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April 2008
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HBO nabs eight Sports Emmys
From Variety | April 29, 2008TV News: Network hits homerun with most wins -- HBO won a network-leading eight Sports Emmys Monday night at a presentation in Lincoln Center... more
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'Robin Hood' hits the bull's-eye
| April 26, 2008
From Los Angeles TimesMaybe it's because "Masterpiece" is going through a "classics" phase that television seems awash in historical dramas so detailed you can... more
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'Hung' gets HBO hot and bothered
From Variety | April 23, 2008TV News: Naegle lines up her first project for pay cabler -- New HBO Entertainment president Sue Naegle has already lined up her first project... more
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Canadian pay nets vote for 'Recount'
From The Hollywood Reporter - News | April 22, 2008Canadian premium pay TV channels Movie Central and the Movie Network have picked up Jay Roach's "Recount" from HBO Films. more
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Nights With John Adams
From The Corner | April 21, 2008I can't remember a time when I've felt so left out not watching a TV show -- some folks with the best taste have been watching and telling... more
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Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate to take on HBO, Showtime
From Reuters: Business News | April 20, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sumner Redstone's Viacom Inc will launch a premium TV and movie channel with Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, aiming... more
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HBO acquires films from Disney
From The Hollywood Reporter - News | April 20, 2008HBO has bought an 85-title feature library package from Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Included are Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The... more
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HBO acquires films from Disney
From The Hollywood Reporter - News | April 20, 2008HBO has bought an 85-title feature library package from Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Included are Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The... more
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HBO as underdog
| April 19, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesREVOLUTION is a frightening, heady and often fatal business, but it's what happens afterward that matters most. No one knows this better than... more
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For the record
April 17, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesAn article in the April 10 Section A, about the discovery of a bed inside a temple of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter... more
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Runner-up 1
| April 17, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesPalmieri was in a taxi going nowhere slowly, eastward from the airport on Century Boulevard. He needed a place to figure things out. He'd... more
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Take a peek inside HBO's Emmy box
The Emmy campaign box sent by HBO to the 14,000 members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last week is fairly sedate: basic, elegant... more
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HBO slates documentaries Mondays
From Variety.com | April 15, 2008TV News: Schedule kicks off with 'Roman Polanski' -- HBO is turning to original documentaries this summer to fill its Monday night sked, kicking... more
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A friend to writers at HBO
| April 14, 2008 From Los Angeles Timesto last week, when she was tapped as the new chief of HBO Entertainment, Sue Naegle had spent her entire career as an agent representing... more
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Imperfect for the role
| April 13, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesSHORTLY before he had to transform himself into John Adams, Paul Giamatti was portraying Santa in "Fred Claus." And as TV viewers were getting... more
