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Ankler Agenda — 269 episodes

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The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine

2

BONUS EP: Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal & Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars

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BONUS EP: The Nithya Raman Interview: ‘Let’s Celebrate Making Things in L.A. Again’

4

Would You Rather: Spend $18B on Shows or $22B on Roku?

5

BONUS EP: Sean McNulty & Peter Kafka on Fox Buying Roku and What it All Means

6

The New Podcast Wars: Streaming Now

7

A24’s ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of YouTube Filmmakers

8

Can L.A.’s Next Mayor Save Hollywood?

9

Spidey, Nolan, Spielberg — Hot Movie Summer Is Here

10

BONUS EP: Markiplier, M3GAN and the Scary-Smart Business of Horror

11

TV’s YouTube Era Wags the Upfronts’ Dog

12

Disney's Super App Era Arrives. What Does It Mean?

13

The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies

14

L.A.’s Mayoral Race Becomes a Fight for Hollywood Jobs

15

BONUS EP: The TV Chiefs Who See Microdramas As the Future

16

The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas

17

The WGA’s Surprise Deal — SAG and DGA, You’re Up

18

No Jobs, No Ladder, No Relief — Except, For Some, a Cigarette

19

BONUS EP: ‘Silicon Valley’ Creators: Tech Bros ‘Don’t Give a Flying F--- About Humanity’

20

Disney’s ‘Bachelorette’ Mess Gets Messier

21

27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?

22

Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic

23

The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud

24

Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered

25

Hollywood Is Back on Strike Watch

26

BONUS EP: ‘Us Weekly’ to City Hall? Spencer Pratt Makes His Case to Janice Min

27

The Epstein Files Hit Hollywood

28

BONUS EP: Who Made ‘Heated Rivalry’ Possible? The Exec Who Greenlit the Hit Tells All

29

White Smoke Over Space Mountain: Disney Crowns Josh D’Amaro

30

BONUS EP: 'MeidasTouch' CEO Ben Meiselas on Building an Anti-Trump Pod Empire in the Age of 'Fascism'

31

Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

32

What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars

33

Hollywood’s New Gamble: Interactive TV Goes All In

34

Is Everyone Leaving L.A. (Or Is That Just Your Group Chat)?

35

YEAR-END HOLIDAY MAILBAG: Your Burning Questions, Answered

36

SUPER-SIZED HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Hollywood’s 2025 Winners & Losers

37

BONUS EP: 2025 Creator Economy Winners and Losers with Natalie Jarvey and Lia Haberman

38

He’s Just Not That Into You: How Zaslav and Ellison Fell Apart

39

BONUS EP: The Oscars Go to YouTube, with Prestige Junkie Katey Rich

40

BONUS EP: Remembering Rob Reiner, 'A Towering Career'

41

BONUS EP: Scoring Big: How Noah Beck and Jordan Chiles Built Fandom (and Careers) Off the Field

42

Tick, Tick: The 10-Day Siege of Warner Bros. Begins

43

BONUS EP: WGA Prez’ Dire Warning on Netflix-WB: ‘We Know How This Movie Ends’

44

BONUS EP: Netflix-WBD Panic & Chaos in a Hollywood ‘Looking for Some Answers’

45

Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

46

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

47

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

48

BONUS EP: ‘The Rushfield Lunch’ with Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy on Making Box Office History in the Face of ‘Surreal’ Criticism

49

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

50

Bari Weiss, MS Now & the Sad Battle for the Last TV News Viewer (Age: 70)

51

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

52

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

53

Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

54

The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

55

10 Showrunners Shaping TV — Right as GPT-5 Rewrites Everything

56

Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

57

Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

58

Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

59

The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

60

Summer Duds, Fest Buzz: What the Hell is Happening to Movies

61

Love, Loss & Drama: Swift, Netflix, Paramount

62

How TV Became a 24/7 Sports Bar

63

‘And Just Like That’... Streamers Want Rom-Coms, Agents Want Creators

64

Apple's ‘F1’ Brand Slam & Disney+’s Streaming Shakeups

65

WBD Divorce, Netflix 'KPop' Frenzy: Film’s Split Screen Summer

66

Gen X Career Crisis & Colbert Collapse

67

The Epic Cable TV Swap Meet Begins

68

Meet the 'New Paramount': Cindy, Crumbling Cable & Chaos

69

Druckmann Ditches HBO: ‘The Last of Us’ Faces a Creative Apocalypse

70

Now It’s Spotify vs. YouTube — Plus Personal Struggles Post-L.A. Fire

71

'Broadcast Is Dead’ Isn’t a Hot Take—It’s Josh Richards’ Business Plan

72

YouTube vs. Netflix: Rumble on the Riviera

73

TV Tales: How ‘The Traitors’ Broke Through & Upended Reality

74

Creator Coup: CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube Beating Netflix Without Buying a Single Show

75

Swipe, Pay, Cry: A $5 Billion Boom in 60-Second Soaps

76

TV Tales: 'Penis, Penis, Penis, Me' — Comedy Legend Nell Scovell Tells All

77

TV’s Top Directors: ‘Good American Family,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘Zero Day’ & ‘The Pitt’

78

TV’s Top Directors: ‘High Potential,’ ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ & ‘Hacks’

79

Now Renting: 8 Million Sq Ft of Sadness

80

The 'American Idol' Pastor Who Helped Katharine McPhee and More Stars Shine

81

Mubi vs. Marvel: A New High-Stakes Film Era

82

Bruce Vilanch and the Wild World of 1970s Variety TV Spectaculars

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Netflix, Disney+ & YouTube: The Fight to Babysit Your Kids

84

TV Tales: 'Big Mouth' Creators Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg Tell (Almost) All

85

Upfronts: Less Glitz, Higher Stakes & a Fierce Fight to Win

86

The Week Trump Terrified Hollywood

87

What Deals in 2025 Reveal So Far

88

How Webtoon Is Building an IP Gold Mine

89

Hollywood Jobs 2025: Good, Bad & Who’s Hiring

90

AI, Hollywood and New Worlds of Storytelling

91

Reality Check: Inside Non-scripted TV with Top Execs

92

Netflix’s Push to Take TV’s Final 80%

93

WWE's Prez and Triple H on Global Growth, the Netflix Deal & Bad Bunny

94

CBS’ Secret Sauce to TV Procedurals

95

WWE to Webtoon: Hollywood's New World Order

96

Amazon Delivery: TV & Film Whiplash

97

Writers Hated Mini-Rooms. Now They Want Them Back

98

MrBeast & Beyond: Hollywood’s New Stars

99

Big IP’s Midlife Crisis: Marvel, DC, Bond

100

Tina Brown & Janice Min Talk Meghan Markle, Demi Moore, DOGE

101

The Lost Art of Hollywood Swagger

102

Broadcast TV Surge; WBD’s Sports Pause; Paramount Stalled

103

Michael Wolff on Trump's Coming 'Self-Destruction': 'He Will Pay the Price'

104

Hollywood’s New Mission Impossible: Greenlights

105

Hollywood’s DEI Cave-in; Post-Fires Leave L.A. Debate

106

Inside #StayinLA; Two Minutes with Bob Iger; SpinCo Woe

107

A Dire Sundance, Indie Peril & the Creator Incursion

108

'Creators Should Be in Charge': Sean Evans, Rhett & Link

109

The New Showbiz: Hollywood, Creators, & Brands

110

Hollywood’s New Trick to Screw Writers

111

L.A. Production Spiral. Trump to the Rescue?

112

‘An Intense Couple of Days’

113

Tales From the ’90s: How New Line Dominated the Decade

114

Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!

115

Tales From the ’90s: Ain’t It Cool News’ ‘Titanic’ Impact on Hollywood

116

Trends Giving Us Hope in 2025. Seriously

117

Tales From the ’90s: Ron Meyer’s 'Miracle' Hollywood Career

118

A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire

119

Tales From the ’90s: Before ‘Wicked,’ Winnie Holzman’s ‘My So-Called Life’ Changed TV

120

Joe Rogan Helped Trump Win. Now He’s Conquered Comedy

121

Tales From the ’90s: ‘Last Action Hero’ Screenwriters Tell All

122

HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble

123

AI Stole My Scripts: Rage as Big Tech Takes Without Asking

124

MSNBC’s $125 Million ‘Ratings Viagra’

125

The New Disney Magic

126

State of Film: ‘Roll With the Punches’

127

AI in Hollywood: More Intern Than God

128

Trump 2.0: Why Ari Wins, Studios Lose

129

Free. Popular. Unprofitable

130

Hollywood’s WFH Wars Worsen

131

Hot Seat: Tina Brown on Trump, Harris, Meghan Markle & Menendez Brothers

132

CNN Stars Brace for Impact

133

Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down

134

Hot Seat: Shane Smith is Ready to Talk Media. Again

135

The $10 Billion in AI Cash About to Rock Hollywood

136

A Hollywood ‘Depression’ the Strike Couldn’t Fix

137

Succession and the Cult of Iger

138

An HBO Earthquake Rocks Hollywood

139

TV Series are California Leavin’

140

Apple Now Thinks Different About Movies

141

Hollywood and the Kamala Blockbuster

142

Tubi Puts Hollywood on Edge

143

WBD Financial Panic: No Way Out

144

Linear TV's Summer of Pain (If You're Not the Olympics)

145

Inside Kamala Harris’ Hollywood

146

WBD Woes and an Uncertain Future

147

Paramount: New Boss, Same Problems

148

HBO, A24 and Prestige's Next Phase

149

Greenlight Like It’s 1985

150

Hot Seat: Ed Zwick’s Battles With the Stars

151

A TV Deal Flurry. For Some

152

'My Career Feels Like it's On Life Support'

153

Pray for Paramount. And the Movies

154

Cannes vs. Box Office: Film's Troubling Split Personality

155

Scripted TV SOS!

156

WBD, Disney and the New Frenemy Era

157

TV Deal Turmoil 2024

158

How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

159

AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'

160

The Paramount Soap Opera

161

How Ari & Iger Outfoxed Wall St.

162

UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

163

Wall Street's War on Hollywood

164

Disney, WBD and Hollywood's Jobs Shift

165

Netflix's New Sports Playbook

166

Film Shakeup at Netflix and Disney

167

Warner Bros.' Wobbly Future

168

Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

169

Disney's Next Decade

170

Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

171

The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix

172

Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

173

Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

174

'It's Like California in the 1920s'

175

The Most Blunder-ful Time of the Year!

176

A Peek Under Netflix's Secretive Hood

177

What the Heck is 'Undeniable' TV?

178

What Movie Audiences Want for the Holidays

179

In Conversation: Judy Blume & Kelly Fremon Craig

180

72 Hours with Netflix in Vegas

181

Actors and Their Digital Replicas: Hollywood’s New Reality

182

Fran Drescher Q&A: How AI Brought Hollywood CEOs to the Brink

183

Joy, Worry and 'Very Tired Tears'

184

Alex Cooper and the Bold Future of ‘Call Her Daddy’

185

Israel, Gaza and the Maha Brouhaha

186

Streaming's Next 'Tooth and Nail' Fight

187

'A Culture of Dystopia and Nihilism'

188

Hollywood Greenlights Get Harder

189

An Agency's Golden Handcuff Quandary

190

Five Days in September

191

A Town Holds its Breath

192

Lies, Whispers, Rumors: a Strike Struck

193

Inside the Era of Bob Iger 2.0

194

Nightmare Scenario of January 2024

195

The Ankler x Wakeup Summer Box Office Finale

196

Myth of the Hollywood Dream Job

197

How to Quit Hollywood

198

'My Year is Gone Career-Wise'

199

Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!

200

Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood 'Red Flags', 'Doom Loop' & the Future of M&A

201

'It Will Surprise Us How Fast it Can Disappear'

202

WBD and the Struggle of Legacy Studios

203

Studios, Strikers and a Tense Game of Chicken

204

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: 'It Takes Two to Tango...the Companies Aren't Stepping Up'

205

The Raw Deal Point Roiling Hollywood

206

Iger, Ire, Actors: Apocalypse Now

207

The Murky Definition of a Hit Show

208

Iger, Zaslav and the Hollywood CEO Crisis

209

Inside Bob Iger's Ticking Timeline

210

The Agency Titans Showdown

211

Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer

212

Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown

213

Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine

214

How Writers are Winning the Strike Narrative

215

Warning Signs from Week One of the Strike

216

On the Ground with the WGA Picketers

217

What Really Happened in Vegas

218

The Dark Underbelly of 'Love is Blind'

219

Netflix Earnings: What We Learned

220

Dr. Pimple Popper Meets Harry Potter

221

Drop the ‘HBO.’ Just ‘Max.’ It’s Cleaner (Wait - Is It?)

222

Hollywood's New Grey Ceiling

223

Strikes, Firings and the (Possible) Mother of All Mergers

224

Tom Ryan: The Future of FASTs in Streaming

225

A Showdown Over Streaming Economics

226

Is it Worth Working in Hollywood Anymore?

227

Rich Paul: 'Don't Get Comfortable Having a Lot of Money'

228

'It Was a Great Show': Bruce Vilanch Unpacks the Oscars

229

Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA

230

Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up

231

Tony Vinciquerra: Will Smith, the 'Woman King' Snub & Spider-Man's Future

232

Hollywood at War: Now and Then

233

Richard Rushfield's Star Prom Date

234

What's Eating Hollywood Execs?

235

How Hollywood AI Will Make 'Every Creative Job Look Different'

236

Actors' New Job Anxiety: 'Everyone's Afraid'

237

What to Know About Netflix's New Co-CEO

238

Why it Worked: The 'Otto' Surprise

239

The Disney Drama Continues!

240

Why it Worked: Jason Blum and James Wan on 'M3GAN'

241

The NFL vs. Awards Shows

242

2022: The Best (But Mostly Worst) of Times

243

The DC Universe Soap Opera

244

The Talented Ms. Finch

245

Rearranging the Deck Chairs

246

The Week the Floor Fell Out — Again

247

The Last Movie Stars in Hollywood

248

Second Inning of Hollywood Hell

249

It's Not Just You. Things are Gloomy

250

Netflix: Where Quantity is Job 1

251

Netflix is Growing. Just Not in the U.S.

252

'The Writers Guild Wants a Time Machine'

253

Awards Shows' Last Stand

254

P.R. vs. Journos: the Toronto Chill

255

Emmys' Brutal Hangover

256

The Forgotten Audience

257

Streaming 2.0: Let's Make a Deal!

258

Mad at Zaz

259

Have We Reached Peak Anxiety?

260

Emmys Live TV Virtuoso Tells All

261

Disney Subscriber Victory? Not So Fast

262

'At What Point Do You Make a Profit?'

263

Will Peacock Exist in a Year?

264

Martini Shot: Agents are People Too

265

Streaming's New Bad Omen

266

Netflix Saved by 'Stranger Things'

267

EMMYS! 'Yellowjackets' > 'Yellowstone' 🏆

268

Pod: Married to the Bob

269

Pod: The King Is Dead?