Welcome back to What I’m Hearing. I’m home in L.A. after a great Puck event before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Nice Times coverage here, if you scroll past Bryan Lourd’s plaid suit.) Great meeting so many D.C. readers interested in Hollywood.

Another Puck event: If you’re in New York for the TV upfronts, I’m sitting down on May 14 with Charlie Collier, president of Roku Media, for “cocktails and conversation.” Click here if you’re interested in attending.

Programming note: I’ll be back on CNBC’s Squawk Box tomorrow at 8:40 p.m. ET discussing Paramount. On The Town, Tubi C.E.O. Anjali Sud explained its recent viewership surge, Bill Cohan and I debated which buyer is best for Paramount, and Aaron Sorkin revealed that he’s writing a movie connecting Facebook, misinformation, and January 6. Subscribe here and here.

Speaking of the Sorkin project…: Aaron isn’t providing any further details, but I did find out that Sony optioned the Facebook Files series of articles from The Wall Street Journal more than a year ago. The studio is looking to lock up a bunch of Facebook-related literary materials for a potential sequel to The Social Network, Sorkin’s Oscar-winning collaboration with David Fincher. Fingers crossed on that one.

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Correction: Before we start, I screwed up the numbers in Thursday’s item about Ari Emanuel’s compensation. It’s a combined $84 million for 2023 ($19 million at Endeavor, $65 million at TKO), not $149 million. Still a monstrous payday, but decidedly less so. Apologies.

Discussed in this issue: Shari Redstone, Jeff Shell, Bob Bakish, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Iger, Sydney Sweeney, Harvey Weinstein, Philippe Dauman, and… Randall Emmett’s fake name.

But first…