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There has been a lot of discussion about the ratings and how long this show will run. Hopefully HBO will continue with a second season!
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Re: HBO, Please have a second season!!
Apr 11, 2008 6:27 PM
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?Not every show needs to reach the
> same size of audience, or same width, of a
> ?Sopranos,? ? she said.
Hopefully she was thinking of In Treatment when she said this.
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> As a foundation on which to build, Ms. Naegle
> expressed her enthusiasm for the HBO series ?In Treatment,? an innovative
> drama that recently concluded its first season, in
> which a therapist played by Gabriel Byrne sees
> regular patients on days that corresponded to the
> show?s schedule.
I'm glad to see they are still saying "first season". I'm also glad the new president is a woman. We can only hope she loves IT and GB as much as all of us do!
Come on Sue, show GB the money!
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Re: HBO, Please have a second season!!
Apr 11, 2008 4:59 PM
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The new HBO executive noted in the NYT article below will no doubt influence In Treatment's second season. I wish we could write her!
Stella 
April 10, 2008
New Executive for HBO?s Entertainment Division
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Sue Naegle, a veteran Hollywood talent agent who helped bring the series ?Six Feet Under? to HBO, was appointed president of the cable channel?s entertainment division on Wednesday and immediately charged with helping it identify and develop a slate of worthy successors to that hit series and, more important, ?The Sopranos.?
Ms. Naegle, 38, was co-head of the television department at United Talent Agency in Los Angeles. She succeeds one of the channel?s longest-serving executives, Carolyn Strauss, who is being given a development and production deal inside the company. As president of HBO Entertainment, Ms. Naegle will oversee all series and specials.
Ms. Naegle?s task is a formidable one in which her performance will be measured against that of the executives who shepherded ?The Sopranos,? one of the most popular series in the relatively short life of cable television and among the most well received programs in the history of the medium.
As ?The Sopranos? prepared to make its curtain call last year, Showtime was able to steal some of its rival?s buzz with the comedy ?Weeds? and the period drama ?The Tudors,? while AMC drew rave reviews (in style columns as well as among television critics) for ?Mad Men,? which was created by Matthew Weiner, a former writer and producer for ?The Sopranos.?
Asked in a telephone interview on Wednesday whether Showtime and AMC in particular had earned a tip of the cap from her new employer, Ms. Naegle said: ?Absolutely. I watch some of those shows.?
?They?ve worked hard,? she added. ?They saw a chance to do things that were, truthfully, a little bit in the HBO model. They?re doing well with them. God bless them.?
Like a new basketball coach inheriting a championship franchise that has struggled in recent seasons, Ms. Naegle sought to diminish expectations for herself, at least early on. ?Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ?Sopranos,? ? she said.
As a foundation on which to build, Ms. Naegle expressed her enthusiasm for the HBO series ?Big Love,? a sprawling, sometimes comic tale of polygamy; ?Tell Me You Love Me,? which depicts an interconnecting web of couples and at times borders on the soft-core; and ?In Treatment,? an innovative drama that recently concluded its first season, in which a therapist played by Gabriel Byrne sees regular patients on days that corresponded to the show?s schedule.
She also said she had high hopes for ?True Blood,? a series that begins this fall and that she helped assemble (in her capacity as an agent) for HBO. It was created by Alan Ball, the creator of ?Six Feet Under,? and seeks to depict vampires in Louisiana in ways that, Ms. Naegle said, were alternately amusing, scary and sexy.
Ms. Naegle, who began her career at the United Talent Agency 16 years ago, literally in the mailroom, also inherits a slate of pilots at HBO that are already being developed and could well yield a hit series or two. These include a drama set in Atlantic City in the 1920s (from Terence Winter, an executive producer of ?Sopranos?); ?Suburban Shootout? (a series about two rival gangs of housewives fighting over their idyllic town, from the director Barry Sonnenfeld) and ?1 Percent? (about an Arizona biker club, from Michael Tolkin, who wrote the film ?The Player,? among others).
Asked in the same interview what had drawn them to Ms. Naegle, Richard Plepler, co-president of HBO, and Michael Lombardo, president of the channel?s programming group and West Coast operations, cited her sensibility as well as her reputation as an agent who worked closely with top writers in particular. Both said they hoped those relationships would prove to be of even more benefit to HBO now that she had moved in-house.
?Sue has always recognized what?s right for us,? Mr. Lombardo said. ?Whatever she has brought us has been smart and on the nose.?
Mr. Plepler said, ?We?re only as good as the people who come to work for us.?
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Re: HBO, Please have a second season!!
Apr 11, 2008 2:46 PM
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I'm bumping this to the top so it won't get deleted.
Come on you old geezers! Let us know what the scoop is on a season 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 4, 2008 8:46 PM
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> > Imagine naming your kid Wolfgang!
> > I guess it is better than Moonunit! or
> Apple.
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> Don't forget Pilot Inspektor, crazy Jason Lee named
> is kid that. Or Tu Morrow. How STUPID is that.
Hollywood can really come up with some off the wall names! LOL
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Apr 4, 2008 8:39 PM
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> Imagine naming your kid Wolfgang!
> I guess it is better than Moonunit! or Apple.
Don't forget Pilot Inspektor, crazy Jason Lee named is kid that. Or Tu Morrow. How STUPID is that.
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Apr 4, 2008 8:10 PM
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> Imagine naming your kid Wolfgang!
> I guess it is better than Moonunit! or Apple.
lol, I automatically think of Wolfgang Puck!
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Apr 4, 2008 5:47 PM
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Imagine naming your kid Wolfgang!
I guess it is better than Moonunit! or Apple.
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Apr 4, 2008 5:38 PM
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> > > > Amen to that sista. Just went to a 3
> > Doors
> > > Down
> > > > Concert Wed night and I felt really
> old
> > compared
> > > to
> > > > the kids that were there. And I mean
> > kids,
> > > looked no
> > > > bigger than 8 or 9.
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> > > I may be taking my 12 year old to VH.
> Little
> > does he
> > > know that I want to go more than he does!
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> >
> > You are such a cool mom. I was raised by my
> > grandparents, no way Granny and Pa would have
> ever
> > taken me to a concert. NO WAY. Surprised they
> ever
> > let me go
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> He just started playing the electric guitar so I
> thought he would love to see Eddie!
> I'll have to give him a little talk about all the pot
> smoke!
> He is going to see YES in June with a friend.
Just tell him not to inhale.
By the way, little Wolfie is playing bass on this tour. Well, he is not so little anymore.
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Apr 4, 2008 5:34 PM
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> > > Amen to that sista. Just went to a 3
> Doors
> > Down
> > > Concert Wed night and I felt really old
> compared
> > to
> > > the kids that were there. And I mean
> kids,
> > looked no
> > > bigger than 8 or 9.
> > >
> > I may be taking my 12 year old to VH. Little
> does he
> > know that I want to go more than he does!
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> You are such a cool mom. I was raised by my
> grandparents, no way Granny and Pa would have ever
> taken me to a concert. NO WAY. Surprised they ever
> let me go
He just started playing the electric guitar so I thought he would love to see Eddie!
I'll have to give him a little talk about all the pot smoke!
He is going to see YES in June with a friend.
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> > Amen to that sista. Just went to a 3 Doors
> Down
> > Concert Wed night and I felt really old compared
> to
> > the kids that were there. And I mean kids,
> looked no
> > bigger than 8 or 9.
> >
> I may be taking my 12 year old to VH. Little does he
> know that I want to go more than he does!
You are such a cool mom. I was raised by my grandparents, no way Granny and Pa would have ever taken me to a concert. NO WAY. Surprised they ever let me go
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> Amen to that sista. Just went to a 3 Doors Down
> Concert Wed night and I felt really old compared to
> the kids that were there. And I mean kids, looked no
> bigger than 8 or 9.
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I may be taking my 12 year old to VH. Little does he know that I want to go more than he does!
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> > "Well, they seem to be overwhelmingly horny,
> in-heat
> > women and gay-guys . . . so swept off their
> feet, one
> > and all, by their own charged, sex-pounding
> fantasies
> > about Gabriel Byrne that they remind me of
> > hair-tearing teeny-bopper adolescents at a rock
> > concert.
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> ahhhh, memories! It is so nice to feel 18 again!
Amen to that sista. Just went to a 3 Doors Down Concert Wed night and I felt really old compared to the kids that were there. And I mean kids, looked no bigger than 8 or 9.
My grandparents had the sense to at least make me wait until I was 14 before I went to my first concert. Stryper at the Mud Island Ampitheater in Memphis, TN. All I remember is that I couldn't hear for 2 days.
God I miss those days.
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Apr 4, 2008 5:03 PM
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> "Well, they seem to be overwhelmingly horny, in-heat
> women and gay-guys . . . so swept off their feet, one
> and all, by their own charged, sex-pounding fantasies
> about Gabriel Byrne that they remind me of
> hair-tearing teeny-bopper adolescents at a rock
> concert.
ahhhh, memories! It is so nice to feel 18 again!
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Apr 4, 2008 3:57 PM
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> Hopefully......if he finds us so distasteful, just go
> somewhere else...
My mother used to say, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".....
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"Well, they seem to be overwhelmingly horny, in-heat women and gay-guys . . . so swept off their feet, one and all, by their own charged, sex-pounding fantasies about Gabriel Byrne that they remind me of hair-tearing teeny-bopper adolescents at a rock concert.
Yeah, you know the kind: screaming half-hysterically, their mini-skirted bottoms squirming with burning need against the seats of their chairs as they shriek hormone-activated, pot-driven ardor for whatever pubescent-retarded rock-star of the moment is on stage --- himself half-drugged out, jerking and throwing his tight-pants pelvis in their direction with exaggerated lewd thrusts. I tell you, their invariably hilarious posts in the mushrooming GB threads --- which, stripped to the barebones, amount to manic, naked rushes of feverishly harum-scarum fantasies of the lick-suck-and-fuck sort, fully afire with girlish carnal fever --- have been another source of non-stop amusement for me in these HBO forums.
Yep, I confess, at times to the point of laughing out loud and often in explosive bursts of disbelieving wonder about their likely relations with their dead-as-a-door-nail hubbies or the latest clueless lout-of-a-boy-friend bedmates". --- gordongordo
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Further bugged-out views along this line will be found here, much to your delight: In Treatment, finale, post 111
[b"]Go sit on a butt plug and rotate" rubyitcat
"I loved the response you posted Rubyjtcat" --- too many endorsers to name
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Hey, I loved it too!
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More bugged-out comments along these lines can be found here in the finale thread: post 111
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