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"With 190 days to go to Tokyo, we can proudly say, let the games begin," declared Mike Tirico today at the Peacock Investors Day in the most streamlined offering from the new additions to the streaming wars so far. The competition was clearly more than the Summer Games of the XXXII Olympiad, if you know what I mean…

Cinemax will no longer commission original shows as HBO Max gears up for its forthcoming launch. The HBO sister network will continue to remain as a linear cable channel, which largely airs movies, but the Cinemax brand will not be transferred to the HBO Max service. The revelation came up during the HBO Max exec…

The future of Audience Network originals Condor and Loudermilk remains in limbo after HBO Max content boss Kevin Reilly addressed the pending closure of the AT&T network. Drama Condor, which stars Max Irons and was based on the James Grady novel Six Days of the Condor and its 1975 film adaptation Three Days of the Cond…

While the HBO Max executives Wednesday at TCA highlighted 500 classic movies to be on the service at launch later this spring, curated by Turner Classic Movies, don’t expect to see Harry Potter. “Harry Potter is tied up with another programming group,” said Michael Quigley, EVP Content Acquisitions at TNT, TBS, TruTV…

After years of mini reunions on TV and a selfie that almost broke Instagram, the Friends cast several months ago started conversations for a full-blown unscripted reunion special on the upcoming streaming platform HBO Max. The negotiations had recently come to a standstill, I hear, with the cast and producing studio…

HBO Max Head of Original Content Sarah Aubrey revealed to the TCA press corps some details about Greg Berlanti’s upcoming Green Lantern series for the soon-to-launch streaming service. “It’s going to span several decades on focus on two stories about Green Lanterns on Earth” as well as one in space “going into the…

HBO Max has given a green light to The Uninhabitable Earth, a climate change anthology series inspired by David Wallace-Wells' global best-selling book and New York Magazine article of the same name, from Oscar- and Emmy-winning writer Adam McKay and his Hyperobject Industries, wiip and Animal Kingdom. The series was…

Steven Soderbergh is expanding his relationship with WarnerMedia with a three-year overall deal for HBO Max and HBO. Under the pact, which builds on Soderbergh’s previously announced film with HBO Max, Let Them All Talk, the Oscar-and Emmy-winning filmmaker will develop content for HBO Max and HBO, which will be…

Chinonye Chukwu, in the awards conversation this season for her Sundance-winning death row drama Clemency, has been set to direct the first two episodes of HBO Max’s Americanah. The 10-episode limited series, written and showrun by Danai Gurira, stars Lupita Nyong'o, Zackary Momoh, Uzo Aduba and Corey Hawkins. The…

Wolfgang Puck has cooked up a deal with HBO Max. The celebrity chef is to front and exec produce an eight-part unscripted series for the forthcoming streaming service. The platform has ordered The Event, an unscripted documentary series that will go behind the scenes of the extraordinary events created by Wolfgang…

HBO Max announced a greenlight for James Wan’s Aquaman: King of Atlantis, an  animated mini-series looking to ride the wave of popularity for the DC Comics superhero amid the billion-dollar success of Wan’s 2018 live-action feature film. Aimed at family audience, Aquaman: King of Atlantis will be a three-part…

Corey Hawkins (In the Heights) is set for a leading role alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Zackary Momoh and Uzo Aduba in HBO Max's Americanah, the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling novel of the same name. Americanah tells the epic story of Ifemelu (Nyong'o), a young, beautiful, self-assured…