Carolyn Strauss
Carolyn Strauss
Carolyn Strauss is an American television executive and producer. She was the president of the Home Box Officenetwork's entertainment division until 2008 and was responsible for commissioning highly successful series like The Sopranos, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Sex and the City. Upon leaving the position she became a television developer and producer and was given a production deal with HBO. She has collaborated with the network on the series Treme, Game of Thrones and Luck. Being of Jewish...
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Of all the gin joints, they had to walk into ours. Everything was going great and then comes this.
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I think we're enormously pleased with it on all fronts. This show seemed to strike a chord with audiences and with the critics.
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I don't think it does. These are people who struggle with their life. The compound shows a very different side of it. What this show does is really examine marriage as an institution ... It's marriage writ large.
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I think we?d be comfortable putting the show on at 9 o?clock. It feels like a solid 9 o?clock show in terms of story line, subject matter.
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Rome. It is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition.
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I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't even try. Then he read this book and said, 'I want to do this.' It was really a beautiful surprise.
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These are well-crafted stories and compelling characters. No matter what time period they're in, we think those elements are magnetic.