A List Of Likely Safe HBO Shows And Unsafe HBO Max Shows, As WB Cleans House

Games A List Of Likely Safe HBO Shows And Unsafe HBO Max Shows, As WB Cleans House Paul Tassi Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. New! Follow this author to improve your content experience.

Got it! Aug 4, 2022, 08:56am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Euphoria HBO It is absolute chaos at WB, DC and HBO right now, as the recent unthinkable cancellation of a nearly-finished Batgirl movie appears to have only been the tip of the iceberg as new management rolls into town. Reportedly, WB is about to cut 70% of the production staff at HBO Max, with the aim that they simply do not want more scripted HBO Max-only content, as the service aims to fold up HBO, HBO Max and Discovery Plus into one streaming service. Even if some shows may survive, it seems like there are about to be a whole lot of cancellations as WB cleaves through its Max lineup.

But one problem, you may not know what is a more likely to be safe as “core” HBO show, and what’s technically an HBO Max original, which is much more likely to be on the chopping block. I have tried to go through most major HBO and HBO Max shows to sort this out, though we may have some firm info on cancellations by the end of the day. This isn’t everything, and it’s not like everything on the HBO Max list is doomed (Peacemaker allegedly is safe), but we’ll have to see how this unprecedented situation unfolds.

Succession HBO MORE FOR YOU ‘Demon Slayer’ Season 2 Finally Has An Actual 2021 Release Date Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Not A Sure Thing, Says Director ‘Genshin Impact’ Still Refuses To Increase Anniversary Rewards, Despite Fan Outcry HBO Originals (Presumably Safe) Succession House of the Dragon (upcoming) The Last of Us (upcoming) Euphoria True Detective Barry Curb Your Enthusiasm The Righteous Gemstones Westworld The White Lotus The Nevers Industry The Gilded Age Our Flag Means Death HBO HBO Max Originals (Presumably Not Safe) Our Flag Means Death Gossip Girl Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Hacks Warrior Titans Doom Patrol Harley Quinn Peacemaker (but James Gunn has said season 2 is safe) The Penguin Batman Spin-Off (upcoming) Arkham Batman Spin-Off (upcoming) Minx Rap Sh!t Tokyo Vice Fboy Island And Just Like That The Sex Lives of College Girls The Flight Attendant It is unclear what may happen to shows that are already filming or have even finished filming new seasons. You may think that would mean they’d be allowed to air, but as Batgirl showed, in an extreme cost-cutting era, new WB management may take the tax writedown of cancelling even a finished production rather than release it, so it’s hard to think of anything that’s 100% safe here. Even on the HBO side, I have to wonder if there are going to be cuts, as I don’t know if it’s guarantee the lack of a “Max” label means safe haven.

Wild times. More to come, and we may have a different, more dire list later today. Follow me on Twitter , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

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