Paramount winkingly announces exclusive TV rights to Harry Potter films

Of course, there’s a decent chance that Paramount will simply own the rights to Harry Potter outright should its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery close next month. The Harry Potter franchise has always been a Warner Bros. property and the films stream on HBO Max (and, for whatever wheeling and dealing reasons, Peacock), which will likely eventually be absorbed into the same app as Paramount+, though that will probably take a bit longer. There’s also the upcoming Harry Potter TV series that’s scheduled to premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Christmas Day. That series has been controversial since its announcement, given that it will fund author J.K. Rowling’s efforts to keep transgender people segregated from public life in the U.K., but that never stopped WB, and handing money to the political noxious certainly isn’t something that Paramount seems especially concerned with.