Poorly Played Home Box Office...

HBO recently decided to renew their new show Enlightened, while canceling Bored to Death, Hung, and How to Make it in America. I am fairly certain that top HBO brass have deemed this "How to Kick America in the Balls: an enlightened method to bore the watching public to death until they death by hanging" (Disclaimer: this is probably not true). I like Laura Dern and all, and admittedly I never really gave that show much of a chance, but how could you re-up that while canceling Bored to Death, one of the better shows, with one of the best casts, on TV (in my humble opinion). Hung and How to Make it... were not nearly as innovative but seemed like they would appeal to a better target demographic than a middle aged female office drone who flips out in the office after an affair with a co-worker and then gets all zen.

I hope the next group of shows they have lined up strike a chord with viewers, because it seems to me that HBO has been steadily slipping as of late as Showtime and AMC continue to pickup faithful viewers (a.k.a., market share). Considering HBO's track record (or even just The Sopranos and The Wire), however, it's hard to doubt them (he said at the end of a post that is composed almost entirely with HBO doubts). Just do us all a favor and get Zach Galifianakis back on TV HBO. You owe us that much...