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What's New on Max in December 2023

If you're tired of holiday content, catch Max's original comedy specials, documentaries, and series in December.
Still from "Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning"
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While holiday content is rotating on (and off) Max in December, there's quite a bit of original programming streaming throughout the month. Catch the season finales of Max original comedies Bookie, Julia, and Rap Sh!t (all of which premiered in November) on December 21 and of HBO original dramas 30 Coins and The Gilded Age on December 11 and 17, respectively.

There are two new specials for stand-up comedy fans: HBO original Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (Reich's first solo special) on December 16 and Max original Gary Gulman: Born on 3rd Base on December 21.

On the documentary side, there's the three-part Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (December 4), a Max original about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart and the racial tensions surrounding the investigation of the case as well as Oprah and The Color Purple Journey (December 28), an Oprah-hosted, behind-the-scenes look at the classic story that's being adapted as a movie musical coming to theaters on December 25.

Finally, Max is adding a few classic film franchises to its library in December, including Jack Ryan, James Bond, and The Pink Panther.

Here’s everything else coming to and leaving from Max in December.

What’s coming to Max in December 2023

Arriving December 1

  • 9 (2009)

  • Anna and the King (1999)

  • Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

  • The Biggest Little Farm (2019)

  • Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

  • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

  • The Box (2009)

  • Clear and Present Danger (1994)

  • The Color Purple (2023)

  • Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

  • Cut Bank (2015)

  • Denial (2016)

  • Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

  • Die Another Day (2002)

  • Doomsday (2008)

  • Elektra (2005)

  • Eye in the Sky (2016)

  • Flipped (2010)

  • For Your Eyes Only (1981)

  • From Russia with Love (1964)

  • Goldfinger (1965)

  • Hereafter (2010)

  • Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

  • How To Eat Fried Worms (2006)

  • The Hunt For Red October (1990)

  • I Am

  • The Informant! (2009)

  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

  • Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

  • Jurassic World (2015)

  • License to Kill (1989)

  • Live and Let Die (1973)

  • The Longest Ride (2015)

  • Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

  • The Lovers (2017)

  • Low Tide (2019)

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

  • Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

  • Meet the Batwheels, Season 1D (Cartoon Network)

  • Naked Lunch (1991)

  • Necessary Roughness (1991)

  • Notes on a Scandal (2007)

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

  • Over Her Dead Body (2008)

  • Paranormal Activity (2009)

  • Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

  • Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

  • Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

  • Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

  • Patriot Games (1992)

  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

  • The Pink Panther (1964)

  • Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022)

  • Ramona and Beezus (2010)

  • Red Dawn (1984)

  • Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

  • Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

  • Semi-Pro (2008)

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022)

  • A Shot In The Dark (1964)

  • Skyfall (2012)

  • Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

  • The Souvenir (2019)

  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

  • The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

  • The Sum of All Fears (2002)

  • Timeline (2003)

  • Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

  • Trainwreck (2015)

  • A View To Kill (1985)

  • Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy (2022)

  • The Women (2008)

  • The World is Not Enough (1999)

Arriving December 3

  • Holiday Party with Andrew and Zoe (Magnolia Network)

  • Maori Kuhawa And The Floating Worlds Time Forgot

  • OWN Holiday Movie: A Christmas Serenade (OWN) (2023)

  • Pets and Pickers, Season 2 (Animal Planet)

  • Teen Titans Go!: Great Holiday Escape & Christmas Magic (Cartoon Network)

Arriving December 4

  • Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning (HBO Original)

Arriving December 5

  • Great Photo, Lovely Life (HBO Original) (2023)

  • Real Time Crime, Season 2 (ID)

Arriving December 6

  • Street Outlaws vs. The World: After Hours (Discovery Channel)

Arriving December 7

  • Boom Boom Bruno (Max Original)

  • Elmo & Tango Holiday Helpers (Max Original)

  • Vlad & Niki, Season 2C

Arriving December 10

  • OWN Holiday Movie: A Christmas of Yes (OWN) (2023)

  • White House Christmas (2023) (HGTV)

Arriving December 11

  • Peltz Beckham vs The Wedding Planners (discovery+ Original)

Arriving December 12

  • 1000-lb Sisters, Season 4B (TLC)

  • sMothered, Season 5 (TLC)

  • Trees and Other Entanglements (HBO Original) (2023)

Arriving December 15

  • The Giver (2014)

  • On the Tee, Season 1B

Arriving December 16

  • Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! (HBO Original)

  • Mysteries of the Abandoned, Season 8B (Discovery Channel)

Arriving December 17

  • OWN Holiday Movie: The Christmas Detective (OWN) (2023)

Arriving December 18

  • Good Cop Bad Cop (ID)

  • Gwyneth vs Terry: The Ski Crash Trial (discovery+ Original)

  • World's First Battlefield (Science Channel)

  • Yellowstone Wardens, Season 3 (Animal Planet)

Arriving December 19

  • 90 Day Pillow Talk: The Other Way, Season 5 (TLC)

  • Border Control: Sweden

  • Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 2 (Discovery Channel)

Arriving December 20

  • American Masters: Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note (1998)

  • Daniel (HBO Original) (2023)

Arriving December 21

  • Engineering Catastrophes, Season 5B (Science Channel)

  • Gary Gulman: Born on 3rd Base (Max Original)

Arriving December 23

  • Bering Sea Gold, Season 12 (Discovery Channel)

Arriving December 24

  • OWN Holiday Movie: Christmas Revisited (OWN) (2023)

  • Spirited Away: Live On Stage (2023)

Arriving December 25

  • 90 Day Fiance: Holiday Special 2023, #1 (TLC)

  • Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023)

Arriving December 26

  • 90 Day Fiance: Holiday Special 2023, #2 (TLC)

  • Building Outside the Lines (Magnolia Network)

  • Superchef Grudge Match, Season 2 (Food Network)

  • Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?, Season 2 (HGTV)

Arriving December 28

  • Married to Real Estate, Season 3 (HGTV)

  • Oprah and The Color Purple Journey (Max Original) (2023)

Arriving December 29

  • In With the Old, Seasons 5 (Magnolia Network)

  • Restoring Galveston: The Inn (Magnolia Network)

  • The Established Home, Season 3 (Magnolia Network)

Arriving December 30

  • Amina's Way (OWN)

  • Time Bomb Y2K (HBO Original) (2023)

Everything leaving Max in December 2023

Leaving December 2

  • Stath Lets Flats, Season 3

  • Long Live the Royals

Leaving December 6

  • Stand Up To Cancer (2023) (HBO Original)

Leaving December 7

  • Mostly 4 Millennials

Leaving December 9

  • Nightcrawler (2014)

Leaving December 10

  • Tropical Cop Tales

Leaving December 11

  • Frisky Dingo

Leaving December 12

  • Hot Streets

Leaving December 13

  • Tom Goes to the Mayor

Leaving December 14

  • The Heart, She Holler

Leaving December 15

  • Entourage (2015)

Leaving December 16

  • Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (HBO Original) (2003)

Leaving December 17

  • Eagleheart

Leaving December 18

  • Delocated

Leaving December 19

  • China, IL

Leaving December 20

  • Beautiful Creatures (2013)

Leaving December 21

  • Spotlight (2015)

Leaving December 26

  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Leaving December 27

  • The Oslo Diaries (HBO Original) (2018)

Leaving December 31

  • 12 oz. Mouse, Seasons 1-2

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

  • The Age of Adaline (2015)

  • All About the Benjamins (2002)

  • The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

  • American Ultra (2015)

  • Animal Kingdom (2010)

  • Annabelle (2014)

  • Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

  • Annabelle: Creation (2017)

  • The Ant Bully (2006)

  • Arthur Christmas (2011)

  • The Artist (2011)

  • At Middleton (2014)

  • The Avengers (1998)

  • The Bachelor (1999)

  • The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

  • Ballet 422 (2014)

  • Batman (1966)

  • Before Midnight (2013)

  • Bells are Ringing (1960)

  • Beware the Batman (2013)

  • Beyond the Reach (2015)

  • Black Beauty (1994)

  • Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

  • The Book of Life (2014)

  • Boys' Night Out (1962)

  • Brigadoon (1954)

  • The Bronze (2015)

  • Bulworth (1998)

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

  • Child’s Play (1988)

  • A Christmas Carol (1938)

  • Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

  • A Christmas Story (1983)

  • A Christmas Story 2 (2012)

  • A Cinderella Story (2004)

  • The Circle (2017)

  • The Comedian (2016)

  • The Company Men (2010)

  • Compliance (2012)

  • The Conjuring 2 (2016)

  • Constantine: City of Demons (2018)

  • Crocodile Dundee (1986)

  • Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

  • Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

  • Cunningham (2019)

  • The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

  • Daphne & Velma (2018)

  • DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (2016)

  • DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017)

  • DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis (2018)

  • Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (2020)

  • Defending Your Life (1991)

  • Dennis the Menace (1993)

  • A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007)

  • Detour (2017)

  • Dim Sum Festival (2009)

  • Diner (1982)

  • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)

  • Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)

  • Elf (2003)

  • Elizabethtown (2005)

  • Enter The Warrior's Gate (2017)

  • Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico (CNN)

  • Every Secret Thing (2014)

  • Fast Color (2019)

  • Final Destination (2000)

  • Final Destination 2 (2003)

  • Final Destination 3 (2006)

  • Final Destination 5 (2011)

  • The Final Destination (2009)

  • Flashpoint (1984)

  • Flawless (2008)

  • Fool's Gold (2008)

  • Four Christmases (2008)

  • Frank Miller's Sin City (2005)

  • Fred Claus (2007)

  • From Here to Eternity (1953)

  • The Full Monty (1997)

  • Funny Farm (1988)

  • Garden State (2004)

  • Get Carter (1971)

  • Ginger & Rosa (2013)

  • The Golden Compass (2007)

  • The Good Heart (2010)

  • Happy Feet (2006)

  • Happy Feet Two (2011)

  • The Haunting (1999)

  • Headhunters (2012)

  • Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

  • Heaven Help Us (1985)

  • Holiday Affair (1949)

  • The Hollars (2016)

  • Hotel Artemis (2018)

  • The House (2017)

  • The Illusionist (2010)

  • In The Heart of The Sea (2015)

  • Infinitely Polar Bear (2015)

  • Inside Job (2010)

  • Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

  • The Iron Lady (2011)

  • Jack Frost (1998)

  • The Jellies

  • Jumanji (1995)

  • Kill Your Darlings (2013)

  • Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

  • Lean on Me (1989)

  • Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

  • LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain (2017)

  • LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High (2018)

  • LEGO Justice League: Cosmic Clash (2016)

  • LEGO Justice League: Gotham City Breakout (2016)

  • The LEGO Movie (2014)

  • The Letter (1940)

  • Loiter Squad

  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

  • The Lost Boys (1987)

  • Lost in America (1985)

  • Love Is Strange (2014)

  • Love Jones (1997)

  • Luce (2019)

  • Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil

  • Maggie's Plan (2016)

  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

  • Marley & Me (2008)

  • The Master (2012)

  • Misery (1990)

  • Music Within (2007)

  • Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

  • Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

  • The Neverending Story (1984)

  • New Year's Eve (2011)

  • Nico, 1988 (2018)

  • Nine (2009)

  • Out of the Past (1947)

  • Paddington 2 (2017)

  • The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

  • The Pirate (1948)

  • Pleasantville (1998)

  • The Polar Express (2004)

  • Precious (2009)

  • The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

  • Prince Avalanche (2013)

  • Quartet (2012)

  • Real Life Nightmare

  • Restless (2011)

  • Rock of Ages (2012)

  • Roger & Me (1989)

  • Room for One More (1952)

  • The Rover (2014)

  • Running on Empty (1988)

  • Running Scared (2006)

  • Sarah’s Key (2011)

  • Scooby-Doo (2002)

  • Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob! (2021)

  • Scream (1996)

  • Scream 2 (1997)

  • Scream 3 (2000)

  • The Seagull (2018)

  • Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

  • The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

  • Shanghai (2010)

  • She’s Funny That Way (2015)

  • Shivering Truth

  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

  • Shoplifters (2018)

  • Snitch (2013)

  • So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

  • Son of the Mask (2005)

  • Song of the Thin Man (1947)

  • Spartan (2004)

  • Speedway (1968)

  • Spinout (1966)

  • Stan & Ollie (2018)

  • Step Up All In (2014)

  • Step Up Revolution (2012)

  • Stephen King's Graveyard Shift (1990)

  • Stephen King's Silver Bullet (1985)

  • Stephen King's Thinner (1996)

  • Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2022)

  • Take Shelter (2011)

  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

  • Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse (Cartoon Network) (2022)

  • Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (Cartoon Network) (2021)

  • Teen Witch (1989)

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

  • Three Godfathers (1936)

  • Tom & Jerry: The Movie (1993)

  • Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007)

  • Tom And Jerry: Santa's Little Helpers (2014)

  • Trick 'r Treat (2009)

  • Tricky Dick

  • The Trouble with Spies (1987)

  • The Turning Point (1977)

  • The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

  • Tyrel (2018)

  • Under the Same Moon (2007)

  • Unmasking A Killer (HLN)

  • Urge (2016)

  • USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)

  • A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas (2011)

  • Volunteers (1985)

  • Warm Bodies (2013)

  • The Wash (2001)

  • Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

  • WB 100th Behind the Shield

  • What's Up, Doc? (1972)

  • Where the Boys Are (1960)

  • White Chicks (2004)

  • The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

  • Winter's Tale (2014)

  • Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)

  • You're Next (2013)