HBO Max has been conspicuously absent from some key world markets, however it’ll quickly be increasing to a number of extra nations in Europe. Launching in 2020, changing earlier variations of the community’s streaming department, HBO Max has been a solution to the arrival of the streaming age, being the house for HBO originals and different beloved titles.
HBO Max at present hosts the community’s a number of genre-defining TV reveals, together with Recreation of Thrones, Succession, The Final of Us, and extra. New episodes of HBO reveals go straight to the streaming service after they’ve aired, for many who are maintaining with new collection like It: Welcome to Derry, and shortly Home of the Dragon season 3 and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
As Warner Bros. Discovery is HBO’s mum or dad firm, the HBO Max library additionally holds latest hit blockbusters like Weapons, Superman, Sinners, and extra. Different titles embrace the latest Emmy-winning Max authentic collection The Pitt and all of the Harry Potter motion pictures. Now, a broader viewers may have entry to this library of important pillars of popular culture.
WBD has introduced that HBO Max, which is already obtainable in additional than 100 nations worldwide, can be increasing to Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein on January 13, 2026. The Olympic Winter Video games Milano Cortina 2026 can even be broadcast reside by way of HBO Max from February 6 to 22 subsequent yr, thus to those nations as nicely.
HBO Max nonetheless doesn’t have an official enlargement date for the UK or Eire, the place the community’s content material might be watched by means of the pay-TV service Sky. Alongside the affirmation of this enlargement, HBO Max introduced a number of upcoming authentic collection, together with a number of from worldwide producers, specifically from Germany and Italy.
In Germany, W&B Tv is engaged on 4 Blocks Zero and Banksters; the previous is a prequel to the gangster drama 4 Blocks, and the latter a heist drama based mostly on actual occasions. Moreover, the Beetz Brothers are delivering a documentary in 2026 about one in all Germany’s most well-known heists. Jantje Friese and Baran Bo Odar are in the meantime making a thriller collection for HBO.
In Italy, HBO has the docudrama present Melania (recounting the 2011 homicide of Melania Rea, performed by Maria Esposito), Marco Bellocchio’s collection Portobello (premiering on February 20, 2026), and the 2 docuseries Gina Lollobrigida: Diva Contesa and Saman, all within the pipeline.
HBO Max wants this enlargement and thrilling new titles to stay aggressive within the packed streaming market, although it’ll at all times have the benefit of providing a number of the greatest TV reveals of all time, now to new audiences.