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Lisa Ling is to front a travel docuseries for HBO Max after striking an overall deal with the upcoming streamer. The host of CNN's This is Life with Lisa Ling, currently in its sixth season, is extending her relationship with WarnerMedia with the overall arrangement. She will present Birth, Wedding, Funeral, based on…

In the spirit of the blockbuster hit Crazy Rich Asians, HBO Max has ordered The Ho’s (working title) from Lionsgate TV. The new docuseries will shed a bling-worthy light on the opulence and over-the-top lives of the real-life, multi-generational  Ho family, who have built a multi-million dollar empire. The new series…

Monica Lewinsky and Max Joseph, co-host of MTV's Catfish, have teamed up for an HBO Max documentary. The pair will star in and exec produce 15 Minutes of Shame, taking a look at public shaming in modern day culture. Using follow-doc storytelling, social experiments, and the examination of social behavior, the…

Rosie Perez is set for a key series regular role alongside Kaley Cuoco in HBO Max's thriller drama series The Flight Attendant, starring and executive produced by Cuoco. The Flight Attendant is a terrifying story of how an entire life can change in one night. Cassie (Cuoco), a flight attendant, wakes up in the wrong…

EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the key creative force behind Warner Bros. TV's growing Archie comics-based TV universe (Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Katy Keene), has lined up two high-profile new drama series projects, both in the gothic horror genre. HBO Max has ordered a pilot and an additional…

EXCLUSIVE: Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) are set as main leads in HBO Max’s Station Eleven, a 10-episode post-apocalyptic limited drama series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV. Written and…

WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming platform has ordered the documentary Expecting Amy (wt) from comedian and actress Amy Schumer. The docu gives an unfiltered behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy winner’s journey of preparing for a stand-up special while going through a difficult pregnancy. Beginning the day she found out…

EXCLUSIVE: Marry Me and Happy Endings alumna Casey Wilson is set for a key co-starring role opposite Jessica Rothe and Michael McKean in the HBO Max half-hour comedy pilot Delilah, from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford's Merman. In Delilah, after a life-changing event…

Celebrity stylist and TV personality Brad Goreski and Family Guy producer and writer Gary Janetti are heading to HBO Max in a new lifestyle follow-doc series. The upcoming WarnerMedia streaming platform has given a green light to Brad & Gary Go To…(working title), from Married to Medicine producers Purveyors of Pop…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that could become more common as major studios lean in heavily toward their streaming launches, the Ben Falcone-directed Melissa McCarthy-starrer Superintelligence has exited its December 20 theatrical release date to instead become the first Warner Bros Pictures Group film to premiere on HBO…

HBO Max has taken the U.S. streaming rights to Japan’s Oscar-winning animation house, Studio Ghibli, which reps the first time the latter’s content has been licensed to a streamer. The deal with North American distributor GKIDS includes 21 Studio Ghibli movies: Castle in the Sky, The Cat Returns, From Up On Poppy Hill…

HBO Max on Wednesday said it has hired former Fox Entertainment exec Roberto Alcantara, Universal Content Productions’ Chika Chukudebelu and A+E Studios’ Mark Tuohy with the titles of VP Drama, tasked with creating a slate of original scripted dramas as WarnerMedia’s streaming service that launches in the spring. The…