You could be excused, if you were following Vivendi lately, if you thought we had slipped back through a time warp and gone back to the swashbuckling days of Jean-Marie Messier, who took the company out of the water-supply market in the noughties into TV programming, pay TV, broadband and cellular. But the current leadership is merely reacting to a “series of unfortunate events” in its core businesses and is rebalancing the company with greater assets over a larger geographical region. Over the past few weeks’ French financial analysts are starting to see Vivendi as shifting from a conventional broadcaster towards becoming a new European Netflix, and perhaps going beyond that to include live OTT sports assets as well as…