For the past decade or so, it feels like we’ve been subject to a live action game of Monopoly: Media Edition , as all the major networks, studios, streamers, et al. repeatedly merge and split up, merge and split up. And I say “subject to” because we the consumers have no say in the process, while the teams of employees working at all of these companies face massive layoffs instead of reaping any benefits. The only people who come out on top from these mega mergers are the players already on top, the CEOs worried about how their multi-millions can become multi-billions. Folded into this mess is the fact that Hollywood has never fully come to terms with how streaming has entirely upended the business model of film & TV production, which again, is stacked so that the ones at the top stay at

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