Sky Boosts Schedules With HBO Max and Retro Movies

Sky Box Sets’ September line-up has been rejigged to include two of the HBO Max acquisitions it announced today.

Gossip Girl S1A will replace The Magicians S5 overnight on September 6/7; Magicians will usurp The Third Day on September 13/14.

And replacing Mrs Fletcher S1 on September 23/24 will be Genera+ion S1.

Even before Sky announced its new HBO Max deal, it was adding extra content to entertain subscribers during lockdown.

Neon has had several additions and accelerated premieres while Sky’s new Collection movie channel has expanded its September slate and dumped its ’80s movies double-bills for 24-hour schedules.

Additions include:

• War movie Ashes in the Snow
• ’80s movies Young Guns, Dressed to Kill, Roxanne, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Three Amigos!, Crossroads, An American Werewolf in London, Red Heat, A Fish Called Wanda, Conan the Destroyer, Escape From New York, Family Business and When Harry Met Sally
• Drama movies Archive, Ride Like a Girl, Waves, Savage, Lizzie, Only, The Lost Husband, Red Joan, The Kindness of Strangers, Radioactive, The Rest of Us, Lost Transmission, Ordinary Love, Little Women, The Glorias, Milk, Acquainted, The Other Boleyn Girl, Richard Jewell, Resistance, Queen & Slim, Touchback, Once Were Warriors, The Soloist, Icebox, The Thomas Crown Affair, 8 Mile, Frost/Nixon and We Are Your Friends.

Here are the new HBO Max series and documentaries, with blurbs and Rotten Tomatoes critics’ consensus, that can be streamed from 3.00 today on Neon and Sky Go:

• The Flight Attendant S1 97%

A flight attendant’s life gets turned upside down when she wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no idea what happened.

• Gossip Girl S1A 39%

Welcome back Upper East Siders. Nearly a decade after the original Gossip Girl’s website went dark, a new generation of New York City private school teens are introduced to the unforgiving and transformative reality of nonstop social surveillance.

• Raised By Wolves S1 73%

From executive producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centres upon two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.

• Genera+ion S1 74%

A dark yet playful comedy-drama following a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love, and the nature of family in their conservative community.

• Expecting Amy 85%

Expecting Amyis a hilarious and raw 360-degree look at a new stage in Amy Schumer’s life, including the pregnancy of her first child. This unfiltered three-part docuseries shows the struggle, strength, and ambition that have made Schumer one of the singular comic voices of all time.

• Heaven’s Gate: The Cult Of Cults 88%

With access to first-person accounts and never-before-seen footage, this four-part docuseries examines the American UFO cult that started in 1975 with the disappearance of 20 people to a shock ending in 1997 with the largest suicide on US soil.

• Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground

Oscar-nominee’s Sophia Nahli Allison documentary about black liberation that honours the 1990s series.

• Class Action Park 96%

Documents the notoriously dangerous – but wickedly fun – 1980s New Jersey water park that long ago garnered the reputation as the world’s most insanely dangerous amusement park.