Skydance has unveiled the leadership structure for the company formed by the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, and the defining feature of the new CEO Business Leadership Team is shared authority. Every division will be overseen by a pair of executives, and each pair draws from the same side of the merged company, a design that appears intended to balance the two legacy organizations.
The arrangement places George Cheeks in an expanded content role, marking his evolution from a business-focused executive into a chief content officer. JB Perrette, meanwhile, takes on a portfolio that bundles linear and streaming operations, a combination that reflects the industry's ongoing consolidation of traditional television and direct-to-consumer platforms.
Under the structure, Casey Bloys and JB Perrette share oversight of the direct-to-consumer division, while James Gunn and Peter Safran lead DC. Both pairs come from the Warner Bros. Discovery side of the merged company. On the Paramount side, Cheeks is among the executives taking on broader responsibilities as the company integrates its television and content operations.
The pairing model extends beyond content. Skydance has consolidated its publishing and consumer-products teams into a single group, Skydance Products & Publishing, led by Josh Silverman. Silverman, who joined Paramount Skydance in 2025 as president of global products and experiences, now serves as president of global products and publishing. DC Comics now sits within that division alongside the Warner Bros. and Paramount consumer products groups, placing the comic publisher under the same umbrella as the merged company's merchandise and licensing operations.
The leadership announcements come as Skydance moves to stabilize key talent across the newly combined company. Channing Dungey has extended her deal to remain head of Warner Bros. TV Group and U.S. Networks, sealing a revised employment agreement with the new parent company. Terms and length of the contract were not disclosed, but the expanded role reflects the new corporate structure.
For an entertainment industry still absorbing the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery combination, the paired oversight model represents an unusual approach to post-merger management. Rather than appointing single division heads, Skydance is requiring executives from each legacy company to share responsibility, a structure that could smooth integration but also create overlapping mandates.
The direct-to-consumer pairing of Bloys and Perrette is particularly notable given the pressures on streaming economics. Bundling linear and streaming responsibilities under one executive signals that Skydance intends to treat the two as a single business rather than separate operations, a strategy increasingly common as media companies seek to offset declining cable revenue with subscription growth.
Cheeks' shift into a chief content officer role underscores how the merger is reshaping executive careers. Once seen primarily as a business-side operator, he now holds a central creative mandate at a company whose portfolio spans broadcast, cable, streaming, film, and publishing. The move places him among the most influential figures in the new Skydance, even as the paired structure distributes authority across multiple leaders.
With DC Comics folded into the products and publishing group and Dungey locked in at Warner Bros. TV, Skydance is assembling a leadership map that touches nearly every corner of the entertainment business. The company has not announced further details on how the shared oversight will function day to day, leaving open questions about decision-making and accountability inside the newly merged operation.