{"id":867447,"date":"2026-10-01T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867447\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:14:09","slug":"casey-bloys-indicates-hbo-max-and-paramount-likely-to-be-bundled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867447\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Bloys Indicates HBO Max and Paramount+ Likely to Be Bundled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCasey Bloys<\/a> is not prepared to say much about the near-term future of HBO<\/a> under Paramount \u2014 it\u2019s simply not his place, he said (several times) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo everyone else in the industry, Bloys is clearly poised to lead<\/a> the combined streaming efforts of HBO (and Discovery) and Paramount once the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merga-merger officially closes on Oct. 6<\/a>. To make room, the former Paramount+<\/a> and Pluto TV chief Cindy Holland is leaving; Bloys still has a year remaining on his WBD deal.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt Bloomberg\u2018s 2026 Screentime event, Bloys was asked to discuss his pretty immediate professional future. Like, for starters, is he getting the top streaming job?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cObviously there was news this week, and obviously there\u2019s news across the board. I will say that the merger is not closed,\u201d Bloys responded. \u201cI believe that David (Ellison) and the team want to announce their leadership structure \u2014 it\u2019s not mine to announce, so I don\u2019t have any news for you to confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOK, fine \u2014 but what about the streaming platforms themselves? Will HBO Max<\/a> and Paramount+ combine into one giant direct-to-consumer service?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would say that I don\u2019t want to comment on what is going to happen or anything like that, but I would point to the HBO Max-Disney bundle, which has been very successful,\u201d Bloys said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo could you see something like that happening? That would make a lot of sense,\u201d he asked and then answered.<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Ellison<\/a> is presently the CEO of Paramount Skydance; Mattel\u2019s Ynon Kreiz has been named co-CEO<\/a>. Bloys does not believe either man is out to change what the best brand in prestige TV has done so well for decades.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve had conversations with David, and he is very, very excited, very respectful of what the HBO team has done \u2014 not just in my tenure \u2014 but the entire history of HBO, and he\u2019s excited,\u201d Bloys said. \u201cSo I think, as in all of the owners that we have had, we have had people come in genuinely excited and wanting to maintain what we\u2019ve done, and I believe that he will do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Bloys is not prepared to say much about the near-term future of HBO under Paramount \u2014 it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[96995,18205,88,1035,1010,4208,92],"class_list":["post-867447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-casey-bloys","tag-david-ellison","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-paramount","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867447","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=867447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}