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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Discovery (ID) and Acast are fueling the country’s thirst for true crime to your ears. The network is teaming up with the podcast platform to release a slate of original the weekly true crime talk show Red Flags, the television companion podcast The Clown and the Candyman as well as the…

Billy Ray wrote and directed The Comey Rule, which set ratings records on Showtime, but he’s also spent the past few years working with candidates on the best ways to reach voters and frame their messages in the time of Donald Trump. On the latest edition of POTUS 2020: Battleground America, Ray talks about the…

Jim King, former executive at music rights group BMI, and comedy label 800 Pound Gorilla Records co-founders Ryan Bitzer and Damion Greiman have launched Spoken Giants, a royalty administration company specifically for creators of spoken word copyrights. Based in Nashville and aimed at comedians, podcasters…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio71, a Red Arrow Studios company, has teamed with Snarled Entertainment (Something Scary) on The Shadow Diaries, its first serialized scripted podcast, starring Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) and Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom). Directed by K. Asher Levin and co-written by Levin and Zack Imbrogno, the…

Former South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg has emerged as one of Joe Biden’s most effective surrogates, not just in reaching millennial voters but the right-leaning audience of  Fox News. On the latest edition of POTUS 2020: Battleground America, Buttigieg gives his impressions of the final presidential debate and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway actors have a long history of moonlighting – sunlighting? – on daytime soaps, at least they did in decades past when New York City still had soaps. With theaters now dark, what better time to resurrect the tradition? Tune in today to…As The Curtain Rises. An ongoing fiction podcast set in backstage…

EXCLUSIVE: The San Francisco Chronicle, UK production company Ugly Duckling Films and Sony Music Entertainment are partnering to develop the first narrative podcast project from the Chronicle, a new true crime series called The Doodler. The podcast will tell the story of the ongoing hunt for the notorious serial…

The focus of Election Night will be on the swing states, the key battlegrounds that will decide who will be the next president. But other states, like Alabama and Massachusetts, will be red vs. blue polar opposites, so different in their thinking about Donald Trump and Joe Biden that it’ll make many wonder, how are we…

Podcast content studio QCODE, known for adapting series with A-list talent for film and TV, raised $6.4 million in a Series A funding round led by Sonos with participation by C Ventures. QCODE, in LA, is a leading destination for fiction and immersive storytelling in the podcast space. It’s released eight scripted pod…

Those of a certain generation of people who thrive when they hear songs like Boyz II Men’s “Motownphilly” or Tony! Toni! Toné!’s “Feels Good” or Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative”. There’s an incomparable sense of nostalgia when any song by Guy, Jade, Troop or the iconic Bell Biv DeVoe hits the airwaves. That era of music…

The WGA East has launched the WGA Audio Alliance to help fiction writers organize high-budget scripted podcasts under the guild's contracts. In the past two years, the guild has organized several nonfiction podcast companies, including Gimlet, The Ringer and Parcast. And though most of the 600,000 podcasts currently…

In August, HBO debuted Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country and the world hasn’t been the same since. The series based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff combines sci-fi, horror, social injustice, racial identity and family drama to serve up epicness that TV has never seen before — and Jurnee Smollett is at the front of it…