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...alumnus of “Saturday Night Live” as both a writer and performer. This year is shaping up to be his breakout year, having been voted “Best Comedian” by the Aspen Comedy Festival and having starred in his own HBO special. He appeared in an episode of “Spin City” that was voted as having one of the 50 Funniest TV Moments of All Time by TV Guide. He performs regularly on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” as well...
...episode, but clears the network about triple that when sold through iTunes. So if you buy the show, you are literally three times as important as someone watching for free. If watching VOD became widespread enough, the business model of "free" TV would be a little more like HBO's--in which what counts is not getting a lot of people to watch your show but getting a relative few to like it so much they'll pay for it. This is why cable shows are often great but polarizing: love-it-or-hate-it beats kinda-like...
...makers ofHBO's Big Love, about aUtah man with threewives, say their drama is about the strains and compromises of family--times three. And sure, you want to know about that. But mainly you want to know: How does he ... you know...
...network as blue-state-oriented as HBO (each of its current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts...
...Larry Sanders Show (HBO) A sitcom about a talk show, starring a real-life talk-show host, who last starred in a sitcom as himself, a comedian with a sitcom. One's first impulse is to tell Garry Shandling to get a life. The second is to revel in this wicked expose of show-business narcissism -- TV's shrewdest media satire since Tanner...