HBO's 2026 Teaser
HBO dropped a two-minute reel today showcasing seventeen series hitting the platform in 2026.
HBO's answer: here's Euphoria season three, House of the Dragon season three, the DCU's Lanterns series, a Larry David project, a Mel Brooks documentary, and eleven more reasons why legacy television institutions still matter.
Euphoria returns with Zendaya's Rue "a few years after high school," signaling the franchise's maturation alongside its audience—a demographic play disguised as creative evolution. The Game of Thrones universe expands with both House of the Dragon's third season and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms adapting the Dunk and Egg novellas, demonstrating how intellectual property compounds value through systematic exploitation of narrative adjacencies. The DCU's Lanterns gets its first footage reveal, showing Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre in what appears deliberately grounded, effects-light, detective-procedural framing—a conscious rejection of Marvel's spectacle-driven approach that speaks to DC Studios' institutional repositioning under new leadership.
The Larry David and Mel Brooks projects deserve particular attention because they represent something Netflix's algorithm can't replicate: institutional relationships with creative legends who trust HBO's development process enough to build projects specifically for the platform. That trust, accumulated over decades of prestige television production, becomes its own competitive moat. You can't purchase that credibility through acquisition—though Netflix is certainly trying.
