HBO Max Is Removing More Shows, But They’ll Have a Streaming Future

By now you’ve probably heard the information that lots of HBO Max’s unique titles—together with Westworld and The Nevers, in addition to two extra style exhibits simply added to that listing, Raised by Wolves and The Time Traveler’s Wife—will quickly be leaving the streamer and shifting elsewhere. Now we’ve got a barely higher concept of the place they’ll be ending up.

According to Variety, “Warner Bros. Discovery has announced a plan to license some of its canceled and pulled programming to third party free ad-supported television (FAST) channels. Additionally, the company says it will announce plans for its own proprietary FAST channel in 2023.”

In an announcement to the commerce, Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy saved issues optimistic: “We are excited to have the opportunity to welcome a whole new audience to our show.” Where precisely that viewers will be capable to tune into Westworld—and the way lengthy it is going to be off streaming as soon as it vacates HBO Max—stays to be seen.

Additionally, sure sequence that aired on HBO Max however weren’t solely owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (like Westworld was) are additionally being faraway from the platform very quickly—together with the criminally underseen (and sadly cancelled) Made for Love, which was produced by Lionsgate. “According to WBD, discussions are taking place with the studio partners behind each to set the projects at other platforms, including but not limited to third party FAST channels,” Variety writes.

The Hollywood Reporter had some huge numbers to elucidate why: “In a securities filing Wednesday, WBD said that it now expects to take writeoffs and impairments related to content and development costs of $2.8 billion-$3.5 billion, up from $2 billion-$2.5 billion as initially projected in October. That reflects an additional charge of $800 million to $1 billion. WBD now says its total restructuring and impairment charges related to the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger will be between $4.1 billion-$5.3 billion, reflecting the higher content writeoffs.”

We’ll echo our earlier warning, then: nonetheless want to search out out what occurred on the finish of Made for Love, Raised by Wolves, and even Westworld? Better act, uh, quick.

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