{
  "id": 12298600,
  "title": "Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Skips David Ellison-Skydance News to Take on AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jon-stewarts-daily-show-skips-david-ellison-skydance-news-to-take-on",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T03:59:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jon-stewart-daily-show-skydance-david-ellison-ai-1236899825/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On Sunday night, John Oliver dedicated the majority of his Emmy-winning show “Last Week Tonight” to the Secret Service’s failings in recent years while declining to address the major media news of the week: David Ellison’s newly-formed Skydance Corp. swallowing up Warner Bros. Discovery — which controls Oliver’s network HBO — and merging it with […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}