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HBO chickens out; Preacher too much

It looks like HBO is just TV after all. After airing such intense fare as The Sopranos and Carnivalé, the new head of production, Sue Naegle (or at least that’s my guess on who pulled the plug based on the quotes) is pulling the plug on the in development HBO adaptation of DC/Vertigo’s Preach…

HBO: Net killed the cable star

It’s tough to believe that - not enlarged ago - cable television was a cutting-edge thing. Hey, didn’t kids once say: “I want my MTV”?

Now, of course, the new-new thing is online video, particularly with the extreme popularity of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s YouTube.

Interestingly sufficient, we ar…