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HBO Max is officially HBO Max again

2025-07-09T06:15:34-04:00

After announcing in May that it was giving up and returning to HBO Max branding for its streaming service, today Warner Bros. has officially made the change. The new / old branding can now be found across the streamer's website and apps.

It was reported yesterday that the switch might happen today, and the process is already underway. Max.com now redirects to hbomax.com, and both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store have been updated too. The App Store includes a new version of the app with a simple patch note:

"Same app. New-ish name. The plot twist everyone has been waiting for: Max is now HBO Max."

Unlike the Max rollout, users …

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Game of Thrones is getting another prequel, and its plot sounds very familiar

2023-04-12T14:31:32-04:00

The Game of Thrones franchise is getting a new entry on Warner Bros. Discovery's newly-announced Max streaming service. The new prequel, called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: the Hedge Knight, has been rumored for some time, but it wasn't clear which part of the ample Game of Thrones lore it would borrow from.

At today's HBO Max rebranding event, HBO head Casey Bloys confirmed that the new show has been ordered straight to series and would focus on Dunk and Egg. In the world of Game of Thrones, Dunk is a famous knight, and Egg is his squire, both of whom travel the land righting wrongs.

A century before @GameofThrones, there was Ser Dunca …

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The one where we tried to pick all the best streaming services

2023-04-12T09:30:00-04:00

What's the best streaming service? It feels like a big and important question to answer. It's also a completely impossible, completely subjective question that depends on everything from your budget to your favorite Mission: Impossible movie. The streaming market is a teeming mass of stuff, with various platforms rising and falling, and nothing ever stays the same for very long.

But here at The Verge, we like answers. So, for this episode of The Vergecast, we decided to answer that big question the only way we know how: chaotically and at great length. So we held the first annual Vergecast Streaming Services Draft, in which our three co-hos …

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HBO Max will be the exclusive streaming home for Doctor Who

2019-08-01T15:03:08-04:00

AT&T's HBO Max is locking up the streaming rights for a number of popular BBC television shows, most notably the science fiction series Doctor Who.

The shows are part of a deal between the BBC and AT&T's WarnerMedia, and will include all the current seasons of Doctor Who as well as classic shows such as The Office, Top Gear, Luther, and The Honourable Woman when it launches in the spring of 2020. HBO Max will also get a number of newer shows, like Ghosts, Home, Pure, Stath Lets Flats, and Trigonometry. The platform will also stream the upcoming 12th series of Doctor Who after it airs on BBC America in 2020.

Those shows will join a growing …

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WarnerMedia greenlights a retelling of The Odyssey for HBO Max

2019-07-31T11:31:51-04:00

WarnerMedia is set to launch its forthcoming streaming service, HBO Max, later this year. While the service will feature major existing shows, like Friends, the company is also beginning to develop its roster of original content for subscribers. One of those new original projects is an adaptation of Circe, Madeline Miller's take on The Odyssey.

HBO Max gave the project an eight-episode straight-to-series order, according to Deadline (via Tor.com). Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver will write and produce the series.

WarnerMedia is lining up some big names for HBO Max. J.J. Abrams' Bad Ro …

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AT&T hopes to offer live sports and news through HBO Max streaming service

2019-07-24T10:26:24-04:00

AT&T plans for its upcoming streaming service, HBO Max, to eventually include a live TV element. During a call with investors today, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that the company intends to offer live sports as part of the service, potentially including NBA, MLB, and soccer matches, and it could also include a news element. Stephenson said that the company plans to reveal HBO Max at an investor presentation on October 29th before its planned release in 2020.

AT&T is pinning a lot of hope on HBO Max, as it again reported subscriber losses for its existing streaming service, DirecTV Now. This quarter, the service dropped another 168,000 …

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Doom Patrol gets new season, and will stream simultaneously on HBO Max and DC Universe

2019-07-21T09:57:23-04:00

At San Diego Comic-Con last night, DC Universe made a slew of programming announcements for its slate of original content, including that it was renewing its live-action TV series Doom Patrol in a partnership with WarnerMedia's forthcoming streaming service HBO Max.

WarnerMedia largely skipped San Diego Comic-Con this year, opting not to bring news or previews for some of its big projects, like Wonder Woman 1984 or Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune. Instead, DC Universe revealed that Doom Patrol's second season will debut simultaneously on DC Universe and HBO Max sometime next year, and that HBO Max will carry the show's first season wh …

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WarnerMedia confirms its Netflix rival will be called HBO Max

2019-07-09T13:32:18-04:00

There's HBO Go, HBO Now, and soon, there will be HBO Max. For WarnerMedia and parent company AT&T, the latter is most important, as it will become the subscription video service that they position against Netflix, Hulu, the upcoming Disney+, and a range of other paid video offerings.

"Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of HBO's excellence and award-winning storytelling, the new service will be 'Maximized' with an extensive collection of exclusive original programming (Max Originals) and the best-of-the-best from WarnerMedia's enormous portfolio of beloved brands and libraries," the company wrote in a press release today. (The emphasis …

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J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot may sign an exclusive deal with AT&T’s WarnerMedia for $500 million

2019-06-17T19:02:26-04:00

AT&T's WarnerMedia is reportedly close to securing J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Pictures in a $500 million exclusivity deal, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Deadline, The Los Angeles Times, and others.

Bad Robot Pictures and Abrams, which have produced television shows under the Warner Bros. TV label since 2006, were being courted by nearly every major player in the entertainment space over the last six months. Apple, Comcast, Netflix, Sony Entertainment and Amazon all reportedly held deals with Abrams, according to the Reporter. Aspects of the deal are still uncertain - including whether or not Abrams will be allowed to …

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WarnerMedia greenlights Dune TV series with director Denis Villeneuve

2019-06-10T18:56:49-04:00

WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service has given the go-ahead to produce a series based on Frank Herbert's Dune novels, according to a report in Variety. The series, Dune: The Sisterhood, "is told through the eyes of a mysterious order of women known as the Bene Gesserit. Given extraordinary abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis, known to its inhabitants as Dune." Film director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) will direct the pilot e …

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