Oz

'Life on Mars': No more until January!

Source: Entertainment Weekly

 - With Lee Tergesen also in the episode, it was also a regular Oz reunion. (First The Wire, now Oz. That’sa lot of HBO. When is Michael Imperioli going to get ...

Published Fri, Nov 21

'Shield's' exit alters cop dramas

Source: Variety

 CA - Nov 14, 2008 nobody's interested in looking at real life," notes Tom Fontana, an executive producer of "Homicide" and creator of HBO's prison drama "Oz." "You've got ...

Published Fri, Nov 14

Oz (1997) DVD5 / NTSC The Complete Third Season

Source: BitHQ.org

A volatile men-in-prison soap opera, fueled by testosterone and lubricated by blood, HBO's Oz is addictive viewing. The third season of the most violent show on cable TV, set in a cage of concrete and steel and glass, opens with echoes of violence past. Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) is in so...

Published Mon, Nov 10

Oz (1997) DVD5 / NTSC The Complete Fourth Season

Source: BitHQ.org

The heightened reality of Oz remains consistently engrossing in the fourth season of HBO's volatile prison drama. All 16 episodes were written or cowritten by series creator Tom Fontana, and are bookended by the wisely sardonic observations of paraplegic prisoner Augustus Hill (Haro...

Published Sun, Nov 9

Felon - The National Newspaper

Source: thenational.ae

Harold Perrineau (who spent six years playing an inmate in HBO’s prison drama Oz, to which this film owes something of a debt) gives the best performance in the film as their leader, Lieutenant Jackson. Outside the prison he is a doting ...

Published Mon, Nov 3

HBO Hopes to Make the Unthinkable Totally Watchable

Source: Conde Nast Portfolio

Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson (Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz) are on board along with writer Bradford Winters (Oz fans take note; Winters' siblings Dean and Scott played the homicidal O'Reily brothers on the gritty prison series). ...

Published Tue, Sep 30

Americatown

Source: Film

The year is 2040, and the United States has collapsed caused “a mass exodus of its citizens.”  Oz writer Bradford Winters is developing the concept as a television series for HBO. The show, Americatown, will tell the story of a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants who form a Chinato...

Published Mon, Sep 29

Abe Lincoln on HBO

Source: blogs.sltrib.com

Here's great news for fans of HBO's "The Wire" and "Oz." David Simon and Tom Fontana, who created those shows respectively and whom worked together on NBC's seminal cop series, "Homicide," are banding together once again to make a miniseries about the hunt for John Wilkes Boothe, Abraham...

Published Sun, Sep 28