HBO store
www.hbo.com
Front 31100 Avenue of the Americas,
New York,
NY 10036-6712,
United States
+1 212-512-7467
We are big fans of a few HBO shows and have spent hundreds of dollars in the HBO store before, but this time it just seemed to be overflowing with True Blood merchandise and only had bits and pieces of their other shows… Resulting in us moving on without purchases…
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Rome Seasons 1 and 2 - HBO
Rome Seasons 1 and 2 - HBO
When this show came to Australian TV a few years ago I was mildly interested, but was of the mind that anything this good wouldn't make it to free to air TV... I was wrong...
Like most HBO shows it has its own distinct flavour, set in a time and place that we are all aware of, but which might lead us to believe that it might just be a historically accurate portrayal of the time... It is so much more, focusing on the relationships as well as the politics of the time, bringing that HBO real feeling to it, you don't feel educated as such, you feel completely entertained, attached to the characters and have a desire to know what is going to happen next...
We watched both seasons in a couple of weeks and am now a bit disgruntled that there is no more, no third season, no film... If you are in to other HBO shows chances are that you will like this...
When this show came to Australian TV a few years ago I was mildly interested, but was of the mind that anything this good wouldn't make it to free to air TV... I was wrong...
Like most HBO shows it has its own distinct flavour, set in a time and place that we are all aware of, but which might lead us to believe that it might just be a historically accurate portrayal of the time... It is so much more, focusing on the relationships as well as the politics of the time, bringing that HBO real feeling to it, you don't feel educated as such, you feel completely entertained, attached to the characters and have a desire to know what is going to happen next...
We watched both seasons in a couple of weeks and am now a bit disgruntled that there is no more, no third season, no film... If you are in to other HBO shows chances are that you will like this...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
HBO Store…
HBO Store…
1100 Avenue Of The Americas…
Before we embarked on the Sopranos tour, we passed through the HBO store…
My expectations of the shop weren’t high to be honest, as I really couldn’t imagine there being that much of interest for me aside from DVDs, but once inside I was extremely impressed…
The shop stocks lots and lots of novelty items based around their top TV shows, so expect to see mugs, keyrings and T-shirts (amongst other items) from shows such as Entourage, The Sopranos, Sex And The City, Deadwood and the like…
Not only is the stock good, but the staff were fantastic… I got to chatting with the fellas behind the counter and they offered me a 10% discount as I had mentioned we were doing the tour and then ended up chatting for ages about where we were from and what we were up to on our trip…
Top stuff…
1100 Avenue Of The Americas…
Before we embarked on the Sopranos tour, we passed through the HBO store…
My expectations of the shop weren’t high to be honest, as I really couldn’t imagine there being that much of interest for me aside from DVDs, but once inside I was extremely impressed…
The shop stocks lots and lots of novelty items based around their top TV shows, so expect to see mugs, keyrings and T-shirts (amongst other items) from shows such as Entourage, The Sopranos, Sex And The City, Deadwood and the like…
Not only is the stock good, but the staff were fantastic… I got to chatting with the fellas behind the counter and they offered me a 10% discount as I had mentioned we were doing the tour and then ended up chatting for ages about where we were from and what we were up to on our trip…
Top stuff…
Saturday 5th April 2008
Saturday 5th April 2008
This morning I was still feeling sluggish so we delayed leaving the studio until midday… We had the Sopranos tour scheduled in and got two for one tickets using the code NYCO on the zerve website… We thought we would make our way towards the tour meeting on the outskirts of Times Square in the hope that we would find the HBO store, as we are big fans of lots of the HBO shows, well we found it and bought a few great bits and pieces for ourselves and some gifts for friends and family… The staff were really chatty and once we mentioned that we were doing the tour they gave us 10% off which was cool! We chatted with them for awhile and headed off to grab a quick salad before the tour…
The tour itself was great, the dude that took the tour Marc Barren was really informative with great info on the actors, sets, and general info on the show, he was in 13 episodes… We went around parts of Jersey which was also cool, to see a bit more of the US, and went to the café that the last scene was shot in and of course the Bada Bing! Which unfortunately was the worst strip club I have been too… The girls didn’t actually strip, just dancing round (not even provocatively nor using the pole) in their underwear… This is due to state law; they can’t have booze and boobs, one or the other… And they drop you off at the HBO store so we went for round two! The staff remembered us which I thought was cool...
We decided to walk up to the Brooklyn Diner – on a recommendation, and it was really good! Before the food came we saw David Walliams (looking extremely hot in a suit) and Matt Lucas ( looking super casual) two tables down from us, I was totally star struck, we are fans of Little Britain… I ordered the ‘famous’ chicken pot pie, I can see why they say it’s famous, it was divine!!! Was really good to get some yummy veggies, I feel our trip hasn’t provided a good option with lots of colourful vegetables! Mark was stuck for a vegetarian option so went for the chicken parmigana, which looked great and he said (referring to that year of eating chicken in 2005) that it was better then any chicken parmigana he has had in Australia (and when he ate chicken we ate a lot of different chicken parmas!), it was quite like ‘pizza with a chicken base’
On the way to the diner we spotted Rockefeller centre and impulsively decided to go to top of the rock… I’m not big on views and we had some great views from the tour but I thought its better to try these things then pass them by… So we went up, I forgot my discount pass because I never really thought we would go! Once we got through all of the rigmarole and made it though to the top it was quite beautiful!!! I’m not sure how people spend hours there, but we did scoot around to every possible photo angle and snap away… We didn’t go up to the 3rd and highest viewing point as I was tripping about the heights factor on the 2nd deck! But it is worth doing, if only once in your life, I probably wouldn’t do it again…
And then it was home to bed, another long day planned tomorrow…
This morning I was still feeling sluggish so we delayed leaving the studio until midday… We had the Sopranos tour scheduled in and got two for one tickets using the code NYCO on the zerve website… We thought we would make our way towards the tour meeting on the outskirts of Times Square in the hope that we would find the HBO store, as we are big fans of lots of the HBO shows, well we found it and bought a few great bits and pieces for ourselves and some gifts for friends and family… The staff were really chatty and once we mentioned that we were doing the tour they gave us 10% off which was cool! We chatted with them for awhile and headed off to grab a quick salad before the tour…
The tour itself was great, the dude that took the tour Marc Barren was really informative with great info on the actors, sets, and general info on the show, he was in 13 episodes… We went around parts of Jersey which was also cool, to see a bit more of the US, and went to the café that the last scene was shot in and of course the Bada Bing! Which unfortunately was the worst strip club I have been too… The girls didn’t actually strip, just dancing round (not even provocatively nor using the pole) in their underwear… This is due to state law; they can’t have booze and boobs, one or the other… And they drop you off at the HBO store so we went for round two! The staff remembered us which I thought was cool...
We decided to walk up to the Brooklyn Diner – on a recommendation, and it was really good! Before the food came we saw David Walliams (looking extremely hot in a suit) and Matt Lucas ( looking super casual) two tables down from us, I was totally star struck, we are fans of Little Britain… I ordered the ‘famous’ chicken pot pie, I can see why they say it’s famous, it was divine!!! Was really good to get some yummy veggies, I feel our trip hasn’t provided a good option with lots of colourful vegetables! Mark was stuck for a vegetarian option so went for the chicken parmigana, which looked great and he said (referring to that year of eating chicken in 2005) that it was better then any chicken parmigana he has had in Australia (and when he ate chicken we ate a lot of different chicken parmas!), it was quite like ‘pizza with a chicken base’
On the way to the diner we spotted Rockefeller centre and impulsively decided to go to top of the rock… I’m not big on views and we had some great views from the tour but I thought its better to try these things then pass them by… So we went up, I forgot my discount pass because I never really thought we would go! Once we got through all of the rigmarole and made it though to the top it was quite beautiful!!! I’m not sure how people spend hours there, but we did scoot around to every possible photo angle and snap away… We didn’t go up to the 3rd and highest viewing point as I was tripping about the heights factor on the 2nd deck! But it is worth doing, if only once in your life, I probably wouldn’t do it again…
And then it was home to bed, another long day planned tomorrow…
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