Daddy Zaslav Causes Bloodbath at WBTV

[Mark Jeffries]

Around 125 positions unfilled, 80 employees laid off, equally divided between Warners' three TV divisions (scripted, unscripted, animation), most of the scripted layoffs in a digital shorts division and workshops for new writing and directing talent (read women, BiPOCs, LGBTQs), the animation people the loudest complainers on Twitter because there will be redundancies regarding the two LA studios (WB Animation, Cartoon Network Studios) because they think Daddy Zaslav's trying to merge CN Studios into WB:

https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-tv-layoffs-125-jobs-eliminated/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7108658

The ultimate goal, as always, is reducing the $3B of debt in Discovery acquiring WarnerMedia and the imminent HBO Max/Discovery+ combine.