Everything that got announced for HBO Max: Titles and pricing

HBO announced on Tuesday that their streaming service HBO Max will launch in May 2020 for $14.99 a month (existing HBO customers and HBO Now direct subscribers will get it bundled for free), as well as a feature it calls “human-powered discovery.” 

“Talent & influencers will be the humans behind our Recommended by Humans feature, sharing the content they love and why it’s worth watching,” it announced in a tweet.

The service will also offer “co-viewing”, a joint profile that gives recommendations based upon joint views without interfering with personal profiles.

In addition, the company announced a Game of Thrones prequel as the crown jewel in their upcoming slate for HBO. Co-created by George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal, the Targaryen prequel House of the Dragon will also be written by Condal, and both he and Miguel Sapochnik will act as showrunners.

HBO Max further revealed many of the films and shows that will be available on the service in an exhausting series of tweets on Tuesday.

First up, as expected, there will be a ton of old HBO shows, including:

There will also be a ton of new HBO Originals:

• Tokyo Vice, shot entirely in Japan, stars Ansel Elgort as an American journalist who explores “the dangerous underbelly of Tokyo”

• Love Life, starring Anna Kendrick, is a romcom anthology series about exactly what the title suggests

• Gossip Girl is a sequel to the original series set eight years later and featuring a new cast

• Grease: Rydell High, a musical series

• Rap Sh*t, an Issa Rae comedy about a female hip hop duo and their manager in Miami’s music scene

• College Girls (a working title), a series about three freshmen roommates in college from Mindy Kaling

• The Flight Attendant, a dark comedy in which Kaley Cuoco wakes up in a strange hotel room next to a dead stranger

• Unpregnant, about a college-bound woman who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy

• Jellystone, an animated series about the town of Jellystone, which is occupied by Hanna-Barbera characters

• Green Lantern, based on the DC heroes of the same name

• Strange Adventures, featuring characters from across the DC universe in “close-ended morality tales”

The latter two are all from DC and teen TV megaproducer Greg Berlanti.

Then in 2021, there’ll be even more new HBO Originals:

• Gilded Age, a 1880s New York period drama created by Downton Abbey‘s Julian Fellowes

• Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet follows a detective investigating a small town murder

• The Nevers, a sci-fi drama by Joss Whedon

• Station Eleven, set “in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse”

• Made for Love, a dark comedy about “power and love”

• Americanah, starring Lupita Nyong’o and created by Danai Gurira

• Circe, based on the hit Greek-myth fantasy novel

• Raised by Wolves, a science fiction created by Ridley Scott

HBO Max is also releasing several original films:

• Let Them All Talk, directed by Steven Soderberg, is about an author who goes on a trip “to let loose and let go.” Stars Meryl Streep, Candace Bergin, Dianne West, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan.

• Superintelligence, a comedy starring Melissa McCarthy

• Bobbie Sue, a comedy starring Gina Rodriguez about a young lawyer “who upends tradition at a stuffy Boston law firm.”

The platform will also host some of the most bingeable and beloved TV shows of all time:

• South Park

• Friends

• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

• The Big Bang Theory

• Gossip Girl (original flavor)

• Pretty Little Liars

• The OC

• The West Wing, complete series arriving Winter 2020

• gen:LOCK (season 2)

Full seasons of CW shows will be made available “shortly after the season ends”, starting with Batwoman and Katy Keene.

Adult Swim content, including:

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force 

• Rick and Morty

• Robot Chicken  

• Samurai Jack

• Space Ghost Coast to Coast 

• The Boondocks, including two new seasons 

BBC content:

CNN Originals, including documentary series:

• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

• History of Comedy

• The Films

• This is Life with Lisa Ling

• United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell

• Generation Hustle, a new series exploring “the lengths young people will go to for fame, fortune, and power”

And more documentaries:

• Brad and Gary Go To… (working title), a documentary series following Hollywood couple Brad Goreski and Gary Janetti flying around the world and eating things

• 15 Minutes of Shame, a documentary from Monica Lewinsky and Max Joseph about the impact of public shaming

• The Ho’s (working title), documentary series about the wealthy Asian-American Ho family

• Birth, Wedding, Funeral, a documentary series in which Lisa Ling explores various cultures through these important events

• Heaven’s Gate, a documentary series about the “UFO religious based millenarian cult” behind the largest mass suicide in the US

• The Scoop, a behind the scenes look at CNN’s female political reporters covering the POTUS campaign trail

• Persona, a documentary film about the origins of personality testing and how it has affected the world

There’s a staggering amount of children’s content as well, including 50 old and five new seasons of Sesame Street. There will also be several spinoffs and coproductions, all of which will be made available on PBS Kids:

• Esme and Roy (season 2)

• Mecha Builders, a new animated spinoff series

• The Monster at the End of this Story, a new special that, like the book of the same name, will star loveable, furry old Grover

• The Not Too Late Show with Elmo, a new talk show

There’s enough kids’ content that they’ll never have to pick up a book again:

• Tig N’ Seek

• The Fungies

• Adventure Time: Distant Lands

• Little Ellen, a cartoon about a seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres

• Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

• TOONED OUT, which merges live-action with animated Looney Tunes characters

• Looney Tunes Cartoons, classics plus 80 original shorts

Game shows for kids:

• Craftopia, a kids’ crafting competition

• Karma, puzzles and physical feats

Film series:

• The Lord of the Rings

• The Matrix

• The Conjuring

• The LEGO Films

• Gremlins

There’s a significant DC contingent in addition to Berlanti’s new Adam Strange series: All the live-action DC films of the last decade, including Todd Philips’ Joker, and every Superman and Batman film of the last 40 years.

In other DC news, season two of DC Universe series Doom Patrol will also be available, as will DC Superhero High, which reimagines DC heroes as high school students.

An anime selection will be curated by Crunchyroll, and Studio Ghibli’s entire feature film library will also be available, including:

A documentary film celebrating the life of late chef Anthony Bourdain, made in conjunction with CNN Films and Focus Features.

Unscripted shows:

• LEGENDARY, about voguing

• First Dates Hotel, based on a UK format, where single people go on romantic experiences in Italy

• The Bachelor

• Impractical Jokers

• Expecting Amy, a reality series following Amy Schumer

• The Greatest Space, an interior designing competition

• Ellen’s Home Design, another interior designing competition only with Ellen DeGeneres

• Full Bloom, a floristry competition

Five new stand up specials from Conan O’Brien, and both modern and classic films including: 

• Casablanca 

• Citizen Kane 

• The Shining 

• A Star is Born 

• Singin’ in the Rain 

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• The Wizard of Oz

• When Harry Met Sally

• The Mask

• Spirited Away

• Crazy Rich Asians

• It

It isn’t clear exactly when all this content will land on HBO Max, with some available at launch and others arriving a later date. But when it does, it looks like there’ll be more than enough binge-fuel to last you a good long while.