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Andy Goldman Shows Students “How To Make It”

In a recent interview with NYU Local, staff write Natan Edelsburg sat down with HBO executive Andy Goldman. They talked about all things HBO, and Goldman's new role as a professor of Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, his alma mater. In his day job, he is Vice President for HBO’s Programming, Planning and Scheduling. Goldman teaches a class called TV Programming & Concepts. The premise of the class is simple, what makes good television programming. Who better to know than an HBO executive. Edelsburg, one of Goldman's students, describes the class as follows:

"Goldman presents us each week with 1-3 episodes of either extremely funny, extremely good or extremely unbearable new shows that we then break down into pieces and discuss why they were a success or why they were even worse than this season of Gossip Girl."

One of the shows Goldman promised to show this years class is "How to Make It." The students will be shown the pilot of the new series that HBO will premiere February 14, 2010. When Goldman was asked what was on the horizon for HBO:

"A wonderful new show called How to Make it in America, by Mark Wahlberg. It’s kind of the flip side of Entourage. It’s about a group of guys before any one of them made it big and it’s set in New York. Vince and Turtle and those guys would have definitely been friends with them but it’s new characters. It will be premiering in February."