How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

A profile of Larry David.

“Three giant telecoms are gonna make and own all the content, and they’re not gonna want anyone else to make it.”

Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of Deadwood, it has given his work a new sense of urgency.

A profile of the director.

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

On the set of Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show The Newsroom.

An early profile of Lena Dunham.

A profile of 25-year-old Lena Dunham, showrunner and star of HBO’s Girls.

An oral history of The Sopranos.

On David Milch; Yale fraternity brother of George W. Bush, literature professor, longtime junkie, creator of NYPD Blue, Deadwood (which was in production when this profile was written), and the forthcoming racetrack-set HBO series Luck.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up. “I was hoping that somehow I could get some kind of cult following and get by with that.”

As CEO of HBO, Chris Albrecht was responsible for putting The Wire, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City on the air. Then he choked his girlfriend outside a Vegas casino, got fired, and took a job running Starz.

Behind the scenes with Kenny Powers, on set filming the 2nd run of Eastbound & Down, probably the only American TV series that would set an entire season in Mexico.

How HBO went from sitcoms starring Delta Burke and O.J. Simpson to The Wire. The view from a former HBO employee who witnessed the channel’s rise to prominence firsthand.

A review of Treme, the new HBO show about post-Katrina New Orleans from David Simon, creator of The Wire. “The series virtually prohibits you from loving it,” Franklin writes, “while asking you to value it.”