BOOK REVIEW TINDERBOX JAMES MILLER SERIES
It also has some originals, such as the Emmy-nominated series “The Flight Attendant” and “Hacks.”īoth HBO and HBO Max are run by the same executive, Casey Bloys. James Andrew Miller is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Live from New York. While HBO remains HBO, Max includes all kinds of Warner Media library content. “It confused the consumer, it confused the product, it confused the Hollywood community, it confused people inside HBO, and I just don’t understand it.” “I think it’s one of the great branding disasters of all time,” Miller says. The company would call its streaming service HBO Max. In 2019, Warner Media - then under the leadership of AT&T executive John Stankey - announced a decision seemingly designed to create brand confusion. Lots of executives were pushed out, including HBO chief Richard Plepler. But once it got the green light, AT&T wasted no time making its mark on those legacy media companies. With the Trump administration pushing back, the sale took some time to go through. Charisse Van Horn is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Book Review: ‘Tinderbox,’ by James Andrew Miller The New York Times. Former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes made a deal to sell the whole parent company - and its assets including Warner Brothers, CNN, Turner and HBO - to AT&T in 2016. Book Review: ‘Tinderbox,’ by James Andrew Miller The New York Times NovemCharisseVanHorn book reviews, books, reviews.
Hollywood has changed a lot in the nearly 50 years since the network’s founding, and HBO - as part of Time Warner and then Warner Media - has been through a lot too. It’s no wonder Miller’s book is 1,000 pages long - he talked to hundreds of people involved with all kinds of HBO programming - stand-up comedy, sports, documentaries, and of course series including “The Sopranos” and “The Wire.” KCRW continues its conversation with James Andrew Miller, author of ‘“Tinderbox,” a new oral history of HBO.
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