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"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.

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Thursday · 31 min
YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up
Natalie Jarvey scoops the millions Neal Mohan is paying to fend off Ted Sarandos
Monday · 13 min
BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse
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 in the bed that they made,” Bonta tells Elaine Low in this bonus episode of Ankler Agenda, blasting Paramount for “playing games” and waging a PR campaign while, he says, losing where it matters: in court. The rupture comes even as Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and several Hollywood guilds have all voiced varying degrees of support for getting the two sides to the table. Does that growing pressure change Bonta’s thinking? “Not at all,” he says. But Bonta also makes clear that the door isn’t permanently shut. He says he’s ready to resume negotiations if Paramount stops the leaks and comes back in good faith — and, for the first time, gets unusually specific about what a deal might require. Forget the chatter about CNN: Bonta says the news network “is not our focus” and that resolving the states’ antitrust concerns would require some portion of Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery’s combined cable portfolio to be placed under separate ownership. Bonta also explains why behavioral remedies are a nonstarter, says he hopes Republican attorneys general may still join the case, and dismisses as “meritless” and “silly” a request seeking his correspondence with Mark Ruffalo following backlash over the actor’s criticism of the Paramount deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 20 · 33 min
Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’
California’s AG tells Elaine what it will take to get him to the table to settle the Paramount fight
August 13 · 34 min
Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?
Plus: Paramount talks tough on California — and softer on settlement
August 6 · 37 min
How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive
Hollywood’s power couple delivers a $2.1 billion box office haul as Paramount’s boss tries to shift the narrative
July 30 · 32 min
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
July 28 · 13 min
BONUS EP: California AG Rob Bonta on the Coming Paramount Trial: 'We're Not Talking Settlement'
What could Paramount Skydance do to make a dozen attorneys general drop their lawsuit against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger? Sell off CNN? Paramount Pictures? According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta: not much. “We’re not talking about settlement. We’re going to be telling the judge when we want a trial date,” he tells Elaine Low on Friday, shortly after Paramount announced it would delay the merger until June 2027 or until a pair of antitrust lawsuits against it work their way through the courts — whichever comes first. “We’re not going to have oligarchs or kings in the economy,” says Bonta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 27 · 45 min
BONUS EP: 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 — and to WBD
July 23 · 28 min
Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket
Paramount and Sony also kick the tires on the Gen Z film site
July 21 · 35 min
BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal
California’s AG Rob joins Elaine hours after the merger was halted to explain the odds of survival and the options
July 16 · 33 min
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
July 13 · 41 min
BONUS EP: 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
July 9 · 33 min
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle
Monoculture is alive in July! Plus: Emmy noms’ winners and losers
July 2 · 32 min
The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer
100 notables tell us what’s in their luggage —and on their nightstands
June 30 · 35 min
BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU?
Sean McNulty and Ben Fritz on the latest earth-shaking move, as NBCUniversal uncouples from its parent
June 30 · 37 min
BONUS EP: 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
June 25 · 30 min
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
June 24 · 32 min
BONUS EP: Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal & Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars
At Cannes Lions, the exec tells Ankler CEO Janice Min how the hardware behemoth became a streaming empire — 'We really do have almost Super Bowl-size audiences every day' — and makes his first public comments on the Fox acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 23 · 28 min
BONUS EP: The Nithya Raman Interview: ‘Let’s Celebrate Making Things in L.A. Again’
The mayoral challenger says City Hall ‘let the industry walk away’ — and lays out her plan to bring production back
June 18 · 27 min
Would You Rather: Spend $18B on Shows or $22B on Roku?
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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