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Oprah Signs Three Year Deal With HBO
Just last week, Hollyscoop heard news out of Oprah’s camp that she intends on riding out her contract with ABC to keep her talk show up and running. But now Bossip is reporting that she’s just signed a three-year deal with HBO to develop and produce scripted programming. The deal will include Oprah-influenced series, miniseries, movies, and documentaries to HBO, and will go into effect in 2009.HBO Renews Entourage
Vinnie and the boys won't be going anywhere after this season. HBO has just picked up Entourage for another season. They already wrapped shooting on season 5 which is on TV right now, and they're already gearing up for a sixth season.The Gates - HBO Documentary
The Gates Central Park, NYC, NY
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Last night HBO premiered the documentary The Gates, the large scale art project designed by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. I first became aware of this couple when they surrounded 11 islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 603,850 square meters of pink polypropylene in 1983. This show is not about the creative process of designing The Gates, but about the bureaucracy and the hoops they had to jump through before the project came to fruition.
HBO Shop adds new Eric t-shirt
The HBO shop has added a new Eric t-shirt to the True Blood collection.
This T-shirt features a signature photo of Eric from Season 2 of True Blood, the True Blood logo and the phrase, ”It hurts so good.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar Signs On to HBO Series
Sarah Michelle Gellar will make her return to the small screen with The Wonderful Maladys, due to premiere on HBO next year, Variety reports. The former star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will play a character with "a kind of zealous immaturity - like a drug addict with a to-do list," screenwriter Charles Randolph said. The Wonderful Maladys, about three dysfunctional adults who were orphaned at a young age, is Gellar's first TV commitment since Buffy, which ended its seven-year run in 2003.HBO wants Edward Norton’s Obama documentary
HBO is reportedly on the brink of snatching up the rights to a “behind-the-scenes documentary” about Barack Obama, says the New York Post. The paper says the unfinished doc’s cameras have been rolling for almost two years, and it’s being produced by none other than ‘The Incredible Hulk’ star Edward Norton. HBO reportedly wants to air the film “within the first 100 days” of Obama’s presidency, if he wins, that is.HBO Shooting Pilot For New Comedy
We’ve got another HBO comedy coming our way and Jason Schwartzman is the main man. Jason has been cast to be the lead in new HBO comedy pilot "Bored to Death." The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jonathan (Jason) will play a struggling writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn who, following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.Kim Cattrall to Star in Sex-Themed HBO Series
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is headed back to HBO for another racy role. The 51-year-old actress — whose Sex and the City movie was a weekend box office hit — will star in and produce Sensitive Skin about a middle-aged wife and mother in New York who rediscovers her sexuality, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The character then "begins to question her place in the world and the choices she has made in life," the trade reports.Edward Norton's Obama Documentary To Air On HBO
Edward Norton is just one of the many Americans pleased with the outcome of the election. Especially because he produced a documentary on Barack Obama, which was only to air if he got elected. Well, it looks like Barack and Norton both got their wish.Brad & Angelina Teaming Up for HBO Series
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are already partners on a handful of huge projects – namely Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara and Pax – but now the pair are going into business together. Pitt, 43, and Jolie, 32, are teaming up for their first producing project, a new series for HBO, according to the Hollywood Reporter. And it's a subject close to their hearts: The untitled drama will go behind the scenes of an international aid organization and follow workers who put their lives in danger to help others.
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