New Programming President Casey Bloys is making his mark. He has officially cancelled ‘70’s rock-n-roll series VINYL. That’s right– VINYL has been permanently scratched. If you recall Terence Winter, who served as co-creator, executive producer and showrunner was let …
Now that the dust has well and truly settled on HBO’s vibrant new drama series Vinyl it’s a good opportunity to reflect on the season and more specifically, the representation of women in the series. Despite the cast being dominated …
Needless to say HBO could have been happier with the premiere season of VINYL. Its viewership was not as high as they hoped. Though the critics seemed to like it well enough the audiences were not there. However, the series …
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Well, that’s all folks! Vinyl has reached its closing scene, we have landed back on the ground after flying high in the rip-roaring world of 1970’s New York. Have no fear though as HBO have confirmed that a second season …
Rock and Roll in the 1970s was a hectic, drug infused, frantically paced business. Add plenty of sexual encounters, drugs to seal potential deals and lucrative promises of sell out records, plus legions of fans and cold hard cash and …
E.A.B. Three chords that lent themselves to the beginning of the punk movement in the 1970s. In E.A.B., we see the careful tutelage of Lester Grimes and the Nasty Bits; we see just how much blues had an impact on …
As last weeks aptly named episode “Cyclone” closed I thought Richie’s world start to dramatically crumble into nothing, a feeling that has been murmuring through each episode since the incident at The Mercer in Episode One. Yet again, however, we …
Going into Episode 6 of Vinyl, I had already decided that I liked the series (If you need to catch up, here is the previous episode). In fact, I had decided that I liked it a lot. After Episode …
This week’s Vinyl (check here for last week) sees Richie’s world continue to break into bits as all the loose threads holding everything together begin to fall away. If this episode is trying to communicate a message, it’s that business …
One of the many strengths of HBO programs is their unapologetic nature. Vinyl has been no exception to this, and while there are aspects of the show that border a little past absurd, it still manages to strike a harmonious …
Yet again, the creative minds behind HBO’s unpredictable new drama have succeeded in maintaining an exceptionally high standard of television as the third episode of Vinyl aired earlier this week. The first episode of the new show was feature length …
It’s hard to top the opening scene of Vinyl‘s pilot episode. It captured the reason the show exists: the visceral love people can feel for music. If you don’t open yourself to being moved by music, you can’t really “get” …
LOS ANGELES – Following the critically acclaimed launch of the show’s first season, HBO has renewed the drama series VINYL for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Created by Mick Jagger & Martin Scorsese …
Music. Drugs. Sex. Backroom deals. Incompetent staff. Marital woes. Alcohol. Mounting pressure. Frustration. Deals that fall through. These are just some of the things that Richie Finestra, President of American Century Record Label, deals with on a daily basis. Ah, …
VINYL’s big premiere date is February 14 and will explode on the screen with all the sights and sounds of a red-hot musical moment in history. So, naturally there would be a soundtrack so rich and vibrant to capture the …
