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50 years of HBO: a history of historic television
This week recognises the 50th anniversary of the American premium television channel HBO.
When HBO was launched in 1972, television was the inferior artform to film. Today, it seems like the vast majority of prestige on the screen is coming out of our televisions.
Film stars who once would have seen a series as beneath them now flock to tentpole shows for the opportunity to land a run in the sort of high-budget dramatic storylines that aren’t made as easily for the silver screen anymore.
It’s a mass shift in the market, and whenever you inspect any of the shows that are responsible for the attitude change, HBO is never far away.
Almost every one of the big names in TV shows are HBO products. The Sopranos, The Wire, Sex and the City, Game of Thrones and Succession, are just the tip of the network’s iceberg.
So, how did America’s first subscription network change the game?
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