What's news: WarnerMedia undergoes a significant round of layoffs and restructuring ... ABC's shelved Black-ish episode makes its way to Hulu years later ... NBCU's Peacock streamer unveils new originals ... Disney removes the Fox name from its TV studios. — Erik Hayden

 WarnerMedia's Big Restructuring

New cuts: The media giant let go hundreds of staffers amid a pandemic that has crippled Hollywood with shelved tentpoles, Tatiana Siegel and Lesley Goldberg report.

+ Sources say the first wave of layoffs is expected to be around 600 staffers, with a heavy focus at Warner Bros. The company's Atlanta base, which features scores of staff in cable TV operations and marketing divisions, was especially impacted, sources say. Full story. 

+ TV studios consolidated. Warner Bros. Television and its subsidiary Warner Horizon Scripted TV will merge to form the newly created Warner Bros. TV Scripted Division. Layoffs are expected.

+ Warners' DC Comics hit by cuts. The majority of staff of the streaming service DC Universe has been laid off, as has editor-in-chief Bob Harras and multiple other executives on the publishing side. DC layoffs.

+ AT&T CFO weighs in. John Stephens remarked on the layoffs at an investor conference on Tuesday: "I view it more as a refocusing of the company." Quotes. 

Meanwhile...

— WGA West tells members "do not sign" COVID-19 liability waivers. In an email sent to members on Monday, the guild said unequivocally to not to sign these waivers, which exempt employers from liability for an employee contracting COVID-19 or incurring medical bills as a result of work they perform while employed by them. Details. 

 In THR, Esq: Demo reel clips ruled fair use in director's suit against actress. Director Robin Bain in 2018 sued actress Jessica Taylor Haid over her use of clips from Nowhereland on her acting reel. 

A busy TV news day...

► Fox removed from Disney's TV studios. After acquiring 20th Century Fox TV and Fox 21 TV Studios, Disney is changing the former to 20th Television, while the latter will become Touchstone Television. No restructure expected. 

► Peacock greenlights MacGruber series. NBCUniversal's streaming platform has given a series order to a comedy based on Will Forte's classic Saturday Night Live character. Forte will also write.

+ Sara Bareilles to star in Tina Fey's comedy. The Grammy winner will star in the Peacock show Girls5eva about a former one-hit wonder girl group that takes another shot at stardom.

+ Larry Wilmore to host late night show. The former Nightly Show host is set to lead a weekly show on Peacock, joining the Amber Ruffin Show to form a topical comedy block.

+ Saved by the Bell teaser released. The updated show features original stars Elizabeth Berkley Lauren and Mario Lopez alongside a new cast of students. The clip. 

► Disney+'s Rogue One prequel adds to cast. Adria Arjona, known for Netflix's 6 Underground and who has an upcoming role in Jared Leto's Morbius, will star opposite Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk. Details.

► CBS led primetime TV ratings on Sunday on the broadcast networks, with an assist from its coverage of golf's PGA Championship. Big Brother was the top entertainment program among adults 18-49.

*Tony Charmoli, R.I.P. The three-time Emmy-winning choreographer and Broadway veteran who directed Shirley MacLaine and Mitzi Gaynor in splashy TV specials during the 1970s has died. He was 99. Full obit. 

How the limited series Emmy went from "deathbed" to "marquee." Daniel Fienberg writes: Sorry, comedy and drama series — after a fresh rebranding over the past few years, the miniseries categories have become the most exciting and star-studded races.

Elsewhere in film... 

► Disney's Tron franchise is back on the grid. Garth Davis, the filmmaker known for the Oscar-nominated Lion, is attached to direct a sequel. Jared Leto has been attached to the long-gestating project since 2017.

► Disney+ plans Three Men and a Baby remake. Zac Efron is starring in the film and Gordon Gray, best known for The Rookie and The Way Back, is producing. A search for a director is underway. 

► Toronto film fest plans "open-air" screenings. TIFF co-heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente, having already signaled a hybrid offering of digital and in-person screenings for their September event, revealed plans to show the public around 50 programmed films at five locations in the city. 

► Venice film fest adds to lineup. Run Hide Fight, an action film from Kyle Rankin starring Isabel May and Thomas Jane, will have its world premiere out of competition in Venice, as will Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!, a documentary short from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. Details. 

► Outfest sets lineup for virtual events. Los Angeles' LGBTQ film festival is shifting to a virtual event this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a roster that includes more than 160 films including 35 world premieres. 

 Jurnee Smollett has signed with CAA. The actress, previously with ICM, will next been seen in Jordan Peele's period sci-fi series Lovecraft Country on HBO. Details.

 Shelved 'Black-ish' Episode Airs

Since it was pulled from ABC's schedule in the spring of 2018, the "Please, Baby, Please" episode of Black-ish has been notorious primarily for being notorious, Daniel Fienberg writes. He watched the episode, now on Hulu, and offers his take: 

+ "Given the nebulous nature of the whispering about "Please, Baby, Please," it probably isn't surprising that the actual episode is less a landmark piece of television and more a perfectly so-so and serviceable illustration of the Streisand Effect, by which attempt to censor something only results in generating more publicity around the thing." Critic's Notebook. 

What else we're reading...

— "Meet the woman who brought Michelle Obama to Spotify." Anne Steele writes: "Television veteran Dawn Ostroff has a big mandate and hundreds of millions to make Spotify dominant in podcasts." [Wall Street Journal]

— "Kodak shares plunge after U.S. pauses loan." Hannah Denham reports: "The photography pioneer was poised to use a $765 million government loan to revamp its factories for pharmaceutical production." [Washington Post]

— "The life span of streaming TV series is shrinking." Alison Herman writes: "The average show now lasts between three and four seasons, a development that’s changing television as a whole." [The Ringer]

— "What is MasterClass actually selling?" Carina Chocano writes: "The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different." [The Atlantic]

— "Can you hack the Jeopardy! buzzer?" Claire McNear notes: "Different schools of thought have emerged." [Vulture]

Today's birthdays: Chris Hemsworth, Merritt Wever, Chris Messina, Anna Gunn, Joe Rogan, Viola Davis, Ian McDiarmid.