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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Small Screen

Hung And Nurse Jackie: Shows We’ll Warily Watch

4:15AM Richard Lawson | So who watched the Hung premiere? HBO’s latest installment in its string of series depicting lives lived on the fringes of America is about a well-endowed gym teacher who becomes a gigolo to earn some extra cash. It was… good? More »
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Small Screen

How The NY Times Writes An Article About Big Dicks

2:00AM Foster Kamer | The Times profiled the writers of HBO’s latest foray into originally programming, Hung, today. It stars Thomas Jane as a gym teacher with a huge dick who becomes a gigolo. But how does the infamously stiff (heh) Times write it? More »
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Switch-Hitter Anne Heche Goes To Bat for ‘Hung’

1:51AM Seth | Anne Heche will play the ex-wife of Ray, the anatomically superendowed protagonist of Hung. She replaces Kristin Bauer, last seen being escorted away in a wheelchair, dead-eyed and repeating, “The diameter…the diameter…” [THR] More »
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

In Tonight’s Performance, Jeremy Piven Will Look A Lot Like William H. Macy

5:16AM Seth | Broadway and Dan in Real Life star Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy have swooped in to save Speed-the-Plow, following Jeremy Piven’s abrupt departure due to an acute case of eight-shows-a-week-is-really-putting-a-damper-on-my-skank-banging-schedule-itis. [Variety] More »
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Friday, December 19, 2008

HBO Orders Series About Man Gifted With Gasp-Inducing Pant-Snake

5:02AM Seth | Hung—HBO’s titillating new comedy about an endowed high school football coach who uses his horse-geezer to his own advantage—has been picked up to series. More »
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Alexander Payne, HBO Chase the ‘Large-Penised’ Demo With New Series

6:35AM Defamer Hollywood | In a continuing creative victory for horse-geezered men around the world, HBO has brought Alexander Payne on board as the director of its new series Hung. Picked up by the network less than a month ago, the dark comedy is about “a well-endowed man … who was once a high school sports legend, but is now plodding along in middle age as a struggling father and high school basketball coach. His luck begins to change, however, when he figures out a way to use his best asset.” Or, as we hear creators Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin pitched it, “Kind of like Sideways, but with a huge dick where the pinot noir goes.” More »
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