HBO Max & Paramount+ to Bundle in 2027
Maybe, just maybe, someone will talk some sense into the Ellisons, and they’ll call the combined service HBO+.
The Great Rebundling will hit another milestone in 2027: Skydance has announced it will offer HBO Max and Paramount+ as a package deal ahead of what will eventually be a single app, in much the same way that Disney+ has integrated Hulu and HBO Max is littered with Discovery+ fare and Turner Networks’ sports programming.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Friday’s surprise closing of Fox’s deal to purchase Roku. The deal was originally set to close in the Spring of 2027, but something prompted the Murdoch Empire to speed up the process and get the deal across the finish line.
David Ellison has been open about his plan to combine the two apps since the Skydance purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery smashed through its final hurdles like a bulldozer made of money. While the prospect of two 100-year-old Hollywood studios being crunched into a single billionaire’s plaything called Skydance is depressing, from a business perspective, combining the two apps is a no-brainer. As Too Much TV’s Rick Ellis noted, the two streaming services couldn’t be more different. Taken together, the two streaming libraries have only six duplicate titles between them out of the thousands of shows and films.
