The show, so far untitled, has a murderer’s row of comedians, including T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, Lindsey Broad, Christopher Evan Welch, Amanda Crew, Angela Trimbur, ZachWoods and Kumail Nanjiani. But those guys will be pretty funny!

The tagline that has been bandied about here is “the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.” Ugh. That describes every Aaron Sorkin project ever. Of course, it’s Mike Judge, so we needn’t worry.

You know, staplers, and whatnot.

May I editorialize?

Thank you.

Veep is perhaps the funniest half-hour of TV on…TV. You know how people like funny shows that offer up a lot of heart as well? Those people didn’t like this show because this show hadn’t shown any heart. Until the last episode which offered an ending that leads the audience to believe that Selina Meyer MIGHT care about the decisions she makes, and her political career isn’t just one giant game.

While the show serves as a pretty bleak vantage point of contemporary politics, it doesn’t have to. You CAN just like the show because it’s a bunch of inept, weird people cursing at each other and their fun idiosyncrasies.

I promise no more editorializing for ten days, at least.

And judging by Ringling Bros claims that the HBO doc is “one-sided,” you would be totally correct. Variety is reporting that HBO initially wished to discuss with Feld, the parent company of the circus, their involvement in both conservation, as well as the use of elephants in their circus. However, they later scrapped that plan, telling Feld that they didn’t want to focus on the conservation issue, presumably just the nasty stuff.

The circus spokesman claimed that HBO may “clearly have an anti-circus political agenda.”

But where do they stand on capades, both ice and regular?

While this sounds like a big burden, it might be the best possible use of the author’s time since signing a new development deal with HBO. Since he’s admitted he’s about 3,000 or so pages away (for reals) from completing A Song of Fire and Ice, any project that he’s got a head start on is probably ideal, rather than one that he’s starting from scratch.

Maybe he’ll harken all the way back to the time that Eddard Stark had a head.

Will we see him tortured? Will he be a sellsword?? A rival eunuch??? Luckily, we here at Screen Junkies have some pull in the industry and have scored an exclusive still of Martin’s appearance.

Makes a lot of sense. (Deadline)

If you chose Game Of Thrones dialogue, you are correct.

Anyway, Oh My God premieres Saturday, April 13th and the promo is awesome.

And dragons. Fully grown dragons f&*%ing up people’s sh*t. Here’s hoping this is the season where Joffrey will be impaled on the Iron Throne. Why else would there be swords all over that thing?

It will be nice to see Pacino, an actor who frequently presents characters on the verge of sanity, play a real-life unhinged icon.

So do actor’s get to keep their wigs after a film or, like, how does that work?

Ellin ostensibly has a script done, that he wrote, because who knows the intricacies of guys named Turtle, Vinnie, E, and Johnny Drama more than the deft scribe that birthed them? No one, that’s who.

I hope they are an efficient crew, because there’s a very narrow window in which the team will be able to shoot those scenes where the sun is setting (the magic hour, if you will) over a Malibu beach house deck, with the characters toasting their good fortune as Medellin 2 gets a really good distribution deal in foreign markets.

Production is slated to start in March. No premiere date or range has been announced.

But what this all really means is that we’re going to see Lena Dunham‘s naked body about 700 more times in late 2013/early 204.

Here we’re introduced to several new players. Here you’ll get your first looks at Ciaran Hinds as Mance Rayder, the King Beyond The Wall, Dianna Rigg as Lady Oleanna, the grandma from House Tyrell, Clive Russell as Bryndon “The Blackfish” Tully, Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jojen Reed, and Paul Kaye as the red priest Thoros. Expect to see them all naked at some point.

Game Of Thrones returns to HBO on March 31st.

Distasteful wordplay and line-dropping aside. Chew’s amazingly restrained performance as Prop Joe in the HBO inner-city epic serves as a touchpoint of the brilliance of the program, widely regarded as one of television’s best.

While Robert Chew’s legacy includes turns in David Simon productions Homicide, The Corner, and The Wire, perhaps his greatest work was his effort after achieving success, mentoring Baltimore‘s Arean Players, a troupe of child and young adult actors.

No less than David Simon has high praise for Chew, offering:

“He could have gone to New York or Los Angeles and commanded a lot more work, but he loved the city as his home and chose to remain here working.  He understood so much about his craft that it was no surprise at all that we would go to him to coach our young actors in season four.  He was the conduit through which they internalized their remarkable performances.”

With that quote, we learn that not only was Robert Chew responsible for his own great performance on the show, but also in eliciting the moving performances.

While he was known for his character, I’m sure he was known to many other people as something more. Rest in peace, Prop Joe, you cadaverous motherfucker.

Laughs Unlimited has been ordered by HBO, but it’s seriously about as funny as Two and a Half Men, so don’t let the name fool you.

In the TV show, an Army medic returns home from Afghanistan to find her husband divorcing her and wrestling away custody of their child. I’ll wait for you to stop giggling.

She becomes a cop, but continues to cope with PTSD with her fellow lawmen at a Sacramento comedy club called…that’s right…Laughs Unlimited. If it sounds a bit morose, don’t read the part about it being set in Sacramento again. It truly chills the spine.

The brewery states that the beers will “directly tie into themes, characters, and nuances” of the show, so if your beer tastes like incest or ambition, don’t worry. It’s supposed to taste that way.

The first beer comes out on March 31, corresponding to the third season premiere.

“OH MAN! THIS IS ALL A CHEAP PUBLICITY STUNT!!!!”

Said the slow gentleman from the back of the room.

“The other Capone, Nucky! Alphonse Gabriel Capone!!”

Fans of Ryan will be delighted to know that on HBO he will be free to interject all the violence and profanity that he feels he should have in his earlier network shows. Then they’ll get less delighted when they realize that it’s about economic hard times and not corrupt cops blowing each other up with grenades.

Nothing spoilery revealed here. It’s what you’ve come to expect — walking around in the desert, walking around in the forest, walking around in snow, and Arya getting terrorized by adults. The uje.

However, with that anticipation comes a number of caveats. Girls may have been the most widely-covered television show of this year, but the ratings didn’t reflect all the attention critics and web denizens paid it, so expect HBO to offer something in the way of accessibility to those who may have been turned off by the whole hipster-Williamsburg setting.

However, Lena Dunham‘s offered up several more diverse characters for season two, leading us to believe that the show may be bending a little bit to find a broader audiences. If we start seeing CGI puppies with attitude in the teasers, we’ll know this is the case.

The book even has a working title: Not That Kind Of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned. 

Wow. The word “banal” doesn’t even begin to describe that title. Let’s hope Dunham is able to put some of her charm and wit into another stab at it. It’s not unreasonable to think she’s a younger generation’s Tina Fey as her Hannah is a younger, hipper analog to Fey’s Liz Lemon, so expect to see Dunham expanding her reach to all sorts of outlets to become a media maven.

You know, like a white Oprah that no one hopes to relate to.

(Before we go any further, can we all just take a second and imagine that the 42 seasons of BWE took erratic Mad Men-like chronological jumps into the future, putting elderly bootleggers smack in the middle of the disco era by the 40th season?)

One more season means further opportunity to either elate viewers by finally turning this into a knock-down, drag-out gangster show or infuriate them by continuing to be all Downton Abbey when it damn well knows it should be a gangster series.

In any event, Boardwalk Empire‘s thoughtful writing and luminous production design at the very least outweighs the cultural damage done by Big Bang Theory, so we should probably all treat this is mildly good news.

Until now.

Taking cues from high school drug dealers the world over, Showtime has magnanimously offered “the first one’s on us,” posting last night’s episode on YouTube so that any yahoo with an Internet connection can watch the show and see what the fuss is about.

Their gesture also allows self-serving websites like Screen Junkies to embed the video in our site, tricking the most gullible readers into thinking that we’re somehow the reason they get to see Homeland for free.

It works out pretty well for everyone.

Enjoy.

The show is based on a BBC series of the same name which offers up a criminal case, then follows several different characters as they negotiate the legal system. Oh jeez. I hope it’s more interesting than it sounds.

Tony James would play a “disheveled jailhouse lawyer,” and possibly one that walks around in his robe and slippers, offering nothing more than general grunts as he swigs orange juice from the carton and indulges in chilled lunch meats mere minutes after waking up at 11 AM.

Because I’m sure THOSE writers were the ones responsible for the familiar stories, tired cadences, and staid little pecadilloes that peppered the scripts.

Hey! This character has the same name as a famous person! It’s the elephant in the room! Let’s point it out!

He was kind enough not to fire writer Corrine Kinsbury, which were pretty sure is just Aaron Sorkin’s nom de plume.

Ironically, this move, in an effort to shake things up, will probably just raise the Sorkin Levels the show lazily oozes out every Sunday night. Short of finding someone else to write the stories, then bringing in Sorkin to adapt them, punching up dialogue along the way, it seems pretty certain that this is the type of show we‘ll be dealing with as long as he’s involved.

Well, today execs at HBO woke up with more than a few regrets, claiming that going forward with the project wouldn’t be appropriate, given the network’s ties to CNN. That seems like a bit of a fallacy, considering that the station has long been known to have ties to organized crime, but that didn’t keep them from moving forward with The Sopranos.

I guess this news means that if you want to hear anyone speak ill of Fox News, you’re just going to have to turn to 90% of your friends on Facebook.

Dark times, haters. Dark times indeed.

Just like its living counterpart, the prosthetic George W. Bush head has inspired some pretty passionate emotions, with some conservative groups calling for a boycott of HBO. The people at HBO has responded to these accusations of political bias in a statement: “We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste.”

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the actual people behind Game of Thrones had an even better explanation for putting George W. Bush’s decapitated head on a spike, saying that it wasn’t meant to be a political statement but instead was just a matter of using the means available to them:

“We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk.”

Despite this explanation, HBO has ordered all images of George W. Bush’s decapitated head removed from future copies of Game of Thrones on DVD, and presumably from future broadcasts. The former president has not been reached for comment. (The AV Club)