The Best New Movies and Shows on HBO Max This Month

Another Game of Thrones is joining HBO and HBO Max’s programming lineup in January 2026 (Happy New Year, bee tee dubs), this one is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a prequel show set 100 years before Thrones about the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg, based on the books by George R.R. Martin.

HBO’s most popular show of recent years outside the GRRM Televisual Universe might be The Pitt, the medical drama starring Noah Wyle. The show is back for Season 2 in January as well, with 15 weekly episodes which will air and stream weekly starting on January 8.

Also in January: A new documentary about legendary director Mel Brooks co-directed by Judd Apatow, the fourth season of the HBO series Industry, and the streaming premieres of A24 titles The Smashing Machine and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Here’s everything new to stream on HBO Max in January 2026.

January 1A Most Violent Year (A24) All This and Heaven Too Almost Christmas April in Paris Baby Face Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World Blazing Saddles Bodies Bodies Bodies (A24) Catwoman (2004) Constantine Deception (1946) Desire Me Double Wedding

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Ex Machina (A24) Faithless Fargo (1996) Fifth Avenue Girl Frankenstein 1970 Getaway Glass Going the Distance Goodbye, My Fancy Green Lantern: Beware My Power Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Green Lantern: First Flight Green Mansions HGTV Dream Home 2026 (HGTV) High Anxiety History of the World: Part 1 Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard It All Came True It’s Love I’m After John Wick John Wick: Chapter 2 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum June Bride Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga’hoole Lili Love Crazy Lullaby of Broadway Margaret Margaret: Extended Version Mike Wallace is Here Mogambo Moonlight (A24) My Favorite Wife My Reputation Neptune’s Daughter Nine Lives Panama Hattie Possessed (1931) Presenting Lily Mars Pride and Prejudice (1940) Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins Reunion in France Rocket Science Royal Wedding Sadie McKee

Spaceballs Task Force Taxi Driver Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans The Americanization of Emily The Bride Came C.O.D. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father The Curse of Frankenstein The Desert Song The Enchanted Cottage The Hitman’s Bodyguard The Last Time I Saw Paris The Narrow Margin The Red Badge of Courage The Student Prince The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 2) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The Twilight Saga: New Moon The Working Man This Modern Age To Please a Lady Today We Live Twilight Vivacious Lady

While We’re Young (A24) Wife vs. Secretary Wild Boys of the Road World Without End Zabriskie Point

January 2House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 249 (HGTV) Lakefront Bargain Hunt Renovation, Season 4 (Magnolia Network) Lakefront Bargain Hunt Renovation, Season 5 (Magnolia Network) The Cult of the Real Housewife, Season 1 (TLC)

January 5Home Town, Season 10 (HGTV) Worst Cooks in America: Reality Check (Food Network)

January 6Baking Championship: Next Gen, Season 1 (Food Network) Haunted Hospitals, Season 4 (Travel) The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story (ID)

January 71000-lb Sisters, Season 8 (TLC) Moonshiners, Season 15 (Discovery) Nevada Wild, Season 1 (Animal Planet) Wildcard Kitchen, Season 3 (Food Network) “Justice Defenders: Change Inside Prison, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Originals)

January 865 Expedition X, Season 11 (Discovery) My Strange Addiction, Season 7 (TLC) Neighborhood Watch, Season 1 (HGTV) The Pitt, Season 2 (Max Original) Real PD: Kansas City: Death Before Dishonor (ID) Ugliest House in America, Season 7 (HGTV)

January 9House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 206 (HGTV)

January 11Industry, Season 4 (HBO Original) Love & Marriage: Huntsville, Season 10 (OWN) Maxxed Out, Season1 (OWN) Totally Spies, Season 7B Unexplained: Caught on Camera, Season 4 (Travel)

January 12Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, Season 3 (Adult Swim)

January 13People Magazine Investigates, Season 9 (ID) Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings, Season 6 (Discovery) Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings: The Great Eight, Season 2 (Discovery) The Curious Case of…, Season 2 (ID)

January 14Evil Lives Here, Season 19 (ID) Killer Confessions: Case Files of a Texas Ranger, Season 1 (ID) Suddenly Amish, Season 1 (TLC)

January 15Hot Rod Garage, Season 12

January 16House Hunters: Volume 11, Season 250 (HGTV)

January 18A Knight in the Making, Season 1 (HBO) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Season 1 (HBO Original)

January 20Street Outlaws: Locals Only, Season 2 (Discovery)

January 22Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! (HBO Original)

January 23My Haunted Hometown, Season 1 (Travel) Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 24 (HBO Original) The Smashing Machine (A24)

January 25Have I Got News For You, Season 4 (CNN Originals)

January 2733 Photos from the Ghetto (HBO Original)

January 29Beat Bobby Flay, Season 40 (Food Network)

January 30If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)

January 31I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (CNN Films)