Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix deal for Hollywood giant follows string of flops

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised everyone' would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lost

It's less than five years since David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, negotiated what looked like the deal of his career. Now as Netflix plans a landscape-changing takeover of Warner Bros, he's in the middle of an even bigger one.

Zaslav, or Zaz, is a hard-charging, well-connected executive who cut his teeth inside NBC, and ascended into New York's media elite as he transformed Discovery Inc from a nature- and science-focused cable broadcaster into a reality TV giant.