Sadly, it appears we must cross a couple supposed bidders for Warner Bros. Discovery off the list. Eddy Cue, Apple’s top services executive, came on The Town this week and all but ruled out a splashy deal for the home of HBO Max and the Warner Bros. studio. “I never say no to anything, but we’re not actively looking at buying any company of any size,” Cue told me. That followed Netflix co-C.E.O. Greg Peters dumping icy water on the hot gossip suggesting he’s interested in Warners. Netflix is a builder not a buyer, Peters reminded last week’s Bloomberg gathering, where he said that there’s a “reasonable amount of skepticism around big media mergers. They don’t have an amazing track record over the history of time.” (He might as well have finished that line with “cough AOL–Time Warner cough AT&T–Time Warner cough Discovery–WarnerMedia cough cough.”)