HBO Max released its latest Coming Soon promo on Sunday, bundling first looks and premiere dates for a raft of 2026 projects — from a new Harry Potter tease to returning prestige series and original comedies.
The lineup in the promo is explicit about timing: House of the Dragon Season 3 arrives June 21; Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness lands June 26; Stuart Fails to Save the Universe debuts July 23; Lanterns bows Aug. 16; and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set for Christmas Day. The spot also flags The Gilded Age’s fourth season and several other 2026 titles, including Monsters of God, The Man Will Burn and War and Youth, while Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks is scheduled for August.
The promo revisits material that already drew record attention earlier this year — the first Harry Potter teaser in March became the most-watched teaser in HBO and HBO Max history — and the new footage shows the titular boy wizard on a Quidditch pitch. Lanterns’ clip includes Kyle Chandler suited in a superhero outfit, and the comedy Stuart Fails to Save the Universe confirms Kevin Sussman returns as his Big Bang Theory character Stuart Bloom.
The Gilded Age also figures prominently. The series, which was renewed for a fourth season in July 2025, is teased for 2026 and the network executive who promoted the season called out the show’s strong audience performance and the series’ continuing storytelling ambitions, saying the program has delivered a week-to-week entertainment experience the streamer is eager to extend into another season.
What the promo does not settle is how finished any of the new footage is or whether every teased title will arrive exactly when its slate card says. The teaser operates as a dated preview of the second half of 2026, but it offers no production-status markers or qualifiers; that leaves a gap between the schedule cards viewers can mark on a calendar and the behind-the-scenes reality of how close each project is to final cut.
Practically, the schedule pinned in the promo gives viewers a clear short-term roadmap: House of the Dragon Season 3 and Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness are the nearest confirmed drops in late June, followed by Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on July 23, Lanterns on Aug. 16, and Harry Potter on Christmas Day. The Gilded Age’s fourth season and the slate of 2026 films and series named in the spot remain part of the broader second-half timetable. The next tangible checks of the promo’s signals will be the full trailers and marketing that accompany those early summer premieres, which should clarify how much of the footage shown is finished and whether the listed dates hold.
