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My guest this week is Sian Clifford. Her delicately balanced, tragi-comic portrayal of the brilliantly deadpan Claire in smash hit series Fleabag both won her a Bafta and allowed her to utter the immortal words, “I look like a pencil” in reference to Claire’s legendary hair mishap. In short…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Taberski, the man behind podcasts including Missing Richard Simmons and 9/12, has struck a multi-show deal with Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios. The move will see Taberski create four new podcasts for the studio, which is behind many of his previous hits. It comes as the…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of the murder of six Black girls in the Washington, D.C. area in the 1970s is to be turned into a podcast and scripted series. Jay Ellis, who starred in Top Gun: Maverick and HBO's Insecure, is behind both projects. The podcast series, Freeway Phantom, will launch May 17. It…

EXCLUSIVE: 3Pas Studios, the entertainment company co-founded by Eugenio Derbez and his business partner, Ben Odell, signed a multi-year production deal with Audible. Through their overall exclusive audio deal, 3Pas Studios will produce scripted and unscripted audio content for Audible in both English…

EXCLUSIVE: Child-star-turned-women's-rights-attorney Kelly Hyman will host Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood, a new, six-part podcast that will revisit the 2010 murder of publicist Ronni Chasen. Premiering April 15, Hyman will examine Chasen's life and career and will interview forensics experts, police…

This week’s guest is Gary Oldman. Right now, he’s starring in Apple TV+ series Slow Horses‘ as Jackson Lamb, leader of a group of MI5 rejects exiled to a rundown London building known as Slough House. As Oldman describes it, “It’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets The Office.” Having just…

Sharon Stone claimed that she lost custody of her child in 2004 because of assumptions created by her brief nudity in the film Basic Instinct. Stone made the claims Tuesday in a Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast interview. Stone played Catherine Tramell in the film, a serial killer and love…

EXCLUSIVE: Spotify is continuing its move to ramp up its video podcasts business. The streaming service has struck a deal with creator Markiplier to exclusively host the video episodes of his Distractible and Go! My Favorite Sports Team podcasts. The move comes as the Daniel Ek-led company has…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sturniolo Triplets and Bob the Drag Queen, who have over 35M online followers combined, are among the digital creators that form part of Studio71's latest podcast slate. The company, which is owned by Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1, is launching over ten new audio shows for its new…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood is littered with great scripts that never made it to the screen. But a new podcast is offering writers a fresh chance for their story to be discovered. Table Read will give listeners the chance to discover  never-before-heard scripts from industry players and award-winning…

SiriusXM is the latest media company to lay off staff as the industry retrenches. CEO Jennifer Witz said today the satellite radio broadcaster, podcaster, owner of streaming music service Pandora and home to Howard Stern, will be cutting 475 jobs, or 8% of its workforce “to secure the long-term health and…

Things that go bump in the night will be honored at the first ParaPod Awards, set for Saturday, April 1 as part of the ParaPod Festival in Santa Clarita, Calif. The awards honor the influencers and content creators who work in the paranormal genre. "As a content producer and host myself…