Like everyone in town, Ken Ziffren knows someone new is going to own Warner Bros Discovery soon, but he won’t say who – sort of.

“Can’t help but mention the pending acquisition of WBD by a company called Paramount , Paramount Skydance or PSKY,” the circumspect grand dean of Tinseltown lawyers said this week speaking at a Beverly Hills Bar Association shindig.

“Wat’s going to happen on that is obviously anyone’s guess,” the supremely plugged-in Ziffren Brittenham co-founder added in statement that might not completely pass a polygraph.” The weird part of it is that one way or another, we seem to be faced again with a change of control in terms of Warners, whether that goes to Paramount or someone else is unknown.”

As the David Zaslav-run WBD has made it official that it is for sale

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