HBO Archives - Page 12 of 27 - StayTuned Magazine

We talk The Leftovers on HBO with star Justin Theroux

May 28, 2014 Lori Acken

Imagine it. You’re in the midst of an ordinary day — at your job, at the mall, in your home, your car, an airplane — when 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes in an instant. No natural disaster. No terrorist attacks. No carnage. Just random empty spaces where people used to be — celebrities, political and religious leaders, your neighbor, your spouse, your child. And no one can explain it. How would you adapt? Who might you become in the aftermath? It’s the simple, stunning scenario at the heart of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel The Leftovers, which […]

Danny McBride returning to HBO in new comedy series

May 28, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Danny McBride, star of the hit HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down, will return to the network in a new comedy series called Vice Principals, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president of HBO Programming. “Danny McBride and Jody Hill have created a smart, rowdy and unpredictable style of comedy that we can’t get enough of,” said Lombardo in a release. “The idea of them setting their minds on high school was irresistible.” As Lombardo referenced, Vice Principals will be set at a high school, telling the story of the people who “almost run it” — the vice principals. […]

The Normal Heart starring Mark Ruffalo premieres on HBO this Sunday

May 23, 2014 Ruth Boulet

It’s been 30 years in the making, but this Memorial Day weekend finally brings us the premiere of the HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. As Kramer says in a couple of the clips below: “Writers are given one great story to tell. I’m telling my story.” HBO’s mini-site for the movie has a plethora of videos, history and context for what the world was like in early-80s New York City. A new disease was being seen, and it was perceived as only affecting gay men. Doctors and the public were scared. Politicians were indifferent. In today’s era […]

The Normal Heart: We talk with Mark Ruffalo

April 30, 2014 Lori Acken

Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Julia Roberts, Taylor Kitsch and Jim Parsons stun in Ryan Murphy and Larry Kramer’s unflinching and unforgettable film adaptation of The Normal Heart. In 1981, playwright Larry Kramer was an active part of New York’s thriving gay community when a mysterious cancer began turning his vibrant comrades into lesion-covered, incoherent living skeletons — and then into corpses. Spurred into action by his friend and physician Dr. Linda Laubenstein, who treated the outbreak’s earliest patients, Kramer begged his vast social circle to end the rampant promiscuity Laubenstein suspected led to its alarming spread. Kramer launched the Gay Men’s Health […]

Oliver’s Twist: “The Daily Show” standout John Oliver gets his own gig on HBO

April 24, 2014 Lori Acken

Turns out The Daily Show’s fans weren’t the only ones thinking, “That guy should really have his own show” when the Comedy Central hit’s droll correspondent John Oliver aced his guest-hosting stint last summer, sitting in for Jon Stewart while Stewart directed his first film. Not long after, HBO offered the witty Brit his own weekly news-satire series. Airing late-night on Sundays, Last Week Tonight With John will feature the Emmy-winning writer and sometime standup comic (who also appears as Professor Ian Duncan on NBC’s Community) skewering the previous week’s news highlights and political water cooler moments in trademark Oliver […]

Vengeance fuels “Game of Thrones” Season 4

April 4, 2014 Channel Guide Contributor

By Dorothy Strauss After the death-fest that was Season 3, things must lighten up in Season 4 of Game of Thrones, right? Not likely, but fans savor the anguish. The deaths of Robb (Richard Madden) and Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) will have repercussions not only for the now-leaderless North, but also for Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), who still wants the Iron Throne for himself. Season 4 Trailer: Devils Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) seeks to keep the throne via a marriage to Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer). Among the wedding guests will be Oberyn Martell (played by newcomer Pedro Pascal), who […]

Silicon Valley: Mike Judge (computer) geeks out with new HBO comedy

April 3, 2014 Lori Acken

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,” […]

On HBO’s “The University of Sing Sing,” An Education Can Change Everything

March 30, 2014 Kellie Freeze

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Asks Langston Hughes in his poem, “Harlem.” What happens when poor choices and incarceration interrupt hopes and aspirations? For the 1700 men of New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility, many of whom are serving time for violent crimes, those dreams no longer need end. Many of the inmates have found dignity, hope, purpose and a future through Hudson Link, a privately funded non-profit organization that offers inmates access to college courses and the opportunity to earn a diploma. The University of Sing Sing (premiering on HBO March 31) brings viewers inside the walls of […]

What to expect in True Detective finale this Sunday

March 9, 2014 Barb Oates

All the clues have been laid out and the answers are supposedly right under our nose for HBO’s True Detective finale airing tonight (March 9 at 9pm ET/PT). Much speculation and online chatter has centered on whether Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) or Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) are somehow connected to the Yellow King in this eight-episode, eerie chiller, but that would be way too typical for series’ screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto and not the core of the story — which is really about who Cohle and Hart truly are. McConaughey actually told Channel Guide’s Lori Acken at the start of the […]

HBO avoiding Super Bowl conflict with Saturday debuts for “Girls” and “Looking”

January 24, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

HBO has announced a one-time-only change to its popular Sunday original programming schedule for next week — Super Bowl weekend — likely to avoid viewing conflicts presented by the big game. While the new drama True Detective will be on hiatus, Girls and new comedy-drama Looking will both premiere new episodes on Saturday, Feb. 1 — one day earlier than usual. Both episodes can also be seen the next day, Sunday, Feb. 2, in their usual time slots. Additionally, these episodes of Girls and Looking will be available earlier than usual on HBO On Demand and HBO GO, beginning Monday, […]