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HBO gets raw -- or is it raunchy? (HBO gets into the hardcore porn business)
The Chicago Tribune ^
| July 14, 2007
| Scott Collins
Posted on 08/20/2007 11:59:41 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp
I have never understood the appeal of sex as spectator sport.
To: traditional1
Theres no outcry from the FCC;
Really? Thank goodness. This shouldn't be any of the FCC's business. No one is forced to subscribe to HBO. Don't like it? Don't order HBO.
To: DesScorp
HBO is catching up to daytime soaps? The soaps may not have skin - but they had everything else last I had to look.
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posted on
08/20/2007 1:30:37 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: ozzymandus
The only thing HBO has had for many years that was of any interest to me was The Sopranos, and that ended with a whimper, not a bang. I cancelled the day after their finale, snice most of HBOs other programming is junk and old (not recent)movies.
Not true. HBO's "The Wire" is the best television drama I've ever seen. "Deadwood" was a fine show, since canceled. "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is still funny. "Flight of the Conchords" is quite funny. "Entourage", "Big Love", and "Rome" are all watchable. I think HBO has more quality programming on it than any other network, cable or air, these days.
To: DesScorp
Stooping ever lower to entertain the Sheep.
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posted on
08/20/2007 2:01:38 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: DesScorp
66
posted on
08/20/2007 2:25:08 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: Caesar Soze
When they showed Atia full frontal f*ing in the first episode I thought Rome was going to have a lot of that kind of thing. They never shied away from it, but that first episode seemed to be to get peoples attention. There wasn’t that much of it thereafter, imo.
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posted on
08/20/2007 2:47:19 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: colorado tanker
Yeah. Thanks. And other people fixed the article that I started. I don’t even care about the show - I just wanted the glory of being able to start the article!
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:10:22 PM PDT
by
grundle
To: ichabod1
I loved Rome, but maybe that's just because I'm a history geek.
I agree the first episode oversold the nudity, but Atia is a major babe, in or out of her clothes.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:27:33 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: grundle
LOL!
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:28:12 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: colorado tanker
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: DesScorp
I think HBO is jumping the shark here.
Then don’t watch.
Since this is their first try at this level of “adult” programming, they must have some market research on viewer demand that drives their programming decisions.......
let them sink or swim based on viewer response.
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:45:24 PM PDT
by
WhiteGuy
(PAUL2008)
To: Squantos
LOL! Good one!
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posted on
08/20/2007 3:57:06 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: colorado tanker
See, if they wanted to get people to watch, why this Sonia chick? Why didn’t they get some attractive people. Not that she’s bad looking, but it doesn’t exactly sell the show to me, especially if there’s going to be ‘GILF’ sex. Nobody wants to see that.
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posted on
08/20/2007 4:02:12 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: colorado tanker
Atia, Octavia, Erinae... Cleo, that saloon wench... Rome knew how to cast the ladies, that was for sure. It was a tremendous series, though it went downhill when they recast Octavian.
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posted on
08/20/2007 4:04:15 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: SengirV
I dont think the author knows the definition of masturbation. I was about to say the same thing.
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posted on
08/20/2007 4:05:19 PM PDT
by
JackDanielsOldNo7
(On guard until the seal is broken)
To: ichabod1
ROTFLMAO!
OTOH, ask me again in 20 years.
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posted on
08/20/2007 4:18:27 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: colorado tanker
I’ve always found there’s a difference between what I want to see portrayed and what I find attractive in real life. Jane Alexander may be quite the handsome lady, and at that time of life quite desirable, but it’s like thinking about my grandparents doing it... A nice thing about getting older though, is that more and more of them look desirable... I mean what looked like an old lady to me when I was a kid now looks like a sweet young thing, in many cases.
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posted on
08/20/2007 4:49:45 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" is still funny. I find Larry David's deadpan humor right up there with Al Franken. That is to say that they seem to do best writing for other people.(*) The funniest bit that I've seen Larry David do was the bit with his two daughters on a recent episode of "Hannah Montana".
(*)Challenge anyone who thinks Franken is funny to repeat anything funny that he said (not just a character name) from his time on SNL. And it can't involve repeating his own name over and over again.
Most people were totally unaware of his years of past "funniness" until he started taken potshots at the right.
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posted on
08/20/2007 5:12:58 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
To: DesScorp
Wow. Thanks for posting this. I might have missed it otherwise. I’m cuing up the TIVO right now. Thanks again!
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posted on
08/20/2007 6:15:45 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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