By Andrew Williams February 25, 2014 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and the rest). Now, this is a story all about how… the patriarch of the Fisher clan […]
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Television Revision: Eastbound and Down – Season 2
December 3, 2013 
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By Andrew Williams December 3, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
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October 9, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams October 9, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingEntourage movie delayed on account of its cast wanting more money
September 13, 2013 0 Comments
The Entourage movie has been delayed, thanks to ongoing pay disputes from two of its stars, Page Six reports. Though production was set to begin on the film adaptation of the hit HBO show during the American summer, it is now unknown when – if ever – those cameras will start rolling. You can blame […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Game of Thrones – Season 2
August 7, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams August 7, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Game of Thrones – Season 1
July 16, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams July 16, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Behind the Candelabra review
June 13, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 13, 2013 Crossing the Rubicon of wealth and fame must be a hell of a thing. Michael Jackson arguably lived the strangest life in human history. Tom Cruise enjoys the dual pleasure of being Hollywood’s most bankable star, and perhaps the one famous person everyone is really unsettled by. Kanye West’s […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: The Sopranos – Season 3
April 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams April 23, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Behind The Candelabra
April 11, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s final (for now) feature film, a HBO production called Behind The Candelabra, recently went live and it’s as garishly flamboyant as we had hoped. Based on a true story, the film chronicles a strange romance between the aging pianist Liberace (played with magnificent style by Michael Douglas) and his young […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – David Petrarca (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire)
April 2, 2013 0 Comments
Where. Are. My. Dragons? They’re not in this episode of Talk Hard, sadly. Instead, we have Simon Miraudo’s chat with David Petrarca, the director of such acclaimed HBO series as Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and True Blood. Simon wraps up the ep with his thoughts on those shows. Show Notes: All titles mentioned in […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: The Sopranos – Season 1
March 19, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams March 19, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingInterview: David Petrarca (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood)
February 21, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 21, 2013 “I look at the networks as dinosaurs standing in the tar pits; they’re just waiting to fall over.” So says David Petrarca, one of the television industry’s go-to directors. Over the past decade, he’s had a front-row seat to the medium’s extraordinary evolution. Having helmed episodes of hit HBO […]
Continue readingWarner Bros gives Entourage movie the green light
January 31, 2013 0 Comments
Your prayers have been answered, no one! Deadline has revealed Vinnie Chase and the gang will ride again in a feature film based on the hit HBO show Entourage. Though series creator Doug Ellin and executive producer Mark Wahlberg have long teased the big screen adaptation, Warner Bros. has only just given their movie the green light. All […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: The Wire – Season 1
December 20, 2012 0 Comments
Television Revision: The Wire – Season 1. Starring Dominic West, Idris Elba, and Wood Harris. Rated MA. By Andrew Williams. Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Eastbound and Down – Season 1
December 4, 2012 0 Comments
Television Revision: Eastbound and Down – Season 1. Starring Danny McBride, Katy Mixon, and John Hawkes. Rated MA. By Andrew Williams. Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Big Love – Season 1
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Television Revision: Big Love – Season 1. Starring Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Chloe Sevigny. Rated MA. By Andrew Williams. Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Boardwalk Empire – Season 1
October 24, 2012 0 Comments
Television Revision: Boardwalk Empire – Season 1. Starring Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, and Michael Pitt. Rated R. By Andrew Williams. Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you […]
Continue readingLarry David movie gets official title and impressive cast
September 17, 2012 0 Comments
Larry David has had no difficulty securing impressive guest stars for his hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm, and so it goes for his upcoming HBO feature film Clear History. According to The Hollywood Reporter, David will star opposite Jon Hamm, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan, Eva Mendes, Philip Baker Hall, Kate Hudson, and his Curb co-star […]
Continue readingEntourage film script close to completion
September 13, 2012 0 Comments
Entourage creator Doug Ellin is close to completing the script for a feature film version of his hit HBO show, Deadline reports. The real news from that report, however, is that people are apparently bugging Ellin on the street to make the movie: “Everywhere I go, people ask me, ‘Where’s the movie?’” Really? Ellin is under the […]
Continue readingChristopher Guest and Chris O’Dowd collaborating on Family Tree
August 20, 2012 0 Comments
In news that should please comedy geeks the world over, America’s pre-eminent mockumentarian Christopher Guest is teaming up with everyone’s favourite Irishman, Chris O’Dowd, for a new TV show. Deadline reports that HBO has given a “straight-to-series order” for Guest and O’Dowd’s Family Tree. O’Dowd will star in the documentary-style comedy as a 30-year-old who begins […]
Continue readingBored to Death might return as a movie
June 15, 2012 0 Comments
Good news for fans of recently axed HBO comedy Bored to Death; it may return as a telemovie. Ted Danson told a French journalist at the Monte Carlo Television Festival (reported by Vulture) that there have “been some conversations” about the series getting its final ep in the form of a 90-minute HBO movie. Danson […]
Continue readingCatherine Keener and Charlie Kaufman develop HBO show
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
Catherine Keener is set to star in a new HBO comedy series written and directed by Oscar winner Charlie Kaufman, Deadline reports. Keener previously starred in Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, as well as movies he scripted, such as Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation (in which Keener had a cameo). This new series will mark their first […]
Continue readingHBO cancels Dustin Hoffman drama Luck after horse deaths
March 15, 2012 1 Comment
HBO has taken one of its marquee shows behind the white sheet and put it out of its misery. Luck, the horse-racing drama produced by David Milch (Deadwood) and Michael Mann, is no more. The announcement of Luck‘s cancellation comes on the heels of the show’s third horse death. HBO broke the news with the following statement (courtesy […]
Continue readingWarner Bros resurrecting The Dark Tower
March 13, 2012 0 Comments
Warner Bros might come to the rescue of Ron Howard‘s seemingly doomed adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Dark Tower, Deadline reports. Universal Pictures balked at Howard’s plan to produce three movies and two limited-run TV series’ based on the source material, and passed on the project last year. According to Deadline, Warner Bros is now […]
Continue readingBen Stiller and Jonathan Safran Foer collaborate on TV show
January 25, 2012 0 Comments
Ben Stiller has signed on to star in, direct, and executive produce the new series All Talk for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The comedy is written by Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated) and has Alan Alda tipped to star opposite Stiller. The series follows a Jewish family in […]
Continue readingEwan McGregor cast in Noah Baumbach’s The Corrections
November 25, 2011 0 Comments
Ewan McGregor will join Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest in Noah Baumbach‘s HBO pilot The Corrections. It was announced in September that Baumbach and producer Scott Rudin would bring Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed tome to the small screen as a HBO series. The book tells the story of the repressed Lambert family; parents Alfred (Cooper) and […]
Continue readingRobert De Niro to play Bernie Madoff
November 7, 2011 0 Comments
Robert De Niro looks set to play a character more villainous and depraved than Max Cady and Travis Bickle combined: Bernie Madoff. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO have optioned Laurie Sandell’s book Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family with the intention of bringing it to the small screen. De Niro’s Tribeca Productions is […]
Continue readingThe Kids Are All Right being adapted for TV
October 14, 2011 0 Comments
HBO wants to bring Lisa Cholodenko‘s Best Picture nominated dramedy The Kids Are All Right to TV screens. According to Deadline, a deal has been made for Cholodenko to write a pilot episode for the potential hour-long series. Although the show would “continue the adventures of the five main characters” – specifically married couple Nic […]
Continue readingSex and the City prequel moving ahead
September 12, 2011 1 Comment
Last month it was rumoured a prequel to Sex and the City – based on show creator and author Candace Bushnell’s book The Carrie Diaries – would be headed to TV screens. The rumour has now become fact. According to The Hollywood Reporter, teen-oriented network CW has given the green light to the project. Gossip […]
Continue readingHBO picks up Aaron Sorkin’s new TV series
September 9, 2011 0 Comments
For those concerned Aaron Sorkin would abandon television after winning an Oscar for his Social Network screenplay, fear not! HBO has given a series order for his new show about a cable news organisation. According to THR, the untitled drama stars Jeff Daniels as a news anchor, Emily Mortimer as his executive producer and Sam […]
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