Rumor: HBO Max may be folding into Discovery+

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Nah, I think Winning Time's issue was the strike.


Shows like this really rely on the star power/actors doing the promo runs. With the strikes none of that was possible.

They filmed the ending making it the series finale in January.
 

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They filmed the ending making it the series finale in January.
They had two endings prepared. One they would go with if it looked like they would get renewed, the other for if it was more likely they wouldnt get renewed.

HBO told the Winning Time producers to prepare for the possibility that the show might end with Season 2 “back in January while we were still in production,” executive producer Kevin Messick tells Vulture. “They said, ‘Think about it so that you have the option while you’re still in production to figure out how it might end if, sadly, that was the end of it.’ So we did get a chance to prepare, which we appreciated.”
The finale originally ended with the L.A. Lakers losing in heartbreaking fashion to the Boston Celtics in the 1984 NBA Finals. But the producers tacked on an optimistic epilogue with Jerry Buss and his daughter Jeanie toasting to their good fortune, along with a montage that told us where all the key players ended up. “To be clear, we never planned creatively to end at the ’84 Finals,” Messick stresses, adding that they prepared two different versions of the finale: one that ended with the Lakers losing, and one with the epilogue and montage, in case they were cancelled. (The former version was the one initially sent out to critics at the start of Season 2.)
 

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Nah, I think Winning Time's issue was the strike.


Shows like this really rely on the star power/actors doing the promo runs. With the strikes none of that was possible.

Winning Time was fire but it wasn't talked about in the streets like other big hit shows when they're poppin'. I think it was on the chopping block regardless. HBOMax's run from 2020-22 was :whew: Run still shorter than leprechauns tho:francis:
 

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What up with AMC having shows in the app now?


Also worst of all I can't figure out how to get the old Max app off my Sony tv? Anyone else deal with this like wtf?
 

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HBO Max needs an overhaul. It used to be like the luxury bar at the 4 Seaonsn not it feels like some weird dive bar with a few people slumming it.

They need to reverse the merger, what a mess. I think Zslav's scheme will maybe not work. Streaming has taken a big hit since the 2022, and the strike pushed that further.

it was never about HBO and Discovery having any sense of synergy, it was just a cynical ploy to cut costs and boost the share price.
 

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Bottom line, the only streaming platforms that's eating good and putting out piff are Peacock and Netflix. Most of these streaming services are suffering hard from the writer's strike, its going to get to the point where Hollywood going to either cut the check or embrace the reality era to a tee. I'm talking about throwing dollars at TikTawkers and YouTube dikk gobblers, since them blokes can do shyt for viral and half the profits of an actor and writer.
 

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Bottom line, the only streaming platforms that's eating good and putting out piff are Peacock and Netflix. Most of these streaming services are suffering hard from the writer's strike, its going to get to the point where Hollywood going to either cut the check or embrace the reality era to a tee. I'm talking about throwing dollars at TikTawkers and YouTube dikk gobblers, since them blokes can do shyt for viral and half the profits of an actor and writer.


shyt I been eating good off Disney+ personally.

As I been watching the Clone Wars series…. Since I wanted to familiarize myself with Asoka before I watched that…

To my surprise that shyt is amazing, not what I expected it to be and far better than I anticipated.

Need to watch The Bad Batch next but it finally help makes some nuggets in Mandalorian and Bobba Fett make better since now

Then there is Hulu.

What I like to call The Alliance (Netflix, D+, Hulu, APrime and etc) are killing it to me….. I got so many shows to look forward to and watch
 

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shyt I been eating good off Disney+ personally.

As I been watching the Clone Wars series…. Since I wanted to familiarize myself with Asoka before I watched that…

To my surprise that shyt is amazing, not what I expected it to be and far better than I anticipated.

Need to watch The Bad Batch next but it finally help makes some nuggets in Mandalorian and Bobba Fett make better since now

Then there is Hulu.

What I like to call The Alliance (Netflix, D+, Hulu, APrime and etc) are killing it to me….. I got so many shows to look forward to and watch
Top 5 streaming

1. MAX!
2. APPLE

5. amc+/Paramount+peacock
 

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shyt I been eating good off Disney+ personally.

As I been watching the Clone Wars series…. Since I wanted to familiarize myself with Asoka before I watched that…

To my surprise that shyt is amazing, not what I expected it to be and far better than I anticipated.

Need to watch The Bad Batch next but it finally help makes some nuggets in Mandalorian and Bobba Fett make better since now

Then there is Hulu.

What I like to call The Alliance (Netflix, D+, Hulu, APrime and etc) are killing it to me….. I got so many shows to look forward to and watch

I tried watching Hulu and just felt underwhelmed. Like I want to finish up Wu Tang and finally see what's the hype about with Snowfall, but meh.
 

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What up with AMC having shows in the app now?


Also worst of all I can't figure out how to get the old Max app off my Sony tv? Anyone else deal with this like wtf?

I’m seeing HBO shows on Netflix too. I guess they are all saying fukk exclusive content.
 

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I’m seeing HBO shows on Netflix too. I guess they are all saying fukk exclusive content.

Funny enough I fired up Netflix tonight and saw Band of Brothers and the Pacific were there


Maybe some last minute fukk you contracts by the studios to screw over the actors during the strike?


The AMC shows on Max were all pretty new and it made me wonder if I missed another acquisition


I don't have AMC+ at the moment but it just hit me that there are way too many subscription services and the cost. adds up quickly


Some of the channels finally started consolidating last year and this year thankfully well expect in the case of what HBO has become
 

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it has very little brand to it now, it's like wandering a decent used book store, that's sort of curated, and seeing some ok stuff, but nothing that stands out.

The old HBO Max felt like a fairly well branded boutique, it didn't have the most, but it had the best

a lot of the movies are just C list stuff, which sometimes is fun to watch, come hone late night and check out some dumb movie, but you need the quality to balance it out.
 
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