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Paramount and WBD in merger discussions

A good Variety follow up...

Why is this happening now?

Blame Paramount Global’s stock price decline and David Ellison. Paramount Global became effectively in play earlier this month when reports surfaced that Ellison’s Skydance Media was trying to gain control of Paramount by scooping up some or all of the preferred shares in the company owned by National Amusements Inc. (NAI). That’s the holding company controlled by Shari Redstone, daughter of the late media mogul Sumner Redstone who built up NAI and Viacom and also acquired Paramount and CBS. Warner Bros. Discovery was forced to act sooner than it would have liked by the heat behind the Skydance discussions.

Might another suitor come forward for Paramount Global?

Shari Redstone certainly hopes so. By many accounts, the Paramount Global chair hopes to sell the company as a unit and not broken up in pieces. The more companies that are vying for attention, the more she can drive a deal on her terms. Over the next few weeks, she’s about to find out what the market in 2024 will bear for the media conglomerate that her father started assembling in the 1980s.

Paramount is on the market. Shari Redstone wants many potential buyers kicking the tires to drive up the price. WBD is just one of them.
 
Paramount is on the market. Shari Redstone wants many potential buyers kicking the tires to drive up the price. WBD is just one of them.
I also saw a different article that states that WBD is also interested in NBCUniversal, and the Paramount news is to force NBC to also come to the table. They're a similar fit as Paramount, but not saddled with $15B of debt, so probably a better target for WBD.
 
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If Warners does buy it…start buying up the physical media for all the Trek movies and shows. Make sure you have a copy.

Even in this day and age, surely that's a miniscule minority. And yet even if all our copies are destroyed, and streaming discontinued totally, many of will have memorized TOS at the very least.

Live action Legion of Superheroes/TOS Trek crossover adaptation CONFIRMED!1!1!1!1!1!!!

(Wait, what? That’s not how this is going to play out? That just sucks, man. Grife!)

You momentarily got my hopes up.

Worst case scenario, if it all comes tumbling down, I'm glad that I at least was able to get most of what I wanted out of this Star Trek era.

In some senses we have been overserved. After 2001 ended, and two mega-popular film franchises just debuted, TREK eventually benefited for a while. At some conventions, a few panel moderators actually demanded a new NuTrek film every year. That's good if you're Frodo, bad if you're Jason Voorhees.
 
Limit them to Mon-El, Brainy 5, Timber Wolf, Colossal Boy, Shrinking Violet, Chameleon Boy, Wildfire and Duo Damsel and that's all I really could ask for.
 
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I am all for anything that fixes what now is known as the sh*tty Paramount app.
While I've never had any problems with the P+ app, in my experience the Discovery+ one isn't all that great, so I'm thinking a merger won't help matters there.
 
In some senses we have been overserved. After 2001 ended, and two mega-popular film franchises just debuted, TREK eventually benefited for a while.
Fandom as a whole, I'd agree. Fans individually, I'd say we all got at least a small piece of the pie, except for people who were determined not to like anything.

a few panel moderators actually demanded a new NuTrek film every year.
Thank God that didn't happen. I'm not a fan of the Kelvin Fims, though I do appreciate them doing what they needed to do to get the Star Trek ball rolling again. Every year would've been ridiculous. Every four years was and would've continued to be equally ridiculous.

Every two years is what they should've done, especially with a newer and younger audience who they should've worked a lot harder to keep. Maybe more of them would've migrated to Streaming Trek if their interest was kept up.
 
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