{"id":415555,"date":"2022-03-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/inside-bomani-jones-hbo-journey-to-game-theory\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:30:00","slug":"inside-bomani-jones-hbo-journey-to-game-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-bomani-jones-hbo-journey-to-game-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"#Inside Bomani Jones&#8217; HBO journey to &#8216;Game Theory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4fcf75f9f3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4fcf75f9f3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-bomani-jones-hbo-journey-to-game-theory\/#%E2%80%9CInside_Bomani_Jones_HBO_journey_to_%E2%80%98Game_Theory%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Inside Bomani Jones&#8217; HBO journey to &#8216;Game Theory&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;Inside Bomani Jones&#8217; HBO journey to &#8216;Game Theory'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>Intrigued with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/game-theory-with-bomani-jones\">\u201cGame Theory\u201d<\/a> from the start, Bomani Jones knew he\u2019d be a fit for the HBO project, but wanted to make sure all parties were aligned in their vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys that had created the show, they had signed a pilot deal with HBO with somebody else attached to it, and something h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened and that person was no longer working on the show, and then they went looking for a different person and they reached out to me. I got on a Zoom with them and they sent me the dek for the show, and the dek was very clearly intended for a co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n,\u201d Jones told The Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read through it and I said, \u2018Hey, the first thing I need to say is that I\u2019m not a comedian.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t coming into this with the idea of I\u2019m going to make you want me to do this, right, it needed to be something that was going to be good for me. So I said, \u2018Look, I am not a comedian, but I\u2019m the perfect person for this show.\u2019 Like, if you could rework the show around me, I think it\u2019ll be the best thing that can happen for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Sunday, Jones will embark on the next chapter of his burgeoning career with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> Theory,\u201d HBO\u2019s six-episode late-night <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> that will break down timely issues that transcend the world of sports. Although the show\u2019s brain trust was sold on Jones early on, the timing of how events unfolded was unique,<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Bomani Jones will host the new HBO late-night series &quot;Game Theory&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-21480314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bomani Jones will host the new HBO late-night series \u201cGame Theory\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhere it got interesting with HBO was, this was shortly after they had agreed to bring me on to do the show with Bob Costas,\u201d Jones said of \u201cBack On the Record with Bob Costas,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/bomani-jones-will-join-bob-costas-hbo-interview-show-back-on-the-record\/\">where he is a current contributor<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn that show, I\u2019m bringing the perspective on sports, I\u2019m bringing all this brainpower and all this stuff over there, right, so you imagine you\u2019re HBO and they\u2019re like, \u2018hey, super smart guy that can talk about the real issues in sports, now you\u2019re telling me that you want him to replace the funny guy that we just had on here?\u2019 That\u2019s, understandably for HBO, they weren\u2019t sure,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so, they eventually agreed for me to do the pilot, we had some conversations back and forth, and a lot of executives were on-site when we shot the pilot, and then they were sold, they just needed to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show itself will feature interviews both in the New York studio and on-location, along with an expanded segment based on an opinion Jones wants to share. Sunday\u2019s episode will feature a one-on-one interview with Stephen A. Smith, along with an extended look at the legacy of Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who is slated to retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have a deeper-dive essay on every episode, now that obviously has echos of what you see on \u2018Last Week Tonight\u2019 [hosted by John Oliver], but where theirs are a bit more explanatory, expository in the way they go about it, what we\u2019re going to really be doing is taking a take that I have or some opinion that I\u2019ve got, and then we want to illustrate that with all the tools that we have over the course of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>Jones, who also hosts <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/espnradio\/podcast\/archive\/_\/id\/12563086\">the ESPN podcast \u201cThe Right Time with Bomani Jones,\u201d<\/a> also looked to \u201cLast Week Tonight\u2019s\u201d Oliver for advice on how to steer this new ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all brand new to me, I\u2019ve never been in this place, and so I had questions just kind of like how to support the staff and how to be the person that is overseeing all of this, and he was very helpful,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI talked to Stephen Colbert about some things and he was also very helpful in figuring this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones began his writing career in 2004 as a music and pop culture critic and segued to radio four years later, hosting two shows in Raleigh. He went on to launch \u201cThe Evening Jones with Bomani Jones\u201d podcast in 2011, followed by the weekly internet series, \u201cBomani &amp; Jones,\u201d with SB Nation a year later. In 2013, Jones became the co-host of ESPN\u2019s \u201cHighly Questionable,\u201d which he starred alongside Dan Le Batard, gaining valuable insight over the course of his time on the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with Dan on \u2018Highly Questionable,\u2019 for example, I got to sit at the altar of a master interviewer. I learned how to talk to people on television from working with him,\u201d said Jones, who also hosted the former ESPN series, \u201cHigh Noon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"&quot;Game Theory with Bomani Jones&quot; premieres Sunday, March 13, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-21480316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/bomani-jones-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cGame Theory with Bomani Jones\u201d premieres Sunday, March 13, 2022<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Excited about what lies ahead, Jones is looking forward to sharing this new experience with his talented \u201cGame Theory\u201d team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about the fact that we get a chance to do six episodes of a show like this on HBO,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that people get jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly, but even specifically jobs like this, and they view it as a referendum on themselves. They look at what they\u2019re doing and they\u2019re like, \u2018well what does it mean if they don\u2019t pick it up? What does it mean if it\u2019s not good\u2019 or so forth and so on, and I\u2019m viewing this as, \u2018Hey man, we\u2019ve got a chance.\u2019 No matter what happens, at the end of this, all of us will have made six episodes of television for HBO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame Theory with Bomani Jones\u201d airs Sundays at 11:30 p.m. on HBO and HBO Max.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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