{"id":2307890,"date":"2026-03-02T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307890"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:19:15","slug":"john-oliver-reacts-to-hbos-possible-new-business-daddy-paramount-how-the-f-do-i-get-out-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-reacts-to-hbos-possible-new-business-daddy-paramount-how-the-f-do-i-get-out-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Reacts to HBO\u2019s Possible New \u201cBusiness Daddy\u201d Paramount: \u201cHow the F*** Do I Get Out of This?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Oliver<\/a> isn\u2019t what you might say thrilled about getting a new \u201cbusiness daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how he\u2019s referred to whatever company happens to own HBO, home of his late-night show Last Week Tonight, over the years, from AT&T<\/a> to Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>. On Sunday\u2019s episode, he referenced last week\u2019s news that Netflix<\/a> had backed out of the bidding for Warner Bros.<\/a>, positioning David Ellison<\/a>\u2019s Paramount Skydance<\/a> to win the battle for the studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turns out we might be getting a new business daddy,\u201d he said, before showing a news clip recapping recent events. \u201cYeah, not great news. In fact, if I may quote anyone who\u2019s ever accidentally sat on their Roku remote, \u2018Oh shit, I\u2019m in Paramount<\/a> now, how the fuck do I get out of this?’\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Netflix said it was declining to raise its bid for Warner Bros.<\/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":"

John Oliver isn\u2019t what you might say thrilled about getting a new \u201cbusiness daddy.\u201d That\u2019s how he\u2019s referred to whatever company happens to own HBO, home of his late-night show Last Week Tonight, over the years, from AT&T to Warner Bros. Discovery. On Sunday\u2019s episode, he referenced last week\u2019s news that Netflix had backed out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307891,"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-2307890","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-Reacts-to-HBOs-Possible-New-Business-Daddy-Paramount.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307890","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=2307890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307892,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307890\/revisions\/2307892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}