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 ...
30 Okt 202532min
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
