After releasing a slew of new character posters, True Blood has finally dropped the trailer for its upcoming fifth season.  Set to premiere on June 10 on HBO, True Blood’s new season five trailer is pretty heavy on the bloody spoilers.  So be warned: if you want to go into season five blind, you might want to think twice before you peep the trailer after the jump.  As for everyone else, check it out!

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The Game of Thrones story is really starting to gather steam, with several chess pieces moving closer and closer to a cataclysmic collision of minds and matter. The tone in Season 2 has been a little starker than in Season 1, and it manages to do that while feature fewer Starks! As always, I am low on patience and high on anticipation for Episode 4 next week.

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This second season of Game of Thrones has journeyed on like a bullet train capitalizing on its maiden voyage. There are still hordes of new characters and places, but the pacing needs less introduction and backdrop. It becomes less about what is Westeros and more about what happens in Westeros – which, as it turns out, is a collection of fascinating, character-building, and often depraved stuff. When you think about it, there are a whole lot of semi-bad people in this universe, and even the good ones have their touches of moral ambiguity.

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UPDATE: HBO has now gone beyond halting production of scenes involving animals; due to increasing animal safety issues, accidents, and the fact that “it is impossible to guarantee they won’t [happen] in the future,” HBO has cancelled Luck entirely.

“Luck” isn’t exactly a quality shared by the HBO series of the same name—the new Dustin Hoffman-starring drama, which is set in the world of horse raising, has accidentally caused the death of a third horse over the past year of filming.  And, understandably, PETA is enraged, and all filming of animals on Luck has been halted.

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HBO’s Game Change, about the rise and fall of America’s most controversial vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, premiered on Saturday, and just about everyone had something to say. This new docudrama isn’t a continuation of the Tina Fey skits we saw during the 2008 presidential election on “Saturday Night Live“. It also isn’t an anti-Palin propaganda piece, though some conservatives may think it is. Based on the reviews we’ve garnered for you below, everyone seems to agree that Game Change has spectacular acting. Could Julianne Moore score an Emmy for her portrayal of the former governor?

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While national attention may be focused on the presidential election of 2012, HBO is focused squarely on 2008, as evidenced by their new original film, Game Change, which chronicles the events of the 2008 presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain.  And, in a new trailer for the film, much of the movie seems centered on the reasoning behind McCain’s decision to select Sarah Palin as his VP, and his campaign’s discovery that she might be a little, well, nuts.

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Winter hiatus is coming to an end, which means some of television’s most prominent television shows are returning—we’re looking at you, Mad Men and The Walking Dead—including the dark fantasy drama program Game of Thrones, with the second season premiere hitting HBO on Sunday, April 1^st.

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HBO’ Real Time with Bill Maher host/ outspoken atheist Bill Maher isn’t exactly a stranger to controversy, but a Christmas Eve tweet from the political talk show host/ comedian has landed him in a rather large vat of hot water, incurring the wrath of Fox News (go figure), as well as several people on Twitter calling for the cancellation of Maher’s program.

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In the post Netflix Streaming world that we live in, every entertainment platform is scrambling to gain licensing rights to stream and broadcast exclusive TV and film content first.  And it now appears that the iTunes Replay system may be put on the back burner thanks to HBO.

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