Why would they debase the HBO brand by removing HBO from the streaming name, and adding tons and tons of low grade reality TV to HBO - once considered the cable channel known for high quality?
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The real answer is probably they're aiming to launch more than one streaming service down the line and they can't both be named HBO is my guess
It would make sense if the Reality And lowbrow shows from Discovery were only available on streaming Max, but it’s also on my cable. just because it bounces over to Max doesn’t insulate HBO from the Discovery crap - if I went to HBO to find it.
But there's already Discovery+.
they already had discovery+ and hbo now. they could've kept 3 streaming services if they wanted to.
Not only that, they’ve made it harder to find higher quality HBO documentaries, now buried in an ocean of lowbrow Discovery shit.
you are literally moronic. theres is an HBO tab with everything HBO
Im thinking of the experience from watching a TV - I use Comcast Xfinity and the content is organized differently. More of a jumble. Maybe that’s a Comcast issue - but you would think HBO would have control over how the content is organized there.
HBO is known for breasts and ass shows not for high quality.
thats Showtime
HBO, Showtime and Starz.
Yep. Nudity and cancelling shows half way. That's what i think of when i think of HBO
It's known for virtue signaling and padding their ESG score now.
they know they're never going to make anything as good as sopranos, rome, or even "the night of" again, so they don't want their new slop to be associated with expectations of the older stuff.
*laughs in Succession*
Just frick off
succession was shit. brian cox carried the show on his back, but even he couldn't do much with the shit writing.
>succession was shit
No
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Succession had high production quality, (expensive) and Cox was very entertaining to watch as the character of Logan Roy.
Not a great show per se - but they poured some money into and it looked good.
Now I turn to Amazon Prime and they have this Freevee crap - movies with ads. But the whole point of cable and streaming is you are paying a monthly fee - to avoid advertisements
production values can't hide bad writing
also digital cameras held by parkinson's patients mean those values were wasted
I picked up the $3 Black Friday deal and seeing the commercials forcibly jammed into HBO shows (distinctly not structured for ad breaks) pisses me off to no end
HBO as a brand hasn't been relevant since GoT ended. The reality slop is what's hot. In reality Discovery really fricked up taking on the rotting carcass of Time Warner when TLC, Home and Garden, and the cooking channel printed money.
You can give some bimbo a camecorder and tell her to make a reality show for 50k and episode or drop 200m making the magic Black person comic book movie that will both have the same amount of viewers.
The Discovery/TLC stuff is actually more profitable than HBO ever was. That apparently means more to them than history, prestige, quality, legacy, etc when choosing a name. I could see how they thought it would be smart to call it something new Featuring HBO but It's like if someone bought NISSAN and Ferrari and called their new company NISSAN+. Its almost mind boggling how HBO-Max was the best streaming service there for a while and now it's seen as the fart store.
All the old stuff is there. There's nothing wrong with more content imo. HBO Max became irrelevant when they stopped moving their theatrical releases to there 30 days after their debut. Barbie still isn't on there. Even irrelevant shit nobody sees like the blue beetle takes 6 months to go there at which point nobody cares because it's just a shitty six month old movie nobody wanted or wants to see.
The Discovery stuff is the only thing keeping it relevant. I get it for free sharing a relatives account and only use it to watch cut throat kitchen and ID Discovery shows.
Just picture every executive decision being taken while doing massive amounts of coke and all will make sense.
You don't associate 35 distinct 90 Day Fiance series with quality?
>HBO is a flag ship brand denoting quality entertainment
>Has to sell to a reality tv company because failing do to years of slop slopping
Hmm
>HBO
> known for high quality
When?
That long stint right after GoT ended where they produced the sloppiest trash imaginable that caused them to have to sell to avoid bankruptcy hasn’t ended yet
Bro
they are essentially transforming in the same way the history channel did
I dub it "the history channel effect"
Once like 20 years ago
Times change gramps
The removed HBO from the branding so that when the service eventually goes under it won't damage the cable/satellite product too much. The change was actually made to protect the HBO name.
Now that actually makes some sense.
But who starts up a streaming service with the expectation it will fail?
Everyone. Streaming services don't actually make any money and cost millions a day to operate. I suppose in the business sense the streaming service can give you an idea about what your customers really spend their time watching, but how valuable that is when you're just pumping out propaganda with a total disregard for profit is pretty questionable.
Are you guys moronic? If HBO Max can't get traction for $9.99 with their entire library at your fingertips who the frick is going to pay even more for some legacy cable add on.
>get rid of their best kino, West World
>generic dumb name like max
it's over
Pull up Max's homepage right now and you'll get your answer. 7 of the top 10 most watched shows this week are unscripted slop from the discovery side. 2 of them are "Max Originals". Only 1 show pulling in ratings is an actual HBO show.
that shit's fake
HBO is associated with being expensive to normies. Zaslav doesn’t want that.