Casey Bloys Says He Believes David Ellison Plans to ‘Maintain What We’ve Done’ at HBO as Paramount and Warner Bros. Merge

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Casey Bloys isn’t ready to reveal details on his future at the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. just yet. But speaking Thursday at the Bloomberg Screentime conference, he didn’t deny expectations that he will continue to run HBO Max and add Paramount+ to the mix once the merger is official.“I’m not going to get into my job requirements or anything like that. But so here’s what I will say. Obviously, there was news this week,” he said, referring to Paramount streaming boss Cindy Holland announcing her departure. “And obviously there’s news across the board. I will say that the merger is not closed. I believe that David [Ellison] and the team want to announce their leadership structure, it’s not mine to announce. So I don’t have any news to confirm.”

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At the same time, Bloys said that he’s had many conversations with Ellison, “and he is very excited, very respectful of what the HBO team has done, not just in my tenure, but the entire history of HBO. All of the owners that we have had, we have had people come in genuinely excited and wanting to maintain what we’ve done. And I really believe that he will do that.”

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Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/

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