Warner Bros. Discovery is as soon as once more experimenting with sampling a few of its premium pay TV and streaming content material on its owned cable networks, this time sampling HBO‘s “True Detective: Evening Nation” and Max’s “Hacks.”

Starting on March 28, “True Detective: Evening Nation,” which consists of six episodes, will air on TNT.

From April 3-7, “Hacks” will air its first three seasons on TBS with two episodes going again to again per evening. The occasion leads into the “Hacks” Season 4 premiere April 10 on Max.

As is customary for mature content material, the episodes will likely be edited to fulfill the requirements and practices pointers for cable.

Whereas not the primary time HBO content material has aired on Warner Bros. Discovery’s cable networks — “Silicon Valley” and “True Blood” aired on TBS and TNT, respectively, in 2023 — this marks the primary time the premium channel has launched content material that’s at present airing or solely not too long ago ended, quite than older library titles that made their approach to cable a number of years in the past, similar to “Intercourse and the Metropolis.”

The sampling experiment is led by Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Tv Group and US Networks, who’s utilizing her newly expanded function as chief of the portfolio of cable networks to drive viewership to cable whereas additionally focusing on potential new subscribers for HBO and Max.

“We’re excited to start experimenting with new methods to make the most of our unimaginable WB library and newest programming from our sister corporations throughout our main cable networks,” Dungey mentioned. “With ‘Hacks’ and ‘True Detective: Evening Nation,’ we’ve got award-winning, fan favorites to entice our viewers on networks and a compelling purpose for HBO/Max viewers to have interaction with TNT and TBS, all in a virtuous cycle for WBD that elevates all our platforms and wonderful exhibits.”

Warner Bros. Discovery brass started teasing the plans final month with CEO David Zaslav saying throughout a Morgan Stanley media convention: “Channing is already trying with Casey at bringing a number of the HBO content material that we wouldn’t promote to others. And we’ll be speaking about that within the subsequent couple of weeks of stuff that you just’ll begin seeing on TNT and TBS, which will likely be new to a number of viewers in America, and we expect we are going to present actual worth by way of viewership.”