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Tuned In+Television | 2 days ago

Sorkin’s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks

By James Poniewozik

The fictional cable network in The Newsroom will reportedly now be ACN, for Atlantis Cable News, joining a digital-cable-tier's worth of fake-network names from TV's past.

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Tuned In+Television | 66 days ago

Breaking News! Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Cable-News Drama Gets a Name

By James Poniewozik
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Things are moving along at the HBO Aaron Sorkin Project formerly known as “Untitled Aaron Sorkin Project.” According to Alex Weprin at TVNewser, the series, set at a fictional cable-news network now has a name… wait for it… Newsroom. (Or possibly The Newsroom. If they decide to spice things up with the definite article.)

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Tuned In+Television | 72 days ago

HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner

By James Poniewozik

HBO announced today that it signed a new contract with one of its favorite writers, David Milch, who created Deadwood, John from Cincinnati and various projects that never made air for the network, and whose horseracing drama Luck debuts next month. (A sneak preview will air Dec. 11.) In connection with the deal, the network [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 100 days ago

First Horse Out of the Gate: HBO to Sneak-Peek Luck Pilot

By James Poniewozik

HBO has announced a premiere date, Jan. 29, for its David Milch / Michael Mann horseracing drama Luck. But should you care to lay odds on it early, the network will run a sneak preview of the pilot episode on Dec. 11, after the season finale of Boardwalk Empire. Then HBO will hold its horses, [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Boardwalk Empire: Season 2, Episode 4 | 116 days ago

Boardwalk Empire Watch: Slap Happy

By James Poniewozik
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“What Does the Bee Do?,” the fourth episode of Boardwalk Empire’s second season, returns to a familiar theme about power: whether it is better–oh, hell, you don’t want to talk about that, do you?

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 128 days ago

TV Tonight: George Harrison: Living in the Material World

By James Poniewozik

Elsewhere at time.com, TIME film critic Richard Corliss reviews Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which airs in two parts on HBO tonight and tomorrow: The “quiet Beatle” — the one who told an interviewer, “I’m even more normal than normal people” — was also the nicest Beatle: the [...]

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 136 days ago

First Look: HBO’s Luck

By James Poniewozik

Among the things I didn’t get around to blogging about yesterday: Before the season premiere of Boardwalk Empire, HBO screened a trailer for horseracing drama Luck, which debuts in January. (They also aired an even briefer tease for season 2 of Game of Thrones, with no footage, just a recitation of the Red Priests’ line [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 155 days ago

Breaking News! HBO Picks Up Sorkin’s Cable-News Series

By James Poniewozik

While this may not count as the most stunning development in TV, HBO has made it official: it’s greenlighted a season of Aaron Sorkin‘s yet untitled drama set at a cable news network, starring Jeff Daniels as a talented but difficult high-profile anchor. With little to go on but the premise and Sorkin’s history, I’m [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 196 days ago

TCA Roundup: Is AMC the New HBO? Is HBO the New AMC?

By James Poniewozik

The TCA TV critics’ press tour (which I will be joining next week) continued with its cable round yesterday, as critics and reporters heard from AMC, a critics’ darling that has recently taken some dings in its Teflon armor over the season finale of The Killing, ugly negotiations over Mad Men and a shakeup at [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 218 days ago

Breast Practices: Too Many Boobs in Game of Thrones?

By James Poniewozik

Game of Thrones has ended its first season on HBO, but a debate rages on. Namely, if winter is coming, why don’t the women put some damn clothes on? In the Los Angeles Times, TV critic Mary McNamara used Game of Thrones, with its many female nude scenes, as a launching point to make a [...]

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Tuned In+322 days ago

TV Weekend: Mildred Pierce

By James Poniewozik

As a director, Todd Haynes (Safe, I’m Not There) sometimes seems less like a filmmaker than an enthusiast: a collector, say, of a certain brand of out-of-production figurine (he cast his early Karen Carpenter biopic, Superstar, with Barbie dolls) or a passionate fan of a highly particular out-of-fashion design genre. His 2002 film Far from [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 338 days ago

Julianne Moore Is… Sarah Palin! Cast the Rest of HBO's Game Change

By James Poniewozik

HBO announced today that it has signed Julianne Moore to play then-Alaska-governor Sarah Palin in its coming movie Game Change, a behind the scenes account of the 2008 election that dishes dirt on Republican and Democratic campaigns.* (The film is being directed by Jay Roach, who helmed HBO’s Recount, about the 2000 election’s aftermath.) Should [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 339 days ago

Michael Chabon to Fight Nazis With Magic for HBO

By James Poniewozik

Novelist Michael Chabon is developing a series for HBO, titled Hobgoblin, about magicians fighting Nazis in WWII. Now keep in mind that the project—on which Chabon is teaming with wife Ayelet Waldman—is in an early, pre-pilot stage of development. So as with all such embryonic projects (Aaron Sorkin’s cable-news show for HBO, or the Hollywood-gossip [...]

+TV Networks | 352 days ago

Big Love Watch: All About the Mormons

By Richard Corliss

Big Love is anomaly among HBO shows, in that it avoids the obligatory nudity and rarely utters a curse stronger than “G.D.” With these self-imposed restrictions, the series has to find subtler ways of providing its shocks. Sunday’s episode, “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.,” boasted two jolts—mouth-to-mouth scandals that touched on the series’ interlocking themes of the sacred and [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 365 days ago

Back Down in the Treme, As of April 24

By James Poniewozik

Since HBO scheduled the debut of Game of Thrones for April, I’ve been wondering when Treme—which went back into production recently—would land back on the schedule, especially since HBO has become flush with series. Dave Walker of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the premiere reporter on the Treme beat, has word today the series will return [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 382 days ago

Is Cable News Going to Get Sorkin-ized?

By James Poniewozik

Keith Olbermann may be out of a job now, but there’s a possibility that he—or a fictional character bearing his likeness—may end up getting the Jedediah Josiah Bartlet, or Mark Zuckerberg, treatment on HBO. Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and likely soon-to-be Oscar nominee for writing The Social Network, has told the BBC [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 396 days ago

TCA Roundup: AMC, HBO Set Dates

By James Poniewozik

While I shiver at my desk and another snowstorm practices on the South before heading up the East Coast, my TV critic brethren are still sitting through hours of TV executive presentations at the TCA press tour. Who has it worse? You be the judge! Over the weekend, the people-who-write-about-TV heard from the remaining cable [...]

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Tuned In+428 days ago

It's Not TV; It's TV Online

By James Poniewozik

Tuned In’s sister blog Techland covers a couple of TV-biz stories with a common, unstated theme: the slow but gradual fading of TV as something you get exclusively through TV networks on a TV set. First, HBO (like TIME, a Time Warner company) is considering offering its programming through other means besides as part of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 514 days ago

HBO Sneak-Peeks Game of Thrones

By James Poniewozik

Before Sunday night’s season finale of True Blood, HBO aired previews of several upcoming shows, including footage from next year’s fantasy saga Game of Thrones: Cannot. Wait. (Sidebar: Did we see that raven in the Six Feet Under credits, or is that a relative?) I won’t bother parsing the bits of footage frame-by-frame (Winter Is [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 526 days ago

Hung's Renewal and the Mystery of HBO Decisionmaking

By James Poniewozik

Yesterday HBO announced that Hung, its dark comedy about a suburban Michigan gigolo and his pimp, will get a third season. I’m pleased and surprised. I don’t think the show has lived up to its potential, but when it’s on—and the past couple of episodes have been strong—it’s an insightful look at people trying to [...]