{"id":2307741,"date":"2026-03-02T05:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307741"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:27:31","slug":"john-oliver-torches-wbd-paramount-deal-not-great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-torches-wbd-paramount-deal-not-great-news\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Torches Wbd Paramount Deal: \u2018Not Great News\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In his first \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d monologue since Paramount<\/a> emerged victorious in the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>, John Oliver<\/a> torched the deal as he prepares to get a \u201cnew business daddy\u201d in Paramount CEO David Ellison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turns out we might be getting a new business daddy,\u201d Oliver<\/a> said during the opening monologue before flashing to the news that Paramount Skydance<\/a> will take over the Wbd acquisition after Netflix<\/a> backed out of the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, not great news,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn fact, if I may quote anyone who\u2019s ever accidentally sat on their Roku<\/a> remote. Oh s\u2013t, I\u2019m in Paramount now. How the f\u2013k do I get out of this?…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his first \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d monologue since Paramount emerged victorious in the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, John Oliver torched the deal as he prepares to get a \u201cnew business daddy\u201d in Paramount CEO David Ellison. \u201cIt turns out we might be getting a new business daddy,\u201d Oliver said during the opening monologue before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2307741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/John-Oliver-Torches-Wbd-Paramount-Deal-\u2018Not-Great-News.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307743,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307741\/revisions\/2307743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}