Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, where I’ve stopped checking in every few hours on the Paramount situation. I hope someone in the deal war room is taking notes for the eventual book that will be written on this chaotic sale process. In the meantime, tomorrow evening I’ll be on the Sony lot for a sit-down with the L.A. Copyright Society. Details here.

Programming note: I’m back on CNBC’s Squawk Box tomorrow at 7:20 a.m. Eastern talking Paramount and more. On The Town, Lucas Shaw and I broke down the Will Smith comeback and ranked the butts-in-seats stars of the ’90s, Michael Kassan offered a report card on the streamer ad tiers, and researcher Josh Lynn explained how data helps studios choose what to green-light. Subscribe here and here.

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Discussed in this issue: Tom Rothman, Ye, Shari Redstone, Chris Winfrey, Shane Salerno, Tom Cruise, John Oliver, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Linda Burrow, and… Bryan vs. Ari again.

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