Ankler Agenda

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Ankler Agenda

by TheAnkler.com

"Ankler Agenda" breaks down the headlines, trends and creativity shaping the evolution of Hollywood, the creator economy and entertainment.
The show is hosted by Elaine Low, author of Ankler Media’s popular “Series Business” Substack newsletter, who is joined weekly by her colleagues Sean McNulty (“The Wakeup”) and Natalie Jarvey (“Like & Subscribe”) -- in addition to Richard Rushfield, the Ankler himself. Episodes will also be available every Thursday on YouTube.

101 episodes

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1

27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?

40:30 Mar 19, 2026

2

Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic

32:04 Mar 12, 2026

3

The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud

35:35 Mar 5, 2026

4

Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered

33:14 Feb 25, 2026

5

Hollywood Is Back on Strike Watch

32:09 Feb 19, 2026

6

BONUS EP: ‘Us Weekly’ to City Hall? Spencer Pratt Makes His Case to Janice Min

1:01:28 Feb 18, 2026

7

The Epstein Files Hit Hollywood

28:27 Feb 12, 2026

8

BONUS EP: Who Made ‘Heated Rivalry’ Possible? The Exec Who Greenlit the Hit Tells All

36:28 Feb 8, 2026

9

White Smoke Over Space Mountain: Disney Crowns Josh D’Amaro

31:47 Feb 5, 2026

10

BONUS EP: 'MeidasTouch' CEO Ben Meiselas on Building an Anti-Trump Pod Empire in the Age of 'Fascism'

35:07 Feb 3, 2026

11

Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer

31:19 Jan 29, 2026

12

What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars

36:44 Jan 22, 2026

13

Hollywood’s New Gamble: Interactive TV Goes All In

33:06 Jan 15, 2026

14

Is Everyone Leaving L.A. (Or Is That Just Your Group Chat)?

33:56 Jan 9, 2026

15

YEAR-END HOLIDAY MAILBAG: Your Burning Questions, Answered

29:29 Dec 30, 2025

16

SUPER-SIZED HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Hollywood’s 2025 Winners & Losers

49:33 Dec 23, 2025

17

BONUS EP: 2025 Creator Economy Winners and Losers with Natalie Jarvey and Lia Haberman

48:37 Dec 21, 2025

18

He’s Just Not That Into You: How Zaslav and Ellison Fell Apart

34:48 Dec 18, 2025

19

BONUS EP: The Oscars Go to YouTube, with Prestige Junkie Katey Rich

18:55 Dec 18, 2025

20

BONUS EP: Remembering Rob Reiner, 'A Towering Career'

31:49 Dec 15, 2025

21

BONUS EP: Scoring Big: How Noah Beck and Jordan Chiles Built Fandom (and Careers) Off the Field

51:17 Dec 14, 2025

22

Tick, Tick: The 10-Day Siege of Warner Bros. Begins

35:51 Dec 11, 2025

23

BONUS EP: WGA Prez’ Dire Warning on Netflix-WB: ‘We Know How This Movie Ends’

31:39 Dec 9, 2025

24

BONUS EP: Netflix-WBD Panic & Chaos in a Hollywood ‘Looking for Some Answers’

1:01:35 Dec 6, 2025

25

Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

38:07 Dec 4, 2025

26

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

32:58 Nov 25, 2025

27

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

34:48 Nov 20, 2025

28

BONUS EP: ‘The Rushfield Lunch’ with Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy on Making Box Office History in the Face of ‘Surreal’ Criticism

56:27 Nov 16, 2025

29

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

36:33 Nov 13, 2025

30

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

42:52 Nov 6, 2025

31

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

32:55 Oct 30, 2025

32

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

0:51 Oct 30, 2025

33

Emergency Pod: WBD’s Endgame Era Begins

33:19 Oct 22, 2025

34

The Shocking Revenge of Reality TV

29:35 Oct 16, 2025

35

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

29:48 Oct 9, 2025

36

Hollywood's Gen Z Blindspot, Starring Taylor Swift

29:42 Oct 2, 2025

37

Kimmelgate: 6 Days That Shook Disney

28:21 Sep 25, 2025

38

Emergency Pod: The Kimmel Crisis & What’s Next

34:43 Sep 18, 2025

39

The Netflix of Microdramas: Who Gets There First?

32:07 Sep 11, 2025

40

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

32:38 Sep 4, 2025

41

Love, Loss & Drama: Swift, Netflix, Paramount

29:46 Aug 28, 2025

42

How TV Became a 24/7 Sports Bar

31:06 Aug 21, 2025

43

‘And Just Like That’... Streamers Want Rom-Coms, Agents Want Creators

30:24 Aug 15, 2025

44

Apple's ‘F1’ Brand Slam & Disney+’s Streaming Shakeups

29:00 Aug 7, 2025

45

WBD Divorce, Netflix 'KPop' Frenzy: Film’s Split Screen Summer

33:37 Jul 31, 2025

46

Gen X Career Crisis & Colbert Collapse

36:36 Jul 24, 2025

47

The Epic Cable TV Swap Meet Begins

31:39 Jul 17, 2025

48

Meet the 'New Paramount': Cindy, Crumbling Cable & Chaos

31:18 Jul 11, 2025

49

Druckmann Ditches HBO: ‘The Last of Us’ Faces a Creative Apocalypse

30:13 Jul 3, 2025

50

Now It’s Spotify vs. YouTube — Plus Personal Struggles Post-L.A. Fire

30:06 Jun 27, 2025

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