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# Skydance’s first week: HBO spending spree meets $80 billion debt alarm
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/skydances-first-week-hbo-spending-spree-meets-80-billion-debt-alarm/
- Published: 2026-10-11T01:40:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-11T01:40:48.000Z
- Description: The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that Casey Bloys is opening HBO’s checkbook with a new deal even as David Ellison’s $80 billion debt spooks Wall Street, while new film chiefs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein inherit an impossible movie math problem.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Streaming, Alison Brower, Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery and becomes Skydance

**Why it matters.** Bloys’ aggressive HBO spending while Skydance carries heavy debt puts pressure on the new combined company to prove its three-studio TV structure can survive.

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