Your Holiday Binge Guide: Every New TV Show and Movie Hitting HBO Max December 22–28, 2025
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires swoops onto HBO Max December 22, spearheading a December 22–28 lineup that also serves up Guy’s Grocery Games Season 40, Happy And You Know It, and the new series Junk or Jackpot?.
HBO Max is closing out the year with a grab bag week: an Aztec-era Batman movie, a milestone season of Guy Fieri chaos, a doc about kids music getting remixed by tech, and a new collectibles flip show. Plus a few network imports sprinkled in day by day.
Highlights worth knowing
Top billing goes to 'Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires' on December 22. It is an action-adventure film about an Aztec boy who flees to Tenochtitlan after Spanish conquistadors kill his father. He trains in a temple devoted to a bat god and sets out for payback, armed with a new weapon. Very 'what if Batman, but Mesoamerica' energy.
Over in reality TV land, 'Guy's Grocery Games' hits Season 40 on December 24. Forty. The supermarket gauntlet remains the same: Guy Fieri cooks up bizarre constraints, chefs scramble through the aisles, and somehow dinner gets made anyway.
On December 25, 'Happy And You Know It' digs into the often-dismissed world of kids music and how tech advances and AI are reshaping it. If that premise sounds niche, it kind of is, and that is exactly why it might be interesting.
Then on December 27, 'Junk or Jackpot?' Season 1 lands, following Bobby as he helps people unload toys, dolls, and other collectibles for cash. Expect a lot of 'is this attic box worthless or weirdly valuable' reveals.
One slightly confusing listing: the CNN Original showing up December 23 is an episode of 'The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper' titled 'The Exorcists' - it is the Anderson Cooper doc series, not a sequel to 'The Exorcist'. Also, yes, 'Home Reimagined' arrives as Season 1B on December 28, which is that very TV way of saying 'the back half of the first season'.
The full HBO Max schedule for December 22-28, 2025
- Monday, December 22: Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025); The Last Captains, Season 1 (Discovery)
- Tuesday, December 23: 'The Exorcists,' The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)
- Wednesday, December 24: Guy's Grocery Games, Season 40 (Food Network)
- Thursday, December 25: Happy And You Know It (HBO Original)
- Friday, December 26: Heaven (HBO Original)
- Saturday, December 27: Junk or Jackpot?, Season 1 (HGTV)
- Sunday, December 28: Home Reimagined, Season 1B (Magnolia Network); My Pet Ate What!?, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
If you are picking just a couple: the Aztec-era Batman spin is the swing, the kids-music doc is the curveball, and Season 40 of Guy's grocery madness is the comfort watch. The rest rounds out a very eclectic holiday week.