

Prestige Junkie
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A weekly podcast hosted by The Ankler's awards editor Katey Rich, featuring lively and endlessly curious discussion of the film and television awards races and the business that surrounds them. Episodes will also include interviews with top awards contenders and the major players in the races that make Hollywood run.
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Jul 29, 2025 • 44min
Fall Preview Part 1: Can Neon's Winning Streak Continue?
David Canfield joins Katey and Chris to kick off our five-part fall preview, in which we take a close look at the lineups for every studio that has won best picture in the past 10 years. We're starting, naturally, with reigning best picture champion Neon, who shepherded Anora from Cannes breakout to best picture juggernaut, and are aiming to do it again this year. Can they continue their winning formula? Are they facing challenges from their fellow indie distributors? And can they finally get Elle Fanning the awards season respect she deserves? We get into it all, and much more. Don't forget that this week brings the launch of Prestige Junkie After Party, where you can get video versions of future episodes and lots of special bonus content. Join us there!
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Jul 22, 2025 • 38min
The Colbert Cancellation and Late Night’s Existential Crisis
Vulture’s Nick Quah joins Katey to talk about why Stephen Colbert feels like only the first of the late night giants to fall, why podcasts and YouTube shows won’t be able to fully replace what late night has done for decades, and how the Emmys might fit into all of this.
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Jul 15, 2025 • 52min
Emmy Nominations: The Good, The Bad, and the Shocking
Katey and Chris go live immediately after the Emmy nominations announcement — bear with the bad audio, we promise it gets better — to talk about the big morning for HBO and Apple, the dominance of Netflix actors, the upcoming battle between The Pitt and Severance, and much more. Plus, a conversation with Adolescence star Erin Doherty about her big plans for Emmy night.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 52min
Our Final Emmy Nomination Predictions
Katey and Chris run through all the major Emmy categories and share their final predictions, whether they feel confident about them or not. From the best actress in a comedy race, which seems set in stone, to the wildly unpredictable guest categories, we've got our best guesses about what to expect when the Emmy nominations are announced next Tuesday, July 15.
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Jul 1, 2025 • 32min
War of the Worlds at 20: Steven Spielberg’s Unlikeliest Blockbuster Still Packs a Punch
Katey and Chris look back at 2005’s July 4 weekend blockbuster, which was overshadowed at the time by Tom Cruise’s press tour but still holds up, with its dark metaphor for American life after 9/11 and what are still some of the most chilling action sequences ever made.
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Jun 24, 2025 • 28min
How to Survive the New Press Tour Rules, with Nicole LaPorte
Timothee Chalamet mastered it, Brad Pitt is trying it out, and everyone knows you've got to go for it — it's the new press tour hotspots, from Hot Ones to running in Central Park. Nicole LaPorte talked to Hollywood's most ruthless publicists about which ones are actually worth it, and shares her findings on this week's episode.
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Jun 21, 2025 • 31min
Brian Tyree Henry Is Ready to Be “Part of the Sauce”
The star and executive producer of Dope Thief took on his first behind the scenes role on the Apple TV+ series, and found a whole new way of working in the process.
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Jun 17, 2025 • 1h 1min
Franklin Leonard on What Hollywood’s So Scared Of and How to Fix It, Plus the High Potential Team on Their Fresh Detective Drama
Franklin Leonard, the founder and CEO of The Blacklist, joins Katey for a check in on the industry’s cautious optimism over summer movie season, but also the lingering anxieties that keep standing in the way. Then hear Katey’s live onstage conversation with the team behind ABC’s High Potential: director Alethea Jones, showrunner Todd Harthan, creator Drew Goddard and star Kaitlin Olson.
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Jun 15, 2025 • 26min
Paul Giamatti and Charlie Brooker on Black Mirror’s Future Nostalgia
The star of the Black Mirror episode “Eulogy” joins the series creator for a freewheeling conversation about memory, grief, AI and how to fit an American into what was intended as a very English story. Watch the full video version of this interview on The Ankler’s YouTube page.
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Jun 14, 2025 • 25min
How Jenny Slate Surprised Herself on Dying for Sex
The comedian, author and actress on learning how to ask questions, building trust with everyone she works with, and learning to play her face like a harp.
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