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.

Comedian George Carlin, in a routine from his 1990 HBO special Doin ' It Again, remarked: " I've noticed that most of these feminists are white, middle class women.

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.

Lesbian-themed HBO special If These Walls Could Talk 2 won an Emmy.

In 1990, Hicks released his first album, Dangerous, performed on the HBO special One Night Stand, and performed at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival.

The tour was filmed for her Olivia In Concert television special which premiered on HBO in January 1983.

The album was promoted by an HBO special, Olivia Down Under, and its first single, the title track, was written and produced by Elton John.

In one HBO special, he comments that at one point, someone asked him to remove it, since, as a derivative of the word " fuck ," it constituted a duplication.

The following year, in 1995, Carvey filmed his first HBO stand-up special, Critic's Choice.

On June 14, 2008, Carvey filmed a second HBO stand-up special, the first in 13 years, entitled Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies.

In 1999, Olmos was one of the driving forces that created Americanos: Latino Life in the U. S .< sup > 1 </ sup >, a book project featuring over 30 award winning photographers, later turned into a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, music CD and HBO special.

These and older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO concert special which was filmed at Martha's Vineyard, where Simon and her band performed live on a pier.

Her 1997 HBO special Diva Las Vegas earned her a third Emmy Award, for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program.

Master impressionist Rich Little often imitated Fields on his TV series The Kopykats, and used a Fields characterization for the Ebenezer Scrooge character in his 1978 HBO special Rich Little's Christmas Carol, a one-man presentation of A Christmas Carol.

The series was developed from a 1999 one-hour special, Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, which David and HBO originally envisioned as a one-time project.

Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

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.

In 1983, he was the subject of an HBO special, " Buddy Hackett Live and Uncensored " that revived interest in his stage routine.

Nelson performed the puppet and voice of Emmet in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, a 1-hour special that originally aired on HBO.

Between Leonard joining the band and the start of their television break, Rockapella began to pick up fame, starring in a Whoopi Goldberg HBO special " Chez Whoopi ", a Taco Bell commercial, and opened for acts such as Chuck Berry, Styx, Billy Joel, and their a cappella idols The Persuasions, who the group had met on the Do It A Cappella special.

The Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show was recently taped for special to be aired on HBO in April.

HBO shot the pilot in May 2009.

In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, in the role of Patty Atwood, a Broadway director / choreographer.

The pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire, shown on HBO in the United States, beginning in September 2010, contains a scene showing Al Capone en route from New Jersey to Chicago.

In November 2010, Louis-Dreyfus was cast in the lead role of U. S. Vice President Selina Meyer in a new HBO comedy pilot entitled Veep.

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

* HBO announced in November 2006 it was adapting Preacher as a one-hour television series, with a pilot episode written by Mark Steven Johnson and directed by Howard Deutch.

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.

Aronofsky will direct an HBO series pilot called Hobgoblin.

In April 2011 it was announced that American Gods will be adapted into a series for HBO by Playtone ( Tom Hanks ' production company ), with Robert Richardson & Gaiman writing the pilot.

In the pilot episode of the HBO series Entourage, which first aired on July 18, 2004, Ari Gold asks Eric Murphy: " Do you read The New Republic?

* Shuffle Your Feet was featured in the opening credits of the HBO show Generation Kill as well as in Season 4 of their other show, True Blood, and the pilot episode of the FX ( TV Channel ) show Terriers ( TV Series ).

Later, Nelson reprised his role of Rodimus Prime in Transformers Animated ( 2009 ) and portrayed Father Charley Lock on Brookwood Sleazebags ( 2010 ), a pilot he did for HBO

Odenkirk and Cross reunited in 2008 to create the HBO pilot David's Situation, which was shot but never aired or picked up.

The song " See a Little Light " has been used more than once in various television applications: It was used in the closing scene of the original un-aired test pilot episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, it became one of the principal theme songs for the HBO series The Mind of the Married Man and was also used in a television commercial for TIAA-CREF ( August 2007 ).

When Fox passed on the pilot, Crypt Keeper segments were tacked onto the three stories ( Yellow, Showdown, and King of the Road ), and HBO ran them as Tales from the Crypt episodes.

In 2003, he wrote and directed a pilot for HBO with Rodney Rothman called $ 5. 15 / hr, about several minimum wage restaurant workers.

HBO is reportedly planning a Star-penned pilot for a series tentatively titled " Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl ".

The pilot aired on HBO on 24 November 2006 and featured Bono and The Edge from U2.

* Enlightened ( 2011 ) ( HBO pilot and first season )

In 2008, Besser played the part of " Courtney Frenchip ", the hippie roommate of David Cross in David's Situation, a pilot made for HBO written by Cross and Bob Odenkirk.

As Odenkirk explained on his web site, “ It will follow a traditional sitcom feeling, but will also feel like a big sketch, even though the characters will remain the same each week .” The pilot was filmed live on May 9, 2008 but was not picked by HBO as a series.

Ehle filmed the pilot episode, but when HBO ordered the series, it was announced that she would be replaced by Northern Irish actress Michelle Fairley.

Owing to its reputation for exploring new areas, HBO was initially doubtful about including a police drama in its lineup, but eventually agreed to produce the pilot episode.

According to an HBO press release, the mini-series ' pilot will " begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then powers for a time in motion pictures.