I think that in fairness, the people who shared that information with me, and there were numerous, no one wanted to go on the record about it which I understand. So why did you take that approach? Green AP Still, that leaves more questions than answers for the reader.
All you have in fact is a Zadie Smith quote from Misha, who clearly is already looking at what went down in the rearview having now moved to Apple from HBO. Several writers on the show refused to work with Green, blaming her for a toxic and hostile environment.” That’s a big assertion tossed on one of the industry’s brightest lights, pitch aside the milk toast “not moving forward” official statement with no attribution. You wrote, “HBO determined after a lengthy analysis that there were too many organizational behavior issues present. I mean, look, my job is to surprise the reader and to make sure that I am uncovering and reporting new material so, I’d better be surprised throughout the book or else I think I’ve failed ‘Lovecraft Country’ Elizabeth Morris/HBOĭEADLINE: So in that vein, one revelation in Tinderbox that has gotten a lot of attention is the real reason the acclaimed Lovecraft Country from EP Misha Green was suddenly axed in July after just one season - one Emmy-nominated season. And so, those things were surprising to me. I think that when you have big personalities like Michael Fuchs, like Chris Albrecht, Richard Plepler, I think it’s interesting to understand and see how that materializes in terms of the actual operation of the company. I think other times the impact that personality had over the company. MILLER: I think it’s how surprising some of the programming decisions were, both good and bad. I mean, some of them were, of course, but my only point is that I want readers to understand that so at the end of the book they have a 360-degree understanding about all things HBO.ĭEADLINE: So, getting into that dirty laundry, on either side of the camera, what surprised you in your clearly extensive research? They didn’t hang out their dirty laundry.Ī lot of these battles that I’m documenting in the book now really weren’t covered. I’m not saying that people in the industry didn’t cover some of the discord that was going on inside the company, but I think they did a very good job and they’re proud of it of keeping a lot of that under water. One of the things that HBO did very well throughout its existence is it was kind of an iceberg, right? If there was controversy it was sometimes about something going on with some of their shows or maybe two actors not liking each other or there was an early cancellation or whatever. MILLER: Well, for so much of its history HBO just did a great job of managing its image. What attracted you to the notion of doing a deep dive on the premium cabler as opposed to say Netflix? In a book filled with cameos and comments from the likes of Ari Emanuel, Sue Naegle, Tom Fontana and of course Shelia Nevins, the ex-USA Network EVP of Original Programming answered about his allegations of a “toxic and hostile” environment on Lovecraft Country, Plepler’s self-branding and what HBO’s future could hold.ĭEADLINE: Saturday Night Live, ESPN and CAA and now HBO are on your bookshelf. “I think that when you have big personalities like Michael Fuchs, like Chris Albrecht, Richard Plepler, I think it’s interesting to understand and see how that materializes in terms of the actual operation of the company,” Miller told Deadline of the impetus behind his book.Īs the $43 billion WarnerMedia-Discovery merger aims to close by mid-2022 with David Zaslav poised to take over the big scale-up, Miller also spoke with me about the behind-the-scenes GoT at HBO detailed in Tinderbox, and the skinny from former Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes on AT&T’s 2018 takeover.
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