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Zaz Rewards HBO Chief with 5-Year Pact

Sure, Zaslav and Gunnar have been fleecing WBD looking for redundancies, but re-signing Casey Bloys was a goal of the new C.E.O.’s first 100 days.

Casey Bloys
HBO's chief content officer Casey Bloys has signed a fresh contract. Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Matthew Belloni
July 18, 2022

If you haven’t sent Casey Bloys a quick email congratulating him on 140 Emmy nominations, now you’ve got another reason. The HBO/HBO Max chief content officer just closed a big new deal to stay at the company. It’s a five-year contract, I’m told, and it comes with a sigh of relief from Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav, who made re-signing Bloys the top personnel priority of his first 100 days. An HBO rep confirmed the deal to me but declined to comment further.