HBO, which is an abbreviation of Home Box Office, is a cable television network that is typically available only with premium paid cable services. Although the channel officially became known as HBO in November of 1972, it has been around in some form or another since the 60s, as Charles Dolan worked to set up cable system for television. The network aired movies and boxing programming for nine hours a day originally, but soon switched to 24 hour programming in December of 1981. After 1981, HBO quickly expanded and soon they were creating their own original content. In 1983, The Terry Fox Story premiered on HBO, and it was the first ever original movie for the network. HBO's original series programming began in 1997 with OZ, but it wasn't until 1999's The Sopranos when HBO began to receive critical acclaim for their original shows. Other popular HBO series include Boardwalk Empire (2010), Bored to Death (2009), Hung (2009), Eastbound & Down (2009), True Blood (2008), Big Love (2006), Entourage (2004), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), Six Feet Under (2005), Sex and the City (2004), and The Wire (2002). Although HBO series typically depict a great deal of violence, nudity, and profanity, their shows are often well-received by critics. HBO now offers many separate channels for a higher price, including HBO 2, HBO Comedy, HBO Family, HBO Latino, HBO Signature, and HBO Zone. MORE

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Game of Thrones Available Videos: 0 Free, 9 Paid Game of Thrones is an HBO American medieval fantasy series created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss...

True Blood Available Videos: 0 Free, 48 Paid True Blood is a dramatic television series from HBO directed by Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball and based on the books by Charlaine Harris about...

Entourage Available Videos: 1 Free, 96 Paid Entourage is a show from HBO and Mark Wahlberg about the quintessential group of Hollywood 'boys' who made the move from Queens to the city of...

Sex and the City Available Videos: 5 Free, 94 Paid Sex and the City is an HBO original tv show about four single girls in New York City- Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her three best...

The Sopranos Available Videos: 0 Free, 86 Paid The Sopranos is an original tv show on HBO about the Soprano family, a group of mobsters in New Jersey, focusing mainly on patriarch Tony Soprano...

Eastbound & Down Available Videos: 0 Free, 13 Paid Eastbound & Down is an HBO comedy series starring Danny McBride as a past-his-prime professional baseball pitcher, forced to return to his...

Fraggle Rock Available Videos: 0 Free, 98 Paid Fraggle Rock is an HBO children's series created by Jim Henson and starring a large cast of lovable Muppet creatures called Fraggles...

OZ Available Videos: 0 Free, 56 Paid Oz is an HBO TV Series set in a prison and chronicles the lives of everyone tangled with the prison, from the inmates and their families to the...

Curb Your Enthusiasm Available Videos: 0 Free, 80 Paid Curb Your Enthusiasm centers around the life of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David as he struggles with his daily interactions with the rest of the...

Band of Brothers Available Videos: 0 Free, 10 Paid Band of Brothers is a ten-part HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and based on the non-fiction book of the same name by...

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