What's David Zazloff Doing at Warner Brothers Discovery?

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CNN's new streaming service, CNN Plus, is shutting down less than one month after it launched. The company decided to shelve its $90 million Batgirl movie rather than release it on streaming. And we just started this week seeing layoffs first at HBO, but they're going to run throughout the entire Warner Media Discovery Company.

HBO hopes to win the streaming wars with House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of Thrones. But GoT’s disastrous finale disappointed viewers, and the prequel is being released as HBO’s parent company, Warner Brothers Discovery, undertakes massive cost-cutting measures. Still: DRAGONS.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominquez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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