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Jeff Schlesinger, the president of Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution, is among the executives departing the Warner Bros. leadership team as part of the WarnerMedia realignment.

Foxtel and WarnerMedia are building on their long-standing partnership with a new multiyear agreement covering programming from Warner Bros., HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia networks.

Tom Ascheim, who has been serving as the president of Freeform, is joining Warner Bros. as president of global kids, young adults and classics.

Peter Roth, who has been at Warner Bros. for the past 21 years, has signed a contract extension that will make him the first-ever chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group.

Ann Sarnoff, currently the president of BBC Studios Americas, has been appointed as the new chair and CEO of Warner Bros.

The complex characters in the new Warner Bros. slate of shows, including Prodigal Son, struck a chord with the buyers who took part in the studio's screenings yesterday.

Veteran producer and media executive Erik Feig has launched Picturestart, focused on creating, co-financing and producing content for all platforms, with backing from Warner Bros. and Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), among others.

PREMIUM: "It exceeded all our expectations." That's how one of Europe's top program buyers, ProSiebenSat.1's Rüdiger Böss, described his reaction to the pilot for Young Sheldon, one among seven series that Warner Bros. screened on its lot Monday morning for foreign clients.

BURBANK: Machinima is set to become part of the recently founded Warner Bros. Digital Networks group following the studio's announcement that it's taking full ownership of the global programming service focused on fandom and gamer culture.

NEW YORK: Time Warner's Q4 revenues decreased 6 percent to $7.1 billion due to a decline at Warner Bros., partially offset by increases at HBO and Turner.