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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Not so fast, Netflix: looks like David Ellison is having a full-on tantrum and calling in the big guns (our corrupt President) over the sale of Warner Bros. to the streaming service. Though Warner Bros. chose Netflix’s offer, Ellion is launching a hostile takeover, offering more money for all of Warner Bros. and Discovery (more on that in a moment) and threatening to use regulatory complications to prevent the Netflix deal from going through. “We believe the WBD Board of Directors is pursuing an inferior proposal which exposes shareholders to a mix of cash and stock, an uncertain future trading value of the Global Networks linear cable business, and a challenging regulatory approval process” is a thing they note in their bid.

And even though Netflix’s Ted Sarandos allegedly sucked up to President FIFA Peace Prize last month, President Diaper was out there the other day talking about how the Netflix deal “could be a problem.” Namely: his buddy (and the second-richest man in the world) Larry Ellison’s son, David, is having a meltdown over not getting his way. That said, President Sociopath was himself crashing out over 60 Minutes‘ interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene and screaming that Paramount hasn’t changed at all, so a Paramount takeover is not necessarily a done deal.

Warner Bros. says it will love Paramount’s offer over, and have an answer in 10 days. And look — no matter what happens, a huge media company being swallowed by another huge media company is never going to be a good thing. But I have more confidence in Sarandos allowing HBO and Warner Bros. to remain their own than I do in Ellison.

(That all said, there is an interesting and compelling conspiracy theory that this hostile takeover bid is actually all about CNN and not HBO at all. Basically, Warner Bros. and Discovery — which CNN is a part of — are being sold off separately, and the Discovery sale won’t take place until Q3, this coming summer. If someone were to, say, want to control CNN ahead of the midterms, purchasing it in the summer would be too late to manipulate the news narrative. However, if someone were able to force a buyout of BOTH Warner Bros. and Discovery as a whole, and right now, there’d be plenty of time for election-year fuckery. Not saying it’s true, just something to think about as you watch Paramount gut the once venerable CBS News.)

There it is: Gayle King is expected to leave as CBS’s morning anchor. She might move into a producer role at CBS News, but that remains to be seen. This is what they want to do to CNN. This is the whole point.

In better news, pulling political bullshit didn’t work at ABC (for now). ABC just renewed Jimmy Kimmel Live! for another year, which probably explains the next link below. They’ve only renewed him for one season, as opposed to multiple seasons, which is something to be a little nervous about, but it still makes it the second-longest-running late-night show after The Tonight Show.

Jimmy Kimmel actually thanks President Petty Pants for something.

Genuinely, Kimmel lives rent-free in the withering cashew that is his brain. HEY, DUMMY: KIMMEL HAS NEVER HOSTED THE KENNEDY HONORS. My God.

President Diminishing Returns was SO MAD about CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asking him a question that he went on a long rant about his ballroom plans. Collins had the perfect response:

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Again, it’s always the female journalists he’s attacking — or maybe it’s always the female journalists who are willing to ask him the harder questions.

He’s so embarrassing.

AND THINKING THAT HE’S ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS EVER IS EVEN MORE EMBARRASSING.

The Golden Globe nominations have been announced, and they’re not a total mess! The Critics’ Choice Awards are also out, and they’re pretty good, too.

Don’t vape, kids.

Quentin Tarantino’s bitchcapades continue afoot. 

Emily in Paris and Entourage actor and Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O Harris was arrested in Japan for drug smuggling.

Renewals

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

R.I.P.

Chad Spodick, Contestant on Finding Prince Charming

Frank Gehry, Legendary architect

Martin Parr, Documentary photographer

Michael Annett, Former NASCAR driver

WATCH THIS

Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas: Kevin Costner, for some reason, hosts this special that explores the story of Jesus’ birth. 7 p.m., ABC

NCIS: Origins: Gibb’s relationship with Diane is tested in the fall finale.  8 p.m., CBS

Roofman: Channing Tatum and Kristen Dunst star in this movie based on the true story of a criminal on the run who hid in a toy store. Streaming premiere. Paramount+

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NBC Frosty the Snowman Shrek the Halls A Motown Christmas
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