Netflix,
for
its
part,
is
swearing
not
to
screw
up
this
particular
golden
goose
too
badly.
Executives
from
the
streamer—which
currently
is
in
pole
position
to
buy
large
portions
of
WBD,
provided
Paramount
doesn’t
sue
and
complain
its
way
into
making
the
acquisition
itself—gave
an
interview
this
week
where
they
made
it
clear
that,
regardless
of
what
other
changes
Netflix
makes
if/when
the
sale
goes
through,
they
know
enough
to
not
mess
with
president
Casey
Bloys’
empire
of
Actually
Good
TV.
“We’re
going
to
keep
that
HBO
team,”
Netflix
co-CEO
Greg
Peters—i.e.,
“the
one
who’s
not
Ted
Sarandos”—said
in
an
interview
with Stratechery this
week.
(Peters
is,
per THR,
doing
a
bit
of
a
press
tour
at
the
moment,
possibly
in
response
to
Wall
Street
making
unhappy
noises
about
the
company’s
big
acquisition
plans.)
“That
HBO
team
is
good
at
working
with
that
talent
and
giving
them
the
environment
that
they
need
to
tell
those
amazing
stories
and
they
get
to
do
it
under
a
great
brand
that
speaks
to
the
kind
of
program
they’re
trying
to
make,
and
we’re
going
to
give
them
a
bigger
audience.”
Of
course,
it’s
worth
noting
that
Peters
is
talking
here
about
HBO
personnel,
and
not
the
brand’s
actual
offerings—and,
specifically,
whether
HBO
Max
will
continue
to
exist
as
a
separate
service,
or
be
smooshed
into
the
existing
Netflix.
(He
notes
that
one
of
the
reasons
Netflix
thinks
Warner
Bros.
is
a
good
fit
for
their
company
is
that
the
much
larger
streamer
also
has
much
better
international
reach,
existing
in
markets
like
India
where
HBO
Max
currently
has
to
rely
on
Disney’s
JioStar
to
distribute
its
content.)
When
asked
point-blank
about
whether
HBO
Max
would
continue
to
exist
separately,
Peters
would
only
say,
“This
is
the
kind
of
thing
we
would
want
to
sort
out.”
