WarnerMedia July 9 unveiled HBO Max as the name of its new subscription streaming service launching in 2020.
The service will be anchored by HBO and will be “Maximized” with an extensive collection of exclusive original programming (Max Originals) and the best-of-the-best from WarnerMedia’s portfolio of brands and content libraries.
New deals with Warner Bros. Television and others for HBO Max announced include exclusive streaming rights at launch to all 236 episodes of Friends — one of the biggest hits on television and in streaming (currently on Netflix) – as well as the exclusive streaming rights to every episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Pretty Little Liars.
The new service will also be home to a string of new Warner Bros.’ produced dramas for The CW beginning with the fall 2019 season, including new DC Entertainment series Batwoman and Katy Keene (a spinoff of Riverdale).
There are also new exclusive movie production deals with Greg Berlanti and Reese Witherspoon. Berlanti will produce an initial four movies focused in the young adult space, while Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine will produce at least two films.
HBO Max, scheduled to launch commercially in spring of 2020, is anticipated to premiere with 10,000 hours of premium content. A fair bit of it is science fiction or fantasy, so it’s of special interest to fans of SCIFI.radio.
Max Original series previously announced include:
Highlights of HBO programming previously announced for 2020 and 2021 include:
And of course, George R. R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones, has already found great success with them.
“Back in 1991, after a decade in television, I began writing a series of novels that I knew would never be filmed,” said Martin. He thought his show was too big, too complex, too dark, too sexy, with a cast of thousands, gigantic battle and massive castles for a feature film and too expensive for television.
“I should have remembered, ‘It’s not television, it’s HBO,’” Martin said. “Working with HBO during the past decade has been a dream come true. What they did could not be done, but they did it anyway. And now they are embarked on a new venture.”
The director hinted he hopes the platform will help him return to “my world of Westeros.”
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