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Warner Bros Discovery Slams Comcast-Owned Sky For Trying To Gain Contract “Leverage” With ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Suit; WBD Ignored Deal, Euro Pay-TV Service Claims – Update

Comcast's Sky UK has sued Warner Bros Discovery over a dispute with the upcoming 'Harry Potter' series. See the latest updates here

Up against the NBA and Amazon over basketball rights, and losing traction of the court paused launch of Venu sports streamer, WBD today finds itself blasted by a lawsuit from Comcast-owned Sky UK and others over a TV deal that looks to have withered on the contractual vine. “Warner has repeatedly failed to offer Sky the annually required minimum number of contractually qualifying series for its consideration,” says the hard hitting complaint filed Friday in federal court in New York of a 2019 deal the parties inked. On top of that, the new lawsuit potentially puts the kibosh on the charm offensive efforts that WBD CEO Zaslav has been on for the past several years with Potter author J.K. Rowling, even as Zas was one of the few Tinseltown types to stick with the writer through her controversial and sometimes out-and-out confusing opinions on trans individuals.

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