After woman-puncher Albrecht stepped down as head of HBO, the new execs Richard Plepler and Michael Lombardo stepped in to talk yesterday about a slate set up by their predecessor.
Alas, it sounds like the two two-hour movies originally planned to wrap up Deadwood will never appear, although HBO wouldn't say no definitively. They haven't picked up John from Cincinnati, David Milch's latest series yet, but say they "want to be in business with David Milch." Translation: things don't look good for John From Cincinnati, but Milch will get another series with them. HBO often picks up series after just a few airings. If they haven't said yes to more of John yet, they probably won't.
And we'll have to wait until early 2008 for more of my favorite series of all time - The Wire. This will be the last season of this amazing series. I'd wait forever for more of this show, so I guess I can handle another six months or so. What also thrills me is the prospect of the creators of The Wire doing a mini-series on Iraq for HBO, although that wasn't mentioned in the article in Variety I'm cribbing this from.
In the third quarter of 2009 we'll get Playtone's production (that's Tom Hanks' production company) of WWII epic mini-series, The Pacific. If it's anything like Playtone's brilliant Band of Brothers, I'll be there.
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