Chelsea Handler is to return to stand-up for the first time in six years with a new special for HBO Max.
02.05.2020 - 15:57 / variety.com
Here's why WarnerMedia wants to capture direct-billed customers for the super-size streaming service
By Todd Spangler
NY Digital Editor
WarnerMedia has started to rev up the HBO Max promo engine with less than four weeks before its launch.
The AT&T-owned media company just introduced a new promotional pricing offer — giving customers a 20% discount on the super-size HBO Max streaming package for 12 months. For $11.99 per month (versus the regular $14.99 rate), eligible subscribers get
Chelsea Handler is to return to stand-up for the first time in six years with a new special for HBO Max.
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Anna Kendrick has “absolutely no guilt in the guilty pleasure” of her new HBO Max series “Love Life,” which marks her first dive into episodic TV.
By Todd Spangler
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Amy Schumer’s whirlwind pregnancy is the focus of an upcoming docuseries for HBO Max.
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John Stankey, the current leader of WarnerMedia and set to be come CEO of telcom giant AT&T on July 1, on Wednesday laid out a road map for how the telecom and media conglomerate will weather the economic storm caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The big question incumbent on all of us is what this climb out of this hole looks like and what kind of dynamics occur in the second half of this year," Stankey told the J.P.
The Friends reunion was postponed indefinitely when the Coronavirus pandemic hit America, and the stars of the show – Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer – were unable to come together to tape the special as planned.
A starry group came together for a meeting at Courteney Cox’s Malibu beach house on Oct. 5, 2019. Had the paparazzi gotten wind, pandemonium would have surely ensued.
By Nellie Andreeva
The highly anticipated “Friends” reunion that was pushed back due to the coronavirus may finally grace fans’ screens by the end of the summer. Like countless ongoing film and TV productions, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the unscripted “Friends” reunion being produced for HBO Max to be pushed back.
Update 5/11/20: It looks like Friends fans may be waiting a little while longer for that much-anticipated cast reunion special at HBO Max, but the good news is that it probably won't turn into another of those virtual Zoom reunions that have become so common amid the coronavirus pandemic.
HBO Max has picked up the 2020 Sundance award winner Charm City Kings from Sony Pictures. The new digital streaming service from WarnerMedia will release the drama under its Warner Max label sometime this year.
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With the coronavirus outbreak forcing people around the country to shelter in place or practice social distancing, many have learned more about their own kitchens and explored new recipes. The same goes for Selena Gomez, who is set to star in and produce an unscripted HBO Max original cooking series inspired by her time at home.
HBO Max is headed into the kitchen with Selena Gomez. The recording artist, actress and producer will headline a cooking series at the soon-to-launch streaming pl