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 HBO on Broadband, HD feeds and multiplex channels. Internationally, HBO’s branded television networks, along with the SVOD products HBO On Demand and HBO Mobile, bring HBO services to over 50 countries. HBO programming is sold into over 150 countries worldwide.

HBO earned 26 awards at the 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards, the most of any network. In addition, HBO's miniseries John Adams won 13 awards, setting an Emmy® record for the most wins for a program in a single year

HBO received six 2008 Golden Globe® Awards, more than any other television network, including three for HBO Films’ Longford—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.

In 2008, HBO presented the 5th and final season of the Peabody Award-winning series The Wire, the 5th season of the Emmy®-winning series Entourage, and premiered the new series In Treatment, an innovative drama that brings focus to a staple of modern society—the psychotherapy session. In addition, HBO debuted Alan Ball’s True Blood, a drama based on the popular “Southern Vampire” books by Charlaine Harris, starring Anna Paquin; and three off-beat comedies—The Life and Times of Tim, Little Britain USA and Summer Heights High.

HBO Films presented Bernard and Doris, a fictionalized account of the relationship between tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her butler, starring Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon and Oscar® nominee Ralph Fiennes; the Emmy®-winning drama Recount, which follows the Florida recount from Election Day in November 2000 and features two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey, Academy Award® nominees Laura Dern and Tom Wilkinson and Emmy® nominee Denis Leary; and two seven-part miniseries— the multiple Emmy®-winning John Adams, starring Academy Award® nominees Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney; and Generation Kill, based on the nonfiction book by Evan Wright about the first wave of the American military assault on Baghdad, executive produced and written by David Simon and Ed Burns.

HBO/Cinemax documentary films in 2008 included the Oscar®-winning Taxi on the Dark Side, a gripping investigation into the death of an innocent man at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan; Black List: Volume One, featuring dramatic portraits of some of today’s most fascinating and influential African-Americans; Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, the 2008 Sundance award-winning film that looks at the public scandal and private tragedy that led the legendary director to flee the U.S in 1977; and Nanking, a 2007 Sundance Film Festival winner about the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II.