Home Box Office (HBO) is a U.S. television channel. It has served as a model for Canal (the French T.V. channel) in France, creating a culture of pay channels, placing the film at the heart of its bid. HBO focuses its programming and television broadcasting on a series that creates a new genre. Indeed, the programs are carefully selected to match the criteria of originality and novelty.
The questions that this paper addresses are:
1) What programs have been successful?
2) How justified are the choices of producers?
3) Have there have been real achievements, or were there too pretentious programs that failed?
4) What is the strategy of the channel in terms of programming?
[...] Once again, HBO has initiated a series without any taboo. The Sopranos This David Chase series was aired between January 1999 and June 2007. It features Tony Soprano who is having difficulty reconciling his professional and personal lives as the lines between them are not always clear. In fact he heads a criminal organization. The Sopranos is part of the great success of the channel with a viewership of up to 11- 9 million people. The HBO series has helped to achieve a high artistic level, firstly, thanks to the quality of writing and secondly, through the actors' performances. [...]
[...] This TV series started on HBO on August It was viewed by 3.8 million viewers on the channel, the first night. The theme of the series has won over many Americans. Rome is a historical saga that deals with the decline of the Roman Republic to the reign of Julius Caesar and his impact on the nobility, the people and slaves. The series echoes the current society. There are some strange similarities such as insecurity, outsourcing, etc. The Channel is committed to meeting the highest possible political and religious attitudes of the Roman population and the sequence of events. [...]
[...] Producing a film where the subjects involved can be easily disputed is a risk that HBO has chosen to take. White Man: Release January White Man traces the descent of a former factory worker who was dismissed after having caught the wife of his boss undressing. He is left without financial resources. As revenge, he kidnaps the person responsible for his dismissal and demands a ransom. White man emphasizes the social and racial barriers that exist in the United States Series HBO has had prodigious success with its series. [...]
[...] The chain was rerun on FOX HBO Dream program, after censoring sensitive content, because FOX does not have the rights and independence of the HBO Success in international series HBO broadcasts original and innovative concepts. Seeing this success, competing channels purchase HBO programs and broadcast it to their audience. Thus is broadcasted in two blocks of episodes on ABC interrupted; the Series 24 has been picked up by FOX, and then by Canal + and TF1 in France; Sex and the City has been very successful in around thirty countries worldwide as well as on the French channel M6, where it was presented in part II in the evening. [...]
[...] HBO does not aim for a popular and compelling image, but rather it targets unique content. What the chain is looking for is creative branding with strong points of view. The result of this ambition is a series of exceptional programs. For example, documentaries that are broadcasted get unprecedented responses that are unparalleled. The series, Sex and the City and The Sopranos are groundbreaking programs that are designed to counter the widespread standard formats. The concepts are ambitious: the series 24 was an action series that was shot in real time! [...]
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