Encore: Diet Wars | Reaching for the Stars | 3
It's the early 1990s and the diet boom is over. Weight Watchers is now a millstone around Heinz's neck, Jenny Craig's advance has stalled, and Nutri/System's bankrupt and broken.Faced with tanking sal...
5 Apr 202336min
Encore: Diet Wars | Up From Down Under | 2
It's 1983 and civil war's broken out within Nutri/System. But while CEO Harold Katz fights his franchisees, his former colleague Jenny Craig has grand designs on Australia.Craig wants to use Australia...
29 Mar 202338min
Encore: Diet Wars | Scaling Up | 1
It's 1961 and in a supermarket, housewife Jean Nidetch is about to get a shock that will send her on desperate quest to get thin.But when her new diet gets tough, she turns to friends for help and ina...
22 Mar 202338min
Business Wars | 5th Anniversary Special | 1
We're celebrating the five-year anniversary of Business Wars with a special episode that takes you behind the scenes. We'll delve into how we chose our host and how the first season got off the ground...
16 Mar 202348min
Disney-Pixar vs Dreamworks | 'To Infinity and Beyond' | 5
We’re going behind the scenes of your favorite Disney animated movies with Andrew Millstein, former president of Disney Animation. He helped lead the company’s transition to 3D computer animation, wor...
15 Mar 202339min
Disney-Pixar vs Dreamworks | Onward and Upward | 4
It’s 2006 and with Pixar part of Disney, Ed Catmull and John Lasseter now face the task of fixing Disney Animation Studios. And they need to fix it fast, because DreamWorks is winning at the box offic...
8 Mar 202342min
Disney-Pixar vs Dreamworks | Regime Change | 3
It’s the 2000s and Disney and Pixar are locked in a high-stakes game of chicken. Disney’s deal with Pixar is about to end and renewal talks are snarled up. The dream team that introduced the world to ...
1 Mar 202340min
Disney-Pixar vs Dreamworks | Battle of the Bugs | 2
It’s 1995 and Pixar’s Toy Story is just months away from release. But as the premiere of the first computer-animated feature nears, all-out war breaks out between Disney and DreamWorks.Jeffrey Katzenb...
22 Feb 202337min
