Ahead of the deliberate launch of its personal proprietary streaming service, CNN is shuffling a few of its unique programming off of HBO Max in order that it might probably have extra content material within the can to populate CNN+ with when it launches in 2022.

According to Bloomberg, the reveals scheduled to get yanked thus far will “likely” embody the cable community’s two fashionable meals reveals, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, together with different CNN unique sequence and documentaries. The determination to tug the programming would successfully finish the connection between CNN and HBO Max—that are each owned by the identical guardian firm, WarnerMedia—and would imply that CNN will now not produce reveals for any streaming platform apart from its personal shifting ahead.

CNN has been courting massive names within the media business forward of the deliberate launch of CNN+, most lately asserting that it had signed longtime Fox News host Chris Wallace to host a brand new weekday present. The community additionally individually introduced that it will be partnering with TV star Eva Longoria on a brand new journey present spun off of Tucci’s referred to as Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.

It’s been beforehand reported that CNN plans to debut the brand new streaming service in March, with a beginning value of $6 a month—a doubtful technique in a crowded market that already has folks groaning about shelling out for premium content material. CNN’s fellow community, NBC, has a free streaming service with Peacock, and free dwell TV choices like Pluto TV and the Roku Channel additionally abound. In different phrases, it’s not instantly clear who precisely is clamoring for a subscription-based, CNN-branded streaming platform, however that doesn’t seem like it’s stopping the community from heading into the brand new 12 months weapons blazing, able to wager massive on the recognition of a brand new Chris Wallace automobile.

We possible received’t know the way CNN’s gamble will repay for not less than a number of years; within the meantime, although, watching Stanley Tucci eat his manner by way of Italy’s greatest pasta dishes isn’t the worst option to go the time.