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Home Box Office, Inc. is the world's most successful pay-tv service, providing the two television services - HBO and Cinemax.

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HBO was the #1 domestic premium pay television service in primetime and total day ratings in 2011. In its fourth season, True Blood's Sunday night premiere audience continued to grow (up 9% vs. Season 3), Game of Thrones quickly became HBO's second most watched current series in just its first season (trailing only True Blood), and Boardwalk Empire returned to strong numbers in its second season. Cinemax successfully launched Strike Back, with the debut delivering the network's best performance in the time period in nearly six years.

HBO's original productions continue to be recognized as some of the most innovative, honored and critically acclaimed programming on television. To date this year, the network has garnered three Golden Globe® Awards, with Best Performance honors going to Laura Dern for the new comedy series Enlightened, Kate Winslet for the miniseries Mildred Pierce and Peter Dinklage for the drama series Game of Thrones; three George Foster Peabody Awards including the series Game of Thrones and Treme; three Sports Emmys® including Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel; and a Best Documentary Short Oscar® for Saving Face.

2011 was also a stellar award year for HBO, with the network winning 19 Primetime Emmy® Awards, the most of any network for the tenth year in a row. Boardwalk Empire led all programming with eight awards, while Mildred Pierce received five awards. The HBO Documentary Films presentation Strangers No More garnered an Academy Award® for Best Documentary (Short Subject), and the documentary Google Baby received a News & Documentary Emmy® Award. Additionally, HBO won four Golden Globe® Awards, more than any other network for the fourth year in a row; seven Peabody's including HBO Documentary Films' For Neda, HBO Films' Temple Grandin and HBO Miniseries' The Pacific; as well as seven Sports Emmys® including Outstanding Sports Documentary for Lombardi.

In 2012, HBO presents several new series including the dramas Luck, created by David Milch (Deadwood) and executive produced by Michael Mann, set in the provocative world of horseracing and starring Oscar® winner Dustin Hoffman and Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte; and Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom about a nightly cable-news program and its staff featuring an ensemble cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer and Jon Tenney. On the comedy front are Girls, created by and starring Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) about the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of young women in their early 20s; Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a former Senator who accepts the call to serve as U.S. Vice President only to find that the job is nothing like she imagined; Angry Boys, created by and featuring Chris Lilley (Summer Heights High) in multiple roles; and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Life's Too Short, a faux documentary which chronicles actor Warwick Davis' life as he tries to hustle and connive his way back into the spotlight.

Among HBO favorite series returning in 2012 are Emmy® and Golden Globe® winners Game of Thrones, True Blood and Boardwalk Empire, Golden Globe® winner Enlightened, as well as Eastbound & Down, Treme and The Life and Times of Tim.

HBO Films' 2012 productions include Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen (Closer) and Oscar® winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours) in a story about the tumultuous romance and subsequent marriage of literary master Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn; and Game Change, with multiple Oscar® nominees Ed Harris and Julianne Moore in an inside look at the 2008 presidential race, adapted from the non-fiction bestseller on John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Featured HBO Documentary Films for 2012 include Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory which revisits the true story of three teenagers who were charged in the deaths of three second grade boys in Arkansas in 1993; The Union, Cameron Crowe's look at pop superstar Elton John and his recent collaboration with his idol, rock pioneer Leon Russell; Academy Award® Best Documentary Short winner Saving Face which follows women in Pakistan who have been attacked with acid and the efforts of Dr. Mohammed Jawad to perform reconstructive surgery to restore their faces; The Loving Story, about the interracial couple whose opposition to the laws that banished them from their home resulted in the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case "Loving v. Virginia"; and The Weight of the Nation, a groundbreaking multi-part, multi-platform series which addresses the national obesity epidemic.

On the technology side, HBO continues to build on the latest innovations and content distribution platforms, bringing its programming libraries online though its highly successful and acclaimed brand extensions HBO GO and MAX GO, which are also available on iPad®, iPhone®, iPod touch® and select Android™ Smartphones. HBO GO is also offered on multiple consumer platforms including the Roku® streaming player, Samsung Smart TV™ and Microsoft Xbox® gaming consoles, with larger expansions anticipated on mobile platforms such as Android tablets, additional gaming consoles and connected TV devices.

Internationally, HBO and Cinemax branded networks are available in over 60 countries throughout Latin America, Central Europe, Asia and South Asia. HBO's original programming is also licensed to television networks in over 150 countries worldwide and is also distributed via DVDs, Blu-ray™ and digital downloads in over 70 countries.

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Latest Home Box Office News

• April 12, 2012
  HBO® makes Premiere Episodes of New Comedy Series Girls℠ and Veep℠ Available to all Audiences, including Non-Subscribers, on Multiple Platforms
• January 16, 2012
  Ziggo Offers HBO® Channels
• December 19, 2011
  Cablevision Reaches Agreement to Offer Customers HBO GO® and MAX GO®
• December 16, 2011
  Time Warner Cable to Launch Latest Online Offerings from HBO®, HBO GO® and MAX GO® in the Next Month

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