The December 2025 HBO Max schedule for the U.S. included Mad Men Seasons 1–7 on Dec. 1, Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues on Dec. 12, One Battle After Another on Dec. 19, and Ne Zha II on Dec. 24. The month’s slate also covered documentaries, reality shows, children’s programming, library films, and sports. These are historical arrival dates, not a guarantee that a title is still available.
Notable HBO Max arrivals in December 2025
Tom’s Guide’s U.S. schedule points to several options for viewers looking for a specific kind of watch. This is a practical selection, not an objective ranking of the full slate.
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- Returning series: Mad Men Seasons 1–7 arrived Dec. 1; The Bold Type Seasons 1–5 followed Dec. 15.
- Film and comedy: Spinal Tap II: The End Continues arrived Dec. 12, alongside the original This Is Spinal Tap. One Battle After Another arrived Dec. 19.
- Animation: Ne Zha II arrived Dec. 24. The schedule also included the earlier film Ne Zha on Dec. 1, as well as the anime titles Perfect Blue, Summer Wars, and Wolf Children.
- Documentary and music: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley arrived Dec. 4, and Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? arrived Dec. 18.
- Unscripted and sports: Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East arrived Dec. 2. The schedule also included live sports programming, including College Football Playoff games, U.S. Soccer, the World Sevens Tournament, and NHL on TNT.
Full U.S. HBO Max schedule for December 2025
The list below reproduces the dated U.S. schedule reported by Tom’s Guide. It mixes new programming and library arrivals; inclusion here does not establish current availability.
Dec. 1
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Pillow Talk, Season 9; Adult Swim Yule Log; Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out; Atomic Blonde; Battle of the Sexes; Bright Leaf; Christmas with the Kranks; Dames; DeLorean; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days; Girls Trip; Gunsmoke in Tucson; Hidden Figures; I’ll See You in My Dreams (1952); Illegal; Jim Thorpe: All-American; Jimmy the Gent; Key Largo; Kid Galahad; Larceny Inc.; Law of the Badlands; Little Caesar; Liz and the Blue Bird; Lu Over the Wall; Mad Men, Seasons 1–7; Mandalay; Millennium Actress; Mind Game; Miss Congeniality; Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous; Mission to Moscow; My Dream Is Yours; Ne Zha; Night and Day; Paul Anka: His Way; Perfect Blue; Pierrot le fou; Racket Busters; Riffraff; Romance on the High Seas; Santa Fe Trail; Shin Godzilla; Shining Victory; Shoeshine; Sing and Like It; Song of My City; Summer Wars; Table 19; Taking Woodstock; The Color Purple (1985); The Colors Within; The Damned Don’t Cry; The Girl Who Leapt Through Time; The Goonies; The Matrimonial Bed; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; The Sea Wolf (1941); The Seventh Victim; The Shop Around the Corner; They Won’t Believe Me; Tiny Furniture; Trouble Along the Way; Walk Softly, Stranger; Walk the Dark Street; Wedding Crashers; Wilson; Wolf Children; X-Men: First Class.
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Dec. 2–9
- Dec. 2: Capital One MLB Open; Chopped: Volume 4, Season 63; Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East; New Orleans: Soul of a City; “The Hidden Homeless,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
- Dec. 3: Fixer to Fabulous, Season 7.
- Dec. 4: About Face, Season 1; Architecton; Cheap A$$ Beach Houses, Season 1; Dunkman, Season 1; Dylan’s Playtime Adventures, Season 1D; It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.
- Dec. 5: Batwheels, Season 3A; House Hunters International, Volume 9, Season 205; House Hunters, Volume 10, Season 247; The Family McMullen (2025).
- Dec. 7: The Christmas Showdown.
- Dec. 8: 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days, Season 8.
- Dec. 9: Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 2I; Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House.
Dec. 11–18
- Dec. 11: Wizkid: Long Live Lagos.
- Dec. 12: Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh; Spinal Tap II: The End Continues; Stolen Children; This Is Spinal Tap.
- Dec. 13: Vantara: Sanctuary Stories, Season 1.
- Dec. 14: Toad and Friends, Season 1D; Very Merry Mystery.
- Dec. 15: Assassination in the Valley of the Kings; The Bold Type, Seasons 1–5; Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread; Truck U, Season 21; White House Christmas.
- Dec. 16: The Secrets We Bury; “MisinfoNation: White Genocide,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
- Dec. 17: Obsession: The Murder of a Beauty Queen.
- Dec. 18: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?; Saving Yellowstone with Dennis Quaid, Season 1.
Dec. 19–31
- Dec. 19: House Hunters, Volume 10, Season 248; Teen Titans Go!, Season 9F; One Battle After Another.
- Dec. 20: Adult Swim’s The Elephant.
- Dec. 21: Secrets in the Sand, Season 2.
- Dec. 22: Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025); The Last Captains, Season 1.
- Dec. 23: “The Exorcists,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.
- Dec. 24: Guy’s Grocery Games, Season 40; Ne Zha II.
- Dec. 25: Happy and You Know It.
- Dec. 26: Heaven.
- Dec. 27: Junk or Jackpot?, Season 1.
- Dec. 28: Home Reimagined, Season 1B; My Pet Ate What!, Season 1.
- Dec. 29: Celebrity IOU, Season 11; Two Guys Garage, Season 24.
- Dec. 31: Building Outside the Lines, Season 3.
Why your HBO Max schedule may differ
HBO Max release schedules are regional, so a U.S. arrival date should not be treated as a worldwide date. Warner Bros. Discovery Spain’s Nov. 26, 2025 announcement listed Sarah Squirm: ¡En vivo! + En carne y hueso for Dec. 13 and Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East for Dec. 3, dates that differ from the U.S. schedule. Its Spain notice also listed the documentary El rugir de las llamas on Dec. 4 and a Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? Music Box documentary on Dec. 19. Warner Bros. Discovery Spain’s December highlights.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Iceland highlights separately announced Together for a Better Day – Live Concert for Dec. 3 at 18:30, describing it as an Iceland-first HBO Max livestream. The page says details are subject to change, and this regional listing does not establish U.S. availability. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Iceland highlights.
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How to check what is available now
A dated schedule records planned arrivals, not a permanent catalog. HBO Max says some titles are available only for a limited time. For current options, check the Just Added and Coming to HBO Max rows in the app or on the service. HBO Max Help Center: What’s playing on HBO Max.
The U.S. schedule and sports calendar were reported by Tom’s Guide. A Jan. 6, 2026 TV Guide retrospective also highlighted Architecton, Happy and You Know It, and The Family McMullen.
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