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This most recent round of layoffs affects 82 workers.

that Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering its writers’ and directors’ television workshops after 40 years. The workshops were often an avenue for emerging writers and directors from underrepresented backgrounds to break into the industry, with alumni includingdirector Jude Weng. Warner Bros.

For this kind of change to hit so close to home is incredibly difficult,” Channing Dungey, the Warner Bros. Television CEO, writes in an internal memo to employees obtained by. “But my hope is that these changes, made with an eye to a more focused business strategy, will strengthen and stabilize our company, maintain our great creative output, and better position us for continued future success.”, and the elimination of its workshops and Stage 13 only adds to that. Warner Bros.

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