Comedy
Horror for Hire: ‘Los Espookys’ Delivers Campy, Macabre Fun
‘Los Espookys’ follows a group of friends who go into business providing horror to those who need it in a dreamy Latin American country. […]
HBO
TV News & Program Updates
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Miniseries Reveals The Hidden Truths And Forgotten Heroes Of Horrific Nuclear Disaster
HBO’s five-part miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ dramatizes the events of the 1986 Societ nuclear disaster and reveals stories of coverups and heroism that had been hidden until now. ‘Chernobyl’ stars Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adrian Rawlins and Con O’Neill. […]
Drama
Time Is a Flat Circle: ‘True Detective’ Gets a Do-Over in Season 3
HBO delivers ‘True Detective’ Season 3, which ventures into new territory while also returning to Season 1’s first-rate storytelling. […]
Comedy
Jennifer Garner Goes ‘Camping’ and Gets to Be Delightfully Unlikable
Set up your pup tent and plop yourself in front of your TV: Jennifer Garner returns to television in HBO’s ‘Camping.’ […]
Magazine Archive
Nowhere But Up: ‘Hard Knocks’ Follows the Hard Luck Cleveland Browns
A look at HBO’s new ‘Hard Knocks’ season, plus Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018 and highlights of the NFL preseason TV schedule. […]
Comedy
HBO’s ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Reveals the Troubled Soul of a Comic Genius
HBO presents the original documentary ‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,’ an intimate look at the life and career of one of the world’s greatest entertainers. […]
Drama
‘Sharp Objects’ on HBO: We Talk With Gillian Flynn, Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Eliza Scanlen!
Sharp Objects premieres Sunday, July 8 at 9/8c on HBO Ask anyone who grew up in a small town. Change rarely amounts to a lick of good. Family businesses make local royalty of the generations who run them. Know your place and mind your own business. Except when you don’t, because gossip does so soothe the grinding sameness. And strangers? Well, they’re best welcomed with a healthy dose of suspicion. Particularly if they’re native sons or daughters who turned their back on their roots, then came back unrecognizable. Or if you think they might be a killer. This is the […]
Drama
‘Succession’: HBO’s Riveting Family-Dynasty Drama is Your New Summer Obsession
Famous families. They enthrall us (say, the royals) and often infuriate us (you, Kardashians) with their power, wealth and privilege — and their ability to emerge unscathed from scandal or misstep. But what is it really like to be part of one? To have your forebears and family name be inescapable reminders of all you must live up to? Or try to live down? HBO’s stellar, slyly funny new family dynasty drama Succession — from comedy veterans Adam McKay (Saturday Night Live) and Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop) — examines the inner workings of the fictional Roy family, proprietors of […]
Magazine Archive
‘Fahrenheit 451’: HBO Reboots the Fiery Ray Bradbury Classic for a Digital World
Depending on your perspective, making a contemporary film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s book-burning classic Fahrenheit 451 in the era of Snapchat and Twitter, “fake news,” handheld devices and monster flat screens is either brilliance or insanity. No one understands that better than filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, who helms this month’s HBO modernization of the cautionary tale. “I knew that once I got into it, there would be no way that I wouldn’t upset somebody who loved Bradbury’s work,” said Bahrani at a recent press event. “So, I tried to stay true to the themes. Even if I changed certain characters or […]
Interview
‘The Tale’: Jennifer Fox On Bringing Her Sundance-Lauded Story of Abuse and Resilience to HBO
For more than three decades, filmmaker Jennifer Fox thought she was the luckiest. That, as a smart, independent 13-year-old in the freewheeling ’70s, it was pure sophistication that her first “boyfriend” — the fellow who took her virginity — was an older man who found her beautiful and exceptionally talented. Still prepubescent, Fox memorialized the “relationship” in “The Tale,” an English-class assignment about the man, their introduction via an elegant riding instructor she called Mrs. G and the trio’s “magical” summer spent defying the conventions of love and freedom. Still, the girl told everyone it was a work of fiction. […]