HBO fires 70-ish staff

Grim news for HBO staff, but not so much for HBO fans.

The headline today is that HBO has fired 70 staff.  But this isn't part of a broad shrinking of HBO - these aren't staff from the areas of HBO that you usually think about when you think HBO. These are the back room creatives and associated professionals who were (largely) hired in 2020 with the formation of HBO Max who were working in the unscripted an…