In September, the day before news broke that Paramount was lining up a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery , the action that ultimately led to the seismic news that Netflix is buying the hallowed studio f or $83B, Gunnar Wiedenfels was in the Food Network Kitchen for a ceremonial “passing of the baton” to discuss him running a newly spunoff cable group.

The split, to create Discovery Global, was officially put on pause before Thanksgiving as it looked like David Ellison’s company would swallow all of WBD. However, now that Netflix is only buying the studios and streaming side of WBD, it appears Wiedenfels will get his own mini-empire after all.

Wiedenfels, his current boss David Zaslav and WBD’s Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell just concluded a leadership call with arou

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