Shows Leaving HBO Max Amid Discovery+ Merger

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If you thought the powers that be over at HBO Max would take issues gradual because it prepares to merge the favored streamer with its fellow Warner Bros.-owned platform, Discovery+, you thought mistaken. Instead, HBO Max is transferring full steam forward, and the first step is outwardly eradicating almost 40 titles (and counting) from the service starting this week.

“As we work towards bringing our content material catalogs collectively below one platform, we will likely be making adjustments to the content material providing accessible on each HBO Max and discovery+,” HBO Max confirmed in a press release to Variety. “That will embody the removing of some content material from each platforms.” HBO Max didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark.

HBO and Discovery+ introduced they have been merging into one streaming platform on Aug. 4. In the method, the platform additionally scrapped the already-filmed “Batgirl” movie in a pivot towards prioritizing theatrical options over straight-to-streaming releases to chop prices.

Shows from HBO, CNN, DC Comics, Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV, Magnolia Network, OWN, TBS, and TNT will all stream on the brand new platform, the identify of which has not but been introduced. While the brand new hybrid platform’s catalog of programming has not but been introduced, HBO and HBO Max’s most profitable exhibits will presumably be on it, like “Euphoria,” “Succession,” “Gossip Girl,” “And Just Like That,” and — hopefully — “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin” (if it will get renewed, that’s). Then once more, there is not an instantly discernible rhyme or purpose behind the tasks which might be getting the axe, so something may occur.

Among the numerous exhibits that will likely be leaving the streamer on this newest transfer are “Generation,” the animated present “Summer Camp Island,” and “Aquaman: King of Atlantis.”

The groups behind among the exhibits getting pulled from the streamer are already talking out towards Warner Bros.’s choice, together with Julia Pott, the creator of “Summer Camp Island.”

“We labored for five years to make 100 episodes of animation,” Pott wrote on Aug. 17. “We labored late into the night time, we let ourselves go, we have been a household of hard-working artists who needed to make one thing stunning, and HBO MAX simply pulled all of them like we have been nothing. Animation is just not nothing!”

We labored for five years to make 100 episodes of animation. We labored late into the night time, we let ourselves go, we have been a household of laborious working artists who needed to make one thing stunning, and HBO MAX simply pulled all of them like we have been nothing. Animation is just not nothing!

— Julia Pott (@juliapott) August 18, 2022

Here’s a whole checklist of the applications leaving HBO Max within the coming weeks, based on Variety.

HBO Max Originals

• “12 Dates of Christmas”
• “About Last Night”
• “Aquaman: King of Atlantis”
• “Close Enough”
• “Ellen’s Next Great Designer”
• “Esme & Roy”
• “The Fungies!”
• “Generation Hustle”
• “Generation”
• “Infinity Train”
• “Little Ellen”
• “My Mom, Your Dad”
• “Odo”
• “Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness”
• “Summer Camp Island”
• “The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo”
• “The Runaway Bunny”
• “Theodosia”
• “Tig n’ Seek”
• “Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs”

HBO Originals

• “My Dinner With Herve”
• “Share”

Cartoon Network

• “Dodo”
• “Elliott From Earth”
• “Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart”
• “Mighty Magiswords”
• “OK Okay.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes”
• “Uncle Grandpa”
• “Victor and Valentino”

Acquired Titles

• “Detention Adventure”
• “Messy Goes to Okido”
• “Mia’s Magic Playground”
• “The Ollie & Moon Show”
• “Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures”
• “Make It Big, Make It Small”
• “Squish”