Girls Aloud
Girls ruled the roost this weekend, showing just how powerful the lure of TV box sets still is. For the HBO series was the best reviewed title of the weekend, as our regular round-up of press coverage for home entertainment releases illustrates. Girls arrives after appearing on Sky Atlantic and with a strong reputation and [...]
Click here for more >Empire Building
When the third series of Boardwalk Empire made its debut as a home entertainment title towards the end of January, it marked the latest step in tan ongoing strategy developed by its production and distribution from television giant HBO. For like many of its predecessors over the past year or so, the Martin Scorsese -created [...]
Click here for more >Best Box Sets Vote Goes Down To The Wire
Another week, another top television box sets you must own chart surfaces from the quality press. The Raygun has been documenting the irresistible lure of the format for the chattering classes for some time, but, the inexorable rise of Breaking Bad has taken it on light years. Heck, the phrase “box set” has moved into [...]
Click here for more >On The Box
Another week, another box set feature… In recent weeks, both the Mail On Sunday’s You magazine and the Daily Telegraph have trotted out extensive features on TV on DVD, box sets and how they’ve changed the writers’ respective lives, loves, family activities and more. It’s as if the writers have just discovered TV on DVD [...]
Click here for more >Sitting On The Throne
Much has already been said about Game Of Thrones, both here, around its high profile launch event last week (see here for more) and, as our round-up of press coverage noted, the title was reviewed in plenty of newspapers and magazines too. And this may, or may not, be our last word on the title, [...]
Click here for more >The Beautiful Game
We’ve talked about this extensively on our weekly email newsletter, but, thanks to our pals at HBO and Premier PR, here’s some exclusive footage of the massive launch for Game Of Thrones held a few days before its DVD and Blu-ray release. The event was one of those old-fashioned dos that used to be so [...]
Click here for more >From The Throne Room
We’re going to have more of this in the coming days – expect to see some pictures of the event and some actual footage too – but we thought we’d whet your appetites for our coverage of HBO’s lavish launch for the home entertainment release of Game Of Thrones by showing you the content of [...]
Click here for more >Top 10 HBO Greatest Moments
To tie in with our HBO special edition of the newsletter, we thought we’d celebrate the best of the company so far… So we put our heads together with staffers at HBO’s UK home enetertainment arm to come up with our 10 favourite moments from HBO programmes… 1. The Last Ever Scene Of The Sopranos… [...]
Click here for more >Bound But Not Gagged
“I can normally keep my freebie envy in check,” said our old pal Jez from Name Creative, when we sent him this picture (he kindly made it look nice, cutting it out and taking the background out), “but I WANT ONE OF THOSE BIG TIME!” We’ve sent the picture to a few mates too and [...]
Click here for more >Pacific Heights
It’s already notched up some notable successes and is set to be one of, if not the, most successful and biggest TV launches of the year, and we’ve already eulogised about it both here and on our newsletter, but we must admit, the campaign for HBO’s The Pacific really has been exemplary. And it’s still [...]
Click here for more >Belfast Boys
Here’s more from The Pacific launch – and what the heck, it’s rare that someone pushes the boat out in quite the same way that HBO did for the event on the HMS Belfast. But in all honesty, the entire burden of the cost wasn’t just swallowed up by the UK, HBO’s international arm used [...]
Click here for more >Pacific State
Excuse the rather cheesy 808 State headline, we just couldn’t resist it… Anyway, we picked up this rather interesting bag from the recent HBO launch party for The Pacific on Blu-ray and DVD, and it included the sumptuous box set produced for the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg produced wartime drama. There were loads of other little [...]
Click here for more >War, What Is It Good For?
The huge success of HBO’s Band Of Brothers and, latterly, Metrodome’s Saints And Soldiers, has shown that the war genre is alive and thriving on DVD.The Raygun assesses how it has shown its longevity… A Quentin Tarantino film such as, say, Inglorious Basterds is always going to be a winner at theatrical and particularly on [...]
Click here for more >A ‘True’ Story
At one point, we actually considered just printing this picture and letting our readers guess what kind of publicity stunt it involved, but perhaps wisely, given that this is the Internet, after all, decided to give you chapter and verse. It’s all part of a press junket organised by HBO and its agency Premier PR [...]
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