{"id":858267,"date":"2026-09-23T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:34:09","slug":"hbos-casey-bloys-paramounts-george-cheeks-attend-premiere-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858267\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO’s Casey Bloys & Paramount’s George Cheeks Attend Premiere Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCasey Bloys<\/a>\u2018 social calendar has been getting a lot of attention over the past several months \u2014 especially the timing of some of his engagements. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chairman and CEO of HBO<\/a> and Max Content is a fixture at all of the streamer\u2019s events, so him attending the red-carpet premiere of the new drama series War in New York on Tuesday night was not a surprise. His plus-one, George Cheeks<\/a>, was.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheeks is Chairman of TV Media for Paramount<\/a>, a company in the final stages of acquiring HBO parent Warner Bros Discovery.<\/p>\n

\n\tBloys and Cheeks\u2019 joint appearance was arranged weeks ago, sources said, with Bloys inviting his friend to a premiere of a buzzy new show. They kept the affair relatively private by not posing for photos together.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the sight of top Paramount and WBD<\/a> TV executives together stirred a lot of buzz at the event, coming just a day after a settlement<\/a> in 12 state attorneys general\u2019s antitrust lawsuit was announced, paving the way for the Paramount-WBD merger to close in the next two weeks after months of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\n\tBloys similarly got tongues wagging in March when he was spotted lunching with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos just a couple of weeks after Netflix had walked away from its proposed merger of WBD following the late $111 billion bid by Paramount.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe HBO boss\u2019 social engagements are being closely scrutinized because what he will do next is one of the most intriguing questions surrounding the Paramount-WBD merger. <\/p>\n

\n\tParamount CEO David Ellison and Sarandos have both spoken highly of Bloys, who is coming off another strong Emmy season at HBO<\/a> where he is under contract through 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tBloys is expected to be a key part of Ellison\u2019s plans for the combined Paramount-WBD. It is the way streaming leadership is structured with the planned merger of Paramount+ and HBO Max that would determine whether Bloys and Paramount Chair of Direct to Consumer Cindy Holland both stay or one of them leaves as it\u2019s likely neither would report to the other.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrent speculation is that Bloys would stay on, with Netflix chatter remaining in the background. Cheeks, the only Paramount co-CEO to continue after the company\u2019s 2025 acquisition by Skydance, is part of Ellison\u2019s senior management team and is expected to carry on, with his role possibly adjusted post-WBD merger. (Heading into the transaction, Cheeks oversees Paramount\u2019s basic cable networks, while Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO of the Warner Bros. Television Group and Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s US Networks, does the same for the WBD ones, raising questions whether the combined cable portfolio will be consolidated or remain split.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, Cheeks\u2019 visit to the War premiere may have been a precursor, similarly to then-Discovery CEO David Zaslav\u2019s October 2021 attendance of the Season 3 premiere of HBO\u2019s Succession alongside Bloys while the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger was still being finalized.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe situation is a little different as Bloys and Cheeks are considered peers with their areas not expected to overlap if both stay on at Paramount, making their premiere date two potential co-workers hanging together. <\/p>\n

\n\tHBO\/Sky\u2019s drama War stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson and film star Carla Duval in the grips of an acrimonious divorce.<\/p>\n

\n\tDade Hayes contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Bloys\u2018 social calendar has been getting a lot of attention over the past several months \u2014 especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[96995,88,40137,1035,4208,226553,92,20007],"class_list":["post-858267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-casey-bloys","tag-entertainment","tag-george-cheeks","tag-hbo","tag-paramount","tag-paramount-wb","tag-tv","tag-wbd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}