“Game of Thrones” fans, beware. Spoilers below. Just when you thought HBO’s “Game of Thrones” couldn’t possibly surprise viewers any more, Jewish producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff go ahead and kill off Hodor, perhaps the sweetest, most harmless character in the show’s history. For years, the two have been unapologetically decapitating, dismembering, drawing, quartering,…
Comedian Jon Stewart has signed a deal with cable television channel HBO to produce short-form digital content on current events in what will be his first announced entertainment project since quitting “The Daily Show” in August. HBO said in a statement on Tuesday that the four-year agreement will see Stewart producing content that will be…
(JTA) — Good storytelling, like good comedy, often draws from real life. It also relies on timing — finding the precise moment when it won’t just entertain but resonate, provoke, perhaps even shift our national conversation. — the six-part HBO miniseries created by journalist-turned-showrunner par excellence David Simon (“The Wire,” “Treme”) with William Zorzi (who worked…
(JTA) — It’s no secret that Jewish television writer David Simon is adored at HBO. His past productions for the cable channel, including “The Wire” and “Treme,” are some of the most critically acclaimed series in TV history. Nevertheless, it was surprising to hear last week that HBO had ordered not one, but two television pilots…
If you’re still reeling from the “Game of Thrones finale,” there’s some good news on the horizon. Kit Harrington (aka Jon Snow) will in HBO’s ‘7 Days in Hell,’ a tennis parody about the longest Wimbledon match in history. From the looks of the trailer a very bare faced Harrington, repping the Brits, still knows…
Sharon Bareket “My Promised Land,” a best-selling book about Israel [by journalist Ari Shavit][1], is being made into a documentary for HBO. Shavit and HBO Chairman Richard Plepler announced the project on Monday at a conference in Jerusalem by the Israeli media company Keshet. The project does not yet have an air date. “The great…
New York real estate scion and accused murderer Robert Durst’s bathroom muttering that he “killed them all” would likely be admissible evidence in a murder trial, legal experts said on Monday. Durst, the subject of a six-part HBO documentary series called “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” was picked up by a…
(Reuters) — Among the many questions raised by the dramatic conclusion of “The Jinx,” HBO’s six-part docu-series on suspected killer Robert Durst, was the issue of when law enforcement officials were made aware of the damning materials gathered by filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. In Sunday’s finale episode, Durst appears to acknowledge his role in three murder…
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