Series Business
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The Paramount-HBO Max Pitch Scramble: A Sellers’ Guide
Ellison’s streamer is ‘very competitive,’ WBD’s are ‘really tough’ as the proposed merger redraws Hollywood’s programming map
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TV in 3: Amazon’s Data Drip; HBO Max’s Bare Shelves
Plus: Did Netflix’s ‘Pop Culture Jeopardy’ daily drops pay off?
Latest Series Business stories
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10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
‘It’s going to be worse than you think,’ says one insider
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The Disappearing Ladder: Gen Z Inherits the Collapse
As consolidation reshapes jobs from the top down, Hollywood’s youngest workers are rebuilding from the bottom up
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TV in 3: Warners’ ‘Tone-Deaf’ Town Hall; Falchuk on ‘Famous Last Words’
Fallout and leadership fails roil the studio. Plus: Do actors really need GoFundMe pleas?
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Org Chart From Hell: ‘Too Many Tentacles for One Octopus’
A Paramount-WBD merger would mean 20 chiefs, two streaming platforms, one shrinking C-suite — and an executive bloodletting
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A ‘Top Model’ Reckoning Goes No. 1 on Netflix. Why?
The producer of the smash docuseries tells me how it came together — plus a scoop on what really led to the judges’ firing
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TV in 3: Netflix Adult Animation Spree, WGA Disarray
I look at the streamer’s new straight-to-series buys and strategy
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Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up
SCOOP: Its Creators program heads to Britain as its GM explains strategy — and the HBO Max threat
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The Three Budget Buckets Running TV in 2026
A quiet financial reset now determines who gets an order and who gets cut
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Introducing: The Disappearing Ladder
My new series examines how Gen Z, millennials, Gen X and boomers are navigating Hollywood’s narrowing path to power — and relevance
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TV in 3: WGA Signals Lines in the Sand as Studio Talks Loom
Leadership faces the members as writers scrap for gigs. Plus: Barry Bonds’ Netflix MLB moment and farewell to James Van Der Beek
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Fox’s Michael Thorn: A Faster Path to Yes — ‘No Layers,’ No Pilots
The network president on his promise to top talent (Denis Leary, Patrick Dempsey), going all in on faith-based series and a platform-agnostic strategy
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‘Middle-Power’ Execs: Scrappier, Indie, Fast Greenlights — ‘Heated Rivalry’ Included
‘You don’t need a studio and a water tower’: Bell Media’s Sean Cohan, Lionsgate’s Kevin Beggs and AMC Networks’ Kristin Dolan on TV’s changed market
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‘Middle-Power’ Execs are Having a Moment: ‘Don’t Need a Studio and a Water Tower’
Bell Media’s Sean Cohan, Lionsgate’s Kevin Beggs and AMC Networks’ Kristin Dolan on TV’s changed market
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TV in 3: Dana’s Dilemma, Daytime Goes Dark, and ‘The Floor’ SCOOP
The Walden rumor mill reveals how options are dwindling for other top execs
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Disney vs. Netflix on Int’l: The D’Amaro–Walden Test
One company talks up global ambition. The other already built a global playbook
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.