On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the titular host started the show by talking about the forthcoming Democratic debates and poking fun at Steve Bullock for releasing a YouTube video in retaliation — a video that barely got any views. He also took some jabs at California congressman Duncan Hunter’s scandal of…

It’s been nearly a month since the grand finale of Game of Thrones. Some people liked it, others didn’t and when it comes to the cast, some of them have feelings about how their characters said goodbye. Lena Headey, who plays Westeros’ favorite heartless and petty Cersei Lannister, has some thoughts on her character’s…

There has been buzz around the HBO high school drama Euphoria and its portrayal of drugs and sex. The show’s star Zendaya took to Instagram ahead of its Sunday night premiere to give a warning to audiences about the series to let them know that it’s not going to be your basic G-rated Saved by the Bell teen fare. “Just…

Neither rain, nor snow, nor a plunge off a tall castle into a fiery grave can stop Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, aka “The Mountain” from Game of Thrones. The 6’9 inch, 441-pound actor is back from the grave and in Florida, out to defend his title as World’s Strongest Man. The finals are today. Bjornsson, a native of…

Chernobyl actor Alex Ferns claims his uncle contracted cancer from rain tainted by the nuclear disaster that’s depicted in the HBO show. In an interview with the Daily Record, Ferns claimed his uncle, Robert Stephenson, was working for the Scottish Water Board in the rain in the Killearn area of Scotland shortly after…

Daddy issues were front and center on tonight’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as HBO’s Friday night franchise celebrated Father’s Day weekend by mocking the nation’s presidential papa as the antithesis of patriarchal integrity and parental responsibility. “Republicans really see Trump as a father figure,” Maher…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning director Daniel Sackheim has signed on as executive producer and director of HBO’s upcoming straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country. Additionally, Abbey Lee has joined as a series regular in a recasting, and Jamie Chung and Jordan Patrick Smith are set for recurring roles on the high-profile…

Lena Dunham is to direct and exec produce HBO's banking crisis drama Industry after the premium broadcaster handed the Bad Wolf-produced an eight-episode order. The series, which comes from new British writing talent Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, has been in development with the Warnermedia-backed network for a couple…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired the North American TV and streaming rights to Jenifer McShane's (Mothers of Bedford) Ernie & Joe. The documentary feature follows San Antonio police officers Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro, who are diverting people from jail and into mental health treatment. Ernie & Joe made…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a lot of anecdotes about what a global sensation Chernobyl has become for HBO, but like the fallout from the horrific nuclear plant eruption of 1986, it is the numbers that tell the real story. And unlike the initially suppressed devastation that still leaves parts of Ukraine soaked in radiation…

Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas is no more. Comedian Cenac announced Friday on social media that the episode of his HBO series airing that evening would be the last. "Tonight is the series finale of @ProblemAreasHBO. I guess we were another casualty of that dragon fire at King's Landing?" Cenac tweeted on June 7. "Sad…

It’s a Hard Knocks life for the Oakland Raiders. HBO and NFL Films’ annual preseason reality series will follow the Silver and Black as the team prepares for its last season in the Bay Area before it relocates to Sin City for 2020. Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Oakland Raiders will premiere August 6 on the…