Other creatives will only turn to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services as a result of this. It's time to start looking for a new home for this franchise, in my opinion, if I were the creators of The House of the Dragon. The strategy of David Zaslav is only deterring people. So, if you're not even going to store the content, what's the point of having a streaming service to store all of your content? If I were a showrunner, I would never want to collaborate in any way with Warner Bros. It is due to WB Discovery's $47 billion in debt. WBD's stock price has decreased by 50% since the company split from AT&T. Currently, the value of their debt exceeds the value of their stock market. WB might not be as healthy as we think, in my opinion. That debt alone must incur annual interest costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Additionally, it becomes more expensive and more difficult to borrow money as interest rates rise.