HBO Max Is Trolling Its Own Name Change
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Guess who's back? Back again? The HBO in HBO Max will return this summer, two years after Warner Bros. Discovery dropped it from the streamer's name.
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Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that it will be rebranding Max, the app formerly known as HBO Max, into, uh, HBO Max.
All I’m saying is if HBO Max really wanted to play that card, they should have gotten Jude Law to reprise his character from The New Pope to announce the news. Then again, wouldn’t that news sound better coming from The White Lotus Season 3 cast members Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, and Michelle Monaghan?
A little more than two years after lopping “HBO” off of the streamer’s name to create the breezily-named Max streamer, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to reverse course. Max — the unloved mononymous identity, too cool or too anxious to acknowledge its origins — is HBO Max once more .
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After all that, the Max streaming platform will be re-rebranded back to HBO Max this summer. It's 'the plot everyone's been waiting for,' a cheeky update on the app says.
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HBO is synonymous with great television -- and now HBO Max, the re-rechristened name of Warner Bros. Discovery's linchpin streaming service, is synonymous with major corporate reversals. There is little doubt about that,
Normally, Conan O'Brien and the "Inside the NBA" stars get the biggest laughs at a Warner Bros. Discovery (and before that, a Turner Networks) upfront. O'Brien wasn't there, instead appearing via a quick,
Warner Bros. Discovery marketing chief Shauna Spenley says she and other senior execs expect a "hot take" from John Oliver on the HBO Max rebrand.