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Ankler Agenda — 258 episodes

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

2

The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies

3

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

4

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

5

The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Disney’s ‘Bachelorette’ Mess Gets Messier

10

27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?

11

Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic

12

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

13

Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered

14

Hollywood Is Back on Strike Watch

15

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

16

The Epstein Files Hit Hollywood

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

21

What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars

22

Hollywood’s New Gamble: Interactive TV Goes All In

23

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

24

YEAR-END HOLIDAY MAILBAG: Your Burning Questions, Answered

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

35

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

36

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

37

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

38

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

39

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

40

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

41

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

42

Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

43

The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

44

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

45

Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

46

Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

47

Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

48

The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

49

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

50

Love, Loss & Drama: Swift, Netflix, Paramount

51

How TV Became a 24/7 Sports Bar

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

Gen X Career Crisis & Colbert Collapse

56

The Epic Cable TV Swap Meet Begins

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

YouTube vs. Netflix: Rumble on the Riviera

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

Now Renting: 8 Million Sq Ft of Sadness

69

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

70

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

71

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

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

73

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

74

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

75

The Week Trump Terrified Hollywood

76

What Deals in 2025 Reveal So Far

77

How Webtoon Is Building an IP Gold Mine

78

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

79

AI, Hollywood and New Worlds of Storytelling

80

Reality Check: Inside Non-scripted TV with Top Execs

81

Netflix’s Push to Take TV’s Final 80%

82

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

83

CBS’ Secret Sauce to TV Procedurals

84

WWE to Webtoon: Hollywood's New World Order

85

Amazon Delivery: TV & Film Whiplash

86

Writers Hated Mini-Rooms. Now They Want Them Back

87

MrBeast & Beyond: Hollywood’s New Stars

88

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

89

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

90

The Lost Art of Hollywood Swagger

91

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

92

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

93

Hollywood’s New Mission Impossible: Greenlights

94

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

95

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

96

A Dire Sundance, Indie Peril & the Creator Incursion

97

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

98

The New Showbiz: Hollywood, Creators, & Brands

99

Hollywood’s New Trick to Screw Writers

100

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

101

‘An Intense Couple of Days’

102

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

103

Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!

104

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

105

Trends Giving Us Hope in 2025. Seriously

106

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

107

A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble

112

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

113

MSNBC’s $125 Million ‘Ratings Viagra’

114

The New Disney Magic

115

State of Film: ‘Roll With the Punches’

116

AI in Hollywood: More Intern Than God

117

Trump 2.0: Why Ari Wins, Studios Lose

118

Free. Popular. Unprofitable

119

Hollywood’s WFH Wars Worsen

120

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

121

CNN Stars Brace for Impact

122

Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down

123

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

124

The $10 Billion in AI Cash About to Rock Hollywood

125

A Hollywood ‘Depression’ the Strike Couldn’t Fix

126

Succession and the Cult of Iger

127

An HBO Earthquake Rocks Hollywood

128

TV Series are California Leavin’

129

Apple Now Thinks Different About Movies

130

Hollywood and the Kamala Blockbuster

131

Tubi Puts Hollywood on Edge

132

WBD Financial Panic: No Way Out

133

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

134

Inside Kamala Harris’ Hollywood

135

WBD Woes and an Uncertain Future

136

Paramount: New Boss, Same Problems

137

HBO, A24 and Prestige's Next Phase

138

Greenlight Like It’s 1985

139

Hot Seat: Ed Zwick’s Battles With the Stars

140

A TV Deal Flurry. For Some

141

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

142

Pray for Paramount. And the Movies

143

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

144

Scripted TV SOS!

145

WBD, Disney and the New Frenemy Era

146

TV Deal Turmoil 2024

147

How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

148

AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'

149

The Paramount Soap Opera

150

How Ari & Iger Outfoxed Wall St.

151

UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

152

Wall Street's War on Hollywood

153

Disney, WBD and Hollywood's Jobs Shift

154

Netflix's New Sports Playbook

155

Film Shakeup at Netflix and Disney

156

Warner Bros.' Wobbly Future

157

Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

158

Disney's Next Decade

159

Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

160

The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix

161

Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

162

Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

163

'It's Like California in the 1920s'

164

The Most Blunder-ful Time of the Year!

165

A Peek Under Netflix's Secretive Hood

166

What the Heck is 'Undeniable' TV?

167

What Movie Audiences Want for the Holidays

168

In Conversation: Judy Blume & Kelly Fremon Craig

169

72 Hours with Netflix in Vegas

170

Actors and Their Digital Replicas: Hollywood’s New Reality

171

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

172

Joy, Worry and 'Very Tired Tears'

173

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

174

Israel, Gaza and the Maha Brouhaha

175

Streaming's Next 'Tooth and Nail' Fight

176

'A Culture of Dystopia and Nihilism'

177

Hollywood Greenlights Get Harder

178

An Agency's Golden Handcuff Quandary

179

Five Days in September

180

A Town Holds its Breath

181

Lies, Whispers, Rumors: a Strike Struck

182

Inside the Era of Bob Iger 2.0

183

Nightmare Scenario of January 2024

184

The Ankler x Wakeup Summer Box Office Finale

185

Myth of the Hollywood Dream Job

186

How to Quit Hollywood

187

'My Year is Gone Career-Wise'

188

Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!

189

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

190

'It Will Surprise Us How Fast it Can Disappear'

191

WBD and the Struggle of Legacy Studios

192

Studios, Strikers and a Tense Game of Chicken

193

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

194

The Raw Deal Point Roiling Hollywood

195

Iger, Ire, Actors: Apocalypse Now

196

The Murky Definition of a Hit Show

197

Iger, Zaslav and the Hollywood CEO Crisis

198

Inside Bob Iger's Ticking Timeline

199

The Agency Titans Showdown

200

Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer

201

Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown

202

Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine

203

How Writers are Winning the Strike Narrative

204

Warning Signs from Week One of the Strike

205

On the Ground with the WGA Picketers

206

What Really Happened in Vegas

207

The Dark Underbelly of 'Love is Blind'

208

Netflix Earnings: What We Learned

209

Dr. Pimple Popper Meets Harry Potter

210

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

211

Hollywood's New Grey Ceiling

212

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

213

Tom Ryan: The Future of FASTs in Streaming

214

A Showdown Over Streaming Economics

215

Is it Worth Working in Hollywood Anymore?

216

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

217

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

218

Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA

219

Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up

220

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

221

Hollywood at War: Now and Then

222

Richard Rushfield's Star Prom Date

223

What's Eating Hollywood Execs?

224

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

225

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

226

What to Know About Netflix's New Co-CEO

227

Why it Worked: The 'Otto' Surprise

228

The Disney Drama Continues!

229

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

230

The NFL vs. Awards Shows

231

2022: The Best (But Mostly Worst) of Times

232

The DC Universe Soap Opera

233

The Talented Ms. Finch

234

Rearranging the Deck Chairs

235

The Week the Floor Fell Out — Again

236

The Last Movie Stars in Hollywood

237

Second Inning of Hollywood Hell

238

It's Not Just You. Things are Gloomy

239

Netflix: Where Quantity is Job 1

240

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

241

'The Writers Guild Wants a Time Machine'

242

Awards Shows' Last Stand

243

P.R. vs. Journos: the Toronto Chill

244

Emmys' Brutal Hangover

245

The Forgotten Audience

246

Streaming 2.0: Let's Make a Deal!

247

Mad at Zaz

248

Have We Reached Peak Anxiety?

249

Emmys Live TV Virtuoso Tells All

250

Disney Subscriber Victory? Not So Fast

251

'At What Point Do You Make a Profit?'

252

Will Peacock Exist in a Year?

253

Martini Shot: Agents are People Too

254

Streaming's New Bad Omen

255

Netflix Saved by 'Stranger Things'

256

EMMYS! 'Yellowjackets' > 'Yellowstone' 🏆

257

Pod: Married to the Bob

258

Pod: The King Is Dead?