The April 7 finale had a first-night audience of 1.1 million viewers on HBO and Max (including replays), which was the best performance for Curb since the Season 10 finale drew 1.4 million cross-platform viewers in March 2020. The initial airing on HBO drew 530,000 viewers — about 51% higher than the show’s linear average for the previous nine episodes — with streaming on Max and replays contributing the remaining 570,000 viewers.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is known for inviting guest actors onto the HBO improv comedy series to play versions of themselves and go toe-to-toe with Larry David’s onscreen persona. The latest actress to do so was Lori Loughlin, who came on the sixth episode of the 12th and final season to confront her post-college admissions scandal reputation in Hollywood. The setup was that Loughlin, who loves to play golf, was being black-balled from L.A. country clubs due to her role in the 2019 scandal. (Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli were among the high-profile parents charged with paying fixers to get their children into top U.S. universities, nicknamed Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI.)
HBO has picked up two more seasons of Real Time With Bill Maher, which will take the weekly talk show through its 24th season in 2026. The show’s current order was due to expire at the end of this year.
The executive also weighs in on what’s next for ‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong: “The odds are pretty low” for a spinoff.
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Pete Hammond of Deadline on Fox’s broadcast of the awards show, its celebration of TV after the strike-induced delay, as well as his “severe case of déjà vu”: “It is as if in this vast TV universe of networks, streamers, cable, You Tube and more content that a human being could ever consume, the people who vote for awards have only seen three shows.”
HBO’s Succession and FX’s The Bear led all shows with six wins each, including Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series, respectively. Netflix’s Beef took five trophies including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. HBO’s now-wrapped Succession also was an Emmys force, with six big wins including its third for Outstanding Drama Series. Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook won Best Actor and Actress in a Drama, and Matthew Macfadyen went back-to-back in the Supporting Actor in a Drama category. It also won for Directing and Writing for a Drama Series.
The monthly sports magazine helmed by Bryant Gumbel is calling it quits in its 29th year. The final, 90-minute episode premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET. Gumbel is 75, at the end of a contract, and HBO is now controlled by a company, Warner Bros. Discovery, on the hunt for cost savings. While the show’s exit makes sense, the fear is that a form of sports journalism is leaving for good, too.
HBO is extending its long-term relationship with John Oliver. The premium cabler has picked up three more seasons of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. The renewal will take the weekly latenight show through its 13th season in 2026.
Max is offering an early holiday gift for new subscribers — and making an aggressive move to bump its fourth-quarter numbers amid the streaming wars. Starting Monday, Max is launching a Black Friday sale slashing its rates 70% for its ad-supported plan to just $2.99 a month for six months. The offer is open to new and returning subscribers (but not current ones). The regular premium plan (without ads) is the usual price ($15.99). The sale is available through Monday, Nov. 27.
A dispute with a former HBO executive assistant has unearthed allegations in Rolling Stone that Casey Bloys, then the network’s president of original programming, directed employees to troll critics posting about network programming on social media from fake accounts.
Maher last week said he would bring his show back into production, but on Monday said he’ll wait because talks are scheduled to begin between producers and writers on Wednesday.
The news came after the second-season finale aired Sunday night.
The chart will debut in the U.S. over the next week, with other countries expected to add market-specific rankings down the line. Titles must be new in order to qualify for the ranking. Series must have had a new episode hit Max within a six-week period, while movies must have debuted on the streamer within an eight-week period. The Flash is currently the number-one movie title in the U.S., while Hard Knocks: A Season with the New York Jets tops the series list.
HBO’s groundbreaking, Emmy-winning comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show is ending with its recent fourth season. Creator, showrunner, writer and star Robin Thede issued a statement about the move, which is being characterized as a mutual decision to end on a creative high note.
Sources confirm that Warner Bros. Discovery is eyeing a non-exclusive deal that would see multiple original series stream on both Netflix and Max.
Actors, writers and directors remember the highs and lows of making the seminal ’90s series, which aired for the last time 25 years ago this week.
Succession went out at the top of its game. The HBO series wrapped its final season on Sunday, revealing once and for all who would prevail as the new CEO of Waystar Royco. The finale drew 2.9 million viewers across Max and linear telecasts Sunday night, marking a new series high. Prior to the finale, the Sunday night high for Succession was Episode 6, which aired on April 30, with 2.75 million viewers. The Season 4 finale was up 68% versus the Season 3 closer.
Larry David is pretty ready to say goodbye to TV’s Larry David. HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is likely to end with the already announced 12th season, sources say. The forthcoming season, which does not yet have a premiere date, wrapped filming this week and the final episode felt like a homecoming, according to a source.
Succession, the Emmy-winning HBO drama that helped redefine the premium cable network following the end of Game of Thrones, is ending. Creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong revealed that the upcoming fourth season will indeed be its final run on the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed premium cable network.
The yanking of Westworld and Love Life from the streamer is designed to appease Wall Street, not consumers, one expert says.
Warner Bros.Discovery said that some of the shows that it has been moving off of HBO and HBO Max in order to save money will be licensed to third-party free, ad-supported streaming TV services. The company has ditched the “everything streaming” strategy that WarnerMedia executives have been following before WarnerMedia was acquired by Discovery. Instead, the company will make decisions about how to monetize shows on a case-by-case basis.
The Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) is urging Hollywood and corporate America to stop the sexualization of children, in light of the sexually exploitative Balenciaga ad campaign that showed small children holding teddy […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A documentary on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s life and groundbreaking political career, shot and edited by her daughter, will debut on HBO next month. Alexandra Pelosi’s […]
Tarantino first joined HBO in 1990 as an executive secretary. She rose through the ranks as a publicist before being promoted to vice president in 2004. She was named senior vice president in 2017. It was during that time that HBO became a dominant force in scripted originals, with many of the shows that Tarantino worked on going on to not only drive viewership but also substantial awards recognition.
