The bad news: the True Blood season 6 premiere is over 200 days away.  The good news: casting is already underway and the cast should begin filming new episodes early 2013.  The first new actor to electrify True Blood next season will be Rutger Hauer!  You may recognize him from such films as Blade Runner, Batman Begins and Sin City. Since each new season of True Blood seems to take the action up a notch when it comes to the main baddies.  It looks like “Billith” is going to tear things up in season 6 but we’re told that Rutger will be playing yet another “big...

Holy mother of success, Batman! Continuing the trend of doing just simply awesome things, resident HBO It-girl and Jane of All Trades Lena Dunham has signed a $3.5 million book deal with Random House. Her book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned, is said to be  in “the tradition of Helen Gurley Brown, David Sedaris, and Nora Ephron,”  with “frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work.” Sounds like classic Dunham. Can we go ahead and pre-order now? HBO Watch would like to congratulate Lena on her massive book deal...

This writer for HBOWatch would like to announce the arrival of a new segment that will appear from time to time called HBO CLASSICS. It will look at HBO programming past and celebrate the entertainment and talent that has shaped the channel. Since it is October I and my Editor-in-Chief thought what better way to kick off these posts but to open up the musty coffin lid on TALES FROM THE CRYPT. Over the course of the month we will look at all seven seasons of this horror anthology series that aired on HBO from 1989 to 1996 for a total of 93 episodes. The concept was created by William Gaines....

I look at Brandon Stark, I see so many of the children I used to work with. I see the children with physical challenges. I see the children whose lives were changed by accident, a reaction or a sickness. With Brandon Stark, his case was by a life altering accident: being thrown from a tower window. Brandon Stark is the fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. He is the second oldest son. He has brown hair, brown eyes and an impish, carefree nature. What can you expect from a 10 year old boy? As befits Stark custom, he is educated by Maester Luwin and trained in weapons and military tactics...

Web Gems is intended to give you an entertaining, and hopefully humorous, look at your favorite HBO shows and the actors that make them great. After all, these people aren’t just the characters they play; they are real people, with real interests. They do stupid and rather embarrassing things just like everyone else. But also show us just how awesome they really are. My plan is to bring you a collection of videos, pictures, tweets, and fan creations that I have found while surfing this thing we call the internet. Various sources have been used, multiple avenues explored, and everything is...

As I started watching this new episode, for a second I thought I was watching Game of Thrones.  The show switched from storyline to storyline very quickly and with 11 storylines it was a bit daunting.   Also when you watch Treme, you know there is going to be musical performances and this episode was certainly music heavy.  At least four of the storylines involve characters who are musicians so it is to be expected.  I, for one love New Orleans style jazz but if you don’t, well you probably won’t like Treme.  The storylines not based on actual events continue to drag but...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2012 – Following the hit series’ third-season debut on Sept. 16, HBO has renewed BOARDWALK EMPIRE for a fourth season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. “Terry Winter, Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show thatnever fails to surprise and entertain,” said Lombardo. “We are excited to bring this unique series back for a fourth season.” From Terence Winter, Emmy®-winning writer of “The Sopranos” and Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese, BOARDWALK EMPIRE is...

“I learned a long time ago not to take things personally.” Episode 3 was not the climactic, gun-slinging finale of Act I we were expecting, rather, we take an even greater dive into the lives of our characters. Much like the previous episode, ‘Spaghetti and Coffee,’ we find ourselves sitting through a number of dialogue driven scenes, waiting to be rewarded for our patience. Episode 3, however, hooked me from the start. Sure, we get a taste of the upcoming action, from Meyer Lansky’s NYC shootout to Gyp Rosetti’s farewell bar-b-que, but the most...

If you’re reading this review, there’s a good chance you feel exactly the same way I do about HBO’s Game of Thrones. But really, who can blame us? The epic fantasy series has literally been a magnet for attracting millions of willful souls into the massive sub-culture that surrounds George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. While most of us are chomping at the bits, eagerly awaiting the third season premiere on March 31, 2013, HBO has risen to the occasion and supplied fans with a juicy morsel of GoT goodness for fans to sink their teeth into. Of course, I’m talking...

Once again HBOWatch looks at the wheeling and dealing that happens with talent and production companies in order to bring new content to life. We think you might like some of the people eager to work with HBO.   Guillermo Del Toro plans an HBO series Guillermo Del Toro the filmmaker auteur behind such works as “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the “Hellboy’ franchise is now attached to a piece for HBO entitled NUTSHELL STUDIES. It is to be an adaptation of the 2004 non-fiction book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz. Evidently the Del Toro project is not a...

We here at HBOWatch are just as intrigued by PARADE”S END as many of you are and our questions are the same as yours as well. Just when is the joint HBO-BBC Worldwide production going to air on our channel of choice? This post tries to theorize the possibilities. As we well know PARADE’S END has already aired in the UK. Its first episode aired back on August 24th on BBC2 and a new installment aired each Friday night for four more weeks. Those five episodes were written by acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard and directed by Susannah White. The piece stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and...

Wow, another month gone by so quickly and time for another HBO Guide. Now, I don’t know if anyone gets much benefit out of this monthly post besides me but, I enjoy writing it at least. It gives me a good idea for some topics to write about for the month. In addition it gives me a heads up on what I personally might want to watch. Alas, October is a bit sparse; nevertheless let’s see what we got in store.   Theatrical Movies: Though there are four Saturdays in October there are only three theatrical films premiering for the month. They are COWBOYS AND ALIENS; THE DESCENDANTS and...

Spoiler alert:  This article is an indulgent spoiler from beginning to end.  Non-book readers who don’t want to know about some of the grislier and more explicit events that will take place in S3, walk away now and keep any (misguided) hopes that you may have, alive. Filming for season 3 of ‘Game of Thrones’ is well underway.  Numerous images have been posted of the various shoot locations around Belfast, including Gosford castle (Riverrun) and Magheramorne Quarry (Castle Black).  Eagerly awaited characters, such as Mance Rayder, Beric Dondarrion, Lady Olenna and the Reeds, to name...