Max to Add 20 New Titles This Week – Here Are the 3 Highlights

By Phillip Swann
The TV Answer Man – Follow me on X.

Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, this week (January 12-18, 2025) plans to add 20 new TV shows and movies to its lineup.

The week’s highlights include Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail, a documentary that examines how director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film, Blackmail, offers a sneak peek at the auteur’s decades-long passion for intrigue and mystery; A Different Man, the 2024 movie starring Sebastian Stan as a disfigured man who discovers the hard way that plastic surgery only cures surface scars; and the season 23 debut of Real Time with Bill Maher, the chat show starring the polarizing humorist.

Complete List of New Titles Coming This Week to Max

Sunday, January 12
Naked and Afraid Spain (Aventura En Pelotas Espana), Season 1 (Discovery International)

Monday, January 13
Barney’s World, Season 1B

Tuesday, January 14
Baylen Out Loud, Season 1 (TLC)
Death by Fame, Season 3 (ID)
The Curious Case of…, Season 1 (ID)
The Last Party: Death on Tresco, Season 1 (discovery+)

Wednesday, January 15
An Update On Our Family (HBO Original)
Cult of Fear: The Asaram Bapu Story (discovery+)
Marshall (2017)
Uncharted (2022)

Thursday, January 16
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
Divided By Design, Season 1B (HGTV)
Harley Quinn, Season 5 (Max Original)
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, Season 4 (ID)
My Sesame Street Friends, Season 15 (Max Original)
Sesame Street, Season 55 (Max Original)

Friday, January 17
A Different Man (A24)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 23 (HBO Original)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

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