Comcast’s Sky Sues Warner Bros. Discovery for Denying Partnership on ‘Harry Potter’ Series

Comcast’s Sky is suing Warner Bros. Discovery for “multiple material breaches” of a 2019 deal around the co-funding and co-production of exclusive premium TV shows.

The suit, which was filed Friday in New York federal court, argues that WBD was obligated to present Sky with at least four shows per year in 2021, 2022, 2023, but that the company “fell far short of that mark, in certain years offering barely a single qualifying series while also withholding critical, contractually required information necessary for Sky to evaluate any potential options that it did receive.”

“If all that were not enough, Warner has now even brazenly denied Sky its right to partner on Warner’s highly valuable decade-long, tentpole television series adapting J.K. Rowling’s iconic Harry Potter novels, set to premiere in 2026 or 2027,” the lawsuit adds. “Instead, Warner has largely disregarded the parties’ agreement and sought to keep the Harry Potter content for itself so that Warner can use it as the cornerstone of the launch of its Max streaming service in Europe.”

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