Cincinnati Bengals To Be On HBO’s “Hard Knocks” For Some Reason

Running underneath the surface of Terence Winter’s sprawling HBO series Boardwalk Empire for three and a half seasons has been a distinctly Marxian, heretical and all-too-true appraisal of 1920s America, boiling down to this: everything is a grift. It’s not just booze and its absurd illegality, nor the politics fueled by racketeers’ receipts, nor the graft that stretches all the way to the presidency – even the “proper” job Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) has found after bolting Atlantic City crime boss Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) conscripts her into chicanery. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that this milieu yielded the 1929 Crash because […]

NFL Network has extensive coverage of Super Bowl XLVI this weekend, plus coverage of the Senior Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 4pm ET, and practice and pregame coverage of the Pro Bowl from Hawaii. Other highlights include a reair of Super Bowl XLII between the Patriots and Giants, and Super Bowl highlight shows beginning with Super Bowl I on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 9:30am ET. Full release and program schedule through Jan. 31 below: NFL NETWORK & NFL.COM PROGRAMMING NOTES (1/25 – 1/31) NFL NETWORK’S SUPER BOWL XLVI PROGRAMMING FEATURES RE-AIR OF SUPER BOWL XLII & PATRIOTS-GIANTS WEEK 9 […]

Before he made us simultaneously blush and belly laugh with irreverent comedies like 1999’s Office Space and the edgy animated sitcoms Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, Mike Judge spent the late ’80s putting his physics degree to use as a Silicon Valley engineer. Now Judge commemorates that experience in HBO’s new live-action comedy Silicon Valley, which focuses on socially awkward computer programmer Richard (Thomas Middleditch) and his trio of comrades who live in the home of eccentric millionaire Erlich (T.J. Miller) while plotting a startup of their own. In exchange for free accommodations at his “Hacker Hostel,” […]