airs a behind-the-scenes special that highlights how great the series is

September 8, 2011 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

HBO’s Hard Knocks was cancelled this year, but in its place HBO is airing Hard Knocks: A Decade of NFL Training Camps. The 90-minute special is not so much a recap as it is a behind-the-scenes episode about the show’s production, from outtakes to footage of the production. From montages of practical jokes and farts,… continue reading

James Gandolfini watches Real Housewives, and other insight from the cast of HBO’s An American Family movie

James Gandolfini watches Real Housewives, and other insight from the cast of HBO’s An American Family movie

January 9, 2011 by Andy Dehnart Leave a Comment

In a few months, HBO will once again fictionalize the creation of a famous work of nonfiction, although this time it’s the reality series that started it all: An American Family. The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini stars as Craig Gilbert, the producer who followed the Loud family for the 1973 PBS series, while Pat and Bill… continue reading

Generation Kill, HBO’s fictional mini-series based on a non-fiction book, debuts Sunday

Generation Kill, HBO’s fictional mini-series based on a non-fiction book, debuts Sunday

July 11, 2008 by Andy Dehnart

HBO’s miniseries Generation Kill debuts Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, and will air for seven weeks, following a Marine battalion as they prepare to enter into Iraq back in 2003. The film is a work of fiction that stars actors, but it is based so much on fact that I think it’s worthy of a… continue reading

HBO developing reality Sex and the City

HBO developing reality Sex and the City

March 24, 2006 by Andy Dehnart

HBO is developing a series that would be a reality TV version of Sex and the City. HBO “is finalizing a deal for an unscripted comedy pilot described as ‘an attempt to capture the vivacity, sexuality and friendship of women in a big city under the banner of a reality show,’” according to The Hollywood… continue reading

Kindergartners star in new reality TV show on HBO Family.

Kindergartners star in new reality TV show on HBO Family.

August 23, 2001 by Andy Dehnart

Kindergartners star in new reality TV show on HBO Family. Premiering Sunday on HBO Family, Kindergarten is a reality TV show aimed at kids 3 to 7 that follows, in an American High documentary style, a class of 23 kindergartners.

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