This month marks the 50th anniversary of HBO, which launched on November 8, 1972. In our "HBO at 50" retrospective, Primetimer tracks the evolution of the cabler, from fledgling network to prestigious ...

Danette Chavez is the Editor-in-Chief of Primetimer, a Chicago booster, and a pun enthusiast. A former editor at Polygon and The A.V. Club, she now sits on the Television Critics Association board and ...

"I'm not a bad person." That line, spoken with a soft grumble by Mark Strong, appeared in every trailer and TV spot for Low Winter Sun in the summer of 2013. With the final episodes of its blockbuster ...

Over the past decade, few criminal cases have captivated the public’s attention quite like the saga surrounding the Murdaugh family. Once a prominent family in the South Carolina Lowcountry, the ...

Director Cecilia Peck is no stranger to competing docuseries on the same topic. Her last project, Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, came on the heels of The Vow, HBO's own docuseries about the group and ...

Unless Larry David changes his mind, the currently airing 12th season of his acerbic sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm will be its last, bringing an end to an HBO institution that debuted way back in 2000.

In Hear Me Out, Primetimer staffers and contributors passionately espouse their pet theories, spicy takes, and even the occasional galaxy-brain idea. Currently, laughs-per-minute is not a requisite ...

Susan Olsen, who portrayed the character of Cindy Brady in the popular 1970s sitcom, The Brady Bunch, recently opened up about her experience of playing the 8-year-old character over the series’ ...

In Part 1 of this two-part history, we worked backwards from Seinfeld to look at the various ways stand-up comedians from the 1960s and ’70s turned their stage acts into hit TV sitcoms. For Part 2, we ...

The star of NBC's new comedy American Auto enjoyed a stellar six-year run on the legendary late-night sketch show. Overlapping with the likes of Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Norm Macdonald, Molly ...

With director and co-writer Matt Johnson’s feature film Blackberry getting an extended, limited series treatment on AMC this week, the entertainment world is abuzz with Oscar (and now Emmy) talk about ...

The TV landscape is still working through a hangover period in the wake of the Hollywood strikes, but you wouldn't know it from the deluge of comedy specials that have been released in 2024. Over the ...