HBO Max to Add 121 New Shows & Movies In December 2025 – Here Are the 3 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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HBO Max next month (December 2025) plans to add 121 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion:

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) & This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Release Date: December 12
Get ready to turn your speakers up to 11 because HBO Max on December 12 will double-down on the greatest living (and fictitious) band ever, Spinal Tap. The new installment, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, features the merry lads (Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean) as they are forced to perform one last show due to an overlooked contract clause from 40 years before. And on the same day, HBO Max will add the original Rob Reiner-directed mockumentary from 1984, This Is Spinal Tap.

Hard Knocks: In Season With the NFC East
Release Date: December 2
Can someone please explain what on earth is happening with the NFC East? The Super Bowl defending champion, the Philadelphia Eagles, have lost two in a row. The Dallas Cowboys suddenly look like the best team in the division. And the Washington Commanders have been everything but commanding. Well, let’s hope we get some answers from HBO’s new edition of Hard Knocks which will take us behind the scenes of the suddenly unsettled division. Liev Schreiber, the new modern day ‘Voice of God,’ will narrate.

Mad Men: Seasons 1-7
Release Date: December 1
Nearly two decades after the company’s execs passed on the groundbreaking series, Mad Men comes to HBO Max – and in 4K for those with the pricey HBO Max 4K package ($22.99 a month). Mad Men stars Jon Hamm as the suave but mysterious Don Draper, an advertising executive who charmed both the ladies and clients in 1960s New York. The show, which was created by Matthew Weiner, a writer on The Sopranos, was designed as a vehicle to offer commentary on the issues of the time, including women in the workforce, media manipulation and traditional masculinity. However, it was the Draper narrative that kept viewers glued to Mad Men week in and week out. Hamm, who was a relatively unknown when he took the part, rendered an unforgettable portrayal of a man in crisis, a crisis that he keeps secret from all including his friends and loved ones. If you’ve never seen it – or just want to watch it in 4K – here’s your chance to catch all seven seasons.

New Shows & Movies Coming to HBO Max In December 2025

December 1
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Pillow Talk, Season 9 (TLC)
Adult Swim Yule Log (Adult Swim)
Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out (Adult Swim)
Atomic Blonde
Battle of the Sexes
Bright Leaf
Christmas with the Kranks
Dames
DeLorean
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Girls Trip
Gunsmoke in Tucson
Hidden Figures
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1952)
Illegal
Jim Thorpe: All-American
Jimmy the Gent
Key Largo
Kid Galahad
Larceny Inc.
Law of the Badlands
Little Caesar
Liz and the Blue Bird
Lu Over the Wall
Mad Men, Seasons 1-7
Mandalay
Millennium Actress
Mind Game
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Mission to Moscow
My Dream is Yours
Ne Zha
Night and Day
Paul Anka: His Way (HBO Original)
Perfect Blue
Pierrot le fou
Racket Busters
Riffraff
Romance on the High Seas
Santa Fe Trail
Shin Godzilla (GKIDS)
Shining Victory
Shoeshine
Sing and Like It
Song of My City
Summer Wars
Table 19
Taking Woodstock
The Color Purple (1985)
The Colors Within
The Damned Don’t Cry
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Goonies
The Matrimonial Bed
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Wolf (1941)
The Seventh Victim
The Shop Around the Corner
They Won’t Believe Me
Tiny Furniture
Trouble Along the Way
Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk the Dark Street
Wedding Crashers
Wilson
Wolf Children
X-Men First Class

December 2
Capital One MLB Open
Chopped: Volume 4, Season 63 (Food Network)
Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East (HBO Original)
New Orleans: Soul of a City (CNN Original Series)
“The Hidden Homeless,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)

December 3
Fixer to Fabulous, Season 7 (HGTV)

December 4
About Face, Season 1 (TLC)
Architecton (A24)
Cheap A$$ Beach Houses, Season 1 (HGTV)
Dunkman, Season 1
Dylan’s Playtime Adventures, Season 1D (Max Original)
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (HBO Original)

December 5
Batwheels, Season 3A (Cartoon Network)
House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 205 (HGTV)
House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 247 (HGTV)
The Family McMullen (2025)

December 7
The Christmas Showdown (OWN)

December 8
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days, Season 8 (TLC)

December 9
Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 2I (Cartoon Network)
Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House (Magnolia Network)

December 11
Wizkid: Long Live Lagos (HBO Original)

December 12
Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh (HBO Original)
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Stolen Children (HBO Original)
This Is Spinal Tap

December 13
Vantara: Sanctuary Stories, Season 1 (Animal Planet)

December 14
Toad and Friends, Season 1D
Very Merry Mystery (OWN)

December 15
Assassination in the Valley of the Kings (Discovery)
The Bold Type, Seasons 1-5
Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread (CNN Original Series)
Truck U, Season 21
White House Christmas (HGTV)

December 16
The Secrets We Bury (ID)
“MisinfoNation: White Genocide,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)

December 17
Obsession: The Murder of a Beauty Queen (HBO Original)

December 18
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (HBO Original)
Saving Yellowstone with Dennis Quaid, Season 1 (Animal Planet)

December 19
House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 248 (HGTV)
Teen Titans Go!, Season 9F (Cartoon Network)
Update: One Battle After Another will be added today as well.

December 20
Adult Swim’s The Elephant (Adult Swim)

December 21
Secrets in the Sand, Season 2 (Science)

December 22
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025)
The Last Captains, Season 1 (Discovery)

December 23
“The Exorcists,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)

December 24
Guy’s Grocery Games, Season 40 (Food Network)
Ne Zha II (A24)

December 25
Happy And You Know It (HBO Original)

December 26
Heaven (HBO Original)

December 27
Junk or Jackpot?, Season 1 (HGTV)

December 28
Home Reimagined, Season 1B (Magnolia Network)
My Pet Ate What!?, Season 1 (Animal Planet)

December 29
Celebrity IOU, Season 11 (HGTV)
Two Guys Garage, Season 24

December 31
Building Outside the Lines, Season 3 (Magnolia Network)

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