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Amid the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, which often evoke Watergate, HBO has greenlighted The White House Plumbers, a five-part limited series starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, which revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history. The project hails from Ve…

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed is to explore Silicon Valley in a four-part series for HBO and the BBC. The WarnerMedia-owned premium network and the British public broadcaster have commissioned The Tech Transformers (w/t) from Reed. It will look at the key, pivotal moments for the tech sector including the likes…

HBO is in production on a documentary based on the best-selling book The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age by New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger. As the logline states, the docu will explore “the rise of cyber conflict as the primary way nations now compete and…

UPDATED with Viacom statement: Frank Biondi Jr., a stalwart in the top echelons of the entertainment industry as the former CEO  of Viacom, Universal Studios, and HBO, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 74. Biondi died at his home after a battle with bladder cancer, according to family and former business associates…

EXCLUSIVE: Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale), John Procaccino (A Most Violent Year), Rob Huebel (Childrens Hospital), Philip Ettinger (First Reformed) and Michael Greyeyes (True Detective) have been cast in HBO’s I Know This Much Is True, a six-episode limited drama series based on Wally Lamb's bestselling book…

EXCLUSIVE: Denée Benton (Hamilton), Louisa Jacobson (Gone Hollywood), Taissa Farmiga (The Twilight Zone), Blake Ritson (Krypton) and Simon Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) are set to co-star in Julian Fellowes' The Gilded Age drama series at HBO. The project, which moved from NBC to HBO earlier this year…

After two seasons, the fan furore around Big Little Lies shows little sign of waning, with repeated calls for a third go-round of the HBO limited series. One woman with the inside track on whether that will happen is Nicole Kidman, who not only gave an intricately-layered performance as her character Celeste Wright…

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time Sunday night diving into this past week’s House impeachment hearings. Referring to the Trump-Ukraine scandal as “Stupid Watergate II,” the HBO host ripped Republicans — both on Capitol Hill and on Fox News, for trying to discredit the House investigation into President D…

Director Jenifer McShane describes her new documentary Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops as "a buddy cop film with strong social issues." The buddies are officers Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, partners in the San Antonio Police Department. The social issues have to do with the unit Ernie and Joe work in, a Crisis Intervention…

EXCLUSIVE: Tamara Podemski is set to co-star opposite Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson in Run, HBO’s romantic comedic thriller pilot from Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her frequent collaborator Vicky Jones. Waller-Bridge has a recurring role in the project, which hails from Entertainment One, Jones…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is furthering their diversity and inclusion initiatives with a new immersive pop-up experience to support their new “Our Stories To Tell” campaign. The weekend event will kick off November 15 and continue through November 17 at Casita Hollywood in Los Angeles. The experiential event will bring together…

His Dark Materials got off to a sparkling start for both the BBC and HBO last week, but lost a little of its shine on its second outing on British television on Sunday night. The Bad Wolf drama — penned by Jack Thorne and starring Ruth Wilson as the callous Mrs Coulter — was watched by 5.7M viewers at 8PM on BBC One…