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upcoming HBO Max streaming service will carry more than the just launched
Disney+ service. One of the main reasons for that is HBO carries more
adult-targeted content. And the added content is why the service will cost more
than Disney+. HBO Max will be free to AT&T premium video customers so most of
the current 33 million U.S. subscribers to HBO will automatically be upgraded to
HBO Max. HBO Max will get a domestic launch in May 2020 with the plan of getting
50 million domestic subscribers and 75-90 million worldwide by 2025. There will
be 10,000 hours of content included in the launch which contains HBO, Warner
Bros., New Line, DC Entertainment, CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, The CW, Turner Classic
Movies, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth and Looney
Tunes. More details to come shortly. The service will cost $14.99 per month and
not include ads until 2021. Original shows will be called MAX Originals and
those shows will be released weekly. You will be able to set up individual and
group profiles but your suggestions will only cover your individual profile so
what your daughter watches will not create a suggestion for similar shows for
you. Subscribers will also be allowed to download content for offline viewing.
The initial launch will contain 31 MAX Original series and 36 HBO Originals.
2021 will lift that to 50 MAX Original series and 38 HBO Originals by 2021. Some
of the original shows will be Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves, about two
androids raising human children on a mysterious planet; DC Superhero High, a new
half-hour live-action comedy series from Elizabeth Banks about a group of
teenagers attending a boarding school for gifted children; Robert Zemeckis
animation/live-action series called Tooned Out; the prehistoric animated comedy
The Fungies; the kids show Tig N’ Seek; four new Adventure Time specials;
Station Eleven, Made for Love, Circe, Americanah; Greg Berlanti’s Green Lantern
and DC anthology series Strange Adventures; Michael Mann’s Tokyo Vice; Big Bang
Theory’s Kaley Cuoco’s Flight Attendant; Anna Kendrick in Love Life; a Gossip
Girl revival, season two of Doom Patrol; the TV musical spin-off Grease: Rydell
High; the female rap group comedy Rap Sh-t, and Mindy Kaling’s single-camera
dorm comedy College Girls. We will also get eighty new Looney Tunes shorts, the
new Hanna Barbera series Jellystone, the revival of The Boondocks and the four
new unscripted shows: Generation Hustle, Legendary, First Dates Hotel, new
content from The Bachelor and five new comedy specials presented by Conan
O’Brien. Not mentioned are the adaptation of DMZ from Ava DuVernay, the upcoming
film TV series tie-in Dune: The Sisterhood, a Gremlins prequel series, the
Shelly Society and a continuation of Search Party. HBO Max will run all seasons
of The Big Bang Theory, the new Doctor Who, Friends, Rick and Morty, South Park
and The West Wing. All of the Warners films, all of the MGM films, all of the
Criterion films and everything seen on Turner Classic Movies. There will be 10
MAX Originals films a year and all 40 years of DC Films will be on the service
on day one.
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