Jane Fonda‘s Committee for the First Amendment released a political sketch Monday satirically imagining what NCS might look like if Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. goes by, calling it “Pete Hegseth’s dream.”
Actors Harry Hamlin, Natalie Morales, Khary Payton, Milana Vayntrub and Mary Elizabeth Ellis co-star with Fonda within the sketch. The video, which was shared on the committee’s Instagram web page, options Fonda as the one member of a broadcasting crew for a NCS-like community renamed “Paramount News” that doesn’t need to bow right down to her Trump-friendly company overlords’ new scripts.
Protests on the street are reframed as “parties,” whereas Payton’s weatherman cheerfully studies on international warming, remarking, “The globe is getting warmer, and who doesn’t love warm weather?” Vayntrub’s monetary reporter says merely that “the economy is great” as Fonda’s more and more frazzled information anchor exclaims, “This is insane! What has happened to this network?”
“This is wrong! I’m not gonna work at a company like this,” Fonda says, beginning a rant that’s interrupted by Ellis, who rolls her away and takes her seat, joking, “Angry women! So unattractive!” You can watch the total sketch your self beneath.
“Is this what the Trump Administration means when they say the sooner David Ellison owns NCS, the better?” the Committee for the First Amendment wrote within the sketch’s caption on Instagram. “Here’s the thing: The Paramount-WBD merger is NOT a done deal. More than 4,000 creatives and industry workers have signed on to oppose it, and State AGs are investigating and could sue to block it.”
“This is Pete Hegseth’s dream for NCS — and join us in saying: HELL NO,” the caption concludes.
The video’s posting comes as issues proceed to mount each inside and out of doors of Hollywood concerning the implications of the David Ellison-run Paramount purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery. Not solely have many voiced their unease with how Paramount would possibly impression NCS’s reporting, but in addition how the studio will deal with the Warner Bros. lot, movie and TV library and its different property.
Last week, over 2,000 leisure business figures signed an open letter denouncing the potential Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. As of this writing, the letter’s signatories embrace Pedro Pascal, Florence Pugh, Edward Norton, J.J. Abrams, David Fincher, Jason Bateman, Kristen Stewart, Emma Thompson, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle and Denis Villeneuve, amongst others.
“We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good,” the open letter states. “The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised. Competition is essential for a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. So is thoughtful regulation and enforcement.”
“This transaction would further consolidate an already concentrated media landscape,” the letter continues. “The result will be fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs, and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world.”
