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HBO Max disappears with the Sandy and Angelica shows





HBO Max has disappeared with the programs “Jornada Astral” and “Sandy + Chef”, productions launched with much fanfare last year. The variety attractions presented by Angelica and Sandy left the catalog streaming on Wednesday (13/7).

“Jornada Astral” was launched in December 2021 and was Angélica’s first job outside of Globo, the company she worked for for 24 years. On the show, she chatted with famous interviewees, using the horoscope as a jumping off point for unexpected confessions and predictions for the future of celebrities.

“Sandy + Chef” followed the culinary experiences of singer Sandy, not intimate with the kitchen, with the help of a famous chef by chapter. In addition to the step-by-step instructions for preparing the dishes, the series released in November 2021 highlighted the antics of Sandy and his guinea pigs, formed by his family and friends of his.

The alleged reason for the disappearance was the merger of Warner and Discovery.

“We are working on the possible unification of HBO Max and Discovery + programming on a single platform,” HBO Max said in a statement, suggesting that this type of attraction would only enter the new platform. But a similar product, “Selena + Chef”, the original production on which “Sandy + Chef” is based, remains available in streaming.

Curiously, the official explanation touches on a behind-the-scenes problem that hasn’t been talked about since March, when an interview with Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels mentioned “a combination product rather than a package,” talking about possible unification. the platforms. At the time he said it would take a long time.

But this statement came a month before the official launch of the new company, Warner Bros. Discovery, the result of the AT&T agreement to transfer the former WarnerMedia to the Discovery group.

Since then, Warner’s new owners have restructured the company, fired executives and canceled projects. Due to this dynamic, Warner Bros. Discovery blocked script content from US channels TNT and TBS, froze local HBO Max productions across most of Europe, and suspended the Brazilian soap opera project for streaming.

The cancellations are part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s content review to meet a $ 3 billion cost savings target this year.

It is worth mentioning that the newly formed conglomerate, managed by CEO David Zaslav, inherited a $ 55 billion debt from WarnerMedia, the main reason for the end of investments. And the unification of the two platforms at this point would include more, not less, investments.

Source: Terra

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