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    'Whither HBO?' Again? Exit Richard Plepler, enter Bob Greenblatt and a new era

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Mar 07, 2019 5 minutes

    Whither HBO? You may have heard that question asked before. (Plug it into a search engine: You will get results.) You may have heard it when "The Sopranos" went black, or when "Sex in the City" left town. As "Game of Thrones" begins its final season, concurrent with the departure of CEO Richard Plepler and the impending arrival of former NBC head Bob Greenblatt to replace him - and as streaming superstores muscle in on premium cable - it's a question being asked again.

    Our seeming concern with the fate of HBO is, to be sure, based entirely on its success, its longstanding reputation as a purveyor of quality goods. We talk about it because it's Big.

    One does not ask "Whither Showtime" in the same way, because Showtime

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