Entourage creator blames “wave of righteous PC culture” for hurting the HBO comedy's legacy

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“I resent it tremendously,” Doug Ellin tells Yahoo Entertainment, adding that HBO has given Entourage the cold shoulder since its series finale in 2011. “Nobody says that about The Sopranos, where they murder people, that maybe we should readdress whether murdering people on TV is OK,” says Ellin of Entourage's negative reputation these days. “I don’t want to sound obnoxious or that I'm looking at Entourage as high art, but it was a pretty accurate portrayal of how people (acted) at that time in Hollywood.” Ellin also thinks the retroactive backlash to Entourage cost him another HBO show, the 2012 comedy pilot 40 about four lifelong friends, starring Ed Burns, Michael Rapaport, Michael Imperioli and Adrian Pasdar. Ellin says he would love to revive Entourage for today, but HBO has gone out of its way to downplay its existence on its streaming service. “For a while, we were hiding in, like, ‘wish-fulfillment shows,’” he says. “We were nominated for the Emmys or the Golden Globes almost every single year, so to not put us on the must-see comedy list was pretty bizarre.”