HBO Max Axing 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals

Martin Holmes
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The changes continue at Warner Bros. Discovery as it has been reported that HBO Max will remove 36 titles, including 20 originals, from streaming as early as this week.

According to Variety, the decision was made due to the upcoming merger of the HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services. The company is looking to streamline its services in addition to cutting costs. HBO Max has dropped several titles over the past few weeks, including several Warner Bros. movies and HBO TV shows such as Camping, Vinyl, Mrs. Fletcher, and Run.

The latest announcement marks the most significant removal of titles so far, with 20 originals set to be taken off the platform, including teen drama Generation, animated series Summer Camp Island, and holiday-themed dating show 12 Dates of Christmas. There is also said to be a “select group of Sesame Street specials” that will leave the streamer, as well as seven acquired titles, including Mia’s Magic Playground and The Ollie & Moon Show.

“As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and discovery+,” HBO Max said in a statement (via Variety). “That will include the removal of some content from both platforms.”

As the news broke, several creators took to social media to share their dismay, including author Hamish Steele, creator of Netflix’s animated series DEAD END: Paranormal Park. “What’s happening at HBO Max is so scary from a creator perspective?” Steele tweeted. “Like making a show for a streamer, you rarely get a chance for a physical release, or for it to air anywhere else, and being reminded they can just delete it from existence, all your work, your portfolio, awful!”

Meanwhile, Julia Pot, the creator of HBO Max’s Summer Camp Island, said that the makers weren’t provided much reasoning for the move. “We worked for 5 years to make 100 episodes of animation,” Pot wrote. “We worked late into the night, we let ourselves go, we were a family of hard working artists who wanted to make something beautiful, and HBO MAX just pulled them all like we were nothing. Animation is not nothing!”

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Below is the list of titles to be removed from the streamer.

HBO Max Originals

12 Dates of Christmas
About Last Night
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
Close Enough
Ellen’s Next Great Designer
Esme & Roy
The Fungies!
Generation Hustle
Generation
Infinity Train
Little Ellen
My Mom, Your Dad
Odo
Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness
Summer Camp Island
The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
The Runaway Bunny
Theodosia
Tig n’ Seek
Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

HBO Originals

My Dinner with Herve
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Cartoon Network

Dodo
Elliott From Earth
Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart
Mighty Magiswords
OK K.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes
Uncle Grandpa
Victor and Valentino

Acquired Titles

Detention Adventure
Messy Goes to Okido
Mia’s Magic Playground
The Ollie & Moon Show
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Make It Big, Make It Small
Squish

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    GoldGlasses

    I've never even heard of these shows. It sounds like a lot of them are kiddie shows.

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      OliveChefHat

      Same here. I haven't heard of anything they've purged except Sesame Street. lol

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    GreenElephant

    We're HBO subscribers, so we get HBO Max for free (At least, for now. Who knows what this merger will do.), but, at the rate they're going, I'm not sure HBO Max is gonna be worth it even at that price.

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      PurpleFlame

      Because you were watching all those cancelled shows?

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        GreenElephant

        I'm worried about the shows I do watch. This wasn't the first batch cancelled and it won't be the last.

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          OliveChefHat

          It's not going to be the bloodbath people are worried about. Everyone is blowing it out of proportion as usual. Everything they've cancelled so far is something I've never even heard of, most of which has been underperforming films and kids' shows. Maybe kids' shows shouldn't be on HBO Max in the first place. Were that many people really watching the two Ellen shows? lol

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            OrangeTree

            Ah yes, because screw kids, who cares about what they're watching

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      OliveChefHat

      I disagree, this will be for the best. We get HBOMax for free too, but everything they've purged so far is something I've never heard of, forgotten about, don't watch or didn't even realize was on there in the first place. lol. The only title I recognize is Sesame Street, and that's not a big loss. It should be on Channel 21 anyway.

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        OrangeTree

        The issue here is that streaming platform CEOs can wipe the content that people worked on for years like it's nothing, and between the shift away from physical media and physical ownership, and licensing rights, that means those shows are ERASED FROM EXISTENCE except for pirating sites, and literally nowhere else. It would be a different matter if they had simply sold the streaming rights or allowed them to become available elsewhere, but that's not how it works. If you don't see the issue with streaming-only content being culled like that with no warning, as long as it's not the shows YOU'RE watching (yet), then you're an idiot.