Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

Disney CEO Bob Iger is ready to abdicate the throne. Again. Six years after Iger first stepped down as CEO, and 38 months after he regained control of Disney following Bob Chapek’s disastrous two-year stretch, the succession planning committee is expected to announce the winner in “early 2026,” aka now. (Cue the Succession theme.) But even as the frontrunners have remained the same — it’s still a presumed two-horse race between Disney Parks head Josh D’Amaro and Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden — the world has rapidly changed. Disney has to contend with AI, a behemoth rival in a merged Netflix-Warner Bros., and a charged political environment. Which of these heavyweights lands the TKO? Would co-CEOs, à la Netflix, make sense? Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty break it all down ahead of Disney’s next earnings call. 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...

16 Okt 202529min

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 ...

9 Okt 202529min

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...

2 Okt 202529min

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...

25 Sep 202528min

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...

18 Sep 202534min

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...

11 Sep 202532min

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...

4 Sep 202532min

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