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Gabourey Sidibe—the Precious star who was also the most delightful new presence on the Oscar red carpet this year—is joining Showtime’s The Big C, a self-described “dark comedy” about cancer starring Laura Linney. Judging by the production still already available, this was in the works before the Oscars, but you can’t fault …
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While I was in New Orleans, visiting the set of Treme and seeing the premiere screening of The Pacific, HBO was keeping busy on its next generation of series. First came news that Dustin Hoffman will star in the pilot of Luck, the horse-racing drama from David Milch and Michael Mann. It’s not guaranteed to make it to series. But if …
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David Milch is back in business with HBO, this time writing Luck, a drama pilot, to be directed by Michael Mann, about horse racing. There’s no guarantee that the pilot will become a series—since making Deadwood and John from Cincinnati, Milch made the HBO cop pilot Last of the …
