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EXCLUSIVE: Letterkenny and Shoresy producer New Metric Media has made its second big strategic move of recent weeks, this time buying Kelly&Kelly, the comedy podcast specialists behind shows including award-winning sports doc Broomgate, hosted by comedian John Cullen. Vancouver-based Kelly&Kelly…

EXCLUSIVE: Bloomberg has unveiled The Mishal Husain Show, a podcast featuring the former BBC News presenter. The show will begin this week on October 17 as part of Bloomberg Weekend, news provider Bloomberg’s weekly ideas and culture section. Each episode will feature a single in-depth…

EXCLUSIVE: Murdaugh: Death in the Family, the upcoming Hulu drama inspired by the Murdaugh Murders Podcast, is getting its own podcast. The streamer is launching a companion podcast for the drama series, which stars Patricia Arquette, Jason Clarke, Brittany Snow, J. Smith-Cameron and Noah…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the hit SmartLess podcast is moving into true-crime with a new series narrated by Johnny Knoxville. SmartLess Media has teamed with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, iHeartMedia and Campside Media on CrimeLess, a true-crime anthology series. CrimeLess will…

The headline on a UNESCO report from last December sums up a grim reality: "Journalists killed in 2024: a heavy death toll in conflict zones for the second year running." In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in other battlegrounds around the world, photojournalists and reporters continue to risk their…

A trio of execs from Google, YouTube and the BBC have joined forces to launch Hera, a podcast company that will serve what they say is “the most underserved audience in media history: women.” With podcasting dominated by men, Hera is being billed as the UK's first video podcast network to focus…

Author George Orwell published his novel 1984 more than 75 years ago, but what he wrote in that book about life in a strangulating autocracy could hardly be timelier. After all, are we not in a moment when supporting diversity, equity and inclusion has been turned into a "thoughtcrime"? Or when we…

EXCLUSIVE: Right Now with John Goblikon, the podcast starring the goblin frontman of L.A. death metal band Nekrogoblikon, has joined the podcast network of Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s All Things Comedy. Originating as a web series, Right Now is a comedy interview show where John (aka Dave…

In comedy, as in Hollywood at large, there are so many ways to be boxed in. And Caleb Hearon isn’t going for any of them. This commitment has been a defining one for him from the early days of his career, when he began making waves with joke writing and sketch work on social media. “Every…

EXCLUSIVE: Ugly Betty stars Ana Ortiz (Goosebumps, Love, Victor) and Mark Indelicato (Hacks, With Love) will take a trip down memory lane, as the pair sets the launch of a new series rewatch podcast for Thursday, October 2, just days after the ABC hit turns 19. In a co-production between…

EXCLUSIVE: The bewildering story of John Bender, a young Wall Street genius whose dream of life in a mansion sanctuary in the Costa Rican jungle turned sour, is set to launch as a podcast. My Favourite Murder maker Exactly Right Media, iHeartPodcasts and Blanchard House are teaming to make Hell i…

Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life. In his 80s he did it again, putting up his own money to realize a film he had dreamed of for decades, Mega…