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The Best Buzz
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Little Britain USA
TV Buzz HBO is hoping to do with British import Little Britain what it did with New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords: make the weird, niche-y smash in its native homeland a stateside success. You know a character-driven sketch show is on HBO when it includes two 'roid-happy, totally-not-gay gym buddies with eensy weensy pencil d*cks.
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Manhunt: Miniseries
TV Buzz David Simon's next project for HBO is about the Lincoln assassination and the 12-day search that ended in the capture of John Wilkes Booth. Manhunt will reunite Simon with Tom Fontana, the guy behind Oz who also originally adapted Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets for TV. In other words: Good times.
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Zach Galifianakis
Celebrity Buzz A longtime beloved "alternative" comic, Galifianakis might finally earn deserved notoriety with upcoming high-profile projects, including the much-buzzed-about HBO series Bored To Death If Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, and Flight Of The Conchords can find mainstream audiences, it's about time Zach got his due. And any chance to knock Carlos Mencia off the cultural radar is worth it.
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HBO Makes Deal With Funny Or Die
Business Buzz For a rumored $10M, HBO has staked claim of 10% of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's site (made famous by "The Landlord"), including five hours of TV programming and possibly live comedy. So for all who are trying to determine how viral videos can turn a profit, the answer seems to lie in already being rich, famous, and well-respected.
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Generation Kill
TV Buzz An HBO miniseries brings us a new view of war. It seems like a no-brainer that this will be great: The book it's based on is one of the best accounts of the early days of the Iraq War, Evan Wright's "Generation Kill," and David "I Made the F*cking Wire" Simon is at the helm. The miniseries starts on July 13.
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HBO’s John Adams
TV Buzz Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney star in a seven-part miniseries about the Adams and the creation of the United States. Produced by Tom Hanks and based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, John Adams follows the life of the least iconic Founding Father ever. Premieres March 16.
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True Blood
TV Buzz A new HBO show about vampires in Louisiana is produced by Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame and stars Anna Paquin. It won't be out until the fall, but TV viewers in Buffy withdrawal are already buzzing about it. We just hope that by the time this series comes out, vampires won't be totally tired and passe. (See Vampire Weekend, teen vampire lit.)
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The One Percent
Movie Buzz A new documentary from the director of Born Rich about the wealth gap. Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, returns to director's chair with a look at how and why 1 percent of the U.S. population controls half of the country's wealth. Debuting this Thursday on Cinemax and HBO.
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In Treatment
TV Buzz A new HBO series starring Gabriel Byrne as a psychoanalyst. HBO is taking their shrink motif (The Sopranos, Tell Me You Love Me) to the logical extreme: A show about an analyst, running five days a week, including an episode about his session with his analyst. Just typing that makes us want to lie down on a couch somewhere.
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HBO Broadband
TV Buzz The cable channel is testing out a new online service starting this week. Lucky HBO subscribers in Green Bay and Milwaukee will get to start watching new episodes of The Wire on their computers this week over broadband. Biggest drawback: The service is only available on PCs for the time being.
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The Wire Season 5
TV Buzz The best show on television starts its final season on Sunday. Some of us are frantically devouring the previous seasons on DVD; others have already watched the first episode of the new season (which is already playing on HBO's OnDemand). But the web offers plenty of secondary material to whet your appetite.
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Tell Me You Love Me
TV Buzz New HBO drama series premieres this Sunday, September 9 (or you can watch it now if you have HBO OnDemand). No, that's not the Spice Channel, it's HBO! Television, porn, we can't tell the difference anymore.
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My Second Life
TV Buzz A documentary filmed entirely in the online world of Second Life gets bought by HBO; will head to Sundance and possibly the Oscars. My Second Life is a video diary of the life of Second Life resident Molotov Alva, and it created a stir when it debuted earlier this year. The HBO sale marks first time a movie has gone from SL to a mainstream TV channel (first via YouTube, of course).
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Medellin
Movie Buzz HBO takes marketing to the next level with this movie trailer shown after Sunday's episode of Entourage. Sometimes, there are trailers for movies that are so good, the movie doesn't even really need to exist.
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HBOVoyeur
TV Buzz HBO launches its new short film series on the web today. After an unfulfilling Sopranos ending and some mixed reviews of John from Cincinnati, HBO is pulling a marketing gimmick meant to fake you out. Thankfully, even an HBO hoax is higher quality than most television out there.
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Angry Sopranos Fans
TV Buzz Angry Sopranos fans crash the HBO site after watching the series finale. Yikes. David Chase should probably look into hiring a bodyguard before he gets whacked.
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John from Cincinnati
TV Buzz A new HBO show set in a surfing community in California will premiere June 10. This philosophical "surf noir" drama will explore the meaning of life, not scantily-clad bikini babes. So basically, it may or may not fill the void that Laguna Beach has left in your hearts.
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Eau de Polygamie
TV Buzz An advertising team has created a fake ad for a faux scent to promote the season premiere of HBO's "Big Love." There's an entire fake product line in the works here: See also this spot for Polygarol, the marriage aid for men with plural wives.
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Flight of the Conchords
TV Buzz Musical comedy duo from New Zealand will be filming a 12-part series for HBO. Cute band alert! They're like Tenacious D, if Tenacious D were two adorable hipsters. It's so special when hot people are funny.
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Hacking Democracy
Politics Buzz HBO documentary covers the unreliability of Diebold voting machines. It's not the racist campaign ad or the latest Karl Rove trick that are influencing elections, it's the hackers. Perhaps even better than the documentary itself is how much Diebold embarrassed itself trying to get HBO to pull it.
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