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Even marquee HBO shows likeMrs.
Fletcherand, last week,Westworld, havent been able to escape the ax.
This situation is messy and complicated by the fact that parent company Warner Bros.
Discovery finds itself in pretty dire financial straits.
First of all: Is HBO Max going away?
But while nothing is official, the nameHBO Maxisvery likely going to changein 2023.
Why are they doing this?
In a word, money.
Essentially, these regulations let the new company write down future lossesnowunder more favorable terms than would normally apply.
Will I ever be able to see these shows again?
FAST platforms such as Pluto TV or the Roku Channel is okay.
Whats the deal with the FAST stuff, anyway?
The trade-off for all this free-streaming goodness?
And unlike cable, you cant just DVR a show and fast-forward.
Will it be impossible to watch these shows without ads?
Even shows that originally ran on HBO???
Youre almost surely going to have to put up with some ads during yourWestworldbinge.
Do people even watch FAST shows?
So, yeah, people watch FAST.
Which shows will resurface, and where?
A WBD rep says there are no plans to license those titles anywhere else.
Many of them, however, are already available for purchase or rental.
Do any still have the potential to get other seasons elsewhere?
The others owned and produced by WBD are apparently dead and buried.
It could even opt to put the show on its own cable-streaming platform, Starz.
I read that HBO wants to do its own version of a FAST platform.
So why is it selling these shows to other peoples FASTs?
Its all about those dang restructuring regulations.
In those situations, streamers are simply saving money by no longer licensing a title.
Thats not what happened here.
But sadly,FBoy Islandcan not be part of whatever new free-streaming utopia the company is planning.
Well, look, shows and movies come and go from streaming all the time.
This seems really complicated.
In the end, it probably wasnt even a close call.
What if my favorite shows never come back?
Sadly, all we can offer is ourcondolences.
