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You can tell when its Emmy season because that also means the return of Deadline’s TV Talk Podcast, featuring TV critic Dominic Patten and awards columnist Pete Hammond. For the 2020 premiere episode, we hit numerous topics related to the changing landscape of this unique Emmy campaign year as we cover the waterfront…

EXCLUSIVE: With podcasting continuing to surge as a form of media and entertainment, and audio properties increasingly of interest to the film and TV business, MGM is taking a stake in a new entrant in the field called Audio Up. The company was founded by Jared Gutstadt, former founder and CEO of the audio agency…

EXCLUSIVE: A3 Artists Agency is bolstering its podcasting initiative with the hiring of its first in-house podcast producer, Samantha Land. In the newly created role, Land will help take scripted and unscripted podcast concepts developed by clients, and guide them through the complete processes from ideation, to…

Tribeca Studios is dipping its toe into podcasting in partnership with iHeartMedia, teaming up on a new series called Fierce about formidable women from history. The branded entertainment and production arm of Tribeca Enterprises — parent of the flagship film festival — is launching Fierce today (May 6). New episodes…

Actress Laura Harrier said that Ryan Murphy merged fact and fiction to create a world of “faction” for his Netflix series Hollywood. In it, Harrier plays the character of Camille, a fictitious character who rubs elbows with versions of real-life legends Hattie McDaniel, Anna May Wong and Rock Hudson, three actors who…

EXCLUSIVE: Cyma Zarghami’s MiMO Studio has acquired Deborah Diesen’s bestselling preschool book franchise The Pout-Pout Fish and award-winning kids serialized kids podcast The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian to develop into multiple, animated TV-length movies. The projects are among the first for the recently…

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions’ has optioned podcast Cold from KSL to develop into a TV series that tackles the issue of domestic abuse. Cold chronicles the tragic circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a young Mormon wife and mother of two, Susan Powell. Using actual case…

EXCLUSIVE: Dateline NBC is set to launch a new podcast in the true-crime genre. The first two episodes of the six-episode Motive for Murder will drop May 7, followed by one episode each Thursday for the next four weeks. Narrated by Josh Mankiewicz, Motive for Murder, which hails from the team behind Dateline’s…

Lovie Simone is known for her role as Zora on OWN’s Greenleaf and she caught the attention of many people in the titular role of Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades. On top of that, she has been making banana bread long before everyone was showing off their beginner skills on Instagram during the quarantine — and she…

Garcelle Beauvais is making a move into the podcast space. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is set to host Going to Bed with Garcelle, a weekly late-night talk show podcast for MGM. Produced by New York-based podcast company Radio Point and her Beauvais Wilson Productions, Going to Bed with Garcelle will…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Los Angeles Laker and NBA champion Matt Barnes has signed with ICM Partners in all areas. Barnes, who retired in 2017 after 14 seasons in the NBA, is currently an ESPN analyst (The Jump, Get Up), executive producer and podcast host. His Showtime basketball podcast, All the Smoke with Matt Barnes and S…

As the world continues to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, audiences are binging many forms of entertainment, primarily TV and films. But there is another binge-worthy medium that is providing a more personal form of entertainment: podcasts. There are thousands upon thousands of podcasts out there, ranging from…