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HBO

American pay television network

Companyfilm production company subscription television channelQ23633

Also known as HBO Family

Founded: November 8, 1972
Founded by: Charles Dolan
Headquarters: New York City
Country: United States
Industry: subscription television
CEO: Richard Plepler
Parent: Skydance Media
Website: hbo.com

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Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network and service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Skydance Corporation. Programming featured on the service consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy, and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs.

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Veep(2012)
Girls(2012)
Hemingway & Gellhorn(2012)
Luck(2011)
Prófugos(2011)
Terapie(2011)
Bobby Fischer Against the World(2011)
Boardwalk Empire(2010)
Strike Back(2010)
Gasland(2010)
You Don't Know Jack(2010)
FlashForward(2009)
Bored to Death(2009)
A Dog Year(2009)
Alice(2008)
True Blood(2008)
Capadocia(2008)
Assault in the Ring(2008)
Recount(2008)
Tsunami: The Aftermath(2006)
Sons of the Carnival(2006)
When the Levees Broke(2006)
Mandrake(2005)
Rome(2005)
Empire Falls(2005)
Elizabeth I(2005)
Inside Deep Throat(2005)
Epitaphs(2004)
Something the Lord Made(2004)
Real Time with Bill Maher(2003)
Comandante(2003)
Capturing the Friedmans(2003)
Angels in America(2003)
The Wire(2002)
Path to War(2002)
Hysterical Blindness(2002)
Live from Baghdad(2002)
Six Feet Under(2001)
Conspiracy(2001)
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton(2001)
Quo Vadis(2001)
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story(2000)
Curb Your Enthusiasm(2000)
If These Walls Could Talk 2(2000)
Excellent Cadavers(1999)
The Jack Bull(1999)
Animated Epics: Beowulf(1998)
When Trumpets Fade(1998)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn(1997)
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride(1997)
Miss Evers' Boys(1997)
4 Little Girls(1997)
Don't Look Back(1996)
Norma Jean & Marilyn(1996)
If These Walls Could Talk(1996)
Gotti(1996)
Body Language(1995)
Truman(1995)
Whitewash(1994)
You So Crazy(1994)
The Burning Season(1994)
Against the Wall(1994)
Full Eclipse(1993)
Daybreak(1993)
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School(1993)
The Last Outlaw(1993)
Citizen Cohn(1992)
The Larry Sanders Show(1992)
A Private Matter(1992)
Afterburn(1992)
The Last of His Tribe(1992)
Kevin Pollak: Stop With the Kicking(1991)
Prisoner of Honor(1991)
Cast a Deadly Spell(1991)
Wedlock(1991)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead(1991)
Bobby Kennedy: In His Own Words(1990)
Descending Angel(1990)
The Edge(1989)
Crack USA: County Under Siege(1989)
Mystery Science Theater 3000(1988)
Live! From London(1988)
Dead Solid Perfect(1988)
Steal the Sky(1988)
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings(1988)
Long Gone(1987)
The Quick and the Dead(1987)
The Monster Squad(1987)
Robert Klein on Broadway(1986)
Down and Out in America(1986)
Gulag(1985)
Head Office(1985)
Draw!(1984)
The Blood of Others(1984)
Dreamscape(1984)
A Passage to India(1984)
An Evening with Robin Williams(1983)
Frank Gorshin(1977)
Norm Crosby(1977)
Shelley Berman(1977)
Robert Klein Revisited(1977)
Phyllis Diller(1977)
Pat Cooper(1977)
Totie Fields(1977)
Mulher de Fases

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Child organization or unit: Cinemax
Cinemax(1982–1987)
HBO Films
Owned by: Home Box Office, Inc.
WarnerMedia(since 1990)
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1.“Home Box Office - The World’s Most Successful Premium Television Company”timewarner.com/company/operating-divisions/home-box-office
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Warner Bros. Discovery
Number of subscribers: 130M
Owner of: HBO Films
Red by HBO
HBO Asia
HBO Go
HBO Now
Cinemax
Operating area: United States
Language used: English
Motto text: It's More Than You Imagined. It's HBO

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