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"I'm just making an argument to make this fascinating to our listeners here," jokes our Awards Columnist today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast. With TV Academy members casting their ballots for nominations as we speak, Pete Hammond and Deadline’s Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten want to make everyone's day a little bit…

EXCLUSIVE: Novel, the growing British podcast studio behind the likes of The Superhero Complex, has made one its most significant hires yet, bringing in PRX and Radiotopia exec Julie Shapiro as Executive Creative Director. Shapiro will steer Novel’s creative output, coming a few weeks after the outfit hired The Daily…

Before Legendary Entertainment Godzilla franchise scribe Max Borenstein became attached as showrunner to Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty series, it took co-creator Jim Hecht some years after optioning Jeff Pearlman’s 2014 book, Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Charithra Chandran, who plays Edwina in Netflix's smash hit period drama Bridgerton, is to star in a rom-com podcast series. Chandran, who also starred in Alex Rider, will lead A Mid-Semester Night's Dream, from Meet Cute, the podcast company that specializes in rom-com stories. The series follows a group…

Director, actress, writer, producer, and editor Isabel Sandoval is a trans Filipina filmmaking Auteur who made history with her third feature film Lingua Franca at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori section. It is the first film directed by and starring a trans woman of color to screen…

President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. The company, which is behind audio series such as Renegades: Born in the USA with Bruce Springsteen, has struck a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible. The deal comes after the former President and his wife parted ways with Spotify…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is launching Project Unabom – a podcast series about serial bomber Ted Kaczynski. The series is the latest original audio series for the tech giant, which has been dipping its toes into original podcasts with shows such as Run, Bambi, Run, Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy, Hooked and The Line. The…

“You can’t make this stuff up.” Such is the impromptu motif, and thus magic, of how The Kardashians continues to work for a new streaming audience, according to the series star, EP and matriarch Kris Jenner. Sure, the family can provide goal posts for the show’s EPs of what their social lives look like in the coming…

EXCLUSIVE: Goalhanger, the company formed by legendary England striker Gary Lineker, is looking to further expand its audio output after signing its podcast division with WME. The agency has signed London-based Goalhanger Podcasts, which the former Barcelona and Leicester footballer set up in January with Tony Pastor…

Emmy voting started Thursday, and for our penultimate TV Talk podcast of this stage of the season, we have some names for you to consider. Euphoria's Zendaya, Dopesick's Michael Keaton, Hacks‘ Jean Smart and Paul W. Downs, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, the Succession gang, Grace & Frankie's Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Thi…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan and writer Josh Johnson are tackling topics such as long engagements, brunch and chiropractors in the latest podcast for the Comedy Central series. The pair will launch The Daily Show Presents: Hold Up later this month. The late-night series, hosted by Trevor Noah…

Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac are starring in a new scripted podcast for Spotify. The pair are leading Case 63, an English-language adaptation of Spotify's Chilean podcast. The move marks the first time that a podcast series from a non-English speaking market has been adapted into multiple languages. The series…