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Max After Dark was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 10 April 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Cinemax. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

so why is it just shown as a Cinemax thing? The Godfather Part 2 was played on HBO as late as 1987 on one timeslot. And the movie was 13 years old at that point. No disrespect to a timeless beloved classic loved by gazillions of people, but if we're gonna make that argument let's show HBO's record. RupertNY245 (talk) 20:36, 14 September 2024 (UTC) At the risk of breaking the rules, the notion that Cinemax was not a prestigious channel is just stupid altogether, and it's not an understandible misconception. Cinemax had the hit premieres more than HBO until recently, and even then they're about on par with each other today. Lethal Weapon (which btw is a UPN and a UPN station staple, the network that stomped The WB in the ratings) premiered on CINEMAX in 1988, not on HBO. Code of Silence (Chuck Norris movie) premiered on Cinemax too.[reply]

Only time Cinemax ever was a "genre" network was during the mid to late 90s (and even then HBO was that too; at least in the 80s, HBO had different genre opens during the 70s and 80s, and I don't mean just shows, there was one for movies, that had a drama somber musical tone, if we're gonna go that route, Cinemax was far more elitist). If we're talking original movies/original shows, I wouldn't even say HBO has an edge. They're on par with each other. HBO's only edge is sports (and even then boxing is not indigenous to the network either). Back to Cinemax, the "classic movies" network era was during the late 90s (and that was only on the main network itself - for instance, OuterMax and WomanMax and ThrillerMax never put the years or "Did you know?" trivia of the titles being shown on their "next"/"tonight" bumpers). All the networks did that eventually in 2003 or 2004, and that was the standard of the Cinemax network family until the late 2000s. It ended in 2008. Even then I'd surmise, even in the classic movies era (1997 - 2008), that Elf made the big network premiere on Cinemax in 2004, not HBO. I don't recall that movie ever playing on HBO or the HBO family of networks, at least not that much.

Cinemax is also far more a prestige network than HBO. Usually it's been that Cinemax had the hit premieres and had quality original programming long before HBO did. And yes Cinemax doesn't act like a HBO-originated network, but that's another subject. PS, in my opinion, much like UPN is as opposed to The WB, Tribune's failure of a network, Cinemax was more a true Warner Bros. network than HBO.