WI: Time, Inc. buys Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

So, WI Time, Inc. buys Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. What would James Bond, etc. look like. And what would HBO look like with Time, Inc. owning MGM Television.
 
Would Time necessarily be inclined to interfere with things like the Bond franchise? Maybe if Henry R. Luce were still running the magazine(he died in 1967), he might lean on the studio to make the films more overtly anti-Communist(perhaps with a specific focus on "Red China" as the bad guys), rather than featuring apolitical villains like Auric Goldfinger.

Other than that, though, I think the new owners would just be happy with a series that broadly extolled western Cold War values, and was making money hand over fist.
 
July 1976. (Around the same time, if I remember American Magic correctly, that in that TL Donald Trump acquired MGM.)
 
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