I get HBO Max as a HBO Subscriber
I have not heard of any of those shows outside of Sesame Street
As for movies dropping all the streaming networks including free one's are dropping films/tv series monthly as rights often are changed or exclusivity deals expire
I suspect HBO/Discovery being merged into one streaming service will be disaster, but this move as well as cutting the HBO reality staff, etc make sense (Don't need HBO reality people when Discovery has that covered)
Apparently almost every show listed here has little or no viewers
Same here, free with HBO sub
Movies & shows come and go all the time, and as said, it doesn't seem like these are going to be missed by a whole lot of folks
I haven't used HBO max a whole lot, and hopefully after the merger I still get whatever it turns into for free, but whatever they come up with couldn't be much worse than the current service, the user interface sucks and the app is pretty laggy and unstable
