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HBO Max is launching a rating system to let users provide feedback on titles they like -- or hate. Netflix first introduced user ratings in 2001.
The new rating system is coming to the HBO Max app on the web, mobile, and smart TVs. You can rate shows by selecting the “Rate” button that shows up on a title’s description page, or by choosing an option that appears on the screen when you finish watching a show or movie.
Created by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs—the team behind the It feature films—the eight-episode HBO series, premiering Oct. 26, is a misbegotten expansion of King’s saga that’s undone by shoddy plotting, weak characterizations, and the most groanworthy premise in recent memory.
HBO and Sky are waging a new kind of War! This is not on the battlefield, but in the courtrooms of London’s ruthless lawyers. And this one’s already looking like Suits on a triple espresso.
Warner Bros. Discovery is officially on the block, disclosing that it has received interest from “multiple parties” to acquire all or part of the company and that its board is reviewing various options.
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN, is contemplating a sale. The media giant says it has received “multiple” expressions of interest from potential buyers, indicating that Paramount Skydance is not the only suitor for the media company.