4 replies on “Paramount Signs Deal to Buy Warner Brothers Discovery”

1. I’ll editorialize here, instead of in the main post. ‘Cause I’m all noble and full of journalistic integrity and stuff.

   So, the Ellisons buying Paramount in the first place was bad. They’ve loaded the company with debt and, as we’ve already seen with CBS News, have an agenda in line with the current administration. Journalism must always speak truth to power, otherwise what’s the point. Now, that same family has their hooks into CNN, a news org that was already trying to lean right to grab some of Fox News’ audience (and, laughably failing at it).

   So now, properties like Star Trek and DC are in the hands of MAGA. I fully expect that SFA won’t make it past Season Two (already wrapped). And that this will be the end of Trek for a time (or it gets re-invented as an old school “white guys with lasers chasing alien skirts” and starring Kevin Sorbo). Expect that the DC properties going forward will have a much more “America First” bend to them.

   I hope I’m wrong. But, as events post 2016 have taught me, expect the worst and prepare for even worse.

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   • Well, that’s depressing. (Because it’s believably accurate.)

     James Gunn’s Superman DCU style was a bit less MAGA than the Snyder-Bros style, so he’s probably also on the short list to get dropped, huh?

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   • I guess, for Star Trek, we’ll get a lot more of Terran Empire arcs.

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   • I think this may also mean we won’t get new “Babylon 5” product. That had started to turn around when one specific WB executive left, but now that B5 and Star Trek are under the same roof, it’s pretty easy to see which is a smarter investment.

     On the Star Trek front, we do have some good news: there is a major executive at Paramount who loves the property and has been trying to work on it for decades. The current expectation is that they’ll burn through Kurtzman’s remaining contract (2 seasons of SFA and 5 seasons of SNW) and then hand over the reins.

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