HBO Max orders two pilots with The Pitt model of 15+ episodes per season

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https://deadline.com/2025/11/hbo-max...tt-1236607443/

The streamer has ordered cop drama American Blue from former Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver and family drama How to Survive Without Me from Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers. American Blue centers on native son Brian ‘Milk’ Milkovich who returns to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois, to rescue a beleaguered police force while seeking redemption of his own” and is aimed at evoking Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, according to Deadline. How to Survive Without Me is described as like Six Feet Under. “This show is essentially about a group of adult siblings and their father, about grief and love and their lives in Los Angeles,” say HBO Max head of originals Sarah Aubrey, who adds that she and HBO and HBO Max boss Casey Bloys “saw this white space in the streaming landscape of people not making network-style shows with 15+ episodes that return annually. And both of those are very important factors, because one, with 15 episodes, you really give people an opportunity to sink into a world. It’s one of the reasons why certain older shows, people binge them like crazy, because they’re able to watch more than eight episodes every two years.”