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HBO Max will launch with an extensive library and a handful of original series and films May 27 — but those titles are just the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service’s initial offerings.

On Wednesday, HBO Max revealed the new shows and movies coming to the platform this summer, including “Doom Patrol” Season 2 (which will launch simultaneously on DC Universe and HBO Max June 25), the first “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” special, “Search Party” Season 3, Seth Rogen’s comedy feature “American Pickle,” Amy Schumer’s three-part doc “Expecting Amy,” comedy “Frayed,” family docusoap “The House of Ho,” adult animated series “Close Enough,” unscripted animal rescue series “The Dog House,” kids’ competition “Karma,” animated show “Tig N’ Seek” and Sesame Workshop’s “Esme & Roy.”

These originals will begin to roll out on HBO Max on June 18 and be accompanied on the platform by HBO’s summer series “I May Destroy You,” “Perry Mason,” “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,...

Prolific animation writer-producer Nicole Dubuc will receive the WGA West’s 2018 Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award tonight at the annual Awc awards ceremony at the guild’s headquarters in Los Angeles.

Dubuc, who’s been nominated for seven daytime Emmys for writing and producing children’s animation shows, currently serves as the showrunner of the upcoming Disney Junior series The Rocketeer.

The award is presented to caucus members who have advanced the literature of animation in film and television throughout the years and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the animation writer.

“Nicole Dubuc has accomplished more in her time as an animation writer than most of us do in careers that are twice as long,” said WGA West president David A. Goodman. “She has crossed genres, busted barriers, and broken through ceilings not only as a writer, but also as a showrunner, an actress, and a labor leader.