{"id":295972,"date":"2025-11-20T18:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295972\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:26:18","slug":"hbo-boss-casey-bloys-on-warner-bros-sale-harry-potter-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295972\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Boss Casey Bloys on Warner Bros. Sale, ‘Harry Potter’ Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHBO<\/a> and HBO Max<\/a> chief Casey Bloys<\/a> showed off the brand\u2019s upcoming slate during a press preview event at the company\u2019s Hudson Yards headquarters in New York Thursday. The event happened to be held on the same day Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO\u2019s parent company, had set to receive bids for a potential sale of its assets.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter making an initial joke up top about announcing who would be buying WBD, Bloys returned to the topic later with a definitive \u201cno, I\u2019m not,\u201d when asked if he was worried about his own job or the HBO brand.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd I\u2019ll tell you something that I told the team,\u201d Bloys continued. \u201cI had a town hall a couple weeks ago, and I said, the only thing you can do in this process, and the best thing you can do, is just focus on your job, which is our job \u2014 which is making the most impactful programming in whatever genre. All you can really think about, all of that theoretical, it\u2019s kind of a waste of energy, because I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, you don\u2019t \u2014 maybe you know what\u2019s going to happen, but we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. So I don\u2019t spend a lot of time trying to game it out. And even when we find out, the process takes a year, or year and a half to close, so it\u2019s not something that we really have to think about. Now, that being said, I\u2019m obviously very proud of what we\u2019ve done at HBO and HBO Max. I would like to see that continue. We\u2019ve all worked at HBO for a long time. I\u2019m proud of our track record. But you kind of have to go into this process with an open mind and a lot of it is out of our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the presentation, Bloys rolled footage from several upcoming series \u2014 but nothing from HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV series just yet (though some images have been released<\/a>). Bloys confirmed that the writers for the show based on J.K. Rowling\u2019s best-selling novel series are currently working on the Season 2 scripts as the first season is filming in the U.K.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re still shooting Season 1, obviously. They\u2019re writing Season 2. So the plan is to try and get it \u2014 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to be like, stop shooting Season 1 on Friday and start Season 2 on Monday. There will be a break in there,\u201d Bloys says. \u201cBut we\u2019re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers. We\u2019re trying not to have massive gaps. It is a big show. Lots of special effects, obviously, a massive operation. But we\u2019re going to do what we can, for the kids ages, but also for viewers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile showing off both HBO and HBO Max series in the lineup, Bloys gave his most concise definition of an HBO Max original series yet, admitting: \u201cUntil recently, a Max original may have been a bit nebulous for you. You probably asked me about it. A bit nebulous for you, a bit nebulous for me. But I can say now that Max originals serve a very specific purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe short answer: more shows like Emmy winner \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are leaning into more cost-efficient yet elevated and high quality series, with a greater number of episodes that can return each year,\u201d Bloys continued. \u201cThese originals are designed to attract audiences that are adjacent to the typical HBO fans, while also feeding our strategy to deliver 52 weeks of new programming a year. \u2018The Pitt,\u2019 of course, was our first shot, and we really did catch lightning in a bottle. Audiences embraced 15 weeks of habitual viewing. Five Emmys, including outstanding drama series followed, and we were able to turn the second season around quickly, already returning this January. We\u2019re in the pilot stage on two more: \u2018American Blue,\u2019 which is a cop drama from Jeremy Carver, and the family drama, \u2018How to Survive Without Me,\u2019 from creator Greg Berlanti.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO and HBO Max chief Casey Bloys showed off the brand\u2019s upcoming slate during a press preview event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,133353,75,5862,5863,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-295972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-casey-bloys","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hbo","13":"tag-hbo-max","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}