Renewals and Cancellations: 'The Chair Company,' 'Task,' 'Twisted Metal'

Renewals and Cancellations: 'The Chair Company,' 'Task,' 'Twisted Metal'

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The initial bids for Warner Bros. Discovery are coming in from three potential suitors: Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal/Peacock), Netflix, and Paramount/Skydance. I’m rooting for them all to fail, but if I had to choose one, I’d probably go with NBCUniversal, if only because — despite promises otherwise — I worry that Netflix would not continue putting Warner Bros. movies in theaters. Meanwhile, Larry Ellison has reportedly already suggested he might fire certain CNN anchors (like Erin Burnett) if Paramount Skydance wins as a favor to the White House. That ain’t right. And with an ownership stake in TikTok already, I don’t want the Ellison empire to grown even larger.

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