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A trio of directors including Steven Spielberg will help at TCM after a shakeup from Warner CEO David Zaslav

Fans worried about the future of the classic movie channel after parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced layoffs and a leadership shakeup.

Fortune

Turner Classic Movies looks to the future with help from Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Spielberg

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson are stepping up to help curate programming for Turner Classic Movies, amid a tumultuous week of layoffs and leadership changes that had fans worried about the future of the channel

The Independent UK

TCM programming chief to remain following backlash over cuts to classic movie channel

Warner Bros. Discovery has reversed its plan to lay off the programming chief for Turner Classic Movies and announced moves to help bolster the channel, after incurring the wrath of film fans with planned cuts.

Los Angeles Times

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If you love film, you should be worried about what's going on at Turner Classic Movies

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced a shake-up at the network, which for years has offered a well curated film selection. Critic David Bianculli says TCM wasn't broken — and didn't need fixing.

WEKU

Are management cuts at Turner Classic Movies a sign of bad things to come?

ATLANTA — Turner Classic Movies last week was the latest target in efforts by Warner Bros. Discovery to cut costs, and its future is now in question.

Tribune News Service

Will TCM be gone with the wind?

Last week's reports of TCM's death may have been exaggerated but movie buffs, classic and otherwise, should worry

Salon

Hollywood Heavyweights Speak Out Over Uncertainty at TCM

After layoffs at classic film net, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson seek assurances from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav

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After layoffs at Turner Classic Movies, David Zaslav reached out to Hollywood's top directors to ease fears

Filmmakers voiced concerns as layoffs hit the company’s cable/TV division.

Fortune

CNN’s future cloudy in wake of management change

CNN, under Ted Turner throughout the 1980s and 1990s, aspired to be about news first, not personality.

Tribune News Service

A Fiery CM Punk Returns to AEW

His presence gives AEW the sort of boost it sorely needed this summer.

Sports Illustrated

‘The Flash’ fizzles at the box office amid Ezra Miller controversy, studio woes

Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “The Flash” opened in first place at the domestic box office over the weekend, grossing $55.1 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

Los Angeles Times

Chris Licht Ouster Shows How Cable News Has Become a Cope

The journalistic crusade against "bothsidesism" is an unsubtle attempt at enforcing political orthodoxy.

Reason

A wild idea to fix CNN after Chris Licht

Winning back the right can't be done. Neither will persuading them that CNN isn't a villain. Time to move forward

Salon

How Chris Licht’s botched effort to drag CNN to the right ended with his own stunning downfall

The one-time wonderboy of breakfast television had a vision to make CNN the most trusted source in news. But he failed to gain the trust of his newsroom, Bevan Hurley writes

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France 24

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after Trump town hall, tumultuous tenure

CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he’d lost the confidence of the network's journalists.

Broadcasting & Cable

For CNN, the Real Damage of the Chris Licht Era Was the 13 Wasted Months

CNN could have been spending the time reinventing itself as an always-on digital lifestyle brand, a la the 'New York Times'

Salon

CNN boss out after Trump town hall mess

Licht gets the axe — but he was merely executing the vision of top executives, media watchdog says

Axios

Chris Licht out at CNN

Licht’s leadership became untenable following a damning profile published by The Atlantic.

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The Independent UK

CNN head Chris Licht out at news network after brief, tumultuous tenure

Chris Licht is out after a year as chief executive at CNN, following a series of missteps and plunging ratings

Barchart

Warner Bros. Discovery’s Mistakes Keep Piling Up

CNN CEO Chris Licht looks like he could be forced to walk the plank for the sins of an ego-driven and highly overpaid boss in David Zaslav. Either way, WBD stock remains a dud.

Broadcasting & Cable

CNN’s Licht Apologizes to Newsroom Following Disastrous ‘Atlantic’ Profile; Staffers Privately Say, ‘He’s Done’

CNN’s embattled CEO declares intention to ‘fight like hell’ to win back staff’s trust as WBD chief David Zaslav appears to lose confidence in him

Axios

CNN drama, Act 2: Zucker's revenge

CNN remains a dominant player in news. Right now, its ratings and reputation are getting battered.

Axios

Devastating profile dogs CNN boss Chris Licht

The Atlantic paints a brutal portrait of the head of one of the world's most famous, consequential and profitable brands.

The Guardian - US

‘Extra Trumpy’: Atlantic profile of CNN chief Licht details town hall disaster

Network chief executive reportedly wanted New Hampshire event to be ‘extra Trumpy’ but broadcast prompted wide condemnation

Multichannel News

David Leavy, Long-Time Aide To David Zaslav, Named CNN COO

Executive had been chief corporate affairs officer for Warner Bros. Discovery

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