Transcript: How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

Prime Video, Par+ and the future of what gets watched (and what NFL has to do with it)

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Sean McNulty (00:04):

Welcome to The Ankler Podcast. This is Sean McNulty of The Wakeup newsletter here at The Ankler, here on the Jersey Shore on Thursday, April 25th. I'm joined by Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield in Los Angeles, where we can tell from the excitement in Elaine's eyes, we're only one day away from the release of this year's best picture winner, Amazon MGM's Challengers, Elaine.

Elaine Low (00:24):

I feel like at this stage, given that we mention this movie, oh, once a week, I feel compelled to say that neither you, nor I, nor the pod is sponsored by Challengers or Amazon MGM in any way.

Sean McNulty (00:34):

No exchange in money, we're missing out.

Richard Rushfield (00:36):

Not yet.

Sean McNulty (00:36):

Not yet, exactly.

Elaine Low (00:38):

I am just really excited about a tennis movie, okay, guys?

Sean McNulty (00:43):

Well, we'll get into that later on in the pod, for sure, to find out what the big plan is.

Richard Rushfield (00:46):

I'm prepared to be really excited by a tennis movie for the right offer, if anyone wants to make a call about why I should be very excited about a tennis movie.

Sean McNulty (00:59):

Richard is very for sale today, everybody, just FYI, if you have an offer for anything, I think he's buying. So just a reminder, you can catch The Ankler crew over on LA's number one NPR station and Southern California Public Radio's Flagship Radio Station 89.3 LAist throughout the day every Thursday as part of Entertainment Thursday programming during Morning Edition, AirTalk and All Things Considered, and reach us here at the podcast anytime at podcasts@theankler.com.

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In just a little bit today, our favorite domestic man of mystery, Entertainment Strategy Guy, or as his kids call him, ESG, I'm sure is going to join to tell us all about not hard funny, Elaine, not Strays, Richard, not those buzz terms, but another buzzword that's out there a lot, this one's Dad TV, Elaine, what we love as well.

Elaine Low (01:42):

Dad TV, yes, bring it. It's about time we talked about Dad TV on this pod.

Sean McNulty (01:46):

We have the expert coming in to tell us all about what's up at Dad TV and the presumed king of the Dad TV market, Amazon Prime. We're going to dive into what numbers ESG found to either support or refute that, so he had a really good piece that's up there at theankler.com and just a shout-out to check out another piece that came out from the real AI column this week, where Erik Barmack looked at the documentary space and what AI can do at this point, but even more so the challenges that the genre presents for our AI overlords.

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You can check that out over at theankler.com as well. But more importantly, Elaine, it is Q1 earning season, we're in the heart of it.

Elaine Low (02:24):

It's your favorite.

Sean McNulty (02:26):

It really is. You can tell from the look on my tired face, that it definitely is the way that it's going. Definitely haven't been up since 7:00 AM reading earnings reports. We had a big one today, ready for some cable business talk, Elaine?