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Why is streaming the show you want to watch as complicated as buying a product behind glass at CVS, ponders Rob Long. No wonder kids are watching everything on YouTube and Rob's watching the Gilded Age in juicy snippets on TikTok. Listen to the full episode: theankler.com/p/the-bezos-di…

Why are there 23432899 streaming services? It all started when Netflix realized they couldn't just license other people's shows and movies and made originals. But that desire for ownership contributed to the contractions we're seeing today, says Rob Long theankler.com/p/just-buy-it-…

The way show business is supposed to work is this: You work hard on a project for many months—or even years—and after putting to-gether the footage and fixing the sound and adding music, you send it out into the world in as good a shape as you can. Rob Long commentary.org/articles/rob-l…

Who Wins the Gospel Arbitration? – Commentary Magazine commentary.org/articles/rob-l… commentary.org/articles/rob-l…

Turns out, Upfronts weren't invented for networks to make musical numbers and short films, according to Rob Long theankler.com/p/upfronts-aus…

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Trump's Hollywood tariffs and incentives, if they do even happen, might only be used as a tool to create more inequality, considers Rob Long theankler.com/p/the-trickery…

Veteran television writer and producer Rob Long joined Dan Proft and amyjacobson to discuss Hollywood's ongoing economic struggles and the misguided government policies aimed at propping up the entertainment industry. The former Cheers showrunner, co-founder of Ricochet, and host

When Rob Long went to the ER, he realized the influence TV characters have on our lives, whether they're inspiring people to become doctors, or live in Greenwich Village with five of their best friends theankler.com/p/my-er-trip-t…

He was funny and gentle and was the best kind of comic actor: he knew how to do just enough when that was called for, and to pull out the stops when that's where the joke was. Nobody could walk into a bar like George. nypost.com/2025/05/20/ent…

What show business needs to do is what every other business needs to do, at some point, and that’s to come to grips with economic reality or go broke. Rob Long commentary.org/articles/rob-l…

Your go-to fast food meal and your guilty pleasure reality TV show aren’t all that different from each other, thinks Rob Long theankler.com/p/the-missing-…

.Rob Long spent four seasons writing for Cheers, including for George Wendt, who died May 20 at 76. He looks back on those years and the brilliance of Norm’s unforgettable entrances. Full episode: theankler.com/p/cheers-and-a…

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Start movement, run a country, defy Stalin, end up on a tote.

Keith McNally isn’t in showbiz, but he might as well be. Rob Long thinks whether you’re dining at Balthazar or, like Rob, a frequenter of Minetta Tavern, it’s all lights, noise and timing theankler.com/p/what-keith-m…

Amid entertainment industry turbulence, Rob Long created one rule: once Hollywood makes three consecutive dumb comedies in a year, we’ll know showbiz is back theankler.com/p/dumb-comedie…

Everyone hates The Phantom Menace. Unless you're the brilliant, respected guy Rob Long met with who claimed it was his favorite Star Wars movie. Rob explains why you should never mock your audience for what they like, even if what they like has Jar Jar Binks theankler.com/p/martini-shot…

Recording from Botswana, Rob Long figured he was as far as he could get from the chaos of showbiz. But as he discovers, the animal kingdom is a lot like Hollywood theankler.com/p/martini-shot…

.Rob Long breaks down what went wrong in late night, from shrinking audiences to shows that feel like "homework" to the thing that always forces showbiz’s hand: money theankler.com/p/no-one-knew-…