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Ankler Agenda — 287 episodes

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1

Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying

2

Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan

3

YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up

4

BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse

5

Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’

6

Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?

7

How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive

8

The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush

9

BONUS EP: California AG Rob Bonta on the Coming Paramount Trial: 'We're Not Talking Settlement'

10

BONUS EP: Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman

11

Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket

12

BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal

13

The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It

14

BONUS EP: Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight

15

Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle

16

The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer

17

BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU?

18

BONUS EP: What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk

19

The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

The New Podcast Wars: Streaming Now

25

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

26

Can L.A.’s Next Mayor Save Hollywood?

27

Spidey, Nolan, Spielberg — Hot Movie Summer Is Here

28

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

29

TV’s YouTube Era Wags the Upfronts’ Dog

30

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

31

The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies

32

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

33

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

34

The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Disney’s ‘Bachelorette’ Mess Gets Messier

39

27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?

40

Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic

41

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

42

Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered

43

Hollywood Is Back on Strike Watch

44

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

45

The Epstein Files Hit Hollywood

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

50

What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars

51

Hollywood’s New Gamble: Interactive TV Goes All In

52

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

53

YEAR-END HOLIDAY MAILBAG: Your Burning Questions, Answered

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

64

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

65

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

66

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

67

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

68

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

69

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

70

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

71

Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

72

The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

73

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

74

Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

75

Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

76

Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

77

The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

78

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

79

Love, Loss & Drama: Swift, Netflix, Paramount

80

How TV Became a 24/7 Sports Bar

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

Gen X Career Crisis & Colbert Collapse

85

The Epic Cable TV Swap Meet Begins

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

YouTube vs. Netflix: Rumble on the Riviera

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

Now Renting: 8 Million Sq Ft of Sadness

98

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

99

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

100

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

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

102

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

103

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

104

The Week Trump Terrified Hollywood

105

What Deals in 2025 Reveal So Far

106

How Webtoon Is Building an IP Gold Mine

107

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

108

AI, Hollywood and New Worlds of Storytelling

109

Reality Check: Inside Non-scripted TV with Top Execs

110

Netflix’s Push to Take TV’s Final 80%

111

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

112

CBS’ Secret Sauce to TV Procedurals

113

WWE to Webtoon: Hollywood's New World Order

114

Amazon Delivery: TV & Film Whiplash

115

Writers Hated Mini-Rooms. Now They Want Them Back

116

MrBeast & Beyond: Hollywood’s New Stars

117

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

118

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

119

The Lost Art of Hollywood Swagger

120

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

121

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

122

Hollywood’s New Mission Impossible: Greenlights

123

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

124

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

125

A Dire Sundance, Indie Peril & the Creator Incursion

126

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

127

The New Showbiz: Hollywood, Creators, & Brands

128

Hollywood’s New Trick to Screw Writers

129

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

130

‘An Intense Couple of Days’

131

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

132

Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!

133

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

134

Trends Giving Us Hope in 2025. Seriously

135

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

136

A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble

141

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

142

MSNBC’s $125 Million ‘Ratings Viagra’

143

The New Disney Magic

144

State of Film: ‘Roll With the Punches’

145

AI in Hollywood: More Intern Than God

146

Trump 2.0: Why Ari Wins, Studios Lose

147

Free. Popular. Unprofitable

148

Hollywood’s WFH Wars Worsen

149

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

150

CNN Stars Brace for Impact

151

Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down

152

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

153

The $10 Billion in AI Cash About to Rock Hollywood

154

A Hollywood ‘Depression’ the Strike Couldn’t Fix

155

Succession and the Cult of Iger

156

An HBO Earthquake Rocks Hollywood

157

TV Series are California Leavin’

158

Apple Now Thinks Different About Movies

159

Hollywood and the Kamala Blockbuster

160

Tubi Puts Hollywood on Edge

161

WBD Financial Panic: No Way Out

162

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

163

Inside Kamala Harris’ Hollywood

164

WBD Woes and an Uncertain Future

165

Paramount: New Boss, Same Problems

166

HBO, A24 and Prestige's Next Phase

167

Greenlight Like It’s 1985

168

Hot Seat: Ed Zwick’s Battles With the Stars

169

A TV Deal Flurry. For Some

170

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

171

Pray for Paramount. And the Movies

172

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

173

Scripted TV SOS!

174

WBD, Disney and the New Frenemy Era

175

TV Deal Turmoil 2024

176

How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

177

AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'

178

The Paramount Soap Opera

179

How Ari & Iger Outfoxed Wall St.

180

UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

181

Wall Street's War on Hollywood

182

Disney, WBD and Hollywood's Jobs Shift

183

Netflix's New Sports Playbook

184

Film Shakeup at Netflix and Disney

185

Warner Bros.' Wobbly Future

186

Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

187

Disney's Next Decade

188

Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

189

The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix

190

Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

191

Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

192

'It's Like California in the 1920s'

193

The Most Blunder-ful Time of the Year!

194

A Peek Under Netflix's Secretive Hood

195

What the Heck is 'Undeniable' TV?

196

What Movie Audiences Want for the Holidays

197

In Conversation: Judy Blume & Kelly Fremon Craig

198

72 Hours with Netflix in Vegas

199

Actors and Their Digital Replicas: Hollywood’s New Reality

200

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

201

Joy, Worry and 'Very Tired Tears'

202

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

203

Israel, Gaza and the Maha Brouhaha

204

Streaming's Next 'Tooth and Nail' Fight

205

'A Culture of Dystopia and Nihilism'

206

Hollywood Greenlights Get Harder

207

An Agency's Golden Handcuff Quandary

208

Five Days in September

209

A Town Holds its Breath

210

Lies, Whispers, Rumors: a Strike Struck

211

Inside the Era of Bob Iger 2.0

212

Nightmare Scenario of January 2024

213

The Ankler x Wakeup Summer Box Office Finale

214

Myth of the Hollywood Dream Job

215

How to Quit Hollywood

216

'My Year is Gone Career-Wise'

217

Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!

218

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

219

'It Will Surprise Us How Fast it Can Disappear'

220

WBD and the Struggle of Legacy Studios

221

Studios, Strikers and a Tense Game of Chicken

222

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

223

The Raw Deal Point Roiling Hollywood

224

Iger, Ire, Actors: Apocalypse Now

225

The Murky Definition of a Hit Show

226

Iger, Zaslav and the Hollywood CEO Crisis

227

Inside Bob Iger's Ticking Timeline

228

The Agency Titans Showdown

229

Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer

230

Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown

231

Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine

232

How Writers are Winning the Strike Narrative

233

Warning Signs from Week One of the Strike

234

On the Ground with the WGA Picketers

235

What Really Happened in Vegas

236

The Dark Underbelly of 'Love is Blind'

237

Netflix Earnings: What We Learned

238

Dr. Pimple Popper Meets Harry Potter

239

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

240

Hollywood's New Grey Ceiling

241

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

242

Tom Ryan: The Future of FASTs in Streaming

243

A Showdown Over Streaming Economics

244

Is it Worth Working in Hollywood Anymore?

245

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

246

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

247

Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA

248

Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up

249

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

250

Hollywood at War: Now and Then

251

Richard Rushfield's Star Prom Date

252

What's Eating Hollywood Execs?

253

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

254

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

255

What to Know About Netflix's New Co-CEO

256

Why it Worked: The 'Otto' Surprise

257

The Disney Drama Continues!

258

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

259

The NFL vs. Awards Shows

260

2022: The Best (But Mostly Worst) of Times

261

The DC Universe Soap Opera

262

The Talented Ms. Finch

263

Rearranging the Deck Chairs

264

The Week the Floor Fell Out — Again

265

The Last Movie Stars in Hollywood

266

Second Inning of Hollywood Hell

267

It's Not Just You. Things are Gloomy

268

Netflix: Where Quantity is Job 1

269

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

270

'The Writers Guild Wants a Time Machine'

271

Awards Shows' Last Stand

272

P.R. vs. Journos: the Toronto Chill

273

Emmys' Brutal Hangover

274

The Forgotten Audience

275

Streaming 2.0: Let's Make a Deal!

276

Mad at Zaz

277

Have We Reached Peak Anxiety?

278

Emmys Live TV Virtuoso Tells All

279

Disney Subscriber Victory? Not So Fast

280

'At What Point Do You Make a Profit?'

281

Will Peacock Exist in a Year?

282

Martini Shot: Agents are People Too

283

Streaming's New Bad Omen

284

Netflix Saved by 'Stranger Things'

285

EMMYS! 'Yellowjackets' > 'Yellowstone' 🏆

286

Pod: Married to the Bob

287

Pod: The King Is Dead?