Casey Bloys, Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer, Skydance DTC, has officially revealed his leadership team of senior executives — and it is the same team he had in his previous role as Chairman and CEO of HBO and HBO Max Content: Francesca Orsi, Amy Gravitt, Sarah Aubrey, Nina Rosenstein, Glenn…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Wiseman is departing Paramount+ where she had served as EVP and Head of Originals for 14 months, Deadline has learned. Her departure follows the exit of her former boss, Paramount Chair of Direct-To-Consumer Cindy Holland, on the eve of Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros…

In a surprise appearance at the Paramount UK Upfronts, Kelly Reilly officially revealed that Dutton Ranch will begin filming Season 2 in just a few months. Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch has been a huge hit for Paramount+ and the expected Season 2 renewal came with two episodes still to stream…

Elon Musk has invested $1 billion in the new Skydance, according to a report in Semafor, amid speculation by Wall Street, industry players and, yesterday, John Malone, that the world’s richest man and Tesla chief would step in to lend his friend Larry Ellison a hand. At a conference yesterday…

“We’re doing our best to manage the change but I’m not naïve.” That was the verdict of Christina Sulebakk, who runs the newly-minted Skydance’s operation in the Nordics, Germany and Benelux, over how she is approacing the $110B merger in her territories. Sulebakk, who has been with various…

Elon Musk will put up to $10 billion into Skydance to help the media giant pay down debt while also giving SpaceX satellite subsidiary Starlink a foothold in the entertainment business. That was the eye-opening prediction offered Wednesday by John Malone, the billionaire media mogul who has…

Versant Media CEO Mark Lazarus said the company spun off by Comcast/NBCUniversal earlier this year is unlikely to be a buyer if Skydance looks to shop some of its dozens of cable TV networks. “Buying more cable assets on a large scale would prolong our life but not necessarily make our life…

EXCLUSIVE: With more exits expected later this week as Paramount seizes Warner Bros, we hear that the latter’s Head of Communications, Chelsey Summey, has departed the Burbank, CA lot. Summey first joined Warner Bros as SVP Communications in January 2024 and was later named Head of…

Amidst a shaky stock performance and big debts, Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery parent Skydance now faces a new court challenge to the company’s authority over its streaming assets and corporate strategy. It may all end up being the legal equivalent of a tsetse fly, but the latest flex by a…

Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards is being probed by Ofcom over “fairness and privacy.” An investigation has been launched into the two-part series for Skydance UK network 5 under the “fairness and privacy” section of the regulator’s Broadcasting Code. No more detail was forthcoming. “We are…

EXCLUSIVE: A number of staffers including creative chief Damon Pattison have been laid off at Ricochet, the Skydance UK-owned indie that produces hit BBC show The Repair Shop. We understand around 10 staff left several weeks back including Pattison and Rob Butterfield, who was running the…

MIPCOM is the biggest gathering in international TV. This year there were 10,000 attendees and over 3,000 buyers. The organizers have thrown open the doors to the wider world of content and distribution – and nowadays YouTube execs and creator businesses mingle with TV buyers and sellers. Deadline was…