Ankler Agenda
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🎧 The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush
With the merger in legal peril, employees start eyeing the exits. Plus: 4,000 new millionaires hit the housing market
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🎧 Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman
Can the studio afford the fight? MoffettNathanson’s expert joins Sean McNulty to assess what happens now — including to WBD
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🎧 Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket
Paramount and Sony also kick the tires on the Gen Z film site
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🎧 Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal
California’s AG joins Elaine hours after the merger was halted to explain the odds of survival and the options
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🎧 The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It
Former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and the WGA’s Adam Conover on the multi-front effort to stop the merger
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🎧 Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Jessica Toonkel of ‘WSJ’ joins Sean McNulty to unpack the engagement drop. Plus: State AGs’ case against Paramount
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🎧 Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle
Monoculture is alive in July! Plus: Emmy noms’ winners and losers
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🎧 The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer
100 notables tell us what’s in their luggage — and on their nightstands
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🎧 What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk
Janice Min & Natalie Jarvey unpack France’s ad dollar smackdown; plus, YouTube’s Mary Ellen Coe & Brittany Broski
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🎧 The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine
What Telemundo and Peacock’s ratings success means — and why the broadcast rights deal was a GOOOOOOAL for Fox
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🎧 Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal — and Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars
At Cannes Lions, the exec makes his first public remarks to Janice Min on the mash-up set to reorder the streaming wars
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🎧 Would You Rather: Spend $22B on Roku or $18B on Shows?
Fox’s big buy will trounce most streaming rivals in size — not by spending like Netflix, but by buying the pipes
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🎧 Sean McNulty & Peter Kafka on Fox Buying Roku and What It All Means
BONUS EP: How the $22 billion deal will ripple across Hollywood. Plus, Sean decodes the box office with Christopher Rosen
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🎧 The New Podcast Wars: Streaming Now
Netflix, Spotify, Tubi and Hulu are chasing up to nine-figure deals in a low-cost programming fight
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🎧 A24’s ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of YouTube Filmmakers
What do box office breakouts like Kane Parsons’ sensation and Focus’ ‘Obsession’ mean for the future of moviegoing?
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🎧 Can L.A.’s Next Mayor Save Hollywood?
A voters’ guide to Bass, Raman and Pratt as they promise to save production — if City Hall can get out of the way
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🎧 Spidey, Nolan, Spielberg — Hot Movie Summer Is Here
The box office is back — but which movie will reign supreme? Plus: Spencer Pratt keeps gaining in the L.A. mayor race
The Ankler Agenda podcast is a conversation on what’s driving Hollywood — explained each week by host Elaine Low, alongside Natalie Jarvey, Sean McNulty and special guests.