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When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame?

Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Gerhard Richter sell at auction for tens of millions of dollars. A solid gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan is installed in the Guggenheim Museum for all to see and use. Today, art is spectacle, big bucks and front-page news.

The Television Academy tonight presented the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremonies on Saturday and Sunday night honoring outstanding artistic and technical achievement in television at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The Saturday ceremony, which kicked-off the 70th Emmys, awarded many talented artists and craftspeople in the categories of animation, scripted programming including comedy, drama and limited series. The Sunday ceremony honored performers, artists and craftspeople for excellence in variety, nonfiction or reality programming, reality competition programming, music, choreography, as well as documentary or nonfiction specials, informational series or specials.

HBO Documentary Films presents THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, a fascinating deep dive into the contemporary art world directed by Oscar® nominee Nathaniel Kahn, filmmaker (HBO's My Architect). The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has since traveled to top festivals around the world. It will open theatrically through HBO Documentary Films at the Quad Cinema in New York on Friday, Oct. 19, followed by openings on Oct. 26 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and Miami, and on Nov. 2 in Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland. THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING will debut Monday, Nov. 12 on HBO.

HBO Documentary Films is in production on a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Academy Award(R) winner Alex Gibney ('Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,' HBO's Emmy(R)-winning 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief') directs.

HBO Documentary Films is in production on a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” HBO's Emmy®-winning “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”) directs.

When Shandling passed away in 2016, he was widely remembered as a top stand-up comic and the star of two of the most innovative sitcoms in TV history. But to those who knew him, the “real” Garry Shandling was a far more complex person. Now, Apatow has created a remarkable portrait of this iconic comedian in the four-and-a-half-hour documentary THE ZEN DIARIES OF GARRY SHANDLING, which debuts in two parts MONDAY, MARCH 26 (8:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) and TUESDAY, MARCH 27 (8:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Documentary ATOMIC HOMEFRONT Debuts 2/13 on HBO

Documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling Debuts 3/26 and 3/27 on HBO

15: A QUINCEA ERA STORY, a collection of four short documentary films, debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 19 (7:00-7:30 p.m. ET/PT), followed by a new film at the same time on successive nights DEC. 20, 21 and 22 simultaneously on HBO and HBO Latino.

After struggling with mental illness for most of her life, New York artist Ruth Litoff committed suicide at age 42 in 2008 by overdosing on prescription pills.

After struggling with mental illness for most of her life, New York artist Ruth Litoff committed suicide at age 42 in 2008 by overdosing on prescription pills.

Featuring extensive access to law enforcement, METH STORM tells the story of rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration, and follows police and DEA agents struggling to stop the cartels.

15: A QUINCEA ERA STORY, a collection of four short documentary films, debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 19 (7:00-7:30 p.m. ET/PT), followed by a new film at the same time on successive nights DEC. 20, 21 and 22 simultaneously on HBO and HBO Latino.

From executive producer Channing Tatum and director Deborah Scranton ('The War Tapes,' HBO's 'Earth Made of Glass'), WAR DOG: A SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND highlights the intimate relationship between U.S. Special Operations soldiers and their K9s, who serve together as human-animal teams in combat.

HBO Documentary Films has set a debut date for ROLLING STONE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE, which will air over two nights MONDAY, NOV. 6 and TUESDAY, NOV. 7

Spotlighting the bonds between the doctors and their patients, the timely documentary CLÍNICA DE MIGRANTES debuts MONDAY, SEPT. 25 (10:00-10:40 p.m. ET/PT), during Hispanic Heritage Month, exclusively on HBO.

Erin Lee Carr (“Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop”) returns to HBO to explore another true-crime story in the age of social media in MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST, a shocking look at one of psychology's most controversial conditions: Munchausen by proxy syndrome.

With nearly a hundred Americans dying everyday from opioid overdoses, the U.S. currently faces the worst drug epidemic in its history. More people die from opioid overdoses annually in the U.S. than from car accidents or gun homicides, a number that has quadrupled since 1999.

 With nearly a hundred Americans dying everyday from opioid overdoses, the U.S. currently faces the worst drug epidemic in its history. More people die from opioid overdoses annually in the U.S. than from car accidents or gun homicides, a number that has quadrupled since 1999.