Swipe, Pay, Cry: A $5 Billion Boom in 60-Second Soaps
Ankler Agenda13 Kesä 2025

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

Green shoots are rare in Hollywood these days, but some writers and actors are cashing six-figure checks in a format as questionable as its new Luigi Mangione series. Welcome to the world of microdramas: 60-second, phone-first serialized soap operas. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey unpack the sudden rise of white-hot vertical series. How is it not a punchline like Quibi? And what does it say about the other dreaded Q-word holding back Hollywood: quality? Plus, Dealmakers’ Ashley Cullins joins with a scoop on Apple’s new competitive performance-based pay model — and why Jon Hamm is competing with... Jon Hamm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

Another week, another industry-warping Hollywood shake-up. As Warner Bros. Discovery plants a “For Sale” sign in its yard, a Streaming Wars endgame is being unleashed. Is the billionaire class going t...

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The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

A show filmed in real time, airing almost daily, and pulling in billions of viewing minutes a week? Prestige TV could never. But Love Island USA and other reality juggernauts are proving America is en...

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

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

The strangest thing about the new iteration of ChatGPT? The sudden and full-throated embrace by once-squeamish execs and writers, says Reel AI columnist Erik Barmick (just ask around about the “GPT-5 ...

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Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

Forget the government shutdown — President Trump is back to targeting entertainment, from YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with him to a floated “100 percent tariff” on foreign-made films. Host Elai...

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Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

Six days. That’s all it took for Jimmy Kimmel to be yanked off the air by Disney under FCC pressure — and then rushed back after Hollywood revolted. Now Trump is circling, affiliates are defying ABC i...

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Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

Late on Sept. 17, the news broke: Disney’s Bob Iger made the decision to “indefinitely” suspend one of its marquee stars, Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live! from ABC. The news followed FCC chair Brend...

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The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

There’s a multibillion-dollar business growing right under Hollywood’s nose: microdramas, those soapy, 60-second episodes Gen Z binges on their phones with storylines that can sound like bad 'Twilight...

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

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

From Telluride mountaintops to Toronto’s Tim Hortons, awards season is officially here. Before jetting to TIFF, Prestige Junkie’s Katey Rich joined Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey to disse...

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