Discovery+ Chief On What The Warner Bros Deal Means For Producers, Searching For Its Own 'Bling Empire' & Rights Flexibility - NewsBreak

Keep calm and carry on… that's the message from Discovery+ chief Lisa Holme to producers as the factual giant goes through the merger process with WarnerMedia. Holme, who, as Group SVP of Content and Commercial Strategy for Discovery+ oversees programming for the company's streaming service, echoed comments from colleagues such as David Zaslav with Discovery and WarnerMedia waiting on regulatory approval to create Warner Bros. Discovery. But during a Deadline-moderated panel session at the Edinburgh TV Festival, she did admit that there would "lots of new exciting prospects" for the creative community. "The reality is that until regulatory approval comes through, it is...