Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:

H.B. No: Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, HBO Max has done away with one week free trials. Now if you want to enjoy all that content, you’ll just have to pay for the service with the option to cancel at any time. Could losing the ability to test out the product for free before committing be the difference between considering HBO Max and trashing it to watch another service? Source.

Rateflix: Speaking of streaming, it may finally be considered when it comes to television ratings. Nielsen is finally bringing their ratings system into the 21st century, doing a major overhaul on how to gauge how highly shows should be rated. This new system should be ready to roll out by 2022, and fully implemented by 2024. By that time we’ll have come up with a whole new way to watch. Source. 

Supervillain Surprises: The cast announcements keep coming for the third movie in the Spider-man MCU series.  Alfred Molina who played Doctor Octopus in Spider Man 2 during the Tobey Maguire era,  will return to reprise that role in the third Tom Holland MCU Spider Man Movie. He was a great Doc Ock, so that should give fans a lot to cheer about. Jamie Foxx will also return to reprise his role as Electro. Source.