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"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

Update: 2025-12-05
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In 2013, Netflix wanted to become HBO. Now Netflix is going to buy HBO along with the Warner Bros. Studio, in a blockbuster $83 billion deal.


Wowza. Here to talk me through this is Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, who has been deep in the deal talks for weeks. Discussed in this one:


*How did Netflix maneuver its way into a deal everyone thought Paramount would win?


*Will this deal actually get past Donald Trump and U.S. regulators?


*What does this deal — a kind of deal Netflix has never, ever made in the past — tell us about Netflix today?


*What happens to my favorite HBO shows?

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"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

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