HBO made good on its promise, throwing the doors open on a free, live-streaming buffet of some 500 hours of premium content Friday morning.
The free #StayHomeBoxOffice programming — served up without any ads — includes every episode of nine HBO series: “The Sopranos,” “Veep,” “Succession,” “Six Feet Under,” “The Wire,” “Ballers,” “Barry,” “Silicon Valley” and “True Blood.” Also available to watch without an HBO subscription are 20 movies from corporate sibling Warner Bros. and 10 HBO documentaries and docuseries.
As of Friday, April 3, at 8:30 a.m. ET the mobile apps and websites for both HBO Now (the standalone streaming service) and HBO Go (for pay-TV subscribers) each display a new row that says, “Stream for Free: No Subscription Required.” Meanwhile, the HBO Now app on Roku did not allow unauthenticated playback of the titles.
Unfortunately for those outside the United States, the basket of free-to-stream HBO content is available only in the U.S. HBO has not said how long it will offer the free content except that it will be for a “limited time.”
