Ankler Agenda
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🎧 The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies
From private equity to Patrick Whitesell, it’s down to the wire
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🎧 L.A.’s Mayoral Race Becomes a Fight for Hollywood Jobs
Finally, runaway production is a campaign issue — and the industry’s workers are the prize
Latest Ankler Agenda stories
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The Mid-Career Reset: Two Top Execs Ditch Hollywood’s Playbook — and Find the Fun Again
Jana Winograde and Susan Rovner on their new app (scoop: we’ve got the name) and the bet on microdramas the industry can’t ignore
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🎧 The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas
CinemaCon under a Paramount-Warners cloud; plus, inside the WGA deal with a top negotiator
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🎧 The WGA’s Surprise Deal — SAG and DGA, You’re Up
A fast agreement delivers a major healthcare win but shifts the stakes for the next guilds at the table
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🎧 No Jobs, No Ladder, No Relief — Except, For Some, a Cigarette
Millennials’ careers stall as Gen Z takes up smoking
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🎧 ‘Silicon Valley’ Creators: Tech Bros ‘Don’t Give a Flying Fuck About Humanity’
Mike Judge and Alec Berg on their HBO comedy’s prescience about AI and Big Tech
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🎧 27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?
The Paramount–Warner merger’s linear networks go head-to-head in a March Sadness bracket — and yes, someone has to be MTV2
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🎧 The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud
Cut billions, milk cable, merge the streamers and hope the math works
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🎧 Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered
Ted’s full-court press — and the $31-a-share question
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🎧 What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars
The hit’s casting directors captured lightning in a bottle over Zoom — as the path to fame becomes fuzzy
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.