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  • Netflix Hits Every Panic Button. Now What?

    October 22, 2026 · 35 min

    To hear Ted Sarandos tell it, things are going great at Netflix. “Our business and our business flywheel are working,” the co-CEO said on this week’s earnings call — a week after laying off a thousand employees, and unceremoniously firing…

  • Steve Hilton on Hollywood’s Future: ‘We Cannot Let It Collapse’

    October 15, 2026 · 54 min

    Steve Hilton has been talking with David Ellison, Ted Sarandos and Trump Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight about how to bring production back to California. And the Republican candidate for governor has a big idea: blow past the state’s…

  • David Ellison’s Promise to Outspend Netflix and Disney

    October 8, 2026 · 31 min

    David Ellison has an ambitious pitch for Hollywood: Skydance will spend more on content than Netflix or Disney, crank out roughly 190 series and 30 movies a year, find at least $6 billion in savings and pay down its mountain of debt. All…

  • Kreiz In, Bloys Wins: Paramount’s Head-Spinning New Order

    October 1, 2026 · 31 min

    The new Paramount is taking shape fast. On the eve of the Warner Bros. deal concluding, David Ellison is bringing in fresh blood — and bloodletting. Former Mattel chief Ynon Kreiz boards as the surprise co-CEO, charged with day-to-day…

  • Mike Schur: Paramount-WBD Is a ‘Nightmare Scenario’

    September 24, 2026 · 38 min

    Mike Schur calls Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. a “nightmare scenario” for Hollywood — and now that David Ellison has cleared the biggest obstacle to getting the deal done, he’s even more alarmed about what comes next. “It’s…

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  • Emergency Pod! Paramount-WBD Chaos: The Settlement, the Layoffs, the Superstreamer

    September 22, 2026 · 41 min

    So after months of big talk about only settling for structural remedies, i.e., selling off assets, what did California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the 11 other state AGs suing Paramount Skydance wind up getting? Less than you…

  • 1,000 Sony Hacks at Once? Hollywood’s AI Doomsday

    September 17, 2026 · 37 min

    A dire warning from Anthropic and OpenAI that increasingly autonomous AI agents could launch cyberattacks – or worse – has an especially chilling implication for Hollywood, where studios and streamers are rapidly weaving AI into their…

  • Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying

    September 10, 2026 · 37 min

    Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the biggest names in global entertainment to the south of France this…

  • Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan

    September 3, 2026 · 34 min

    It wasn’t long ago when studios took the biggest jewels of their fall slates — the Gravitys and Jokers and First Mans — to the Venice Film Festival to kick off awards season and put A-list talent on a gondola. But this year, not so much…

  • YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up

    August 27, 2026 · 32 min

    Hollywood’s newest talent war isn’t over movie stars. For years, YouTube was treated as a “farm league,” in Ted Sarandos‘ words — a place where talent dreamt of graduating to Hollywood. Now smaller player Netflix is raiding the world’s…

  • BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse

    August 24, 2026 · 13 min

    So much for détente. California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned meeting with Paramount after accusing the company of leaking — and misrepresenting — confidential settlement discussions to the press. “They need to sleep…

  • Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’

    August 20, 2026 · 34 min

    Hayden Panettiere worked in Hollywood since she was 11 months old, and by the time Heroes made her a household name at 16, she was already navigating the darker side of child stardom. The Wall Street Journal‘s Esther Zuckerman joins Elaine…

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About the show

"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.