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Best Buffet Of The Year: Boardwalk Empire Bash!

Just when I've gotten used to fighting for Triscuits in public, last night restored a hack journalist's faith that there's money out there somewhere and people will actually spend it on food for the comp-buffets-to-munch bunch. After a Ziegfeld screening of Boardwalk Empire's third season premiere, ... More >>

Bored To Death Special Screening With Jonathan Ames

Will Bon Jovi Be The Band That Heals The Wounds Of 9/11 Once And For All?

​Probably not, but: "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in secret negotiations with HBO to produce a historic Bon Jovi concert in Central Park the night before the 10th anniversary of 9/11." That's from The Daily's gossip page today. So, you know, this show—which will reportedly be ... More >>

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GEEK MYTHOLOGY

Neil Gaiman celebrates the 10th anniversary of American Gods

Lance Loud From An American Family: My Exclusive Interview

​In 1973, PBS aired An American Family, a revolutionary look at a Santa Barbara clan's collapsing under the weight of infidelity, deceit, and the son announcing he's gay. It was basically the original reality show and it's just been revived on PBS as well as forming the subject of HBO's Cinem ... More >>

The Rebirth Brass Band Bring Their Brashness To Treme

​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

In the Realm of Promotional Food Trucks, Now We've Seen Everything: Tom Colicchio to Cook Game of Thrones Dishes, Curbside

Sean Bean, whom you might recognize from such epics as The Lord of the Rings, as Eddard Stark, in HBO's Game of Thrones.​History's Swamp People isn't the only TV show getting promoted with a pop-up food truck. Game of Thrones, the small-screen adaptation of fantasy author George R. R. Martin's ... More >>

Make Cookies, Not War: Stella D'Oro Strike Becomes an HBO Documentary

​Stella D'Oro cookies are mighty sweet, but there's nothing that can sugar-coat the situation at the Bronx cookie factory which shuttered in June 2009 following the workers' strike over wage cuts. Or is there? The plight of the workers will now be the focus of an upcoming HBO documentary.

HBO's Mildred Pierce: A Good Review!

​Joan Crawford must be rolling because Todd Haynes has apparently done a solid job in adapting Mildred Pierce into a five-hour HBO miniseries that will premiere on March 27. Cultural critic Brendan Lemon liked Kate Winslet in the part--she's right for it, and has the time to flesh it out--and ... More >>

Boardwalk Empire Briefly Resurrects Gage & Tollner

​Monte's isn't the only historic and defunct Brooklyn restaurant that's showing signs of life: Thanks to HBO, Gage & Tollner is also being resurrected, if only for a day or so.

Aaron Sorkin Definitely Made a Show About Keith Olbermann

​The script for Aaron Sorkin's new HBO pilot, as of yet untitled, has been obtained by Flash, the gossip desk at News Corp.'s iPad newspaper The Daily, corroborating rumors that Keith Olbermann's ego will indeed be growing soon. Sorkin, who allegedly spent time studying both Olbermann and Chri ... More >>

Grey Gardens

How Angry NYT Editors and HBO's Bored to Death Make the Case for Media Reporting

​Well, it's media reporting day-a-palooza here, which means that seven more people are reading this blog than they are on the average day. So while we're at it, here's how to explain the relevancy and case for a great media reporter like John Koblin, which involves two angry, high-level New Yo ... More >>

Enough With Vampires Already!

​The Twilight series keeps sucking the energy out of wallets and souls. True Blood continues drawing blood on HBO. Vampires Suck, a reputed spoof, will bite down on August 20.

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

Did a model slip his junk into the 1975 Sears catalog? You make the call!

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Sears Catalog, Fall/Winter 1975 Discovered at: Handed down by my grandmother, who tre ... More >>

The Original Reality Show Is Coming To HBO

​Way before Snooki, there was An American Family--the original reality show, documenting the dissolution of the Louds, a well-to-do, charismatic Santa Barbara family at war with itself. Well, HBO is shooting a TV movie called Cinema Verite, a behind-the-scenes look at that 1973 show, with Dia ... More >>

Ripert, Chang, Colicchio & Dufresne on Treme; Marcus Samuelsson Demoted to Shareholder at Aquavit

​Josh Moulton, who was the executive chef at West in Los Angeles, will take over the kitchen at Monkey Bar, which recently lost consulting chef Larry Forgione to P.J. Clarke's. [NY Times] Aquavit is no longer referring to Marcus Samuelsson as its chef-owner. The Top Chef Masters contender is ... More >>

Here's A Handy New Orleans Reference Guide To The Awesome Pilot Episode Of Treme You Watched Last Night

So David Simon's post-Katrina New Orleans drama Treme premiered last night on HBO -- our comprehensive, local's-eye-view feature is here -- and though it might not be perfect (agree with this, for starters), it must be said that this is a music lover's dream: Wendell "Bunk" Pierce playing trombone ... More >>

Here Is the Trailer for Treme, David Simon's New Show About Post-Katrina New Orleans

Now with actual humans, after an initial zombie instrument preview--including Wire stalwarts Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters (that'd be Bunk and Lester), The Corner vet Khandi Alexander, and some incongruous new additions, namely Steve Zahn (?!) and John Goodman (!!). "Zahn will play a dancer, DJ ... More >>

HBO to Recreate New Orleans' Ninth Ward in Greenpoint

​Nice catch, Miss Heather: Hollywood's been doing a lot of filming up in Greenpoint, either using McGolrick Park for, uh, park scenes or building sets there, like the Olde Atlantic City scenes Martin Scorsese recreated for HBO's Boardwalk Empire. But in a chunk of deepest Pernt, on Meserole A ... More >>

Let the Conflicted Feelings Begin: HBO's Bored to Death

Bored to Death, a new HBO half-hour comedy series about an alcoholic writer (Jason Schwartzman) pretending to be a private investigator, a la Philip Marlowe, and which also features Zach Galifianakis as his comic book-writing best buddy, has a trailer up at HBO. The show was created by Jonathan Ames ... More >>

FLIGHT OF THE SUGALUMPS

The Kings of New Zealand come back for round two

Grey Gardens Blooms Again

The squalid yet strangely uplifting story of the Beales--the mother/daughter duo who went from being Jackie Kennedy's fancy shmancy cousins to living in filth in a decayed Hamptons mansion filled with raccoons--rises again. The original Maysles brothers' documentary was made into a musical, which ... More >>

BLACK IS THE NEW BLACK

Redefining African-American identity

Large Penis Coming to Premium Cable!

Sex and the City Has Been Remade Already! With Testosterone!

IT’S BUSINESS TIME

The sexiest Kiwis alive

(Doris) Duking it out with Rush Limbaugh!

Every Man's Fantasy?

Two television shows explore nontraditional relationships

All In The Family

Bizarre love quadrangle binds a Mormon businessman and his three wives

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Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

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The Pleasure Channel

The Year in TV

Rookie's Fortune

After a Season of Voyeurism and Conflict, 'Project Greenlight' Filmmakers Win the War

The Florida Key

Nurturing Ibero-American Talent in Miami

Bloody Bad Show

Gatti-Ward Will Be Nothing but a Smash Hit

Thinking Inside the Box

Test-Tube Babies

The Reflective Rudy

His Honor Relishes Resurrection, Plots Future Stardom

NY Mirror

The Lesbian Cock

HBO Tells 'Sopranos' Publicist To Fuggedaboudit

Conservative, gifted, and black: too different for 'diversity'?