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4.1 • 45 Ratings
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Listen in as The Ankler team and industry insiders break down Hollywood’s latest business headlines, power struggles and trends shaping the future of entertainment.
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Five Days in September
What went on during those last five crucial days of negotiations between the WGA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers? Showrunner and WGA negotiating committee member Adam Conover (Adam Ruins Everything) takes us behind-the-scenes of the talks.
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A Town Holds its Breath
Looking for signals and signs that the end is near for the WGA strike. Plus, Peter Kiefer talks about one of the other casualties of the shutdown — Democratic political fundraising — as President Joe Biden faces the fight of his career.
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Lies, Whispers, Rumors: a Strike Struck
Since the last round of talks between the WGA and AMPTP on Aug. 22, the deafening silence that fell over Hollywood kicked the rumor mill into overdrive. “This is a function of this stage of the strike where there's a vacuum of information… coupled with a deep sense of distress and desperation to try and figure this thing out,” says Peter Kiefer, who, together with Elaine Low, unraveled the real story of a proposed meeting between showrunners Kenya Barris, Noah Hawley and WGA leadership — and the agent-led whisper campaign behind it. Also: Richard Rushfield calls both sides to task for squabbling over process and procedure: “The rest of the industry should not be asked… to give up a year of income over a fight over whose turn it is to present something.”
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Inside the Era of Bob Iger 2.0
CNBC's Alex Sherman goes behind the scenes of Disney's succession plan disaster and the 'disintegration' of his inner circle.
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Nightmare Scenario of January 2024
Why a next-year end to the strike looks possible, what the Charter-Disney debacle has to do with it, and Richard Rushfield's TIFF report.
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The Ankler x Wakeup Summer Box Office Finale
After making bold summer box office predictions at Memorial Day, Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield return to talk about the titles that took in $4 billion stateside, and crown one winning workhorse studio with the highest return on summer movie investments.
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Customer Reviews
Great show, needs some polish
I love The Ankler and am a subscriber. The pod is a great extension of the newsletter BUT it needs some TLC, particularly on the script they read in the intro . We’re passed the point of needing to explain what the podcast is and it sounds so forced/scripted. I cringe every time. This is a Paramount-like shortfall.
These aren’t the shows you’re looking for.
UPDATE:
Ive lowered my rank from 2 stars to 1.
This show leaves me with wanting something of more intelligence. So far all I’ve heard are more clueless libs talking about an industry from inside their bubble with bad mics. It’s 2023. Get better mics and sound treat your rooms. Or stop being cheap and have someone audio engineer your episodes. But that won’t help the pointless dribble that is talked about on this show.
UPDATE:
I’ve tried time and time again giving this podcast a try, but it’s no use.
These people are literal dip$h!ts. They have no clue what the rest of the country’s temp is on any topic. They are so laser focused on the woke trash issue the rest of our country doesn’t give a crap about. It goes to show that most of Hollywood is clueless and part of the woke disaster that is the Libtard/DEMONcratic party.
They even sound vaccinated.
Do bother listening to these people. There are plenty of less woke podcasts talking about Hollywood and how it can change.
Sound, sound, sound
The sound quality is awful. Some speakers are hesitant. Podcasting is FM radio. If the speech is annoying, the recording bad, the content is wasted.