Braingames is an American educational program shown on HBO in the mid-1980s. It was a half-hour program consisting of brain-teasing animated skits designed to make the viewers think.
This four-part, limited series follows the Florida Gators, Penn State Nittany Lions, Arizona State Sun Devils and Washington State Cougars as they meet the demands and challenges leading up to and through game day.
G String Divas is an American documentary series that aired on HBO. The show was filmed in 2000, and follows the lives of strippers working in a Bristol, Pennsylvania gentlemen's club.
Broad Street Bullies is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by veteran documentary filmmaker George Roy for HBO Sports. It chronicles the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers from their beginnings as an expansion team in 1967, to their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships, and three straight Finals appearances.
The film includes clips and photos from the era, along with interviews with players, writers, broadcasters, and other individuals involved with the Flyers and/or NHL hockey during that period. It is narrated by Liev Schreiber.
Gonzaga: The March to Madness features exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the Gonzaga Bulldogs basketball team, offering a unique look at the personalities behind the powerhouse program and revealing how a small college nestled in Spokane, Wash. has achieved success against all odds.
British novelist Henri is stuck. Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. So when she's offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa - her parents' homeland, where her estranged father lives - she can't resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage. But when she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity - one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her.
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale is an animated TV special from Michael Sporn Productions, which aired in December 1993 as part as the HBO Storybook Musicals series. As the title implies, the story is an adaptation of the Aesop fable that is set around Christmastime.
The special's two characters, Emily and Alexander, were voiced respectively by Crystal Gayle and John Lithgow. These two cousins would appear in the animated series The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures, also on HBO.
Reverb, the critically acclaimed weekly HBO music television series spotlighting emerging talent, ran for four seasons. Reverb captured the energy and spontaneity of live music by taking viewers on stage, backstage, and into the audience at some of the premier venues in the United States. Joining artists on tour, without special staging or second takes, Reverb created an unfiltered, authentic and intimate experience where the viewer became part of the live show dynamic between artist and fan. During its run, the show became the highest-rated, regularly scheduled music program on television. A joint effort of HBO and Warner Music Group, Reverb featured a wide variety of artists from major and independent record labels. Vanity Fair magazine called the show “a brilliant showcase of underground favorites.”
The series creators were Jim Noonan, Chris Spencer and Will Tanous. Noonan served as Executive Producer and Tanous served as Executive Producer and Producer. Directors for the series included Milton Lage
A series of 13 short films examining different aspects of addiction, treatment and recovery, including drug-court programs, insurance problems and interviews with health-care professionals.
In 2018, a nearly 200-year-old Catholic school, located in the heart of a neighborhood rife with gun violence and grinding socioeconomic challenges, became a source of both immense pride and then searing controversy as the school's football team, the Panthers, were expelled from their private school league for being "too good" – a turn of events that raised questions of racial bias. Finding themselves without a league in which to play, the team made its own schedule, barnstorming the country in search of top competition and the chance to showcase its players as they strove for athletic scholarships.
You Are All Diseased is the 16th album and 11th HBO live broadcast stand-up special by comedian George Carlin, recorded on February 6, 1999, at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
"How's Everybody Doin'?" - 0:54
"Airport Security" - 8:02
"Fear of Germs" - 5:58
"Cigars" - 1:39
"Angels" - 1:10
"Harley-Davidson" - 1:23
"House of Blues" - 2:00
"Minority Language" - 2:12
"Man Stuff" - 5:23
"Kids and Parents" - 6:51
"TV Tonight" - 3:53
"Names" - 4:23
"Advertising Lullabye" - 2:37
"American Bullshit" - 2:39
"Businessmen" - 1:26
"Religion" - 2:06
"There is No God" - 8:37
Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl is a 2 part comedy and documentary show on HBO. It stars actor Robert Wuhl. The show looks at the facts and myths of American history in a comedic view.
Encyclopedia is a television series created by the HBO Network and the for-profit branch of the Children's Television Workshop, Distinguished Productions. The series premiered on the HBO network in 1988.
Each episode covered a letter or series of letters in the alphabet, with short skits of sketch comedy devoted to up to twelve corresponding encyclopedia topics. Several topics were related through song. Three of the six writers of the show had also been writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live: Patricia Marx, Brian McConnachie, and Mitchell Kriegman.
The series featured the band BETTY, who performed both the opening and closing themes as well as individual songs for selected topics.