A new book that takes a deep dive behind the scenes at HBO, Tinderbox was birthed from award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller’s. After just three years, AT&T bailed on the content business by way of a deal to merge Warner Media with Discovery, with the head of Discovery, David Zaslav, set to run both companies. Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit Of New Frontiers 50. It also has some originals, such as the Emmy-nominated series “The Flight Attendant” and “Hacks.”īoth HBO and HBO Max are run by the same executive, Casey Bloys. While HBO remains HBO, Max includes all kinds of Warner Media library content. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession. “It confused the consumer, it confused the product, it confused the Hollywood community, it confused people inside HBO, and I just don’t understand it.” Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. “I think it’s one of the great branding disasters of all time,” Miller says. The company would call its streaming service HBO Max. In 2019, Warner Media - then under the leadership of AT&T executive John Stankey - announced a decision seemingly designed to create brand confusion. While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, 'Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers' author James Andrew Miller revealed that the reason for the cancelation of 'Lovecraft. Lots of executives were pushed out, including HBO chief Richard Plepler. But once it got the green light, AT&T wasted no time making its mark on those legacy media companies. With the Trump administration pushing back, the sale took some time to go through. Former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes made a deal to sell the whole parent company - and its assets including Warner Brothers, CNN, Turner and HBO - to AT&T in 2016. An excerpt published by Vulture this week from James Andrew Miller's upcoming book 'Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers' details the 2003 encounter in the Manhattan apartment of Chris Albrecht (then the CEO of HBO) as concerns about Gandolfini's. Tinderbox : HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers ( New York : Henry Holt. Hollywood has changed a lot in the nearly 50 years since the network’s founding, and HBO - as part of Time Warner and then Warner Media - has been through a lot too. HBO executives held two days of 'rehearsals' before an intervention for James Gandolfini that he quickly shut down, a new book says. HBO Goes Back to Drawing Board With Lewis and Clark Miniseries, ' Hollywood. It’s no wonder Miller’s book is 1,000 pages long - he talked to hundreds of people involved with all kinds of HBO programming - stand-up comedy, sports, documentaries, and of course series including “The Sopranos” and “The Wire.” So we’ve decided to rank them.Īlready in its fourth decade of dramas, these are the best HBO shows of all time.KCRW continues its conversation with James Andrew Miller, author of ‘“Tinderbox,” a new oral history of HBO. We’ll say it: it’s the best collection of programing out there. In short, HBO created the modern TV drama.Īnd so with a head start over just about every other network, HBO now keeps one of the most robust libraries of #content around. They relied on constant viewership, telling stories that weren’t contained in half-hour live-audience programming, but multiple several-hour-long seasons. The programs were violent and crass and sexy-and real. Beginning with Oz, HBO went on a content killing spree, producing the kinds of TV programs that would make the Silent Generation fall out of their chairs and spit out their iced tea. With no commercials and no censors, HBO started with boxing. Robert Bomgardner An important early hire was Sheila Nevins, stolen from CBS to run. To justify the charge, HBO needed (what we would now simply call) content. James Andrew Miller, whose latest oral history is Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers. Using material from more than 750 interviews with a host of insiders, noted journalist Miller presents an exhaustive account of the network’s pioneering projects. James Andrew Miller, who wrote a door-stopping 900-plus page book about the history of the network called Tinder Box: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, described this new frontier in an interview: “The idea that we could sit in our living room and watch a movie without commercials and without network censors blurting out language, nudity and whatever else came along, I think was startling and revolutionary at the time.” A retrospective of HBO’s nearly half-century of multiplex programming portrayed through the words of a cavalcade of celebrities, developers, and innovators. Home Box Office (HBO) launched in November 1972, becoming the first modern premium cable network-meaning it charged viewers a monthly fee to access televised programming.
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