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HBO and Netflix each have a pair of programs among those receiving the 13th annual Television Academy Honors, which were announced today. The prizes recognize six exceptional television programs that are impacting society through thoughtful, powerful and innovative storytelling, the Academy said. The list includes the…

Hot off a big New Series win at the WGA Awards earlier this month and heading in to this weekend’s NAACP Image Awards, HBO’s Watchmen is taking on a new category and perhaps more seasons. "We discussed with the producers and felt limited series was the most accurate representation of the show and any possible future…

The WGA Awards boosted a pair of movie screenplays into Oscar frontrunner status on Saturday night, handing its marquee Original Screenplay award to Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won for Neon’s Parasite, and its Adapted Screenplay award to Taika Wiatiti for Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit. Both of the winning scripts are…

Even though HBO would love a second season of Watchmen, creator Damon Lindelof told us tonight that while he’s not currently cooking a continuation up, he’s completely open to the possibility of someone else taking a crack at Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ DC comic book. “I never wanna close the door completely because…

Watchmen is the type of water-cooler, buzzy, prestige series with strong digital viewership and awards recognition that premium networks dream about. Damon Lindelof’s continuation of the DC Comics series, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, was billed as a one-off series but its success has prompted talk about a…

HBO’s Watchmen ended its season with a Lady Trieu (Hong Chau) rainstorm of creatures, some shocking deaths, the fate of Dr. Manhattan, a cliffhanger for Regina King’s Angela Abar (aka Sister Knight) and some stellar ratings. Damon Lindelof’s adaptation — or should we say continuation? — of Alan Moore's award-winning…

SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about tonight’s Watchmen Season 1 finale — a lot. Thankfully, as tonight’s Watchmen finale makes radioactively clear, white supremacists are really dumb — at least when it comes to harnessing the power of a man-god. "Absorbing atomic energy without filtering it first is…

Robert Redford is already President of the United States on HBO's Watchmen & his attack today on "dictator-like" Donald Trump sure sounds like a man weighing a real life bid for the White House. "There are only 11 months left before the presidential election; 11 months before we get our one real chance to right this…

It looks like audiences have found their new favorite sci-fi fantasy series to watch on Sunday nights with Watchmen. The series created by Damon Lindelof and starring Regina King held strong in its second week out, garnering more than 1.3 million viewers Sunday night across all platforms. Watchmen had some competition…

UPDATE, 1:30 PM: They don't call then America's Team for nothing. Proving again that if you put the Dallas Cowboys on the field for a Big 4 broadcast game you will get big results, the NFL and NBC scored a viewership touchdown last night on Sunday Night Football. Pulling in 21.5 million viewers on the Comcast-owned…

Watchmen, Damon Lindelof’s anticipated series based on the award-winning Alan Moore graphic novel, debuted Sunday night to strong numbers, delivering 1.5 million viewers across all HBO platforms. The linear premiere telecast of the new drama starring Regina King was 21% above last week's Succession season finale in…

Poor Robert Redford. Except for an out of focus poster in a Tulsa school room, the Oscar winner is never seen on-screen in HBO's Watchmen. However, Redford's multi-term Presidential shadow is an ominous specter in a sometimes shambolic and yet spectacular show full of shadows, good intentions gone wrong, mad…