The Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere broke ratings records on HBO Sunday night. The episode drew 16.1 million total viewers, including 10.1 million who watched on the linear channel and the rest coming from DVR and streaming.
Hulu viewers will have access to HBO and Cinemax programming under a new deal that has closed just in time for Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere. Beginning today, viewers can stream all of HBO’s series, theatrical movies, documentaries, sports, and comedy and music specials — both live and on demand — on Hulu for $14.99 per month. For an additional $9.99 per month, viewers can also add Cinemax programming.
Sinclair is “injecting Fox-worthy content into the mouths of your local news anchor,” he warned in a 20-minute segment on Last Week Tonight. And with its acquisition of Tribune Media, he says, through local newscasts it will reach more than 2.2 million every day, more than Fox News Channel does in primetime.
NEW YORK (AP) — Coal company Murray Energy has sued HBO and its Sunday-night host, John Oliver, for what it says was a “false and malicious broadcast” last Sunday evening. […]
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On some of the best series, the song selections are as nuanced, ironic and transcendent as the acting and writing.
The hot project, Today Will Be Different, was first announced late last year and then shopped around in the new year to streaming and cable networks, before landing at HBO, which has put the drama into development as a limited series.
A longtime contributor to NPR, Sports Illustrated and HBO, Deford was the only sportswriter to receive a National Humanities Medal.
How do you satirize politics when the real thing is its own comedy show? The cast of Veep talk Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton parallels, and the show’s sobering comedy.
Apple isn’t done trying to sell you pay TV. Here’s the company’s latest proposal: It wants to sell consumers a premium TV bundle that combines HBO, Showtime and Starz. Apple already sells each of those channels individually. But it has approached the three networks about rolling them up into a single package, as conventional pay TV operators sometimes do.
Looking to soon own HBO outright, AT&T is already leveraging the premium network in a very aggressive way, offering customers who sign up for the higher tiers of its virtual MVPD service a free year of the network.
NEW YORK (AP) — Folks on Sesame Street have a way of making everyone feel accepted. That certainly goes for Julia, a Muppet youngster with blazing red hair, bright green […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Maher’s decision to book conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on his HBO show drew quick condemnation from another guest. Jeremy Scahill, a journalist who’s appeared frequently […]
With Sinclair Broadcast Group’s blackout of two ABC affiliates on Frontier Communications in Seattle and Portland reaching the one-month mark, Frontier has begun offering free access to premium channels HBO, Showtime and Starz to affected customers.
Time Warner plans to boost HBO’s programming budget, just as rivals including Netflix are doing, CEO Jeff Bewkes told an investor gathering today.
How Vice News Plans To Attract Millennials
Vice News Tonight on HBO and Viceland is a mix of the short documentaries that people have come to know from Vice as well as a daily news package in the beginning of the program. Vice’s team is hoping the mix appeals to a younger audience. Michael Gruzuk, Vice director of news, digital and special programming, talks about why Vice is investing in a newscast and how it plans to reach its target audience.
His HBO show, Any Given Wednesday, has been canceled and Bill Simmons has struggled to draw readers to the website, The Ringer, he built in the wake of his ESPN and Grantland departure. Richard Sadomir looks at Simmons’ weakness as a TV personality against his podcast strengths, while The Ringer is drawing just 680,000 visitors in its latest monthly numbers, while Grantland bowed out with 6.1 million.
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Vice News Tonight is getting its legs underneath it in the first weeks with an audience of “hundreds of thousands,” according to HBO CEO Richard Plepler, adding ambiguously that it’s doing well on digital, too. “I’m not running a business based on CPMs,” Plepler said. “I’m running a business based on brands.”
