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24th November 2014

Fact: Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney is set to tackle the Church of Scientology in a documentary inspired by Lawrence Wright's controversial book Going Clear. The Taxi to the Dark Side director has teamed up with bosses at U.S. cable network HBO to investigate the links between the Church and superstar members like Tom Cruise and John Travolta.


17th November 2014

Quote: "The most fun thing about being pregnant is having those mom hormones flowing around. You're more present in your body and it's making me a better mother for Milo. You become more like a child. When you're tired, you have to sleep immediately. When you're hungry... For seven years, I'd been saying I wanted to do an HBO show with an ensemble cast and I wanted the house in the country. And getting to have another child?" The Leftovers actress Liv Tyler loves being pregnant again and reveals all her dreams for 2014 have come true.


8th October 2014

Fact: A new James Brown documentary produced by Sir Mick Jagger and directed by Alex Gibney is set to be broadcast on America's HBO cable channel later this month (Oct14). Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, which was made in co-operation with the late superstar's estate, will feature previously-unseen footage of the music icon. It is Jagger's second Brown project - he also helped to bring his life story to the big screen with the summer (14) release of biopic Get On Up, which featured Chadwick Boseman as the Godfather of Soul.


23rd September 2014

Fact: Screenwriter/actress Lena Dunham is turning documentary maker to spotlight the work of a gay-friendly bespoke tailoring firm in Brooklyn, New York. The Girls star will serve as an executive producer on Three Suits, which will follow three of Bindle & Keep's transgender clients as they attend fittings for their custom-made suits. Jason Benjamin, who has taken charge of a number of Girls episodes, will direct the programme for U.S. cable network HBO.


12th September 2014

Fact: Nicki Minaj stunned Beyonce's French fans on Friday night (12Sep14) when she appeared onstage with her pal at the first of two On the Run Tour shows in Paris. Minaj and Beyonce teamed up to perform their duet Flawless Remix for the sold out crowd. The magical moment was captured on camera for an upcoming HBO special, which will debut in America later this month (Sep14).


6th June 2014

Fact: Hit fantasy series Game Of Thrones has become U.S. Tv network HBO's most popular series in the cable company's history with an average of 18.4 million viewers during the current fourth season of the show. That figure beats out The Sopranos' average viewing figure.


8th May 2014

Quote: "This is heartbreaking, challenging material, and I don't know if I would want to go out and pay $20 and sit in a theatre with a bunch of strangers and start opening that time box. To be able sit in the comfort of your own home, I think people will have a more honest experience with it." Julia Roberts is glad The Normal Heart, her tough-to-watch new drama about the early days of the Aids outbreak, will not be hitting cinemas. The film will hit cable network HBO later this month (May14).


24th April 2014

Fact: J.K. Rowling is turning her first post-Harry Potter novel A Casual Vacancy into a three-hour television mini-series. Studio bosses at U.S. network HBO have teamed up with executives at U.K.'s Bbc to co-produce the project about an election in an idyllic English town.


8th April 2014

Fact: The season four premiere of Game Of Thrones scored stellar ratings on Sunday (06Apr14), as the fantasy drama garnered a gross audience of 8.2 million viewers, the largest audience for America's HBO network since 11.9 million tuned in for the series finale of The Sopranos in 2007. An online streaming website for Hbo even crashed the same night as fans flocked to watch the show.


20th March 2014

Quote: "It's my real costume, I thought I was dreaming. I got an email from an amazing HBO publicist saying, 'Madonna would like to borrow the costume, is that Ok?'" Actress Emilia Clarke reveals the Daenerys Targaryen costume Madonna dressed up in to celebrate Purim over the weekend (15-16Mar14) was one she actually wore on Game Of Thrones.


20th March 2014

Quote: "It all depends on how long the main series runs. Do we run for seven years? Do we run for eight? Do we run for 10? The books get bigger and bigger (in scope). It might need a feature to tie things up, something with a feature budget, like $100 million for two hours. Those dragons get real big, you know." Game Of Thrones author George R. R. Martin is open to wrapping up the hit fantasy Tv series with a big screen adaptation. The show, which airs on America's HBO network, is based on his bestselling books of the same name, which he has yet to complete.


20th December 2013

Fact: Late actor James Gandolfini will be remembered in a special tribute show set to air on U.S. network HBO on Sunday (22Dec13). James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend will feature interviews with The Sopranos star's pals and colleagues. He passed away in Italy in June (13) aged 51.


20th November 2013

Fact: Bill Murray is to star in HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge in a rare Tv appearance. Based on the award-winning book by Elizabeth Stout, the series centres on a town in New England where tragedy and scandal are rife. Frances MCDormand will play the title character and Murray will take the role of her widower friend Jack Dennison.


30th October 2013

Fact: Beyonce has debuted a new song, God Made You Beautiful, in an advertisement for the Dvd release of her HBO documentary, Life is But a Dream.


24th September 2013

Quote: "I get so many offers lately. I have an offer from here for a big station, I got two offers from Europe, Germany and France, I have one or two in Italy. There is talk possibly to do a movie, maybe an HBO movie about me, (with) somebody playing me. It's just an idea." Veteran hitmaker Giorgio Moroder on plans to turn his life into a new film.


2nd August 2013

Quote: "I'm trying out for a film and an HBO show... We'll see. I mean, I'm not (actor) Liev Schreiber, and I'm not going to play MACbeth." Rocker Courtney Love on her acting ambitions.


29th July 2013

Fact: Jay Z will debut his new video for the song Picasso Baby in a Tv special on U.S. cable channel HBO on Friday (02Aug13). Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film was shot at a New York art gallery, where the superstar rapped the track over and over again for six hours in front of members of the public and celebrity fans including director Judd Apatow and actor Alan Cumming. The special will air immediately after the hip-hop mogul appears on the network's political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher.


1st May 2013

Fact: Tv executives at America's HBO network are putting together a four-hour mini-series about Frank Sinatra. The documentary, which will air over four nights next year (14), will feature previously unseen home movies and private performances from the late music legend.


2nd April 2013

Fact: Hit fantasy drama Game Of Thrones has officially been renewed by HBO network bosses for a fourth season, two days after its season three premiere became the most watched opener of the series, with 4.4 million viewers tuning in for the highly-anticipated debut.


26th February 2013

Fact: Author and Tv writer Jonathan Ames is reviving his axed comedy series Bored To Death as a small screen movie. The show, starring Jason Schwartzman as a bumbling private detective, ran for three seasons on U.S. cable network HBO before being axed in 2011. He is now working on a movie version for Hbo, although it is not yet clear whether Schwartzman and co-stars Ted Danson and Zach Galifiankis will return to reprise their characters.


20th February 2013

Fact: R&B superstar Beyonce has scored cable channel HBO's most-watched documentary film in almost 10 years after 1.8 million viewers tuned in to her Life is But a Dream film, which premiered in the U.S. on Saturday night (16Feb13).


17th February 2013

Tweet: "Watching Beyonce's HBO special and all I got to say is... B a rockstar sistah (sic)! You are all that God made you to be! Queen B Rocks. You look so happy and so blessed Beyonce! You touched my heart tonight with ya story (sic)!" Actress Vivica A. Fox is impressed by Beyonce's Life Is But A Dream documentary, which aired on U.S. network Hbo on Saturday (16Feb13).


16th February 2013

Fact: Pop superstar Beyonce shows off her baby girl Blue Ivy in a leaked image from her new fly-on-the-wall film Life is But a Dream. The singer smiles adoringly in the touching mother-daughter snap, in which the 13 month old wears a white dress. The HBO documentary is set to air in the U.S. on Saturday (16Feb13).


2nd July 2012

Fact: Bosses at U.S. cable network HBO have picked up The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's new TV drama The Newsroom for a second season, just a week after its premiere. The show, which stars Jeff Daniels as a quick-tempered newscaster, alongside actresses Emily Mortimer and Olivia Munn, debuted last week (24Jun12).


2nd May 2012

Fact: Ewan McGregor's new TV series has been axed before it aired. HBO bosses have decided not to press on with the adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's bestseller The Corrections after checking out the pilot episode, which featured MCGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal and Chris Cooper and Dianne Weist as their parents.


3rd February 2012

Fact: HBO network bosses have picked up Dustin Hoffman's new TV series Luck for a second season - less than a week after airing the very first episode of the horseracing drama last Sunday (29Jan12).


22nd November 2011

Fact: Actor Ewan McGregor has set his sights on U.S. TV after landing a role in upcoming HBO show The Corrections. The Big Fish star will play a dysfunctional family's young son, Chip, in the network's adaptation of the popular Jonathon Franzen novel.


7th November 2011

Fact: Actor Robert De Niro is to play disgraced investor Bernie Madoff in new TV movie Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family. The HBO programme will detail Madoff's highly publicised scandal and Ponzi scheme, which is considered to be the largest financial fraud in in U.S. history.


20th July 2011

Quote: "Helen Mirren is stepping into my (Linda Kenny Baden's) Manolos, in the HBO production of Phil Spector! Classy!!" Bette Midler gives Helen Mirren her seal of approval after The Queen star stepped in to replace the veteran singer/actress as Phil Spector's lawyer in a new biopic about the disgraced music mogul.


15th June 2011

Quote: "I remember looking down once; we were playing Madison Square Garden for an HBO special, and this girl put her arm out. She had a mural of me tattooed along her whole arm. I just remember looking at it and thinking, 'Holy s**t, that's never going to come off.'" Justin Timberlake on the crazy fans of his boy band 'N Sync.


21st April 2011

Fact: Actor Sean Bean's new historical TV drama Game Of Thrones has been given the green light for a second season by network chiefs at cable channel HBO - just two days after it premiered on U.S. TV on Sunday (17Apr11). The series, about the ruling families in a kingdom called Westeros, is based on author George R. R. Martin's books A Song of Ice and Fire.


15th February 2011

Fact: Lady GaGa is bringing her Fame Monster tour to TV - she's filming a concert special for U.S. cable network HBO later this year (11).


15th November 2010

Fact: Batman star Michael Keaton has signed a multi-venture deal with U.S. cable network HBO, encompassing a series of projects in which the actor will star, direct and executive produce.


15th July 2010

Fact: Hollywood stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte are teaming up for a new TV drama set in the world of horse racing. LUCK, for U.S. cable network HBO, will be directed by Ali filmmaker Michael Mann and also star Dennis Farina and Gary Stevens. An air date has yet to be announced.


6th May 2010

Fact: Former The Sopranos star James Gandolfini is set to return to U.S. TV for the first time since the cult crime drama ended, in a new comedy series about a sharp-tongued New York City taxi driver. The actor has signed on as an executive producer of Taxi 22, a half-hour HBO comedy series, and he's in negotiations to star in the project.


14th April 2010

Fact: John Goodman's return to U.S. television has been such a smash success network executives at cable channel HBO have already picked up his new drama TREME for a second season after just one episode aired last week (11Apr10). Goodman plays a college professor in New Orleans coping with the aftermath of 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina.


23rd April 2009

Fact: Drew Barrymore's TV movie Grey Gardens was a big hit for HBO network executives - the programme drew 1.8 million viewers when it debuted in the U.S. on Saturday night (18Apr09), becoming HBO's fourth most-watched original premiere movie since 2004.


29th July 2008

Fact: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's 24-year reign is being turned into a U.S. TV miniseries, set to air next year (09). HBO's House of Saddam will star Israeli actor Igal Naor as Hussein.


13th August 2007

Fact: The Sopranos star James Gandolfini is returning to U.S. TV network HBO to star in ABCD CAMP, in which he plays the man who signed basketball ace Michael Jordan to the first multi-million dollar shoe deal at Nike. Gandolfini will also executive produce the show.


15th January 2007

Fact: The Sopranos will return for the second half of its final season with one more episode than expected on 8 April (07). Creator DAVID CHASE produced nine episodes of the show's sixth and final season, rather than the eight that had been ordered. He is also writing and directing the finale, which will air on US network HBO.


21st September 2006

Fact: Former Eurythmics star Dave Stewart is to interview his musical peers for a new US cable show. The untitled HBO project will feature Stewart chatting to fellow musicians about their craft.


31st August 2006

Fact: Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler will be guest starring as themselves on the new season of hit series ENTOURAGE. The Sopranos siblings were approached at HBO's Emmy party on Sunday (27AUG06) by Entourage producers who asked them to change their flights back to New York City so they could stay in Los Angeles and shoot an appearance on the show this week (ends 01SEP06).


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