Posts Tagged ‘HBO’

Boardwarlk Empire

HBO is the best.  FX comes in a close second with shows like Rescue Me (returns in July by the way) and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.  Even after The Sopranos , The Wire and Six Feet Under have long been gone – True Blood, Eastbound and DownTreme, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Ricky Gervais Show now mark yet another landmark line up in what has to be some of the strongest TV programming in any year.  Note: Ignore the fact that they also produced the likes of Entourage and Sex And The City.

HBO’s forthcoming prohibition gangster series Boardwalk Empire has the look and feel that I have come to expect from the high standards HBO demands. It is sure to be a TV event when it premiers this fall.  Here is the third promo for the Martin Scorsese‘s directed and Terence Winter (Sopranos) written pilot which gives us a great look at lead Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. He is the ruler of Atlantic City as a politician and gangster – making his city the center for booze, gambling and prostitution during prohibition. It’s like a dream come true. (more…)

Eastbound & Down Season 2 Trailer
June 15th, 2010 by The Mayor
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"You're fu**ing out!" (click for proof)

HBO has released a very brief teaser trailer for Eastbound & Down.  The hilarious comedy, which stars Danny McBride as washed-up baseball pitcher Kenny Powers, returns this September.  The second season will focus on Danny McBride’s character, Kenny Powers, moving from North Carolina to Mexico.Michael Pena and Ana de la Reguera have recently joined the cast.

In the first season finale, Powers (McBride) quit his phys-ed teaching job for an offer to join the Tampa Bay Rays but, after the offer fell through, he dumped his girlfriend and was last seen driving away with a worried look on his face.  Enter Mexico.  If you have no idea what this show is, find the first season.  There is 6 episodes and the build up and hilarity is just perfect.  Watch the first episode intro here for even more!

James Gandolfini Back To HBO, Question Mark
May 6th, 2010 by The Mayor

James GandolfiniLife has not been the same since The Sopranos went off the air in 2007.  Sure we have some other quality programming to look forward to on HBO, but I think we all know that the hole left after James Gandolfini and friends left can’t be filled.  Well the next best thing (besides a made-for-HBO movie of The Sopranos) is a new show with James Gandolfini.  According to Variety, Gandolfini is currently developing a new series for HBO.

Titled Taxi 22, the series, which is based on the French Canadian show Taxi 0-22, follows the life of a “politically incorrect cab driver in New York City.” Gandolfini is executive producing the project as well.  The script is being written by Dave Flebotte  (Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace).  I can’t imagine it will be as heavy as The Sopranos, but it will do.  I guess.

Curb Season 8, Prett-ay, Pretty good
April 20th, 2010 by The Mayor

Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO’s longest running scripted series and one of the best comedies ever is going returning for an 8th season.  Of course it’s on HBO and of course every season seems better than the last.  Last season’s Seinfeld reunion was, dare I say it, gold Jerry!  Every year Larry David keeps quiet about returning, leaving people only to speculate that the show is over.  People who have read his interviews or listened to some DVD commentary via Seinfeld know that the man hates to work, so we should thank him for coming back every year.  Here is the press statement that he made: (more…)

Eastbound & Down Season 2 Deets
April 7th, 2010 by The Mayor

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Everyone out there in TV land I’m sure is wondering where the hell Season 2 of one of the best comedies in years is.  Well, here are some details about Eastbound & Down.  During his SXSW Film Festival Q&A, David Gordon Green revealed a few details about Eastbound & Down the HBO show created by Jody Hill, starring Danny McBride. The trio is the team behind Hill’s breakthrough film, The Foot Fist Way and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are executive producers on the show. The show, if you haven’t seen it, centers on Kenny Powers (McBride), a former professional baseball pitcher, who after a disappointing career is forced to return to his hometown middle-school in Shelby, North Carolina as a substitute physical education teacher.  Hilarity does indeed ensue. (more…)

John Goodman Is Back
April 6th, 2010 by The Mayor

How could you not love him?

John Goodman, one of my favorite actors of all time is returning to TV.   HBO’s new series TREME (debuts Sunday) is getting a lot of people excited for many reasons.  Creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer brought us The Wire, enough said.  The series takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina where the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ordinary people try to rebuild their lives.The series is scheduled to premiere April 11, 2010, on HBO.

In Treme Goodman will be playing Creighton Bernette, an English professor, local historian, and outspoken critic of the government policies concerning the levees.

Goodman has been in a couple of short-lived sitcoms (Normal, Ohio and Center of the Universe), has appeared on SNL  (12 times), and done some voice-over work and cameos (The West Wing, Monsters Inc).  Nothing can quite fill in Dan Conner’s shoes from Roseanne, but it’s good to see the man do anything really.  Remember how badass he was in Death Sentence?  Try watching the last five minutes of The Babe without hiding a tear with a fake yawn. Click for a clip of Goodman.

Awesome True Blood Promos
March 26th, 2010 by The Mayor

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We are getting pumped for True Blood Season 3 with the promos coming from HBO.  Below we have a poster and after the jump a short video tease featuring Sookie Stackhouse. The poster is going to be the first in dozen that will be released each week leading up to the Season 3 premiere date of  June 13th. (more…)

The Ricky Gervais Show Gets 2nd Season
March 25th, 2010 by The Mayor

For anyone who has not heard or seen of the HBO animated Ricky Gervais Show, hi welcome to Coolville, population: you.   The great news is that The Ricky Gervais Show has been granted a second series on HBO.  The first run of the animation, created by Gervais, Stephen Merchant and their friend and producer Karl Pilkington first aired on the network in February.  It’s an animation based on their world recording selling audio podcast, which I am listening to as you read.  Jump for a clip. (more…)