HBO Europe
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| Broadcast area | Central Europe Southern Europe Southeastern Europe |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Budapest, Hungary (Central Europe & Portugal) Stockholm, Sweden (Nordic countries and Spain) Prague, Czech Republic (original programming) |
| Ownership | |
| Parent | Home Box Office, Inc. |
| Sister channels | HBO 2 HBO 3 Cinemax Cinemax 2 |
| History | |
| Launched | September 28, 1991 |
| Links | |
| Website | hbo-europe.com (Archived via Wayback Machine) |
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HBO Europe is a premium television group of channels by HBO. It is available as a group of film channels and streaming television services in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia, while VOD-only services with original programming are available in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
The administration of Central European countries and Portugal is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary; meanwhile the Nordic and Spain services operate from Stockholm, Sweden. The company maintains regional offices in Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lisbon, Madrid, Prague, Sofia, Warsaw and Zagreb.
HBO Max, later renamed Max in line with worldwide brand, launched in the Nordic countries and Spain launched on October 26, 2021.[1] It was further launched in Central and Southeastern block of countries on March 8, 2022,[2] HBO GO, which was previously offered as a standalone portable service, was likewise replaced by Max.
History
The first channel was launched in Hungary on September 28, 1991.[3] This was followed in 1994 by the launch in Czech Republic,[4] founding HBO Europe's predecessor under the name HBO Central Europe. In 1995, Walt Disney entered in joint-venture, and in 1996 it was launched in Poland (October 17, 1996),[5][6] Slovakia (1997), Romania (1998), Moldova (1999), Bulgaria (2002), Croatia, Slovenia (2004),[3] Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro (2006), and North Macedonia (2009).
On September 15, 2003, a new premium channel HBO 2 was launched as the sister channel of HBO.[7] In November 2005, Cinemax and Cinemax 2 started to broadcast, while in 2007 a third channel named HBO Comedy was introduced as well.[8][9]
Initially HBO Europe was co-owned by HBO, Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company, but from January 29, 2010 Home Box Office acquired complete ownership in its Central European feeds.[10] Upon the launch of HBO in the Netherlands, HBO Central Europe was renamed HBO Europe in 2012. In 2011 HBO entered the market of streaming services with launching HBO Go's localized Central European version. Following HBO Go's launch, in 2012 HBO Nordic was launched in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, the first countries where HBO introduced only streaming services without any linear television channels. It was followed by the launch of HBO España in 2016 (the Dutch version was closed in the same year) and HBO Portugal in 2019, both of them being VOD-only services.
Operations
Television channels
HBO Europe owns premium film channels in its Central European operating area. HBO serves as the flagship channel of the portfolio, while HBO2's programming consists of mainly family-friendly content. Former comedy channel HBO Comedy was rebranded in 2016 as HBO3, a premium channel focusing on television series. Cinemax serves as a mainstream cinema channel, while Cinemax 2 offers art films.
- HBO
- HBO 2
- HBO 3 (known as HBO Comedy from 2007–2016)
- Cinemax
- Cinemax 2
Streaming services
HBO Europe owns streaming services throughout Europe. It has been operating services branded as HBO Go in Central European countries since 2011. Localized subtitles are available in Hungarian, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Macedonian. Localized dubbing and voiceover feeds are available in Hungarian, Czech and Polish usually a week after an original series' episode premieres. HBO Go is the leading streaming service in all of the countries in which it operates - as of August, 2019, it has 5.5 million subscribers throughout Central Europe. Its platform is developed in Budapest.
HBO was launched as a VOD-only brand in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland as HBO Nordic and in Spain as HBO España. Meanwhile, HBO Go is developed in Budapest, Nordic and España services are headquartered in Stockholm.
On August 15, 2012, HBO announced plans to launch HBO Nordic, a multiplatform video distribution service serving Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland that was created through a joint venture with Parsifal International.[11][12] The video on demand service launched in December 2012. HBO programming also airs in Iceland on Stöð 2.[13] In Spain, HBO programs were previously broadcast on pay television service Canal+, since 2011.[14] In 2016, during the discontinuation of the Canal+ branding in Spain, HBO launched a standalone streaming service called HBO España, which is the Spanish equivalent of HBO Now and HBO Nordic. HBO Europe had announced on multiple occasions that they were not aware that they were going to replace their current service with HBO Max, nor would their rates be increased.[15] However, in December 2020, the head of HBO Max, Andy Forssell, revealed that all HBO services in Europe, including HBO España and HBO Nordic, would be replaced by HBO Max. On October 26, 2021, HBO Max was launched in the Nordics (excluding Iceland) and Spain.[16]
In 2019, HBO's streaming service was also introduced in Portugal as HBO Portugal. Despite the fact that it is not branded as HBO Go, it uses the Central European platform.
In the 2010s, HBO Europe launched the streaming service HBO Go in 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. HBO programs in Portugal were previously broadcast on premium television channel TVSéries from the services of TVCine, since 2015. In 2019, less than a year before the discontinuation of TVSéries, HBO Europe launched a standalone streaming service called HBO Portugal. Similar to the Nordics and Spain, HBO Max was launched in Portugal[17] and Central and Eastern Europe on March 8, 2022,[18] replacing HBO Go and HBO Portugal.
Original programming
Croatia
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uspjeh | Crime drama | January 6, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
Czech Republic
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Na stojáka | Stand-up comedy | 2006 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Terapie | Drama | October 9, 2011 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Burning Bush | Drama/Biopic | January 27, 2013 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Až po uši | Romance/Drama/Comedy | November 2, 2014 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Mamon | Crime thriller | October 25, 2015 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Wasteland | Drama/Mystery | October 30, 2016 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| The Sleepers | Drama | November 17, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Czech It Out! | Docuseries | April 1, 2022 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Max |
Denmark
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamikaze | Young adult thriller drama | November 14, 2021 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Max |
Finland
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eristyksissä | Anthology | July 19, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Nordic |
Hungary
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born Loser | Drama | November 2, 2007 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| In Treatment Hungary | Drama | October 22, 2012 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| When Shall We Kiss? | Comedy drama | October 23, 2013 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Golden Life | Crime drama | November 8, 2015 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| The Informant | Crime drama | April 1, 2022 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Moved | HBO Max |
| The Bridge Hungary | Reality competition | August 11, 2023 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Max |
| Pogány Induló − What Would Mom Say | Docuseries | November 28, 2025 | Script error: No such module "sort". | TBA | Miniseries | HBO Max |
Norway
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beforeigners | Crime drama/Science fiction | August 21, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
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| Outlier | Crime drama | November 18, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Nordic |
| Utmark | Comedy drama | April 18, 2021 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Nordic |
Poland
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bez tajemnic | Psychological thriller | October 17, 2011 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Wataha | Crime thriller | October 12, 2014 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| The Pact | Detective/Crime thriller | November 8, 2015 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Blinded by the Lights | Crime thriller | October 27, 2018 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| W domu | Anthology | July 16, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| A Decent Man | Drama | March 21, 2025[19] | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Pending | HBO Max |
| Heaven | Drama | December 26, 2025[20] | Script error: No such module "sort". | TBA | Season 1 ongoing | HBO Max |
Romania
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rămâi cu mine | Drama | December 1, 2013 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Umbre | Crime drama | December 28, 2014 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| The Silent Valley | Crime drama/Action | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Hackerville | Crime drama | October 21, 2018 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe TNT Serie |
| Tuff Money | Comedy drama | November 22, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Ruxx | Comedy drama | March 8, 2022 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Max |
| One True Singer | Reality competition | April 1, 2022 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Max |
| Spy/Master | Drama/Crime thriller | May 19, 2023 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Max |
Spain
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pioneer | Docuseries | July 7, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Foodie Love | Romantic comedy | December 4, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| En casa | Anthology | June 3, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| One Way or Another | Comedy | July 22, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
| Stage 0 | Anthology | September 13, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| Patria | Historical drama | September 27, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Europe |
| 30 Coins | Mystery horror | November 29, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Europe |
Sweden
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gösta | Comedy | July 1, 2019 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Nordic |
| Beartown | Drama | October 18, 2020 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Nordic |
| Pray, Obey, Kill | Docuseries | April 4, 2021 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Miniseries | HBO Nordic |
| Lust | Sex comedy | March 18, 2022 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Ended | HBO Max |
Original documentaries
Hungary
- A Pierre Woodman-sztori (2009)
- Miss Plastic – A szikék szépe (2009)
- Láthatatlan húrok – A tehetséges Pusker nővérek (2010)
- Romazsaruk (2010)
- Varázslatos gladiátorok (2011)
- Egyéletes kaland (2011)
- Két világ közt (2011)
- Fehér kard (2012)
- Overdose: Vágta egy álomért (2013)
- Szerelempatak (2014)
- Reményvasút (2015)
- Seb (2015)
- Ütős csajok (2016)
- Ultra (2017)
- Csillagfény távolság (2019)
- Visszatérés Epipóba (2020)
- Anyáim története (2020)
- Dívák (2021)
- Cabin Pressure - Anya leszek csak azért is! (2025)
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External links
- Official HBO Europe Website (Archived via Wayback Machine)
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