IT’S COMING: New HBO Max/Discovery app

The combined HBO Max / Discovery+ app starts to take shape. Kinda. Well, at least we have a release date. Kinda. Also in today’s newsletter: Keanu Reeves is coming to TV.

Depending where you are in the world, the soon-to-be-combined HBO Max and Discovery app will start rolling out from mid next year. Since the beginning of the Warner Bros Discovery merger, execs have repeatedly said that the plan was to combine the two services.

I'm still not entirely convinced that there's much sense in putting the sort of premium conten…