The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV
Ankler Agenda16 Okt 2025

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 enamored again with the once declining genre. Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty break down the market forces leading to this TV plot twist worthy of The Traitors: the genres working, what Netflix has to do with it and why it’s thriving when scripted isn’t. Plus: Ankler writer Matthew Frank joins to preview Crowd Pleaser, our upcoming Letterboxd collaboration, and his ambitious plan to visit more than 50 movie theaters across the country in just two weeks. And Elaine and Natalie unpack what SAG-AFTRA’s new microdrama contract could mean for the booming world of vertical video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

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

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

Election Day had New York City’s Gen Z cheering in the streets as proud socialist Zohran Mamdani crushed the Democratic establishment (in the form of disgraced state governor-turned-flop independent c...

6 Nov 202542min

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Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

Thousands of jobs lost at Paramount Skydance and Amazon, quiet panic on the Warner Bros. Discovery lot, shoot days in L.A. on a continued decline — all while streaming churn, anecdotally, is becoming ...

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Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

This Thursday, "The Ankler Podcast" relaunches as "Ankler Agenda," hosted by Elaine Low. Elaine, author of Ankler Media’s popular “Series Business” newsletter, will be joined weekly by her Ankler coll...

30 Okt 202551s

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...

22 Okt 202533min

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...

2 Okt 202529min

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