HBO MAX has with it, one of the most extensive libraries of past primetime/adult animation on this green Earth. WarnerMedia owns assets like Adult Swim, Toonami, Hanna-Barbera, DC Universe, Rooster Teeth, and a slew of others to go along with new original series coming to HBO MAX down the road. To help, we put together a list of everything coming through the end of 2020 to the streaming service starting launch day on May 27th and moving through at least Winter 2020. Expect more acquisitions and original series to be part of the docket moving forward.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
The Boondocks (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
The Flintstones (Max Acquired – Anthology Series)
The Jetsons (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Primal (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Rick and Morty (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Robot Chicken (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Samurai Jack (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
June 24: South Park, Seasons 1-23 (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Spirited Away and the entire Ghibli Film Collection (Max Acquired – Animated Series)
Coming Soon:
Close Enough (MAX Original – Animated Series)
- Synopsis: From JG Quintel, creator of the Emmy Award-winning Regular Show comes Close Enough, a surreal animated comedy about a married couple, their five-year-old daughter, and their two divorced best friends/roommates all living together on the east side of Los Angeles. They’re navigating that transitional time in your 30s when life is about growing up, but not growing old. It’s about juggling work, kids, and pursuing your dreams, while avoiding time-traveling snails, stripper clowns, and murderous mannequins. Their life may not be ideal but for now, it’s close enough.
- Cast: J. G. Quintel, Jason Mantzoukas, Kelly Ohanian
- Credits: Close Enough is created by JG Quintel and produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
- Premieres: July 9th
TOONED OUT (Max Original – Comedy Series)
- Synopsis: Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis, Tooned Out is a half-hour, hybrid live-action and animated comedy in development for HBO Max. Things get a little cartoony for Mac when he starts seeing iconic cartoon characters, but they’re not just there for laughs, they’re helping him get through a very rough patch in his life.
- Cast: TBA
- Credits: Creator/Writer is Jared Stern. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis, Jared Stern, Jack Rapke, Jackie Levine. Produced by A Stern Talking To Productions and Compari Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Television
- Premieres: Upcoming
THE BOONDOCKS (Max Original – Animated Series)
- Synopsis: Based on the comic strip created by Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks both depicted and presaged the nation’s most roiling cultural issues. HBO Max has two new reimagined seasons and a 50-minute special.
- Cast: TBA
- Credits: Showrunner: Aaron McGruder. Executive Producers: Aaron McGruder, Norm Aladjem for Mainstay Entertainment, Seung Kim, Meghann Collins Robertson.Produced by: Sony Pictures Animation in partnership with Sony Pictures Television
- Premieres: Upcoming
GEN:LOCK (Max Original – Animated Series)
- Synopsis: The half-hour animated series focuses on a near-future dystopia undergoing a new, technologically driven world war. Fifty years in the future, an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.
- Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, Maisie Williams, Golshifteh Farahani, David Tennant
- Credits: Executive Producers: Michael B. Jordan and Alana Mayo of Outlier Society; Matt Hullum and Ryan P. Hall of Rooster Teeth
- Premieres: Upcoming
THE PRINCE (Max Original – Animated Series)
- Synopsis: The Prince, whose voice cast also includes Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Lucy Punch, Tom Hollander, Alan Cumming, Frances De La Tour and Iwan Rheon, is inspired by Janetti’s popular Instagram account, which has nearly 1 million followers and has garnered international media attention for poking fun at the British Royals (and the relentless media coverage of them) through the eyes of a young Prince George, the eldest child of Prince William and Princess Kate and a future king.
- Cast: Gary Janetti, Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, Lucy Punch, Tom Hollander, Alan Cumming, Frances De La Tour and Iwan Rheon
- Credits: Produced by: 20th Century Fox. Writer/Executive Producer: Gary Janetti.
- Premieres: Upcoming
Santa Inc. (Max Original – Animated Comedy Series)
- Synopsis: Santa Inc. is the story of Candy Smalls (Sarah Silverman), the highest-ranking female elf in the North Pole. When the successor to Santa Claus (Seth Rogen) is poached by Amazon on Christmas Eve, Candy goes for her ultimate dream— to become the first woman Santa Claus in the history of Christmas.
- Cast: Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman
- Credits: Showrunner/Writer: Alexandra Rushfield, Executive Producers: Alexandra Rushfield, Sarah Silverman, Amy Zvi and Rosa Tran, Produced: Point Grey Pictures as part of their multiplatform partnership with Lionsgate
- Premieres: Upcoming