THB #199: Warner Bros Discovery Q2 2022
This was going to be the investor’s call of investor’s calls. Chapek laying out Disney+. Hastings blurting out his support of ads on Netflix. And now, it was hypothesized, David Zaslav was finally going to spill the beans on every plan he and his team had in mind of Warner Bros Discovery.
The shrieking across Twitter all day on Wednesday after word landed that the made-for-HBO Max Batgirl movie was going to be disappeared from the face of the media earth, the The Day The Clown Cried of this generation. HBO Max was being replaced by Discovery’s all-reality-television all the time. Every series on HBO Max was being cancelled and the negatives (ha ha) were being burned. And if to make the point even more painful, Scoob: Holiday Haunt was also being censored. What does Zaslav have against the 70s?!?!?
It turned out that the killing off of these two titles was connected to a quirky opportunity to make AT&T pay Warner Bros Discovery for some of the content that was bought …
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