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10 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.

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.

Crime family

Although not as powerful as other families, the DeCavalcante family is noted for inspiring the fictional crime family portrayed in the most popular pop culture portrayal of the mob in recent years, the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

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.

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.

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 Robbins

Robbins has also appeared on film, playing the part of Maureen in the 2001 film Strange Relations alongside Julie Walters and Paul Reiser, Bryony in the 1997 musical film Up On The Roof alongside actor Adrian Lester, Darla in the 1998 TV movie Nightworld: 30 Years to Life for American channel HBO starring actor Robert Hays, and Sylvie in the 2002 film Killing Me Softly.

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.

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.

Aya Cash

An alumnus of the San Francisco School of the Arts as well as the University of Minnesota, Cash has appeared on television series such as Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Mercy and Season 2 of HBO's The Newsroom.

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.

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.

Callie Cameron

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

Carl Filipiak

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

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.

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.

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.

James Yoshimura

Yoshimura was inspired to write it based on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, where a New York City detective discussed a similar real-life event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maria Hinojosa

In addition, she interviewed various notable Latinos(as) for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ 2011 HBO television special The Latino List.

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.

Matthew Herbert

He has contributed music to several films, including Human Traffic and Dogme 95 director Kristian Levring's The Intended, Agathe Clery, Le Defi, HBO's A Number, as well as UK television, theatrical and concert dance productions.

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

In response, Arum revealed that HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg acted as mediator between Mayweather’s handlers and those of Pacquiao’s from Top Rank Promotions.

Meilani Clay

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smart-Aleck Kill

The story was made into an episode of the HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.

Teeth Dreams

Featuring lyrics written by George R. R. Martin, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" appeared in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.

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 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.

Tim Kirkby

Other television credits include the critically acclaimed My Mad Fat Diary, Walking and Talking and more recently the HBO show Veep (TV series), in which he directed episode 9 & 10.

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.

West of Memphis

Since the 1996 release of the HBO Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, supporters protested the innocence of the West Memphis Three.