“We’ll come to a deal with HBO, I’m 100 percent confident of that,” White said. “Ross is probably pretty happy now, but we’ll get a deal done with them. Believe me, we will. They want the deal, I want the deal – and when two sides want the deal, it gets done.

“There’s a lot of stuff to this and these things take time. Deals are never easy to get done. They take a lot longer than I’d like.“

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