By Dawn Chmielewski, Aditya Soni and Jaspreet Singh LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Warner Bros Discovery said it would split into two publicly traded companies, separating its studios and streaming business from its fading cable television networks as the parent of HBO and CNN looks to compete better in the streaming era.

Hours after David Zaslav announced Warner Bros. Discovery was spinning off its networks business, Chuck Lorre has tabled a bid. The Big Bang Theory co-creator jokingly offered to buy the business, which includes networks such as CNN,

Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two separate publicly traded companies – one oriented around the HBO Max streaming service and Warner Bros. studio, and the other around CNN and other television networks.