Max has handed a straight-to-series order to The Pitt, a new medical drama starring and executive-produced by Noah Wyle. Fellow ER vets John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill are also on board as EPs. The Pitt, which has received a 15-episode order, is described as “a realistic examination of the challenges facing health care workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.”
Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired television rights to the Bellator Championship Series mixed martial arts franchise, adding to its lineup of live sports content. Max will stream Bellator’s first event under the new deal on March 22 from Belfast, one of eight Bellator Championship Series events taking place during the year, according to WBD. Each event will take place from various locations around the world and highlight the best fighters from each region.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max will join competitors Netflix and Disney+ in cracking down on password sharing. JB Perrette, WBD’s CEO and president of global streaming and games, said the initiative would launch later this year with a broader rollout in 2025.
The Kaley Cuoco-led thriller ran for two seasons, the last of which finished in 2022.
The executive also weighs in on what’s next for ‘Succession’ creator Jesse Armstrong: “The odds are pretty low” for a spinoff.
Pete Hammond of Deadline on Fox’s broadcast of the awards show, its celebration of TV after the strike-induced delay, as well as his “severe case of déjà vu”: “It is as if in this vast TV universe of networks, streamers, cable, You Tube and more content that a human being could ever consume, the people who vote for awards have only seen three shows.”
Warrior won’t be returning for a fourth season on Max. However, the existing three seasons of the martial arts crime drama are set to find additional audiences as Netflix has picked up the series’ library in a co-exclusive deal with Max in Warner Bros. Discovery streamer’s markets.
Parents Television and Media Council (PTC) has revealed that Meta and HBO have made its annual Naughty List for targeting children with harmful content, while AppleTV+ and Bentkey were chosen for its […]
Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar movie will also launch an American Sign Language version.
The new media rights deal is worth $7.7 billion when the previously announced $1.1 billion agreement with The CW is included. NASCAR did not reveal monetary figures at the news conference held at the Music City Center one day before its season-ending awards ceremony.
Max is offering an early holiday gift for new subscribers — and making an aggressive move to bump its fourth-quarter numbers amid the streaming wars. Starting Monday, Max is launching a Black Friday sale slashing its rates 70% for its ad-supported plan to just $2.99 a month for six months. The offer is open to new and returning subscribers (but not current ones). The regular premium plan (without ads) is the usual price ($15.99). The sale is available through Monday, Nov. 27.
Sesame Workshop will drop the magazine-style format of the long-running children’s show in 2025 in favor of a longer narrative-driven style, paired with a new animated series Tales From 123.
How CNN Max could be as sticky for SVOD as it’s been for pay TV.
EP Darrell Olsen reveals what it’s really like behind the scenes of Max’s popular all-nude dating show, and how its producers are reacting to the longtime U.K. sensation causing an uproar (both positive and negative) in the States.
The Parents Television & Media Council calls on the streamer to pull the racy U.K. reality show Naked Attraction import from its lineup. Pictured: Anna Richardson, Naked Attraction host.
One of the U.K.’s most infamous dating shows was quietly added to the Max streaming service last week. The streamer has imported six seasons of Naked Attraction, a game show that promises to “start where a good date often ends — naked.” In each episode, a single “chooser” critiques and eliminates six potential dates standing on a stage by scrutinizing their fully nude bodies, which are gradually revealed one part at a time (faces are revealed last). When only two potential dates remain, the chooser strips out of their own clothes too, giving the remaining two contestants the opportunity to critique them. The final couple then go out on a date, with their clothes on.
Making good on years of promises by the corporate overseers of Turner Sports, Warner Bros. Discovery is adding a live sports tier to Max. The streaming add-on, which will carry the Bleacher Report brand now that the Turner name has faded away, will launch Oct. 5 at $10 a month. No charge will be assessed to existing Max subscribers until next Feb. 29. Unlike the long-defunct streaming service B/R Live, which was a stand-alone, the new offering will only be available as part of a Max subscription.
The chart will debut in the U.S. over the next week, with other countries expected to add market-specific rankings down the line. Titles must be new in order to qualify for the ranking. Series must have had a new episode hit Max within a six-week period, while movies must have debuted on the streamer within an eight-week period. The Flash is currently the number-one movie title in the U.S., while Hard Knocks: A Season with the New York Jets tops the series list.
Live-streamed news content “will make Max more valuable,” one analyst told The Wrap, but it could come at the expense of the linear network.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max streaming service will be adding a number of series from AMC Networks for two months starting Sept. 1. The shows will pop up on as AMC Plus PIcks on Max and will be available to subscribers to both the ad-free and ad-light tiers of Mxs in the United States.
Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to launch new original programs from CNN that will stream on its Max streaming service, according to three people familiar with the matter. Jim Sciutto, Bianna Golodryga, Rahel Solomon and Christiane Amanpour are among the CNN journalists who have been tapped to take part in the effort, according to two of these people.
Max has picked up a third season of And Just Like That, the Sex and the City sequel following Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) as they navigate family, love and friendship 15-plus years after the original series concluded. The renewal comes just ahead of the show’s second-season finale, which is set for Aug. 24 and will feature a buzzed-about cameo from the fourth member of the core SATC cast, Kim Cattrall.
The buzz about bundling has been steadily growing in TV industry circles since May, when Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav took a break from his usual mustache-twirling to lay out a case for why companies with streaming platforms needed to get on the ball and figure out a way to package their respective services together in one consumer-friendly package — a.k.a. a bundle.
Barbie will be available to stream on the platform later this year, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Thursday. “Barbie is really important for us,” Zaslav said on the company’s 2Q earnings call. “When it goes on Max, it will have a good impact in the fall.”
Max subscribers can now find popular OWN series like Love & Marriage, Ready to Love, Put A Ring On It and Belle Collective along with library content on a new OWN hub.
After spending months keeping CNN from expanding into streaming, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery appears to have changed its mind. Warner Bros. Discovery is exploring ways to get more CNN programing on to its Max streaming service, according to a person familiar with the matter, looking at the news outlet’s broader portfolio to see what content might work. Executives will have to navigate agreements with CNN’s traditional distributors that often require cable and satellite companies get first access to CNN’s live broadcasts.
Sources confirm that Warner Bros. Discovery is eyeing a non-exclusive deal that would see multiple original series stream on both Netflix and Max.