HBO Orders Three Pilots, Including One Set In Post-Katrina New Orleans

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 HBO Orders Three Pilots, Including One Set In Post-Katrina New Orleans
HBO has given the green light to three television pilots: a comedy based on a book about the sexual exploits of a Capitol Hill staffer, a look at post-Katrina New Orleans by the creator of "The Wire," and a drama about Atlantic City in the 1920s. (link)

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The Morning After: TCA Roundup
Published 7/11/2008 by James Poniewozik at Tuned In - TIME.com
... In yesterday's news from the TV critics' press tour: * HBO plans to combat its programming slump with a novel strategy: creating new television shows . (Also, in what is becoming a ritual announcement, those Deadwood movies are still never gonna happen.) * Speaking of HBO, let's not forget the upcoming, and oxymoronic, American Little Britain, as well as ...

Afternoon Press Tour Linkage
Published 7/12/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
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Emmy Cuts "The Wire"
Published 7/17/2008 at Yahoo! Buzz Log
... , which includes a retrospective of the first four years. Meanwhile, its creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon may start another run for HBO: He moves from America's grimmest city to a post-Katrina New Orleans. That'll be one pair that will be hard to ...