Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
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A Third Horse Dies, and HBO Cancels Luck
On Tuesday, HBO shut down production on Luck, after the third horse died in the set of the racetrack drama. Yesterday, with the controversy rising and under protest from PETA, HBO abruptly canceled the show, which it had already …
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Serial Killers: Are HBO-Style Dramas Ruining the TV Episode?
I’m currently fighting off a cold so potent that you probably caught it simply by reading this sentence, so blogging may be a little light for a while. Fortunately, my colleague and critic-pal Ryan McGee at the A.V. Club has …
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Dead Tree Alert: The Beautiful Losers of Luck
In the print TIME magazine out now, I review (subscription required) David Milch and Michael Mann’s new HBO series Luck, which debuts Sunday and which I loved. Eventually. Yes, this is another critic flogging a cable drama by …
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The Morning After: Luck Jumps Out of the Gate, Another Peek from Thrones
Last night, HBO aired the pilot of Luck, the new David Milch drama which debuts for realsies late in January. I may post some first impressions later, but not for now because: (1) I first need to handle the season finale of Boardwalk Empire, which HBO did not screen in advance and (2) HBO is sending the whole Luck season, so I’m not sure …
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TV Weekend: A Little Louie, a Little Luck, a Little More Debating
Earlier this week, I posted my Top 10 TV series of 2011 list, with Louis CK‘s remarkable first-person show Louie at #1. You’ll have to wait until next year for the next season, but in the meantime, there’s a Louis CK special this …
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HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner
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 has also …
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First Horse Out of the Gate: HBO to Sneak-Peek Luck Pilot
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, so to speak, for a month and a half, when it …
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First Look: HBO’s Luck
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 “The night is …
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TCA Roundup: Is AMC the New HBO? Is HBO the New AMC?
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 hit zombie drama The …
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While I Was Out: A Little Luck, Colbert's PAC, The Final Chord
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I’m back from vacation! Related: I was on vacation! Before we get back to business as usual (i.e., superficial blog posts, grudgingly written and read with a feeling of vague dissatisfaction) a quick rundown of a few things that happened in TV while I was away:
* HBO released a new …
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Vacation Robo-Post: TV to Look Forward to in 2011
Having spent a lot of time this past couple of weeks looking back on 2010 here, it’s time to look forward. TV doesn’t have the same kind of lead time that, say, movies do: this time last year, we did not know what the broadcast fall schedules would be, or that Conan O’Brien would end the year with a talk show on a different network …
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HBO Places Its Bet on Milch and Mann's Luck
And they’re off! HBO, which has been beefing up its regular-series roster heavily in the past year, has ordered to series Luck, a drama set in the horse-racing world, created by David Milch, starring Dustin Hoffman, and its pilot directed by Michael Mann.
Given the roster of names in that previous sentence, I would have been stunned …