A Complete List Of All The Original Shows And Movies In Development At HBO Max

We're just a few days away from the launches of both AppleTV+ and Disney+, but there is still at least one more major player waiting to enter the streaming wars after those two: HBO Max. WarnerMedia's streaming service will debut in spring of 2020 with around 10,000 hours of content available to consume, including popular hits like Friends and The Big Bang Theory. But there are also tons of original series in development for the new service, and we're here to round them all up in one place so you can decide if it's going to be worth it to add yet another streaming service to your monthly budget.

The service will provide content from every branch of the WarnerMedia corporate tree, including HBO, Warner Bros., New Line, DC Entertainment, CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, The CW, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, and Looney Tunes. Here's a list of all of the HBO Max shows we know about so far (not to be confused with HBO originals, which are a whole separate thing).

Half of the content will be aimed at a young adult audience, and the remaining half will be split between kids and family content and adult fare outside the HBO brand. They'll also have 31 Max Original series in their launch year.

Who's In It?: The original series starred Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams, and Cedric Yarbrough, but as far as I can tell, there hasn't been any word about whether or not they'll be returning to reprise their roles.What's It About?: A revival of the beloved Adult Swim series, "the new Boondocks follows the adventures of self-proclaimed 'Civil Rights Legend' Robert 'Granddad' Freeman and his two rambunctious grandsons Huey and Riley. The family has recently moved to an idyllic community in suburban Maryland only to see it taken over by the tyrannical Uncle Ruckus and his bizarre neo-fascist regime. Life under Ruckus turns out to be an everyday struggle to survive."

The new content kicks off with a 50-minute special and will continue with two "reimagined" seasons comprised of 24 total episodes. Plus the entire 55-episode original run of the series will be available on HBO Max at launch.

Who's Involved?: Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) will create and serve as showrunner.What's It About?: This "single-camera comedy following three 18-year-old freshman roommates at Evermore College in Vermont. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating."

Who's Involved?: Ava DuVernay (Selma, When They See Us) will direct and executive produce, Roberto Patino (Westworld) will write the pilot and serve as showrunner.What's It About?: Based on a comic, DMZ is set in the future. The U.S. government fails to take domestic threats seriously, resulting in Middle America residents violently rising up and pushing its way toward the edges of the country until they reach Manhattan, which becomes the country's DMZ. The comic focuses on Matty Roth, an aspiring photojournalist tasked with telling stories from the DMZ. But when things go wrong and he loses his way off the island, he has to choose whether to try to escape or to stick around and document the chaos happening in the war zone.

However, a description of this TV adaptation indicates that the primary character will be "a female medic on the island who is trying day-in and day-out to help keep residents alive while trying to also find her lost son," and that she becomes "a source of hope in an America that has lost all sense of the idea."

Who's Involved?: Denis Villeneuve, who's also directing WB's two upcoming Dune movies, is writing the series alongside Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Doctor Strange), and Villeneuve will direct the pilot.What's It About?: The series "explores the future through the eyes of a mysterious order of women: the Bene Gesserit. Given abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis — known to its inhabitants as Dune."

Who's Involved?: Daniel Barnz (Cake) is writing and directing, though it seems like his 17-year-old daughter Zelda may actually be the creator and writer of the pilot (pending WGA approval). Justice Smith, Michael Johnston, Chloe East, Uly Schlesinger, Nava Mau, Haley Sanchez, Nathanya Alexander, Lukita Maxwell, Chase Sui Wonders, and Sam Trammel have been cast in the series.What's It About?: Generation "follows a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community."

Who's Involved?: Original series writer and executive producer Joshua Safran is the creator/showrunner of this sequel show.What's It About?: "Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years."

Who's Involved?: Tze Chun (Gotham, Once Upon a Time) will write and executive produce.What's It About?: "The potential series is said to be a period piece that would follow Mr. Wing, the Chinese grandfather played in the films by Keye Luke, as a young man as he goes on adventures with the friendly Mogwai Gizmo."

Who's Involved?: Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen) is an executive producer.What's It About?: "Little Ellen is a 2D animated children's show that explores the world through the eyes of a hilarious and unpredictable seven-year-old Ellen DeGeneres. On her adventures in her musical hometown of New Orleans, Little Ellen takes big risks and makes big mistakes, but she's always able to laugh at herself and bounce back when things don't go as planned."

Who's Involved?: Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Freaks and Geeks) is executive producing alongside star Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, A Simple Favor), while Sam Boyd (In a Relationship) created the show, wrote the pilot, and will direct.What's It About?: The 10 half-hour episodes will be "about the journey from first love to last love, and how the people we're with along the way make us into who we are when we finally end up with someone forever."

Who's Involved?: Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) will produce and direct. Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) is the showrunner.What's It About?: The series "centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task."

Who's Involved?: Melissa Rosenberg (Jessica Jones) will write and executive produce.What's It About?: A prequel to the 1998 movie Practical Magic, this series is based on Practical Magic author Alice Hoffman's book Rules of Magic, which is set in 1960s New York City. "The series follows three troubled siblings — Franny, Jet and Vincent Owens — who wrestle with 'abnormalities' that have kept them isolated. But the tumultuous times unearth the extraordinary discovery that they are, in fact, descendants of a bloodline of witches. The two sisters will become the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while their brother will leave an unexpected legacy."

Who's Involved?: Big Bird, Grover, Elmo, and all your favesWhat's It About?: New episodes of the flagship show will premiere on HBO Max before airing for free on PBS Kids, but the notable thing here is that the streaming service is also getting four new spin-offs and a new annual special. The Not Too Late Show with Elmo is a live-action celebrity interview show with Elmo as the host; an untitled documentary series aimed at kids and families will be "building off Sesame Workshop's expertise in tackling difficult issues from a child's perspective"; Mecha Builders will feature the Sesame Street characters "in a robot-animation style"; and the existing series Esme & Roy will debut new episodes on the service and have its first season available on the platform as well.

Who's Involved?: Maniac showrunner Patrick Somerville will serve as the showrunner here, and Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry) will direct the pilot.What's It About?: "Told across various time periods and following multiple main characters, Station Eleven tracks the remnants of human society after a deadly flu ravages the global population. A roving group of actors, the cast of a doomed Shakespeare production, and inhabitants of an airport make up a few of the interweaving storylines that all somehow trace their way back to the start of the plague."

Who's Involved?: Robert ZemeckisWhat's It About?: "An inspired new series from visionary Bob Zemeckis called, in the vein of Bob's classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit, called Tooned Out, which merges animation and live action but with the cast of Looney Tunes characters."

Who's Involved?: Lisa Ling (This is Life with Lisa Ling).What's It About?: "Each episode of the series will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals — births, weddings, and funerals. In a quest to understand what connects us and celebrate the diversity of deeply rooted customs around the world, each episode is a riveting investigation of the human experience in a specific region, and a dramatic dive into an intimate moment in the lives of the people who live there."

Who's Involved?: Late night icon Conan O'Brien will produce.What's It About?: "Team Coco will produce five specials for HBO Max. O'Brien will host two of them, which will feature several up-and-coming comics doing short sets. The remaining three will feature a solo performer doing an hour-long set. Additionally, HBO Max has purchased rights to a one-hour special from comic James Veitch, also produced by Team Coco." (via THR)

Who's Involved?: Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen) is an executive producer and guest.What's It About?: "In Ellen's Home Design Challenge, design aficionado DeGeneres gives eight forward-thinking designers the chance to push their creativity to the limit. DeGeneres will be on hand to weigh in on each challenge and provide commentary."

Who's Involved?: Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen) is an executive producer.What's It About?: "Finding Einstein is an inspiring docu-series, blessed by the Einstein estate, that will seek out, celebrate, and support a fresh generation of Einsteins." The official description reads as follows: "Some may be a stone's throw away...others may be in a tiny village halfway around the world...all of them are motivated to live up to Einstein's ideal of changing the world for the better."

Who's Involved?: Legendary floristry artists Maurice Harris and Elizabeth Cronin will be judges, while celebrity florist Simon Lycett will be the competition show's host.What's It About?: "With incredible artistic creations and floristry face-offs, Full Bloom will allow audiences to escape into a surreal world as contestants will design and execute some of the most wondrous, Wonka-esq floral creations ever seen. Each episode features themed challenges centered around a unique stem of the floristry world including fashion, art, events and weddings."

Who's Involved?: Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri will executive produce.What's It About?: A 10-episode design competition show where professional interior designers travel the world to transform spaces, "from ballrooms to bedrooms to treehouses and everything in between."

Who's Involved?: Executive produced by Katy Wallin (Meet the Putmans) and Stephanie Bloch Chambers.What's It About?: "Led by patriarch Binh Ho and his wife, Hue Ho, the power couple immigrated from Vietnam to the United States with little money, relying on hard work to establish the ultimate American dream. They have built a multi-million dollar bank, a real estate development company and a new generation of American Ho's. The series pulls back the curtain of their lavish Houston lifestyle and showcases the tight family connections that unite them as well as the multi-generational outrageous drama that ensues. While Binh and Hue have laid down a golden foundation for their children, Judy Ho and Washington Ho (yes, named after the nation's founding father and whose kids are named Lincoln and Roosevelt), they are not exempt from the constant pressure to achieve and to live up to their parents' lofty expectations. Despite the power struggles, at the end of the day, the Ho household is filled with love, laughter, and a few designer handbags, of course."

Who's Involved?: The producers of the new Queer Eye series.What's It About?: This reality competition show is set in the world of voguing and "will feature 10 houses, each comprised of five performers and a house parent, competing in a round-robin format. Each episode will document a themed ball from start to finish."

Who's Involved?: Actress Gina Rodriguez will star.What's It About?: This "comedy feature [stars] Golden Globe-winning Gina Rodriguez as a brilliant young lawyer who upends tradition at a stuffy Boston law firm."

Who's Involved?: Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, The Laundromat) is directing and Deborah Eisenberg (The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg) is writing. The film will star Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Lucas Hedges, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest.What's It About?: The film tells "the story of a celebrated author (Streep) who takes a journey with some old friends (Bergen and Wiest) to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew (Hedges) comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent (Chan)."

Who's Involved?: UnknownWhat's It About?: "A documentary feature produced by CNN Films, The Scoop will follow the exhilarating and exhausting lives of CNN's fearless female political reporters as they cover the most unpredictable presidential campaign in American history. This behind-the-scenes documentary draws from unprecedented access to the campaign press corps and reveals how these powerhouse political reporters deal with the candidates as well as with the challenges of life on the road."

Who's Involved?: Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus, The Edge of Seventeen) stars, and Rachel Lee Goldenberg (The Mindy Project, Between Two Ferns, Man Seeking Woman) is directing.What's It About?: Based on Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan's novel, the story follows seventeen-year-old Veronica, "who never thought she'd want to fail a test— that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This tough and never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 900+ mile road trip to New Mexico over three days with her ex-best friend Bailey (Barbie Ferreira), where they discover that one of the most important factors in your life is who your friends are."

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In addition to all of that original content, HBO Max will also be the streaming home of several reality shows and docuseries, the Studio Ghibli movies, The West Wing, Doctor Who, four new Adventure Time specials, and more.