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The David Milch series Luck starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte has been renewed for a second season. After drawing 3.3 million total viewers for its series premiere Sunday, HBO (TWX) has announced the renewal days later. The figure includes the initial 1.1 million viewers who tuned in to early preview of the drama following the Dec. 29 Boardwalk Empire season finale. Season two will consist of 10 episodes and is slated to air January 2013. Did you watch the premiere?

Alan Ball, creator/executive producer of HBO???s (TWX) hit vampire drama series True Blood, is getting another series on Cinemax. Cinemax (TWX) has given a 10-episode order to action drama Banshee. The series centers around an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA, where he continues his criminal activities even as he???s being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he had betrayed years earlier. Banshee, which had been described as Walking Tall meets History of Violence, landed at Cinemax via HBO where the project was originally developed. The action series will start shooting this spring on location in and around Charlotte, North Carolina for a 2013 premiere. Are you interested in the new series?

A new HBO series has been announced for the year. HBO (TWX) has assembled another star-studded team for its next pilot, comedy All Talk. Ben Stiller has signed on to star, direct and executive produce the project from acclaimed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close). Emmy winner Alan Alda is in negotiations to co-star in the project. Filming is tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall of 2012. Written by Foer, All Talk is described as ???politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent??? and revolves around the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC. What do you think? Will you watch?

With so many popular vampire franchises there are nowadays, it???s tough to fill a role without getting an actor who hasn???t played a neck-biter before. Christopher Heyerdahl has joined the cast of HBO???s (TWX) True Blood season five in a recurring role. He???ll play Dieter Braun, an ancient, powerful vampire who plays a large part in the intelligence of the Authority, plus is really awesome at coming up with creative ways to torture people. So ??? we???re thinking he???s a bad guy then? You a fan of True Blood?

In its first season, HBO???s (TWX) Game of Thrones struck a chord not only with fans but with critics as well. A lot of action and more romance is in store for season two. There are some great love stories starting up. The next season, which premieres April 1 on HBO. Will you watch?

HBO???s (TWX) new drama stars Luck showcases some of Hollwood???s prominent veteran actors. Luck is a drama series starring Dustin Hoffman, Jill Hennessy, Dennis Farina, and Nick Nolte. The series will premiere on January 29th. Luck follows a number of characters???owners, jockeys and gamblers???who frequent the same horse-racing track. Hoffman stars as a gambler, fresh out of prison, who gets interested in the horses. Nolte plays a trainer, with the cast also including John Ortiz, Kevin Dunn, Richard Kind and Jason Gedrick. All in all, "Luck" is an entertaining look at the world of thoroughbred racing. Race fans, should love it. I'm not so sure about everyone else. What do you think? Will you watch?

For the first time in more than a decade, Paramount Pictures (VIA) is ending the year as the box office champion. The strong showing of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which took in $46.2 million over the Christmas holiday pushed Paramount???s receipts over the top to $1.86 billion for the year (as of Dec. 25). That put it ahead of the usual winner, Warner Bros (TWX), whose total for the year reached $1.76 billion. Sony (SNE) finished in third place with $1.3 billion, just ahead of Disney (DIS) with $1.2 billion. The highest-grossing movie of the year was Warner Bros.??? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, which earned $381 million domestically. The No. 2 film was Paramount???s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which grossed $352.4 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Do you agree?

HBO (TWX) says so long Hung, Bored to Death, and How To Make It in America! HBO has canceled the sleeper comedies to make way for more fresh programming coming down the pipeline. The network has ordered a second season of Enlightened, the Laura Dern starrer that just earned Golden Globe nods for best TV series (comedy/musical) and for best actress. In 2012, HBO will roll out Luck, a new drama from Michael Mann and David Milch that stars Dustin Hoffman; as well as Aaron Sorkin???s series about life behind the scenes of a cable-news show. The network will also premiere Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Girls, Life???s Too Short, and Angry Boys.

In her first major TV series gig, Oscar winner Jane Fonda is joining Aaron Sorkin???s upcoming HBO (TWX) drama series in a recurring role. The series, set behind the scenes at a fictional cable news network, stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, Thomas Sadoski and Sam Waterston. Fonda will play Leona Lansing, the CEO of the cable news network???s parent company whose corporate concerns often conflict with the reporting of the news. The series has yet to be named, but is assumed to premiere in 2012. What do you think?

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