Producers at HBO asked Busey to play a " character " on the show who was the self-named actor who is also a famous painter and sculptor.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

There was a brief exchange that occurred when the surviving members reunited in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998 for a show that was broadcast on HBO and has since become available on video.

Five different versions of Waits's song " Way Down in the Hole " have been used as the opening theme songs for the HBO television show The Wire.

Pee-wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a successful stage show at The Groundlings and then the Roxy which was later turned into an HBO special.

In the premiere season of indie HBO show Girls, bohemian character Jessa Johansson ( Jemima Kirke ) was seen ordering a White Russian in a bar in the middle of the day of her planned abortion.

Their eponymous television show ran from 1988 to 1994 on CBC in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 on CBS and HBO in the United States.

* Maya Fisher, a character from the HBO TV show Six Feet Under

* In the second season of the HBO show True Blood the town falls under the spell of a Maenad, who holds regular Bacchanalia with the possessed townspeople.

* Avon Barksdale, a character in the HBO show The Wire

The concert was broadcast over the radio and HBO, and fans were told to show up wearing white T-shirts.

The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States, Channel 7 in Australia, and TV1 in New Zealand.

Viacom Cablevision in Nashville, Tennessee, the first system to offer the event, sold over fifty percent of its subscribers when companies like iN DEMAND, HBO, and Showtime started using the system to show movies and some of their productions.

* A question the fictional Quiz show Up Your Ante in the HBO Series Oz was asked about the routine.

In September 2008, the pilot episode for the new HBO show Hung was shot at Clarkston Junior High School in downtown Clarkston.

* In Season 3 of the HBO show Bored to Death, Jason Schwartzman's character learns that his biological father donated his sperm to a sperm bank in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

* In the HBO television show The Sopranos, Tony Soprano and his family reside in North Caldwell.

A fictionalized version of the city is the setting of HBO comedy show, Eastbound & Down.

The following year, he appeared in the HBO kids show, Mother Goose Rock ' n ' Rhyme playing all three characters of Three Blind Mice.

In October 2009, it was announced that Shawkat, Har Mar, and fellow Whip It co-star Page would produce and write a show for HBO called Stitch N ' Bitch.

Movies were the most sought-after program category by cable subscribers, and the fact Cinemax would show classics without commercials and editing made the channel an attractive add-on for HBO subscribers.

First, the channel opted to carry more violent fare that HBO would only show at night, and then Cinemax decided it could compete by airing more adult-oriented movies that contained nudity and strong sexual content.

The HBO made for TV movie entitled Don King: Only in America, depicts the build up to the fight and the maneuvers that King had to perform to set it up as well as numerous scenes which show the way Ali gained the favor of the people of Zaire.

The first release of the new label was the original soundtrack of the HBO show True Blood, and the first album released was Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM.

She is currently a supporting cast member of the HBO series How to Make It in America.

In 2011 she appeared as a recurring character in the HBO series How to Make It in America.

He continues to work steadily, appearing in a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother, the HBO television movie Recount ( 2008 ) as U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, the HBO series True Blood, and his distinctive voice continues to bring him work for commercial and animation voiceovers.

He played Flash Thompson in the original Spider-Man film series, and was known for his recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood for which he has garnered both popular and critical praise.

He recently starred in the HBO original series How to Make It in America.

In The HBO Series How to Make it in America, Episode 5 of the second season is entitled " Mofongo ".

He responded to the end of the sexual revolution with his 1990 album, Let's Not Make Love, which contained many of the same routines as his 1984 HBO special, Child of the ' 50s, Man of the ' 80s, and his 1986 special, Robert Klein on Broadway.

Norton has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and on the Late Show with David Letterman, filmed an HBO stand-up special for the series One Night Stand as well as his special " Monster Rain ", co-starred in the short-lived HBO sitcom Lucky Louie and had cameos in the films Spider-Man, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Courting Condi.

" Make No Mistake " was later featured in an episode of The Sopranos and on the 2001 soundtrack album, The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series.

But then came his final film, Path to War for HBO in 2002, which brought him back to his strengths – political machinations, 1960s America and character-based drama, and was nominated for numerous awards.

In March 2002, Lewinsky, no longer bound by the terms of her agreement with the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, appeared in the HBO special, " Monica in Black and White ", part of the America Undercover series.

During Wilkes-Barre's reign as an industrial and economic force in America, a number of franchises decided to plant their roots in the city, such as ; Woolworth's, Sterling Hotels, Planter's Peanuts, Miner's Bank, Bell Telephone, HBO, Luzerne National Bank, Stegmaier, and the demolished Old Fell House on Northampton St is believed to be the first place in the entire world Anthracite was burned for heat.

In Latin America, the channel is controlled by the HBO Latin America Group.

Although Connolly had performed in North America as early as the 1970s, and had appeared in several movies that played in American theatres, he nonetheless remained relatively unknown until 1990 when he was featured in the HBO special Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly in Performance, produced by New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Formerly home of the Miss America pageant, Atlantic City has been featured in numerous films and television series, most notably the setting of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.

On December 7, 2003, HBO aired an epic six-and-a-half hour adaptation of Tony Kushner's acclaimed Broadway play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols.

* HBO Latin America Group ( and HBO Brazil )

It is controlled by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group under the license of A & E Networks.

While much of HBO Films ' output is created directly for the television market, such as the film Witness Protection and the mini-series Band of Brothers, Pacific, Generation Kill and Angels in America, it has also branched into theatrical distribution with such critically acclaimed films as Elephant and American Splendor.

( Channel 4 was the UK channel where Ali G and Borat originally appeared, and the series for America was a joint HBO / Channel 4 co-production ).

In 2013, H2 will be launched in Latin America being operated by HBO Latin American Group

In North America, the series was released in 1990 by HBO Video on VHS and laserdisc.

During the 1970s when premium pay-TV service HBO and the then up-and-coming Superstation WTBS became available on satellite in North America, some Canadians who were living in underserved rural areas, wanted access to these services.

America Undercover is a series of documentaries that airs on the cable television network HBO.

* HBO America Undercover site

Fontana wrote the HBO film Strip Search, directed by Sidney Lumet, as well as contributing two pieces to the September 11th special, America: A Tribute to Heroes.

* HBO Brasil ( stake sold to HBO Latin America )