America’s most successful premium television company, Home Box Office delivers two 24-hour pay television services—HBO and Cinemax—to over 40 million U.S. subscribers.

HBO and Cinemax offer the most popular subscription video on demand (SVOD) products—HBO On Demand and Cinemax On Demand—as well as multiplex channels and HD feeds. Internationally, HBO’s branded television networks, along with the subscription video on demand products HBO On Demand and HBO Mobile, bring HBO services to over 50 countries. HBO programming is sold into over 150 countries worldwide.

HBO received six 2008 Golden Globe Awards, more than any other television network, with Longford winning three: Best Motion Picture Made for Television; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Made for Television for Jim Broadbent and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Made for Television for Samantha Morton. Also honored were Extras for Best Television Series (Comedy), Life Support’s Queen Latifah for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Made for Television, and Entourage’s Jeremy Piven for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series.

In January 2008, HBO presented the return of the Peabody Award-winning series The Wire, and premiered the new drama series In Treatment, which captures sessions between a therapist and his patients, with episodes airing five nights a week. Still to come in 2008 are the fourth and second seasons, respectively, of the hit comedy series Entourage and Flight of the Conchords.

Recently, HBO Films presented Bernard and Doris, a fictionalized account of the relationship between tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her butler, Bernard Lafferty, starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes; and PU-239, a gripping mix of drama and black comedy about a post-Soviet Russian laborer trying to sell stolen weapons-grade plutonium to provide for his wife and son after an accidental exposure to a deadly dose of radiation.

HBO/Cinemax documentary films in 2008 include The Gates, chronicling the twenty-six-year commitment of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to transform the winter darkness of New York City's Central Park into a garden of light and color; and Nanking, winner of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival documentary editing award, which tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a safety zone where more than 200,000 Chinese found refuge.