Series Business
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The Paramount Pause Opens WBD Poaching Season
As rivals circle top execs and creators, anyone who hasn’t met with David Ellison is ‘100% taking meetings’
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Rob Bonta on Paramount’s Trial Gamble: ‘We’re Not Talking Settlement’
California’s AG tells me: ‘We’re not going to have oligarchs or kings in the economy’
Latest Series Business stories
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Jeff Zucker on the Biggest Studio You’re Overlooking: ‘We’ll Take Them By Surprise’
After merging Banijay and All3Media into the world’s largest indie producer, he hints at what else is on his shopping list
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Britney Spears is Liz Meriwether’s Latest Genre Turn. But First: Serial Killers
The ‘Furious’ showrunner on what drew her to the pop star’s story and her refusal to paint women as ‘perfect victims’
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TV’s New Development Money: Brands
As studios pull back, onetime advertisers shift into scripted — paying ‘top-tier’ writers and opening a new path to production
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TV in 3: Hard Numbers on Netflix’s Sophomore Slump Tell a Tough Story
The new data drop reveals the streamer can launch hits, but franchises are harder. Plus: a silver lining in limited series
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Netflix’s Battle Over Binge: ‘It’s Forcing a Reckoning’
Industry opinions split as Ted Sarandos sticks by his ‘core tenet’ and ‘engagement’ becomes the word of the day
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Paramount Under Siege: States Go for the Kill & the California ‘Bluff’
I talk to antitrust pros about the AGs’ ‘strong’ suit as insiders assess the actual threat of the studios leaving L.A.
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TV in 3: Netflix Engagement Blame Game; NBCU Split Divides Execs
Plus: Peter Friedlander’s Amazon exec shuffle & who’ll helm Netflix’s ‘Nemesis’ after its co-creator’s exit for Apple TV
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‘A Colony of America’: How British TV Is Falling Into U.S. Hands
Comcast’s Sky-ITV swoop leaves just two big U.K. broadcasters in local control as survival against Netflix and YouTube might mean giving up oversight of national airwaves
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HBO’s Emmy Reign Is About to Face Its M&A Reckoning
The coming wave of mergers could reshape the noms leaderboard for good as overall submissions hit a low
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‘Lost’ Producer: I Gave L.A. 33 Years. Now I’m Leaving — Here’s Why
An Emmy winner’s new chapter, even as ‘the 7-year-old boy’ with dreams ‘hates 56-year-old me for making this choice’
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Zoloft to Instagram: How Laid-Off Veterans Are Finding a Way Forward
‘Stunned’ workers impacted by cuts at Disney, WBD and Paramount share shock, hope and advice for the next chapter
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Anne Rice, Zombies — and Netflix? AMC’s Plan to Outlast the Streaming Giants
Dan McDermott on a premium-for-adults strategy that works, Walking Dead plans and (scoop!) a new A24 sports show
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Save Our Sets: A Microdrama Lifeline Arrives — With Jobs
Sunset Las Palmas is betting that vertical series — billionaires, werewolves, steamy bedrooms and all — can help fill the hole
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TV in 3: Mindy Kaling’s Slow Start Tests Hulu, Peacock’s World Cup Win
Plus: Paramount-WBD form a Harry Potter pact early
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Amazon’s Elle Woods YA Bet — and the Tricks to Make a Prequel Work
I talk to co-showrunner Caroline Dries about creating the ‘Legally Blonde’ series as Prime Video’s thirst for the genre accelerates
Series Business’ Elaine Low, Lesley Goldberg and Manori Ravindran report on the TV industry’s big names and bigger shifts — tracking the deals and decisions redefining a market.