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9 unusual facts about HBO


Basil Hayden's

Basil Hayden's is mentioned at various times on the HBO series Deadwood as a high-class brand of bourbon served at Le Chez Amis and the preferred drink of Francis Wolcott.

Jagdpanther

The HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, episodes "Carentan" and "Replacements" feature a replica Jagdpanther which had been built on a Soviet T-55 tank chassis.

Johnston Square, Baltimore

It is located in a crime prone region of East Baltimore and has been used as a filming location on the HBO drama The Wire.

Police of The Wire

The Police Of The Wire includes many starring characters who play a major role in the fictional HBO drama series The Wire.

Reichsführer-SS

While the novel dealt with Heydrich's assumption of the rank at some length, the HBO film adaptation gives little reference to this.

Resident Alien

"In the Meantime" was also used as the theme song for David Spade's 1998 one-hour HBO stand-up comedy special David Spade: Take the Hit, was used in the film Fanboys and is a playable song in the video game Guitar Hero 5 as a re-recording, as the original recording featured in Rock Band 3.

Shield of Thorns

Two songs ("Leaving California" and "Wrapped in My Memory") were featured on the "Long Term Parking" episode of The Sopranos fifth season (2004) on HBO.

Trevor Mwamba

He made a cameo appearance on the third episode of the HBO and BBC co-produced miniseries The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Vatnajökull

In November 2011, the glacier was used as a shooting location for the second season of the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.


Alejandra Gutierrez Oraa

While working in radio, Oraa became known as “the voice” of numerous international campaigns for HBO's Sex and the City, Olive Garden, Ford, and Marshalls, among others.

Alla Kliouka Schaffer

Alla Kliouka Schaffer (b. February 18, 1970 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belorussian actress, and former wife of Ken Schaffer, best known for her role as Svetlana Kirilenko on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Almon, Mateh Binyamin

The 1988 HBO movie Steal the Sky, starring Mariel Hemingway and Ben Cross, was partially filmed in Anatot, which was used as a location substitute for Iraq.

America in the King Years

In 2010 Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo, announced that it would be partnering with HBO to produce a miniseries based on Branch's trilogy, to be written by Robert Schenkkan.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

On October 13, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sherman-Palladino had been signed to write and executive produce an as yet untitled drama series for HBO.

Andy Kindler

He played the character "Andy" a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, is a regular guest on Late Show with David Letterman, contributor to The Daily Show and has performed on HBO.

Ballintoy

The village was used for the fictional town of Lordsport in the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones.

Bao Phi

He is the first Vietnamese American man to have appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, and the National Poetry Slam Individual Finalists Stage, where he placed 6th overall out of over 250 national slam poets.

Boxing After Dark

Boxing After Dark is an HBO boxing program, premiering in April 1996, that usually shows fights between well-known contenders, but usually not "championship" or "title" fights.

Carl Filipiak

Lafayette's music can be heard on the HBO series, "The Wire" and "Treme." Beyond Hamsterdam

CCNY point shaving scandal

In 1998, George Roy and Steven Hilliard Stern, Black Canyon Productions, and HBO Sports made a documentary film about the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal, that appeared on HBO.

Chuck Connelly

The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale, an Emmy award winning documentary directed by Jeff Stimmel, premiered at the L.A. Film Festival in June 2008 and was shown on HBO in July.

Damian The Hypnotist

His work has appeared on major television networks, including HBO, CTV, TVO, TSN and Global.

David Ansen

Ansen has also written several documentaries for television, on Greta Garbo (for TNT), Groucho Marx (HBO), Elizabeth Taylor (PBS) and the Ace Award winning All About Bette (Bette Davis) for TNT.

Dean Morton

He received media attention on HBO's 24/7 Winter Classic special when a post-game dressing room scene showed him being congratulated for a "ballsy call" by partner Stephen Walkom.

Dudi Appleton

In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.

Fort Meade, Florida

Located within the historic district, the house was used for the HBO motion picture The Judgement featuring Blythe Danner, Keith Carradine and Jack Warden (1990).

Frogcircus

That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.

Gene Atkins

He was featured on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel in a story about former football players who are suffering from head injuries that happened during their playing time.

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

However, despite his impressive record, his one loss had been a third round knockout against Darroll "Doin' Damage" Wilson on HBO the previous year which halted his momentum and hurt his status as one of the premier up-and-coming heavyweights.

George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

Kit Harrington, famous for his portrayal of Jon Snow on the HBO television series Game of Thrones, is also a descendant of Legge.

Home Theater Network

Prior to The Disney Channel's April 1983 launch, Walt Disney Pictures licensed select live-action films to many premium cable networks (including HBO, Showtime and Spotlight); as a result, HTN featured Disney fare such as Freaky Friday, Snowball Express, Pete's Dragon, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The North Avenue Irregulars.

Jay Davis

Jay Davis is an American actor, stand-up comedian and comedy promoter/producer who garnered nationwide attention after appearing in Dane Cook's Tourgasm, a 30-day cross-country-tour-turned-reality-show which also included Cook, Gary Gulman and Robert Kelly, and was given a 8-episode run on HBO.

Karl Gajdusek

The Spark (2013) (Television series in development at HBO)

Keegan DeWitt

The first, This is Martin Bonner by Chad Hartigan, was the winner of the NEXT Audience Award and the second "Life According To Sam" was produced in conjunction with HBO to air in the fall of '13.

Kevin Alejandro

He made an appearance, along with fellow Ugly Betty actor Eric Mabius, in the CSI: Miami episode "One of Our Own", and another as a gay hustler in HBO's Big Love.

Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing

In 2007 HBO released the documentary film "To Die in Jerusalem" which focuses on the stories of Akhras and 17 year-old Rachel Levy, who was killed in the attack.

Lori Williams

After a decade of apparent inactivity, a final uncertain credit for Lori Williams has been listed in the filmed-for-HBO version of the Children's Theater Company & School of Minneapolis 1981 production of The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction

According to the Crime Library website, the Jersey Crew is the main inspiration of the DiMeo crime family in the HBO TV-show The Sopranos.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt

The 2010 HBO television series Boardwalk Empire features Assistant U.S. Attorney Esther Randolph, a character based on and styled after Willebrandt, portrayed by Julianne Nicholson.

Mark Tinker

Tinker last collaborated with David Milch on the short-lived HBO drama series John from Cincinnati, which began airing in June, 2007.

Meilani Clay

Meilani Clay was a featured poet on Episode 3 of the sixth season of HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.

Mere Smith

More recently, she wrote the episodes "Heroes of the Republic" and "Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus" for the HBO series Rome, as well as episodes of Burn Notice and The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Miss Understood

Her film and television appearances include The Brenda and Glennda Show; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; HBO's Dragtime; TLC's Faking It; Wigstock, The Movie; Project Runway; and Sex and the City.

Nicolette van Dam

After finishing high school at the havo level at the age of 18, Van Dam went to study at HBO.

NRC Next

The newspaper aims at young, well-educated (HBO or University) readers in the 25-34 age group, most of whom currently do not read a newspaper, or only the free tabloids Metro and Spits.

Orange Cinéma Séries

Content is provided by exclusive contracts with Warner Bros., HBO, MGM and Fidelity as well as non-exclusive contracts with Gaumont, SND, BAC and Wild Side.

P. David Ebersole

He was co-producer of the HBO original film, "Stranger Inside" (2001) and the independent film "The New Women" (2001) starring Mary Woronov.

Peter O'Meara

Lauded for his work on the London stage he came to the screen in the groundbreaking HBO series Band of Brothers playing 1st Lt Norman Dike.

Rob Huebel

He also appeared on the HBO television series Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as Fox's Arrested Development.

Samuel Fields

On the HBO television series Deadwood the character of Samuel Fields is played by Franklyn Ajaye and rather loosely based on the real Samuel Fields.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

The Hungry Ghosts

Although Imperioli did not appear in the film, he recruited four castmates that he had previously worked together on, from the HBO television series, The Sopranos.

The Valachi Papers

In season 5, episode 11 of the HBO series The Sopranos, titled "The Test Dream", Tony Soprano holds a copy of the novel the movie is based upon during a complicated dream sequence.

Thomas L. Bromwell

It has been suggested that aspects of Bromwell's political career served, in part, as inspiration for the fictional Maryland State Senator Clay Davis, from HBO's The Wire.

Todd A. Kessler

Kessler wrote and produced the second and third seasons of HBO's The Sopranos, Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division and the first season of NBC's Providence.

Tourette Syndrome Association

In 2005 HBO produced in conjunction with the TSA an Emmy Award-winning documentary film, I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me.

Trollbäck + Company

Projects include the on-air re-brand of CBS, the visual content for the IAC Video Wall (one of the world’s largest video walls at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters in New York), titles for the global TED conference, and Oscar-winning Capote, numerous HBO collaborations and live action campaigns for companies such as Infiniti, Nike and Callaway.

Weapons of Mass Deception

Weapons of Mass Deception was also used as the title of a documentary produced by Danny Schechter which originally aired on HBO.


see also

Ashton Holmes

Ashton Holmes (born February 17, 1978) is an American actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence, Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Thom on the CW action-thriller series Nikita, and as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge.

Aufidia

Deborah Moore appears as Alfidia, the mother of a fictionalized Livia, in two 2007 episodes of the HBO/BBC series Rome.

BeTipul

In April 2009, HBO's Central Europe division acquired format rights for "BeTipul" from Dori Media Group.

Blalock–Taussig shunt

The 2004 HBO television movie Something the Lord Made, based on Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe's 1989 article of the same name, was made about his role in the historic Blue Baby surgery, as was the 2003 public television documentary Partners of the Heart.

British Urban Film Festival

In addition, the festival (5–9 September) was to be headlined by the UK premiere screenings of "Calloused Hands" starring Andre Royo from the HBO series "The Wire", "Traveller" starring David Essex OBE, Jason Maza & Lois Winstone & the award-winning "Bloody Lip" written & directed by Adriel Leff.

Efren Ramirez

Ramirez has starred in a number of films, including Napoleon Dynamite as Pedro Sánchez, Employee of the Month with Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard, Crank and Crank: High Voltage with Jason Statham, Searching for Mickey Fish with Daniel Baldwin, All You've Got with Ciara, and HBO's Walkout and made cameos in Nacho Libre and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Eugene Sledge

His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was subsequently used as source material for Ken Burns's PBS documentary, The War, as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific, in which he is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.

Jackson Vahue

Jackson Vahue is a fictional character from the HBO prison drama Oz played by Rick Fox, a former NBA basketball star and champion with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Joshua Seftel

Seftel's next film was Ennis’ Gift, an HBO documentary about learning differences produced with Bill Cosby and wife Camille Hanks in memory of their late son Ennis, which featured Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Anne Bancroft, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Schwab and Bruce Jenner.

KO Nation

Shown on HBO on Saturday afternoons throughout 2000 and 2001, the show featured dancers and hip-hop performances, and was hosted by Fran Charles and Kevin Kelley.

Louis Buchalter

Buchalter was also mentioned in The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti, episode eight of the first season of the popular HBO television series The Sopranos.

Martin Gero

He co-wrote and directed the Toronto Film Festival romantic comedy favourite Young People Fucking, is a Writer/Supervising Producer on the HBO series Bored to Death, and is set to direct the new Playboy movie.

Mike Binder

His standing in the industry further increased with his 20-episode 2001-02 HBO comedy series, The Mind of the Married Man, which he co-wrote, co-directed and starred in as the central character "Micky Barnes".

Nabil Elouahabi

In 2008 he played Meesh, a Kuwaiti translator, in HBO's Generation Kill.

New York Television Festival

It features a "Premiere Week" screening series, which now debuts new shows from networks including NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The CW, and HBO.

Paola Krum

Her starring role as psychologist Dr. Laura Santini in the 2004 HBO mini-series Epitafios (shown in the United States in 2005) has made her acting skills well known in North America.

Paul Batista

In addition to his legal career, he is an actor who has appeared in the HBO movie "You Don't Know Jack," which starred Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

He adapted it for a highly acclaimed, award-winning 2005 HBO film, in which the parts would be played by different people, that won him the Humanitas Prize and earned Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award nominations.

Skylight Group

It was a “character” on HBO’s Bored to Death by Jonathan Ames, and will be featured in the upcoming Russell Crowe-Will Smith remake of A Winter’s Tale.

Tony Darrow

The following year, he appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Grant, and got another big role as mobster Larry Barese in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, which he was on for the entire series run (1999–2007).

Un-Cabaret

When LunaPark closed, UnCabaret moved to the HBO Workspace (where they developed the show with Warner Bros), then to The Knitting Factory and M-Bar always continuing to produce personal narrative comedy with an expanding group of non-traditional comedians Sklar Brothers, Patton Oswalt, Greg Behrendt, Jeff Garlin, Mike McDonald, plus writers like Jerry Stahl, Michael Patrick King, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, John Riggi and others.