Opinion | 'Winning Time' and the Joys of Unnecessary Shows
Goodbye to the small screen’s silver age.
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Goodbye to the small screen’s silver age.
“No f***ing way can a Lakers show end in 1984,” Jeff Pearlman, the author of the book HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is based on, posted on Twitter in August in a bid to save the show by attracting more viewers. But it did end there, thanks to HBO executives, who were also responsible for the show’s clunky name. Pearlman’s book, like the 1980s Lakers themselves, was called Showtime, but the big brains at Home Box Office could not bring themselves to name the series after their premium television network rival, Showtime. For Lakers fans watching Winning Time, the v...
"None of us watched it because it was fictional.
Lakers owner Jeanie Buss says the potrayal of Larry Bird and his backstory in HBO's "Winning Time" helped her appreciate the Celtics great.
On the heels of Sept. 17’s season two finale of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, fans were shocked to learn that the series had been canceled. Others, like Magic Johnson, were unfazed. “Well, I never watched it because nobody in this world can tell the Lakers story [like it needed to …