Prestige Junkie
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.
Episodes
August 26, 2025 • 79 mins
Joyce Eng joins her old podcast co-host Christopher Rosen as well as Katey to look at the slates for the streamers who are diving into the Oscar race. Most of them, yes, are Netflix titles, and some really promising ones at that. But Apple and Amazon both have intrigue ahead— including one of the biggest wild cards of the season.
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August 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Nate Bargatze Knows His Best Shot at Making the Emmys GreatThe Emmy nominee for his special, Your Friend Nate Bargatze, is also preparing to host the show on September 15 — and to do so, he's got to translate what works for arenas full of fans into one of the most exclusive rooms in the world. In this special Saturday episode he talks about that, what he learned from many years of working his way up the stand-up ladder, and what h...
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August 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Live onstage at Televerse, I caught up with the Emmy winning host of Peacock's reality series The Traitors, which just wrapped production on its fourth season. While keeping mum about a few things, Cumming revealed plenty of secrets from within those castle walls, including the odd relationship he builds with the contestants, how he balances his work as a producer on the set as well as hosting, and what he gets to do in character a...
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Esther Zuckerman joins Katey and Chris to look at the fall slate for A24 as well as the newest contender for its cool kid crown, Mubi, plus a few titles from fellow indies Lionsgate and Bleecker Street. Then Katey talks to The White Lotus star Walton Goggins about the terrifying but grand adventure of being on that set, and why his offscreen reunion with Sam Rockwell might have been even more dramatic than what we saw on the show.
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August 16, 2025 • 23 mins
Katey talks to the Emmy nominated star of the Netflix rom-com about what he keeps learning about himself this far into his career, the difference between fame in your 20s and your 40s, and what happened to his Teen Choice Award surfboard.
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Is Sinners Still the Best Picture Frontrunner? Plus, Michelle Williams Takes Charge on Dying for Sex
August 12, 2025 • 66 mins
David Sims joins Katey for part 3 of our fall preview series, looking at the major studios and their Oscar lineups, and whether Warner Bros can get their first best picture win in over a decade. Then Katey talks to Michelle Williams about both starring in and executive producing Dying for Sex, and how she learned the hard way which kind of sets she actually wants to be part of.
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August 9, 2025 • 23 mins
The double Emmy nominee for Paradise and Hacks remembers how she knew she wanted to work with Sterling K. Brown, how she felt brave enough to really go for it on Hacks, and what you really learn after a three-decade career in the business.
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August 5, 2025 • 73 mins
Tyler Coates joins Katey and Christopher Rosen to look at the slates for three indie labels owned by studios that all hope to stake their claim in this year's awards race. Searchlight Pictures, the only one of the three to ever win best picture, is hoping to win hearts with Rental Family, while Focus Features is going heavy on auteurs with Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia and Chloe Zhao's Hamnet. Meanwhile Sony Pictures Classics has a tr...
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July 29, 2025 • 43 mins
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 ...
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July 22, 2025 • 37 mins
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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July 15, 2025 • 51 mins
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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July 8, 2025 • 52 mins
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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July 1, 2025 • 32 mins
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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June 24, 2025 • 28 mins
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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June 21, 2025 • 30 mins
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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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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June 15, 2025 • 25 mins
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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June 14, 2025 • 25 mins
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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Vulture's Joe Reid joins Katey to talk about the less-discussed Emmy contenders that deserve voter attention, from the sexy Interview with the Vampire to the bloody and brilliant Black Doves. Then Good American Family star Ellen Pompeo explains why it took so long for her to play a role that's not Meredith Grey, and how she's learned to fight for herself and for others on set.
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June 8, 2025 • 38 mins
The creator of the new Judy Blume adaptation Forever joins her longtime friend and star Karen Pittman for a frank conversation about motherhood, Hollywood, and co-creating with God.
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