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Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, but there’s no usual Premiere…

John Oliver took the first part of Last Week Tonight to talk about the Eurovision Song Contest and highlighted the act from Finland, known as Windows95man. The HBO late-night host said the Finland entrant was his “absolute favorite,” who appeared on stage singing “No Rules!” written by Henri…

HBO has set a spring premiere date for Lady Gaga’s concert special. Gaga Chromatic Ball debuts Saturday, May 25 at 8 pm on HBO and streaming on Max. Gaga Chromatica Ball will be available to watch simultaneously on Max in Latin America and the Caribbean, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain…

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms has found one of its directors. Owen Harris, who has directed episodes of Black Mirror including the San Junipero episode, will helm three of the episodes for the Game of Thrones spinoff. It comes as HBO revealed that the adaptation of George R.R. Martin's The Hedge…

John Oliver was back on Last Week Tonight after taking a week off and dinged Fox News over their coverage of college students protesting the war in Gaza. Oliver highlighted the coverage the student protests have been getting on cable news networks and highlighted a particular moment on Fox News as…

HBO is releasing the entire first season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube. The premium cable network didn’t air a new episode of the weekly talk show on Sunday, April 28 but instead dropped all of Season 1 for viewers to watch for free. “There's no new episode this week! But we…

Brian Helgeland was one of the writers working on a Game of Thrones spinoff that George R.R. Martin signed off on but one that HBO did not pick up. In a new interview, Helgeland discusses why the tentatively titled 10,000 Ships series didn’t happen despite his saying his script “came out…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated Succession director Lorene Scafaria is back at HBO to direct and executive produce the network’s half-hour comedy pilot starring, written and executive produced by Rachel Sennott. In the untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart…

John Oliver dedicated his latest episode of Last Week Tonight to UFOs and started talking about the topic, making a crazy joke about Hugh Jackman. “Our main story tonight concerns UFOs,” Oliver said on the HBO late-night show. “They brought us great album art, classic movie moments, and, of course…

EXCLUSIVE: Almost 30 years after they first started working together on Saturday Night Live, Molly Shannon and Steve Koren have re-teamed for a comedy series, which is in development at HBO. Shannon and Koren are executive producing the untitled project, written by Koren and starring Shannon. This is…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew DeYoung has been tapped to direct and executive produce HBO’s half-hour comedy pilot The Chair Company, starring Tim Robinson. The project hails from Robinson and his writing partner Zach Kanin, and is executive produced by Adam McKay and Todd Schulman for McKay’s Hyperobject…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO announced on Thursday that its second hour-long comedy special from comedian and actress Nikki Glaser, Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die, is set to debut on Saturday, May 11 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT and will also be available for streaming on Max. The special comes on the heels of Glaser’s…