![]() On the first day appeared NBC, CBS and ABC and God said that it was good. In the beginning there was darkness upon the land. There were long sections on HBO Sports, a lot of boxing stuff, which I skipped over, and I also skipped over other TV shows and documentaries I had never seen. However, since I don’t watch EVERYTHING on HBO, certain topics weren’t interesting to me. If you’re a longtime HBO watcher and someone who reads about the TV/Movie industry, this book is for you. This covers one of the first original regular series, Dream On, and later Arliss, right up to the present day with Succession. The meaty part of the book is the behind the scenes details on the original HBO shows, comedy specials, and documentaries. Executives are scheming to either become the person in charge of HBO or the entire company, Time/Warner. Throughout the book, you see the very smart people who worked at HBO, but also their political infighting inside Time Warner. My parents were confused by it, my Mother was shocked the first time I watched a movie on HBO and an actor said the F- word over and over. It was quite complicated, requiring a technician to come into the home and install a set top box to the TV. It may be tedious for some but I was interested, as I remember when our family first got HBO in the early 1980s. It is an exhaustive look at all aspects, from a small beginning in the 1970s, trying to cable up a few apartment buildings, to being able to broadcast via satellite to cable operators all over the world. This is a long, long oral history of the cable channel HBO (and now a streaming service, HBO Max). Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller reveals how fraught HBO’s journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, and, in doing so, reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever. J.) to Zendaya, as well as every single living president of HBO―and hundreds of other major players. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse, Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices, this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. ![]() ![]() By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. ![]() The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession …HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. From the great horror emerged an even greater string of mysteries: Who had set the fire and who was to blame for the staggering loss of life? The Newhall’s hard-luck barkeeper? A gentleman arsonist? What of the many other unexplained fires at the hotel? Had the Newhall’s management neglected fire safety to boost their profits?ĭamn the Old Tinderbox! is the gripping tale of one of the Gilded Age’s forgotten calamities, a fire that remains among the deadliest unsolved arsons in American history, and a significant chapter in both the history of Milwaukee and the Midwest.Ĭheck out Chris Chan’s book review of Damn the Old Tinderbox! here.Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. Two hours later, the building-once among the tallest in the nation-lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee’s Newhall House hotel was set on fire. ![]()
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