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11 unusual facts about 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.

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.

Be More

Two projects Be More worked with are Agape, a South African orphanage that is featured in the HBO documentary We Are Together (film) and The Blue Roof, a medical clinic that provides Antiretroviral drugs, counseling and support to people living with AIDS, which was opened by Alicia Keys and her charity Keep A Child Alive.

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.

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.

Templenoe

In the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire, Templenoe is the birthplace of fictional character Margaret Schroeder née Rohan.

The Rome International Film Festival

The venue has been host to many films, which have since been released by companies such as Miramax, the Starz! Network, and 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.


A Private Matter

A Private Matter is a 1992 made-for-television (HBO) drama based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy.

Alik Sakharov

He served as Director of Photography on numerous feature films, as well as a formidable number of programs for network television and premium cable, most notably for HBO with such projects as The Sopranos (38 episodes), Rome (9 episodes), Sex and The City, Game of Thrones.

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.

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.

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.

Callie Cameron

She also played the opening and ending sequence secretary in the HBO comedy series "Funny or Die Presents".

Damian The Hypnotist

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

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.

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.

Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

The documentary is presented from the first hand perspective of Lolis Eric Elie, a New Orleans journalist who is now a staff writer on the HBO series, Treme.

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.

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

Unofficial HBO scorer Harold Lederman had Foreman clearly winning the fight at 116–112 (eight rounds to four), but none of the three official scorers had Foreman the victor.

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.

GO Campaign

Past recipients have included Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes Lauren Bush-Lauren and Ellen Gustafson, founders of FEED Projects, and UN Human Rights Advocate Chris Mburu from the HBO documentary "A Small Act".

I's the B'y

An instrumental version of the song was also played in episode two of the HBO Series The Neistat Brothers.

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.

John Tintori

John's repertoire also includes writing screenplays, including Wise Child, Murder Most Foul for Columbia Pictures and "Interstate" for HBO.

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.

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.

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.

Lennox Lewis vs. Ray Mercer

The unofficial Associated Press scorecard had Mercer clearly winning the fight by the score of 97–93, while HBO's unofficial ringside scorer Harold Lederman scored the bout a draw 95–95.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nathaniel Fick

Generation Kill was adapted into a miniseries of the same name by HBO, in which Fick was portrayed by Stark Sands.

New Day Films

Its has also distributed nine Academy Award nominated films including The Collector of Bedford Street, and four Emmy Award-winning titles, as well as films that have been broadcast on P.O.V., Independent Lens, HBO and other national programs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Slawomir Grünberg

Grünberg's director of photography credits include: HBO’s Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001, and HBO's Sister Rose's Passion, which won Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 2005.

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)

That Smell

The song is featured in the films Blow (2001), Joe Dirt (2001) and Wild Hogs (2007), at the end of the fourth episode of the HBO television drama series True Blood (2008) & the song also appeared in the first season of Entourage.

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.

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.

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.

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.