Once upon a time, long long ago, HBO was a place that took challenges, which thought so much of itself that it actually dared to declare that "it's not TV."

Then all that money went out the window on Rome, The Sopranos and Deadwood went away and John from Cincinnati challenged viewers in ways that no one could have imagined (like challenging them not to cancel their subscriptions to HBO) for a full ten weeks.

So with Showtime nipping at its heels and winning acclaim-by-default with one-degree-of-separation-from-FX shows like Dexter and Californication, HBO is now happy to be not TV... but MTV.

Four days after killing John, they've renewed Entourage and Flight of The Conchords.

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