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* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.
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He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.
Spacey at HBO Post Emmys Party, 2008
It was reported on September 25, 2008 that Gellar would return to television in the HBO series The Wonderful Maladys.
It also appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams ( 2008 ) where Adams was received by King George III as the first American ambassador to Great Britain.
In 2008, Showtime acquired Inside the NFL, the longest-running program in the history of HBO, from that network when it had cancelled the seasonal analysis and interview program in February 2008.
On June 14, 2008, Carvey filmed a second HBO stand-up special, the first in 13 years, entitled Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies.
In the mini-series John Adams, which premiered in March 2008 on HBO, she was played by Laura Linney.
* Recount, a 2008 HBO movie about the 2000 presidential election and Bush v. Gore.
In September 2008, the pilot episode for the new HBO show Hung was shot at Clarkston Junior High School in downtown Clarkston.
Charleston High School held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008, which was the subject of the 2008 HBO documentary Prom Night in Mississippi.
In 2008, he received his first Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie " for his title performance in the HBO miniseries John Adams, a role that also led to a Screen Actors Guild award.
However, in August 2008, series executive producer Mark Steven Johnson announced that the " Preacher " project was " dead at HBO.
In 2008, she starred as Tara Thornton in the unaired first pilot of the HBO TV series True Blood, and was subsequently replaced by Rutina Wesley for that role.
On July 18, 2008, it was reported on ESPN. com's quick hits that the fight between Mayorga and Mosley was moved to the Home Depot Center in Carson, California and set for September 27 because of the Pavlik-Hopkins fight agreement for October 18 on HBO PPV.
) In 2008, she revived her role as Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original series.
According to Broadcasting & Cable, in 2007, HBO Distribution announced plans to bring back Unsolved Mysteries when the cable channel Lifetime contract expired in 2008.
It premiered on the HBO cable network on May 25, 2008.
In the U. S., the film was released to DVD in January 2007 and later aired on premium-television, multiplex channels: Cinemax in September 2007 and HBO in January 2008.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Focus Features released a collector's edition DVD of the film on May 6, 2008, replacing the original HBO Home Video DVD release, which is out of print.
The book was loosely adapted into a long-running HBO television series also called Sex and the City ( 1998 – 2004 ), which itself spawned a 2008 film of the same name and a 2010 sequel.
On November 21, 2008, in Santa Rosa, California, Lampanelli taped her first one-hour HBO Special at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.
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* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )
* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )
According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.
* 2008 – Mark Speight, English television presenter ( b. 1965 )
in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.
Some tracks and demos from the album ( initially planned for release in 2008 ) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network in the fall of that year.
In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.
In 2008, SkyCable also broadcast the 37th Ryder Cup in High-definition television ( HDTV ).
They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website
In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.
Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.
In December 2008, Lineker appeared on the ITV1 television programme Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Analogue television transmission ceased between 2008 and 2009, when limited local transmission of digital terrestrial television commenced.
In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).
From 2004 to 2008, Spader starred as the lead character Alan Shore in the television series Boston Legal, in which he reprised his role from the television series The Practice.
* In 2008, the LOGO television series Noah's Arc released its first major movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, wherein two African-American men get married in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
In January 2008, Bakker's ministry moved into a new television studio near Branson, in Blue Eye, Missouri The studio is housed in a development that resembles Bakker's former location, Heritage USA.
He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell ( 1977 – 2012 ) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons ( 1989 – present ) and Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present )
There are an estimated 410, 000 radios in use and there are 136 television broadcast stations as of 1997, with an estimated 1, 890, 000 televisions in use as of 2008.
* 1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality and television producer ( d. 2008 )
In December 2008, machinima. com signed fifteen experienced television comedy writers — including Patric Verrone, Bill Oakley, and Mike Rowe — to produce episodes for the site.
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