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HBO takes a lot of the credit for the rise of prestige TV. Shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Sex and the City and Game of Thrones were appointment TV, and that tradition lives on with newer series including Industry, Euphoria and more. Its streaming service, HBO Max, is also the home of tons of great movies, live sports and excellent documentaries.
This month, some favorite characters from The Big Bang Theory are back in a new spin-off series arriving on July 23. Stuart Fails to Save the Universe stars Kevin Sussman as Stuart Bloom, who plays himself alongside some familiar friends in an alternate reality. The series, created by Chuck Lorre, will run for 10 episodes. Also arriving this month are several hit films from the past few months, including The Long Walk, Lee Cronin's The Mummy and The Drama. And if you're the type who spends their summers waiting for Shark Week, it's back with 20 brand-new specials to sink your teeth into.
These titles and many others are out this July on HBO Max. Here's what you need to know to tune in.
July 3
Written and directed by Lee Cronin, the new imagining of the classic story of The Mummy is a gruesome tale about a young girl who reappears after going missing in Egypt eight years earlier. While her parents are happy to have her back, the truth is, she's a mummy now, and they realize they have to curb her demonic behavior before it's too late. The Mummy, out on HBO Max on July 3, stars Jack Raynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy and Natalie Grace.
July 9
Burning Man, the festival held each year in the Nevada desert, has a very specific aesthetic and ethos based in art, community and spirituality. But over the years, this cultural experiment has evolved. In this new four-part docuseries premiering on July 9, the festival's history is explored, along with its shift in leadership and the audience it has begun to attract.
July 10
Based on Stephen King's 1979 novel, The Long Walk is a dystopian thriller about 50 boys competing in a walking contest; any who fail to keep up are killed. The film stars Cooper Hoffman as one walker who is desperate to win and wants to get revenge on the Major (Mark Hamill), who is in charge of the event and oversees the deaths of the boys. The critically acclaimed film arrives on HBO Max on July 10.
July 16
Marc by Sofia is filmmaker Sofia Coppola's first documentary film, and it only makes sense that her subject is a longtime friend and sometime collaborator, fashion designer Marc Jacobs. The film offers a little bit of a history lesson about Jacobs' career from his influential grunge designs of the 1990s that put him on the map to the present day, and his biggest influences. More of a one-on-one conversation between friends, the film is an intimate look at an artist -- followed by another artist -- at work. The A24 film arrives on HBO Max on July 16.
July 23
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
If you've ever wondered what your favorite sitcom would be like in bizarro form, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is it. The new sitcom stars Kevin Sussman as comic book store owner Stuart Bloom, a character who first appeared on The Big Bang Theory. On this new spin-off, Bloom must restore reality after breaking a device created by Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki), which has created a multiverse featuring alternate versions of some characters you already know and love.
The show, created by Chuck Lorre, will make its streaming debut Thursday, July 23 at 9 p.m. ET, followed by a new episode every Thursday.
July 26-Aug. 1
The Discovery Channel was the first major network to launch a solid week of shark-related programming, and nearly 40 years after its launch, Shark Week is still going strong despite similar competition that's popped up on other platforms. This year, Discovery's Shark Week programming will also stream on HBO Max from July 26 through Aug. 2. It will include 20 new specials with titles like K-Pop Shark Heroes, Air Jaws: Red, White and Breach and Sharkzilla Takes New York.
July 31
What would happen if the person you were engaged to marry revealed a deep, dark secret that you found unforgivable? That's the premise of The Drama, which stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as Charlie and Emma, an engaged couple. But when Charlie learns a horrifying fact about Emma's past -- something that even some real-life critics couldn't get past when the movie first came out in theaters -- it causes Charlie to reconsider whether he wants to get married. Writer-director Kristoffer Borgli helmed the film, which arrives on HBO Max on July 31.
