Five years ago this week… Rumors were abounding on Wall Street that John Malone was looking to buy a TV channel or studio that could build around his shareholding in Lionsgate, which had just acquired Starz. There was speculation that Malone was only eyeing up the largest firms with AMC, CBS and Viacom all mentioned as potential suiters for a Lionsgate-led media rollup, but Faultline cautioned that Viacom would only be a suitable purchase following the storm of Sumner Redstone’s passing (he was still alive at the time of writing.) None of these acquisitions came to be, but the past five years has seen Malone sell hundreds of thousands of Class B shares in Lionsgate, valued in the tens of…