An expected wave of substantial layoffs has started crashing through Warner Bros. Discovery, with HBO Max, overseen by chief content officer Casey Bloys, losing around 70 staffers Monday — about 14 percent of its team. As speculated in numerous publications, the streamer’s reality and live-action family-originals divisions will be all but eliminated as part of a restructuring spurred by the cost-cutting moves. PLAYLIST 25 VIDEOS: WARNER BROTHERS DISCOVERY & DAVID ZASLAV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1gxDL-u2P1Ac4bE5bONlHix SUBSCRIBE TO ADAM POST SPEAKS: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamPostSpeaks Follow ADAM POST on Twitter: https://twitter.com/comicswelove Is HBO Max turning into HBO Min? As it lays off 14% of staff, looking ahead to the streaming service's future https://www.thepopverse.com/is-hbo-max-turning-into-hbo-min-as-it-lays-off-14-of-staff-looking-ahead-to-the-streaming-services-future $1 BILLION in WOKE TV SHOWS and MOVIES BURNED By David Zaslav CEO Warner Brothers Discovery! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFs2lvofWNg&ab_channel=AdamPost INTERVIEWS with DAVID ZASLAV on YouTube (check out his interviews from 2 years ago or older, see how passionately he talks about brands! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+zaslav+interview WARNER BROTHERS DISCOVERY, LATEST FINANCIAL RESULTS (SHOWS DEBTS AND INCOME for past 90 days) https://s201.q4cdn.com/336605034/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/WBD-2022.6.30-10Q-Filed-copy.pdf There's talk, and now there's action. Warner Bros. Discovery has announced plans to layoff roughly 70 employees its HBO Max subsidiary, as reported by Variety. This follows speculation about layoffs, and very real recalibrations of HBO Max and other Warner Bros. properties as announced during the recent Warner Bros. Discovery investor's call. According to Variety, these layoffs are primarily focused in HBO Max's reality programming department, and equates to roughly 14% of the streaming service's total staff. What will HBO Max be like in the future? From the talk surrounding Warner Bros. Discovery's earnings call and these layoffs, you can actually expect more reality TV on HBO Max in 2023 and beyond (not less). Although its in-house unit was downsided, it's now-sister company Discovery Channel will be providing thousands of hours of shows including Deadliest Catch, Battlebots, Mythbusters, and yes, Shark Week. What about FBoy Island? Don't worry, HBO Max's Fboy Island will continue to go in this all-new HBO Max. Just imagine the crossover potential with Shark Week. What about superheroes? Poster featuring the main characters of Doom Patrol As for original dramas - such as superhero dramas - look for less, not more. Warner Bros. Discovery is rethinking the idea of new superhero movies debuting on the streaming platform, and also re-thinking the quick turnaround of big films' theatrical release date and subsequently landing on HBO Max. In the attention-grabbing cancellation of the Batgirl streaming movie, other major DC live-action projects are reportedly on uneasy ground. While a second season of Peacemaker is still probably happening, we're unsure of the same for Doom Patrol, Titans, or even the planned The Batman spin-offs. What about comedy? On the comedy front, Warner Bros. Discovery has called in the comedy team from HBO itself to oversee HBO Max's comedy division. What about other scripted movies and tv? As for non-HBO movies and TV appearing on HBO Max (such as Avatar), look for those to be limited. According to Variety, Warner Bros. Discovery has downsided HBO Max's acquisitions group, instead relying primarily on Warner Bros. Discovery movies and TV. According to Variety, it's even possible HBO Max will be renamed to something else as it incorporates more Discovery content - possibly even just "Max". "At the end of the day, putting all the content together was the only way we saw to make this a viable business,” Warner Bros. DIscovery's CEO/President of global streaming and games JB Perrette said during the earnings call earlier this month. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gxnmnogaA

Warner Bros. Discovery to Shut Down Pipeline Programs for Writers, Directors The company is also shuttering Stage 13, its short-form digital content studio that was dedicated to amplifying up-and-coming storytellers. While they were not specifically diversity programs exclusively for participants from historically excluded backgrounds, the Warner Bros. Television Workshop was regarded as an important pipeline of opportunity for such artists looking to break into the business. PLAYLIST 47 VIDEOS: WARNER BROTHERS DISCOVERY & DAVID ZASLAV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPkiRW84R1gxDL-u2P1Ac4bE5bONlHix SUBSCRIBE TO ADAM POST SPEAKS: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamPostSpeaks Follow ADAM POST on Twitter: https://twitter.com/comicswelove Buy My Graphic Novel: THE MERMAIDS https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-mermaids-comic-book/x/2851886#/ Warner Bros. Discovery to Shut Down Pipeline Programs for Writers, Directors https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/warner-bros-writers-directors-pipeline-programs-shut-down-1235239387/ WOKE Diversity Program SHUTDOWN At WARNER BROS DISCOVERY! Programs for Writers, Directors Ended! Warner Bros. Discovery will be shutting down its long-running writers’ and directors’ television workshops at the end of the current 2022-23 season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. While they were not specifically diversity programs exclusively for participants from historically excluded backgrounds, the Warner Bros. Television Workshop was regarded as an important pipeline of opportunity for such artists looking to break into the business. The writers’ workshop had been in existence for more than 40 years, with more recent notable alumni including Akela Cooper (Luke Cage, Blumhouse’s upcoming M3GAN), Zak Schwartz (Wu-Tang: An American Saga, TNT’s Snowpiercer) and LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands). Alumni of the directors’ workshop include Jude Weng (Only Murders in the Building, Finding ‘Ohana), Jaffar Mahmood (Reboot, Young Sheldon) and Regina King. Related Stories Warner Brothers Lot TV Warner Bros. TV Group Cuts 82 Staffers in Latest Round of WBD Layoffs Channing Dungey TV More Layoffs Coming Tuesday at Warner Bros. Discovery Last month, WBD restructured its diversity, equity and inclusion group, with senior vice president Karen Horne, who formerly oversaw pipeline programs under WarnerMedia, promoted to oversee DEI for the North America region. In her place, Grace Anne Moss was appointed to oversee pipeline programs at the vp level. The company also is shuttering Stage 13, its shortform digital content studio, with existing projects in the works to be absorbed into Warner Bros. Television, which has been overseeing Stage 13 development and programming since 2020. Stage 13 was founded in 2017 as part of the then-Warner Bros. Digital Networks division and has produced such series as Netflix’s Special, created by and starring Ryan O’Connell about his experiences as a young gay man with cerebral palsy, and The CW/Netflix’s anthology Two Sentence Horror Stories, which was created by Vera Miao and served as a showcase for directors from a diverse range of backgrounds. The decision to shutter Stage 13 and the WBTV writers’ and directors’ workshops are part of a larger round of layoffs taking place today at the Channing Dungey-led Warner Bros. TV Group. Additional layoffs are expected to come as part of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s larger effort to find an estimated $3 billion in cost savings from the newly merged company. Casey Bloys’ HBO and HBO Max division went through a similar round of layoffs in August. Staff cuts are expected to come at other WBD divisions as Zaslav and his top lieutenants look to eliminate staff redundancies and right-size its various divisions. As part of the larger effort, HBO Max and Discovery+ will be merged next year as execs continue to debate a new name for the service. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbQJ2ZkpoXI