Max (streaming service) (2024)

Max is an American subscription video on demand streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery. The service is a successor to HBO Max and launched on May 23, 2023.^[1]

History[]

In May 2021 Discovery Inc. announced its intention to acquire WarnerMedia from AT&T, forming a new media conglomerate named Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). JB Perrette, the president and CEO of Discovery Streaming and International, stated that WBD intended to merge WarnerMedia's HBO Max streaming service with Discovery's Discovery+, initially as a product bundle before eventually consolidating the two;Discovery chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels later echoed these comments. The acquisition was completed in April 2022, with former Discovery CEO David Zaslav appointed president and CEO of the combined company. Perrette, now the president and CEO of WBD's Global Streaming and Games division, told investors during an August quarterly earnings investor call that the company hoped to launch the combined service in mid-2023, beginning in the United States. By November, the expected launch date had shifted to early 2023. CNBC reported the following month that the combined service was being internally referred to as "BEAM", with company executives considering a multitude of names for the platform. "Max" was reported to be the leading contender, while the interface was said to bear resemblance to that of the Walt Disney Company's Disney+ streaming service.

In February 2023 The Wall Street Journal reported that WBD executives has abandoned plans to shut down Discovery+ as part of the HBO Max–Discovery+ merger, instead opting to continue offer it as a standalone service in conjunction with the combined service. Zaslav revealed during that month's earnings call that WBD would officially announce the service on April 12. One day before the scheduled announcement, The New York Times confirmed that the service would be called "Max", and that it would retain HBO Max's existing pricing and be available in multiple price tiers. WBD unveiled Max in a press event the next day, as scheduled, with the service set to launch first in the U.S. on May 23. WBD had acquired the max.com domain name earlier that year from Max International, a nutritional supplement company.

Perrette explained that the HBO branding had been dropped from the service's name so that it could be associated with its original programming as a content brand on Max, rather than having to be associated with the entirety of its library (which includes children's and family programming that was at odds with HBO having traditionally been associated with adult-oriented programming). WBD's stock fell by nearly 6 percent after Max's announcement.

Content[]

• HBO
• Max Originals
• Warner Bros.
• Warner Bros. Animation
• New Line Cinema
• TNT
• DC
• Cartoon Network
• Adult Swim
• Turner Classic Movies
• Boomerang
• TBS
• Cartoonito
• TruTV
• Discovery Channel
• Food Network
• Animal Planet
• HGTV
• ID
• TLC

Max Originals[]

• Adventure Time: Distant Lands
• Tom and Jerry in New York
• Gremlins
• Villainous
• Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
• Frankelda's Book of Spooks

Content that also aired on Cartoon Network[]

• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Jellystone!
• Tiny Toons Looniversity

Content that moved to Max[]

• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Existing Cartoon Network content[]

Available content (USA)[]

• The Powerpuff Girls (6 seasons; 78 episodes)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy (5 seasons; 66 episodes)
• Courage the Cowardly Dog (4 seasons; 52 episodes)
• Samurai Jack (5 seasons; 62 episodes) (on the [adult swim] section)
• (6 seasons; 78 episodes)
• Adventure Time (10 seasons; 283 episodes)
• We Baby Bears (2 seasons; 50 episodes)
• Lamput (3 seasons, 34 episodes)
• (1 season; 12 episodes) (1st season removed, second season reduced to 12 episodes)
• Craig of the Creek (6 seasons; 171 episodes)
  • Jessica's Big Little World (1 season; 20 episodes)

Available in Latin America/Brazil/[]

• What a Cartoon! (1 season, 48 episodes)
• Dexter's Laboratory (5 seasons, 78 episodes)
• Johnny Bravo (4 seasons, 65 episodes)
• Cow and Chicken (4 seasons, 52 episodes)
• I Am Weasel (1 season, 9 episodes)
• Mike, Lu, and Og (2 seasons, 26 episodes)
• Sheep in the Big City (1 season, 26 episodes)
• Codename: Kids Next Door (6 seasons, 78 episodes)
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (1 season, 13 episodes)
• Megas XLR (2 seasons, 26 episodes)
• Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (3 seasons, 39 episodes)
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (3 seasons, 39 episodes)
• Camp Lazlo (5 seasons, 61 episodes)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey (4 seasons, 56 episodes)
• Squirrel Boy (2 seasons, 26 episodes)
• Chowder (3 seasons, 49 episodes)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (3 seasons, 46 episodes)
• The Secret Saturdays (2 seasons, 36 episodes)
• Generator Rex (3 seasons, 60 episodes)
• Regular Show (8 seasons, 244 episodes)
• Sym-Bionic Titan (1 season, 20 episodes)
• The Amazing World of Gumball (6 seasons, 240 episodes)

Available in Asia

Shows not on the service at all:[]

• Time Squad
• Grim & Evil
• Evil Con Carne
• Sunday Pants
• Class of 3000
• Robotomy
• The Problem Solverz
• Secret Mountain Fort Awesome

Available movies/specials[]

• Ben 10: Race Against Time (removed)
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: Z.E.R.O. (removed)
• Steven Universe: The Movie (removed)
• We Bare Bears: The Movie (removed)
• Craig Before the Creek

Available in Latin America[]

• Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood

Gallery[]

This gallery contains the covers of shows that are on Max.

Horizontal position[]

References[]