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From Its Beginning, HBO Has Had a Love-Hate Relationship With Sex
This month marks the 50th anniversary of HBO, which launched on November 8, 1972.
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Posted Saturday 9/04/21 at 1:26AM EDT
Why is TV showing more (real and fake) penises?
"The amount of full-frontal dongs we see on TV shows has skyrocketed in recent years.
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Posted Saturday 3/28/20 at 4:47AM EDT
David Simon is celebrated for The Wire, but it's possible his shows in the 2010s eclipses what came before
"This April 11th marks the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Treme, the New Orleans-set ensemble drama that Simon co-created...
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Posted Wednesday 10/30/19 at 10:04PM EDT
David Simon doubles down on his defense of keeping James Franco on The Deuce
Simon responded to backlash over his comments to Rolling Stone defending Franco and explaining why he thinks The Deuce star's...
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Posted Wednesday 10/30/19 at 1:49PM EDT
David Simon defends continuing to work with James Franco on The Deuce amid sexual misconduct allegations
"I’m absolutely proud that we continued to do the work, that James did it with us, and that we executed...
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Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 3:15PM EDT
The Deuce's "cheesy" finale undermined the entire series
In the David Simon HBO pornography drama's nostalgic final moments, "I felt a pang of betrayal from a series that...
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Posted Tuesday 10/29/19 at 5:28AM EDT
David Simon on The Deuce series finale: "We literally wrote the last scene first"
"The last scene of the show was the only one we had written in our heads when we started the...
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TV Today: Change Comes to New York City as The Deuce Reaches its End
HBO's period drama The Deuce comes to an end, a pop superstar joins The Voice and Halloween lurks in the background...
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Posted Friday 10/25/19 at 11:54PM EDT
How The Deuce created a 1980s Times Square for its final season
Production and art director Scott Dougan says inactive Flickr accounts and New York Public Library's archives proved crucial in bringing...
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Posted Wednesday 9/11/19 at 10:32PM EDT
Desire has left The Deuce: David Simon's HBO drama on the sex industry has lost all its curiosity about what humans want
"In its third and final season, which began on Monday, The Deuce is racing toward its bleak and inevitable coda,"...
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Posted Monday 9/09/19 at 7:10PM EDT
The Deuce's time jumps suggest it has a grander endgame in mind
David Simon and George Pelecanos’s drama about Times Square, the sex trade and capitalism "seems to be fast-forwarding through history...
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TV Today: For its Final Season, The Deuce Returns to 1985 and the Birth of VHS
Although she recently admitted to initially feeling guilty for receiving a raise for her role as Eileen "Candy" Merrill in HBO's...
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Posted Saturday 9/07/19 at 3:40AM EDT
A decade after The Wire, David Simon continues to prove he's one of the edgiest and most dynamic showrunners in the TV game
Unlike HBO's other legendary Davids (Sopranos creator David Chase, Deadwood creator David Milch and Curb Your Enthusiam's Larry David), David...
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Posted Thursday 9/05/19 at 8:45PM EDT
Maggie Gyllenhaal admits she felt "guilty" receiving equal pay as The Deuce co-star James Franco
"Out of the blue I got a phone call saying that HBO was going to significantly raise my salary.
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Posted Thursday 8/29/19 at 7:18PM EDT
HBO releases The Deuce's official Season 3 trailer
The David Simon porn drama returns for its final season on Monday, Sept.