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PASADENA, Calif. - In a politically polarized country, the people behind HBO's upcoming movie on Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign are being careful not to take one side or the other.

As 2011 rapidly winds to a close, it’s easy to fall back on lists as a way to fill columns – indeed, as a TV critic, it’s my God-given right – but HBO’s announcement this week that it was cleaning house and cancelling “Hung,” “Bored to Death,” and “How to Make It in America” served to convince me that I needed to discuss a number of now-defunct series that lost their bid for continued existence during the course of this year.

I’m not talking about shows like “Friday Night Lights,” which had an end-game in sight and wrapped on their own terms.

I’m talking about ser

Game of Thrones hasn't even started Season 2, but it's never too soon to talk about Seasons 3 and 4. Rumors that are currently circulating on the internet hint that HBO is already thinking hard about greenlighting two more seasons of the fantasy drama, with the idea that the two seasons would be shot back-to-back.

Since HBO's "Entourage" ended, actor Adrian Grenier says he has "changed from being Vinny Chase the celebrity to Adrian the therapist," offering a shoulder for fans over the demise of the series.

Like most "Wire" fans who deeply and un-healthily lament the loss of a beloved masterpiece, the mere mention of anyone associated with the HBO ensemble drama sends simultaneous shivers of fear and joy and heartache through my bones.

When I was growing up in the 1970s, the lowliest form of cultural consumption was to stay home and watch television.

All other art forms, any other art forms, were fine. To have made the effort to leave the house, travel to a temple of culture and see a performance or exhibition was proof of a refined engagement with the arts.

To slouch on a sofa and be in thrall to a grotesque diet of cop shows, quizzes and soap operas was to opt out of culture altogether.

Here is a handy guide to all the different creatures in HBO's 'True Blood' TV series - including their powers, weaknesses and more.

As long as the British Boyega can pull off a convincing Jersey accent, this seems like pitch-perfect casting.

HBO has released the second trailer for Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire. This one, a stylized, near-silent mini-movie, comes in the form of a paranoid Nicky Thompson dream sequence.

Actor Michael Showers, who made several appearances in the HBO series "Treme," was found dead Wednesday in Louisiana, a Port of New Orleans official told CNN Thursday.