Hours after David Zaslav announced Warner Bros. Discovery was spinning off its networks business, Chuck Lorre has tabled a bid.
The Big Bang Theory co-creator jokingly offered to buy the business, which includes networks such as CNN, HGTV and the old Turner networks, for $2,700.
“Now that that Warner Bros. is spinning off all those channels, Home and Garden and stuff, I can break the news here, I have assembled, in anticipation of this, a group of investors, and we’re prepared to buy all those channels, cash money for $2,700,” he joked. “I don’t want the $34B debt, but, yeah, but remodel my toilet, yes, absolutely.”
Joking aside, Lorre, who has been based at Warner Bros. TV since 1999, who has seen ownership groups including AOL, Time Warner and AT&T and now Discovery, said it was like “growing up and your mom keeps going out with different men”
“It’s confusing. It’s hard,” he joked. “The company has been really supportive of me. I would not have stayed all these years had they not been really supportive of me, and so has David. It’s been a good home for me to work all these years. I make fun of them, but that’s what I do.”
Lorre, who has also made series including Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, Mom, Young Sheldon, The Kominsky Method, Bob Hearts Abishola, Bookie and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, has produced around 1,500 episodes of television over three decades.
“Don’t settle, make it really good,” he said.
He also made a gag about jokes not landing when producing at the Warner Bros. lot. “When a joke dies, you can hear the 134 freeway,” he said.
Next up for Lorre is Leanne, a sitcom inspired by the stand-up of Leanne Morgan. The show, which Lorre made with Susan McMartin, is out in July.
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