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"Ankler Agenda" breaks down the headlines, trends and creativity shaping the evolution of Hollywood, the creator economy and entertainment.
The show is hosted by Elaine Low, author of Ankler Media’s popular “Series Business” Substack newsletter, who is joined weekly by her colleagues Sean McNulty (“The Wakeup”) and Natalie Jarvey (“Like & Subscribe”) -- in addition to Richard Rushfield, the Ankler himself. Episodes will also be available every Thursday on YouTube.
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- Disney’s Endless Layoffs: What’s D’Amaro’s Plan? · 31 dkLast month, when asked about Disney’s seemingly endless rounds of layoffs, Dana Walden called it an “exaggeration” to suggest the company was cutting jobs every six months…
- Who Can Save Netflix Films? Richard Rushfield Has Two Names · 30 dkHow do you solve a problem like Netflix Film, and who is best positioned to figure it out? “As currently constructed, it’s an impossible job,” Richard Rushfield tells Elaine Low…
- Netflix Hits Every Panic Button. Now What? · 35 dkTo hear Ted Sarandos tell it, things are going great at Netflix. “Our business and our business flywheel are working,” the co-CEO said on this week’s earnings call — a week…
- Steve Hilton on Hollywood’s Future: ‘We Cannot Let It Collapse’ · 54 dkSteve Hilton has been talking with David Ellison, Ted Sarandos and Trump Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight about how to bring production back to California. And the Republican…
- David Ellison’s Promise to Outspend Netflix and Disney · 31 dkDavid Ellison has an ambitious pitch for Hollywood: Skydance will spend more on content than Netflix or Disney, crank out roughly 190 series and 30 movies a year, find at least…
- Kreiz In, Bloys Wins: Paramount’s Head-Spinning New Order · 31 dkThe new Paramount is taking shape fast. On the eve of the Warner Bros. deal concluding, David Ellison is bringing in fresh blood — and bloodletting. Former Mattel chief Ynon…
- Mike Schur: Paramount-WBD Is a ‘Nightmare Scenario’ · 38 dkMike Schur calls Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. a “nightmare scenario” for Hollywood — and now that David Ellison has cleared the biggest obstacle to getting the deal…
- Emergency Pod! Paramount-WBD Chaos: The Settlement, the Layoffs, the Superstreamer · 41 dkSo after months of big talk about only settling for structural remedies, i.e., selling off assets, what did California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the 11 other state AGs suing…
- 1,000 Sony Hacks at Once? Hollywood’s AI Doomsday · 37 dkA dire warning from Anthropic and OpenAI that increasingly autonomous AI agents could launch cyberattacks – or worse – has an especially chilling implication for Hollywood, where…
- Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying · 37 dkInside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the…
- Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan · 34 dkIt wasn’t long ago when studios took the biggest jewels of their fall slates — the Gravitys and Jokers and First Mans — to the Venice Film Festival to kick off awards season and…
- YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up · 32 dkHollywood’s newest talent war isn’t over movie stars. For years, YouTube was treated as a “farm league,” in Ted Sarandos‘ words — a place where talent dreamt of graduating to…
- BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse · 13 dkSo much for détente. California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned meeting with Paramount after accusing the company of leaking — and misrepresenting —…
- Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’ · 34 dkHayden Panettiere worked in Hollywood since she was 11 months old, and by the time Heroes made her a household name at 16, she was already navigating the darker side of child…
- Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It? · 34 dk“Everyone has dry powder for sports,” Ashley Cullins heard while reporting her recent look at the private equity firms circling Hollywood. It’s a truism Bob Iger and Josh…
- How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive · 37 dkIt’s been a while since Hollywood has seen a power couple quite like Zendaya and Tom Holland. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, the newlyweds helped drive more than…
- The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush · 33 dkWhat a difference a month makes. With Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery now in limbo, 35,000 Warners staffers have plenty of time to reconsider their options. Could…
- BONUS EP: California AG Rob Bonta on the Coming Paramount Trial: 'We're Not Talking Settlement' · 14 dkWhat could Paramount Skydance do to make a dozen attorneys general drop their lawsuit against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger? Sell off CNN? Paramount Pictures? According to…
- BONUS EP: Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman · 45 dkDavid Ellison may be calling Paramount’s agreement to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition a “significant win.” Wall Street appears less convinced…
- Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket · 28 dkWho’s buying Letterboxd? The social media platform, prized for its Gen Z audience and movie fan bona fides, is on the market for a rumored $250 million — with multiple studios…
- BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal · 36 dkStates, 1. Paramount, 0. The $111 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger has hit its first real wall after a coalition of 12 states won a temporary restraining order…
- The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It · 33 dkIt’s a bad week for David Ellison, with Paramount Skydance facing two concurrent lawsuits seeking to block its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — plus a…
- BONUS EP: Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight · 41 dkWelcome to Netflix’s hard pivot. Faced with lagging engagement from its users and signs of audience disinterest in some of its top shows between seasons, Netflix’s next big…
- Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle · 34 dkMonoculture may not be dead after all — it just needed Taylor Swift in a wedding dress and Christopher Nolan in IMAX. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey break down an…
- The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer · 33 dkBooks run on word-of-mouth. So what are the people who shape what gets made, watched, read and bought reading? Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty dig into The Ankler’s…
- BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU? · 35 dkAnother Monday, another huge deal in Hollywood. Two weeks ago, Fox Corp. announced its intentions to acquire Roku for $22 billion. Now, it’s Comcast’s turn — in reverse. Today…
- BONUS EP: What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk · 37 dkOprah flew in to close deals, FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade came to talk up his investment in creator-led programming and even the Teletubbies arrived, ready to party. Last…
- The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine · 31 dkLeave it to the U.S. sports-TV machine to turn three-minute hydration breaks at the FIFA World Cup — a new feature to prevent players from collapsing in the heat — into a…
- BONUS EP: Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal & Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars · 32 dkAt Cannes Lions, the exec tells Ankler CEO Janice Min how the hardware behemoth became a streaming empire — 'We really do have almost Super Bowl-size audiences every day' — and…
- BONUS EP: The Nithya Raman Interview: ‘Let’s Celebrate Making Things in L.A. Again’ · 28 dkLos Angeles mayoral candidate and Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman is acutely aware of what’s at stake as local Hollywood production craters — 42,000 jobs lost over…
- Would You Rather: Spend $18B on Shows or $22B on Roku? · 27 dkWould you rather spend $18 billion a year on content like Netflix does, or $22 billion once to buy the remote? That’s the bet Fox Corp. is making with its blockbuster acquisition…
- BONUS EP: Sean McNulty & Peter Kafka on Fox Buying Roku and What it All Means · 31 dkNothing like a $22 billion deal to start a week, as Fox was revealed as the mystery buyer for the Roku business — furthering Lachlan Murdoch’s company’s diversification from…
- The New Podcast Wars: Streaming Now · 31 dkIt’s a deal that would have been unimaginable a decade ago — maybe even two years ago. But last month, motivational speaker and On Purpose host Jay Shetty signed a reported $100…
- A24’s ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of YouTube Filmmakers · 33 dk“I would not be feeling good right now if I was sitting in my corner office over at Disney after this weekend,” one source tells Like & Subscribe’s Natalie Jarvey about the box…
- Can L.A.’s Next Mayor Save Hollywood? · 33 dkAngelenos are on the clock. The Los Angeles mayoral election is set for June 2, and even those who don’t live in SoCal should pay close attention to the outcome. Hollywood is…
- Spidey, Nolan, Spielberg — Hot Movie Summer Is Here · 30 dkThe summer box office is already popping, with The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Michael raking in millions before Memorial Day — and with new movies coming from Christopher Nolan…
- BONUS EP: Markiplier, M3GAN and the Scary-Smart Business of Horror · 42 dkPeople still want to be scared out of their minds together, and Atomic Monster president Michael Clear, M3GAN writer Akela Cooper and YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Mark Fischbach…
- TV’s YouTube Era Wags the Upfronts’ Dog · 37 dkIt’s the end of Upfronts week, better known as Hollywood’s annual pilgrimage to woo Madison Ave. Formerly about broadcast TV schedules, Upfronts has become a showcase for a much…
- Disney's Super App Era Arrives. What Does It Mean? · 30 dkQuarterly earnings season isn’t just MBA word salad. Earnings calls are where Hollywood’s biggest companies tell Wall Street what matters most — and where employees often learn…
- The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies · 31 dkThe agency formerly known as Wasserman — made infamous in recent months by founder Casey Wasserman’s flirtatious emails with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell — is up…
- L.A.’s Mayoral Race Becomes a Fight for Hollywood Jobs · 33 dkThe entertainment industry’s economic and existential tailspin is playing out on the political stage, as Los Angeles’ mayoral candidates curry favor with the Hollywood set before…
- BONUS EP: The TV Chiefs Who See Microdramas As the Future · 51 dkEveryone talks about taking big swings again, but few Hollywood execs feel like they’re actually in a position to do it — without fearing for their jobs. But former Showtime head…
- The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas · 34 dkDuring Warner Bros.’ supersized CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, the studio’s sale to Paramount went unmentioned — even as it touted a theatrical slate stretching into 2028…
- The WGA’s Surprise Deal — SAG and DGA, You’re Up · 32 dkThe tentative deal between the Writers Guild and Hollywood’s major studios has quelled fears of another strike — all while shaking up the major guilds’ contract cycle. Elaine…
- No Jobs, No Ladder, No Relief — Except, For Some, a Cigarette · 31 dkSean Penn, puffing away inside the Beverly Hilton at the Golden Globes. Kylie Jenner, with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth, on the cover of Vanity Fair. Nurse Dana, taking…
- BONUS EP: ‘Silicon Valley’ Creators: Tech Bros ‘Don’t Give a Flying F--- About Humanity’ · 45 dkSilicon Valley was supposed to be satire. In 2026, it plays more like a warning. In a look back on the iconic 2010s HBO comedy, co-creator Mike Judge and exec producer Alec Berg…
- Disney’s ‘Bachelorette’ Mess Gets Messier · 34 dkCasting Taylor Frankie Paul on The Bachelorette was supposed to revive the wilting franchise. Instead, a 2023 video of Paul attacking her ex-boyfriend triggered the meltdown of…
- 27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors? · 41 dkHere’s the irony: Even in the age of streaming, about 85 percent of profits from a merged Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery still would come from linear TV, as Sean…
- Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic · 32 dk“It’s a crazy irony that your reward for incredible artistic success in modern Hollywood is that you then get to lay off a bunch of your employees,” Prestige Junkie host Katey…
- The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud · 36 dkTalk about whiplash: A week ago, a Netflix–Warner Bros. deal looked likely. Turns out, the winning combo may be… Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery. (Rolls right off the…
