Oh, In Treatment, sorry. Saw someone else calling it In Therapy, so went on auto pilot.

wtf is starz lol

Well, my main problem with the two last books are the amount of filler material, so I think those books can actually be improved on TV if they manage to stick to the important stuff and cut out everything else. I still like the core story in those books.

The Deadwood saga was just a clusterfuck. It seems like HBO offered Milch to do two movies, but he refused because he wanted a whole season. So, everyone shares part of the blame I guess.

Mark my words, GoT will "do a True Blood" and jump in viewers when the second season starts. I'm guessing around 5m. The amount of buzz around that show is unbelievable.

Yep, I think the president openly stated that he/HBO did regret that decision, and I think they learnt their lesson with that show: to not focus that much on ratings. Didn't Rome also have Sopranos as a lead-in in the first season? Even though it got good numbers, I guess the managment maybe thought it was riding on…

Anyone know about good gaming podcasts, since AV Club doesn't cover any? I listen to Giantbomb's podcast, but that's about it.

They do? The ratings over at Tvbythenumbers.com (which this seems to be based on) seem to be numbers for the night the show aired, and often just for the first time it aired that night. So I'm not sure about that.

Eh, it's an OK show. Last season was pretty bad, but this season is back to good entertainment. Sure, it's Showtime-esque, but it's not bad.

I really don't care about John… being cancelled, because that show was such a clusterfuck. It's fun to watch the first season because of that, but seriously, that's enough. Based on that first season I doubt Milch would've been able to make anything out of the second season.

That's why HBO DON'T cancel those kinds  of shows anymore. This article isn't about HBO in the Deadwood era, but now. If Deadwood had been produced today, it wouldn't be cancelled with the same numbers it pulled in the third season.

Yeah, The Ricky Gervais Show is a slot filler for HBO. That show has to be dirt cheap to produce.

Plus it's a good show.

They do cancel shows, but the point is that it's so rare compared to everyone else. In Therapy did get some 0.0 ratings (a very unique show though in that it was on every(?) weekday for a month or two each season, I don't think a structure like that has ever been tried on American TV), so it's not like shows can't get…

Well, HBO is shitting money, so they can afford to keep low rated shows on the air if they calculate that they'll get goodwill out of it (Treme). The channel turned over $4 billion in 2010 alone, and it doesn't seem like the subscription numbers are going down (at least not by much), even now. HBO accounted for…

Eastbound & Down. And I like Bored to Death, but seems like no one else like this.

In spite, he doesn't have anything to do with the creative aspect of the show (except for voice acting).

David didn't really wish it to end, he just couldn't take the pressure of being the showrunner (or, co-showrunner with Jerry, but the one with the most responsibility) of a major network sitcom. There's many stories about him promising everyone on the set that "this is the final season" after every season had wrapped…

Well, in that same episode the writers argue that Elaine is as awful as the others, and that's why she really can't "move on".

I just love the idea of Kramer actually being able to get Jim Fowler to come to his talk show fantasy land.