Apple TV’s HBO “channel” won’t play all content

Anyway, discussion on why force-closing all apps is counter-productive on mobile devices aside, they solved my problem. Logged out of my iTunes account in Settings, restarted, logged back in -- now ever show, including Real Time, shows the "HBO" (channel) icon rather than the HBO Now icon, and correctly begins the stream within the TV app rather than attempting to download HBO Now. Woot.

Thanks

Thanks. But HBO Now had already been deleted. Force-closing all apps via the app switcher is superstition and unneeded on iOS per Craig Federighi.

It seems like it’s certain shows — even while browsing the HBO channel’s contents, most of them have the plain “HBO” logo indicating they will open in-channel normally, but I see a few of them have the “HBO Now” logo, which always prompts to install HBO Now. I’ll have to call Apple to see if this is an error in show configuration on their end or what.

HBO’s help page for the HBO Apple TV channel indicates all content is included:

https://help.hbonow.com/Answer/Detail/571

Force quitting all apps is always an unnecessary action, since even as you say if there is a misbehaving app, it is isolated from the other frozen apps in iOS. Training people to force quit all just reenforces superstition, which in the case of portables is detrimental to battery life as every force-closed app must incur higher startup costs than resuming a suspended app.

In this case the only app worth force closing is TV. No dice tho, the issue seems to be on their end.

You mis-read. I said you don't need to force close ALL APPs, as doing so is counter-productive and merely superstition. Force closing a single, relevant app is of course occasionally useful.