Showing posts with label HBO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HBO. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Brooks on Books: It's Not TV...It's HBO by Felix Gillette and John Koblin

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This is a great complement to the Tinderbox  oral history by James Andrew Miller, a great read that I write about here. I recommend both to ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Brooks on Books: "Tinderbox" by James Andrew Miller

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When we talked about HBO this season, I had read the section of Tinderbox  covering up to about 1990 or so. James Andrew Miller's oral h...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

YouTube Spotlight: "The Terry Fox Story" was on a lot!

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On this week's HBO podcast, I note that while The Terry Fox Story  was the first original HBO movie to air on the channel, Right of Way ...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 13-9: HBO

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*We hope you enjoy our look at the earlier days of Home Box Office! And by the way, I miss when it was referred to as Home Box Office! Happy...

Episode 13-9: HBO

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This week, we take a special look at the early days of Home Box Office, better known as HBO. Long before The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thr...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Tomorrow on Battle of the Network Shows...

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Thursday, December 19, 2024

12 Days of Watching (2024) #8: It's not Christmas...It's HBO! Actually, it's both!

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CBS was the network of the holiday season for me back in the Eighties by virtue of showing the best animated specials. HBO may have been a c...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Inside the Guide: TV Guide 40 years ago this week (April 28-May 4, 1984) Part 5: Tootsie on HBO

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I believe the tradition of "world television premieres" of theatrical films on HBO started in the Nineties, but it feels like it h...
Monday, April 17, 2023

HBO never was just for fans of "Dream On" and "The Hitchhiker"

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One of the many silly things about this ongoing HBO/MAX/Discovery/Warner saga is the idea that HBO Max would dump a bunch of animated and fa...