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In line with mega-mergers that have come before, the impending marriage of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery will lead to a media company packed with assets. What differentiates this deal — which is now in the clear to move forward — from others is the sheer amount of brands and intellectual property in play.

David Ellison’s newly merged entity will house a mountain of content, given that Paramount (which was acquired last year by Skydance Media) and Warner Bros. (which was bought by Discovery) have already doubled up their respective lineups of TV shows, movies, streamers and networks. Ellison told employees Monday he expects the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to close in about two weeks following the settlement of the 12-state antitrust lawsuit that sought to block the deal.

The programming list alone is a monster to contend with, spanning Harry Potter (which is about to be revived with a new HBO series) and “Game of Thrones” at Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount’s “Yellowstone” universe and Nickelodeon empire. But then there are also the streaming services (HBO Max and Paramount+), linear networks (e.g., HGTV and CBS), news organizations (CNN and CBS News) and other entities, like video game studios, to account for.

See below for a list of combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery assets set to be owned by the merged company.

TOP IP & FRANCHISES

Paramount

Yellowstone

Mission: Impossible

Top Gun

Transformers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Dora the Explorer

Paw Patrol

South Park

Star Trek

The Godfather

SpongeBob Square Pants

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Warner Bros. Discovery

Harry Potter

The Lord of the Rings

The DC Universe

Game of Thrones

Dune (distribution rights)

Friends

Mortal Kombat

Looney Tunes

The Matrix

Tournament of Champions

Chopped

Home Town

House Hunters

90 Day Fiance

FILM & TV PRODUCTION STUDIOS

Paramount

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Television Studios (including MTV Entertainment Studios)

CBS Studios

Skydance Media

Paramount Animation

Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros. Television Studios

New Line Cinema

DC Studios

LINEAR TV NETWORKS

Paramount

CBS

Nickelodeon/Nick Jr.

MTV

VH1

CMT

Comedy Central

Showtime

Paramount Network

BET

TV Land

Warner Bros. Discovery

CNN

HBO

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim

TBS

TNT

truTV

Discovery Channel

HGTV

Food Network

TLC

Investigation Discovery (ID)

Magnolia Network (joint venture with Chip and Joanna Gaines)

OWN

Animal Planet

STREAMING SERVICES

Paramount

Paramount+

Pluto TV

Warner Bros. Discovery

HBO Max

Discovery+

NEWS

Paramount

CBS News

Warner Bros. Discovery

CNN

GAMING

Paramount

Paramount Games Studio (made up of combined Skydance New Media and Skydance Interactive)

Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Games

Warner Bros. Games Montreal

Avalanche

NetherRealm Studios

Rocksteady

TT Games

Pictured above (clockwise from top left): Food Network’s “Tournament of Champions”; Paramount+’s “Dutton Ranch”; HBO’s “Harry Potter”; Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants”

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