When Warner Bros. and Discovery merged in 2023, the team behind CEO David Zaslav opted to remove several original series from HBO and HBO Max off of the company’s streaming service.
All the series mentioned were removed for a tax credit or licensed to free, ad-supported streaming services. Several of the series are no longer watchable. Here are six of the biggest ones.
Westworld
The most shocking casualty of the WBS merger was one of HBO’s biggest 2010s series. The first season of Westworld, the sci-fi series about a futuristic Wild West-themed amusement park filled with several android “hosts,” was HBO’s most-watched series until The Last of Us premiered in 2023. While the series’ reputation declined as it went on, it still won several Emmys across its four-season run. WBD opted not to keep one of HBO’s biggest originals on the streamer and instead sold the series to ad-supported streamer
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