By Phillip Swann
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Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, plans to add 140 new TV shows and movies in July 2024. Here are the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:

Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants (HBO Original)
The title says this year’s edition of HBO’s Hard Knocks will present the offseason with the New York Giants. That seems appropriate since the Giants had another ‘off season’ in 2023, finishing a disappointing 6-11. However, the Hard Knocks look at the team as it enters its 100th season should be entertaining with a motley crew of colorful characters on hand such as quarterback Daniel Jones recovering from a torn ACL and first round draft pick Malik Nabers. The doc will show the team’s planning sessions during the 2024 draft, minicamps and the NFL Combine. Debuts July 2.

Faye (HBO Original)
Faye Dunaway, the star of such classics as Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network, will discuss her tumultuous and triumph career in this HBO original documentary. Dunaway was notorious for being the ‘difficult one’ on the set but the doc will chronicle her lifelong struggle with a bipolar disorder and related mental health issues. Faye will also include interview with former co-stars and friends such as Mickey Rourke and Sharon Stone. Debuts July 13.

Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose (HBO Original)
The four-part HBO documentary will examine Rose’s rise and fall in Major League Baseball and whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame despite admitting he gambled on baseball. There are few figures in sports history more polarizing than Pete and this doc, which will include interviews with the MLB hit champion, will surely add to the debate. Debuts July 24 with two episodes; last two episodes air the next night. (Sidebar: I interviewed Pete once when I was editor of Satellite DIRECT magazine and I asked him about gambling on baseball. He was evasive, which was not unexpected, but still defiant that he didn’t deserve the lifetime ban from the game. I suspect we’ll see more of the same here and I will be watching.)

Complete List of New Titles Coming to Max In July 2024:

July 1
Three Amigos! (1986)
17 Again (2009)
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Season 6 (TLC)
America’s Best Towns to Visit
As Good as It Gets (1997)

Babe (1995)
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Beowulf (2007)

Blended (2014)
Black Adam (2022)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Butterfield 8 (1960)

Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Chinatown (1974)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Company You Keep (2013)

The Craft (1996)
Cyrus (2010)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
The Express (2008)
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Firestarter (1984)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Frank (2014)
Garden State (2004)
Gattaca (1997)

Giant (1956)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
The Glass Castle (2017)
Gods of Egypt (2016)

Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Grand Piano (2014)
Inside Job (2010)
Lady Bird (2017)
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)

The Meg (2018)
Melancholia (2011)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
National Velvet (1944)

Network (1976)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Panic Room (2002)
Parenthood (1989)
Please Stand By (2018)

Posse: The Revenge of Jessie Lee (1993)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rescue Dawn (2007)
The Rider (2018)
Saw (2004)

Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010)
Saw II (2005)
Saw III (2006)
Saw IV (2007)
Saw V (2008)

Saw VI (2009)
Signs (2002)
Single White Female (1992)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Smurfs (Movie) (2011)

Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

To Sir, with Love (1967)
To the Wonder (2012)
Twister (1996)
Unbreakable (2000)
West Side Story (1961)

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Woodshock (2017)

July 2
Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 4 (Discovery)
Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants (HBO Original)
Mecum Full Throttle: Indianapolis IN 2024 (Motor Trend)

July 3
Barnwood Builders, Season 18 (Magnolia Network)

July 5
Beachfront Bargain Hunt Renovation, Season 9 (Magnolia Network)
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Specials): The Star of a Thousand Wishes (2024)
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Season 48 (Food Network)
King of Zanzibar (Max Original)

July 7
Belly of the Beast: Bigger and Bloodier (Discovery)
Jaws vs. Leviathan (Discovery)
Makozilla (Discovery)
Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion (Discovery)

July 8
BBQ Brawl, Season 5 (Food Network)
Big Shark Energy (Discovery)
Bodies in the Water (ID)
Great White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood (Discovery)
Shark Frenzy: Mating Games (Discovery)

Shark Frenzy: Mating Games (Discovery)
Signs of a Psychopath, Season 7 (ID)
Two Guys Garage, Season 23 (Motor Trend)

July 9
6000-Lb Shark (Discovery)
Bobby’s Triple Threat, Season 3 (Food Network)
Deadliest Bite (Discovery)
Monster Hammerheads: Species X (Discovery)
My Big Fat Fabulous Life, Season 12 (TLC)
Mecum Main Attractions: Indianapolis IN (Motor Trend)

July 10
Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan (Discovery)
Expedition Unknown: Shark Wrecks of WWII (Discovery)
Great White North (Discovery)
Quad Gods (HBO Original)

July 11
Caught! When Sharks Attack (Discovery)
Christina on the Coast, Season 5 (HGTV)
Great White Danger Zone (Discovery)
MILF of Norway, Season 1 (Max Original)
Monster of Oz (Discovery)
Teen Torture Inc. (Max Original)

July 12
Shark Attack Island (Discovery)
Sharks of the Dead Zone (Discovery)
The Real Sharkano (Discovery)

July 13
Faye (HBO Original)
Mothersharker: Hammertime (Discovery)
Sharktopia (Discovery)

July 14
Alex vs. America, Season 4 (Food Network)
In the Eye of the Storm, Season 1 (Discovery)
Mary Makes It Easy, Season 4 (Food Network)

July 15
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two (2024)

July 16
The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph, Season 1 (ID)
Welcome to Plathville, Season 6 (TLC)

July 17
Wild Wild Space (HBO Original)

July 18
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Season 1 (Max Original)
The Commandant’s Shadow

July 19
Love Lies Bleeding (A24)

July 21
Forbidden Love, Season 1 (TLC)

July 22
Fatal Affairs, Season 1 (ID)

July 23
Chopped, Season 58 (Food Network)
Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game (CNN Originals)

July 24
Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose (HBO Original)
Guy’s Grocery Games, Season 36 (Food Network)

July 25
Full Custom Garage, Season 4 (Motor Trend)
Mecum Full Throttle: Kissimmee Summer Special 2024 (Motor Trend)

July 26
Knox Goes Away (2024)
Walker, Season 4 (2024)

July 30
Violent Earth with Liev Schreiber (CNN Originals)

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