Project Paramount - Prologue: Fixing The Mountain

PREFACE:

Let me start off by saying I am not and will likely never become an employee of Paramount Skydance. I have no inside information nor privy to anything that is happening within Paramount Skydance or any of the Paramount-owned brands themselves. 

This is an original fan-made concept that will likely go nowhere beyond this presentation. My brain works differently than most folks, and when an idea pops up, I have to execute it completely. And if you're an individual coming from Paramount Skydance or any of its ancillary divisions, hey, thanks for checking these ideas out. We'll talk. -jh 

Have you ever wanted to just utterly destroy something out of spite only to have the opportunity to rebuild it from the ground up?  

Don’t do that. 

That’s no way to live, my friends, because you should never get that opportunity. 

Still, it could be a bit cathartic to get it out of the way. 

I am not a fan of Paramount Skydance.

I have been utterly livid at the new ownership of Paramount Global, Skydance Entertainment, particularly its “owner,” David Ellison. 

I feel that that the company has done everything to turn CBS into a partisan outlet that got rid of all diverse voices, progressive reporters, and anyone who dares to talk honestly about the current administration, whether its news reporters presenting well-researched stories to comedic voices who are more honest than many political pundits and willing show the truth when others wouldn’t all while handing one of the most venerated and respected news organizations to a fascist-leaning hack leading a team of inexperienced writers with no real newsroom experience. 

And that’s pretty much all Skydance has done with Paramount since they became owners of the company. They spent much of the year trying to pursue Warner Bros Discovery with the help of daddy’s money, money from friends of his daddy, and with the pull from the administration and their political allies. At the time of this writing (January 2026), Warner Bros has still rejected every offer, and there have been dozens of them, and the pursuit has been on ever since.

Meanwhile, the rest of Paramount has been an utter mess. Thousands of workers have been fired, units are shuttering because the new owners see a lot of overlapping divisions, film productions have been either halted or shifted to streaming instead of theatrical releases, and nothing’s really going on. It’s been about half a year, and Skydance really hasn’t shown any kind of commitment to the media company they actually own.

Fan of the site Chandler Ritter-Roberts publicly threw out the gauntlet and dare me to take on this company:

"You showed your plan for my last challenge, Jeff. You've talked about the Mountain in different forms. I'm throwing that gauntlet and it's appropriate to do so."

So, I took on this challenge to do the work that Skydance wouldn’t.  

I’m rebuilding Paramount because Skydance won’t do it. 

I kind of started it when I did Project MTV back in September, which was a complete overhaul of MTV from the ground up, so if you haven't read that, do yourself a favor and read over that plan. 

What I’m doing here with Paramount as a whole isn’t going to as extreme as that project. 

I’m just focusing on some bullet points across some units that would work if Skydance took the time, patience, and money to put in the work. 

I don’t have as much veneration for Paramount as I do for Warner Bros, but unlike the current owners, I do respect the legacy of what it has brought to its audiences for almost 120 years, and I want to see it regain the credibility and respect it has lost in recent decades of near irrelevance. Yes, I know CBS is the #1 network in the US, but Paramount as a whole is a mess. 

It’s time for someone to straighten out what’s not really working there. And the first step into anything is to understand exactly what you have access to. 

Wish me luck.