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Silent Witness Star Emilia Fox To Host True Crime Podcast Emilia Fox, the star of long-running BBC crime drama Silent Witness, is to host a true crime podcast with leading criminologist, Professor David Wilson. If It Bleeds It Leads will see the pair tackle topical true crime stories dominating headlines and will take…

The New Hollywood Podcast loves celebrating people of color and other underrepresented voices with every episode so it would be remiss if we didn’t celebrate Black History Month — and we’re doing exactly that with this week’s episode featuring Kingsley Ben-Adir. Ben-Adir — or “King” as his friends call him — has…

Netflix’s drama Mank led all Golden Globe feature nominations this morning with a count of six, and one of those belonged to composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for the David Fincher film. Mank reps the fourth feature between the filmmaker and the composers, the latter who immediately took home the Oscar…

Streaming audio giant Spotify said fourth quarter podcast consumption nearly doubled, premium subscribers hit 155 million and monthly active users jumped 27% to 345 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 — helping drive a 17% increase in revenue. Premium subs were up from 144 in the third quarter and 124 the year…

This week on the New Hollywood Podcast, we have not one, not two but 16 guests in four separate segments. The Sundance Film Festival was virtual this year as was Deadline’s Sundance Studio. For this special episode, we share our studio interviews in podcast form. For this episode, I had the chance to speak with Christo…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebel Girls, the entertainment brand best known for the children's book series and podcast Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls has added former Warner Bros. and Disney exec Soo Koo and Lilly Workneh, former editor-in-chief of Blavity News, as, respectively, chief creative/marketing officer and head of…

SiriusXM swung to a $677 million net loss last quarter from a $243 million profit the year before on a one-time, noncash charge of $976 million at Pandora. The anticipated hit was based on Pandora's royalty cost structure. Quarterly revenue rose 6% to $2.19 billion, beating Wall Street expectations. The shares were up…

When Punchbowl News, a startup from veterans of Politico, launched earlier this month, it promised politics from a different D.C. vantage point: The Capitol, often overshadowed by national media coverage of chaos in the White House. Their focal point has proved a bit fortuitous in the past month, with the Capitol siege…

Apple TV+ has ordered WeCrashed, a limited series starring Oscar winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, with Crazy Stupid Love helmers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra directing. Deadline first reported last month that Leto was in talks for one of the leads in the series based on the hit podcast WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall…

The iHeart Radio Podcast Awards 2021 has named Office Ladies as its “Podcast of the Year” winner. A woolly Will Ferrell, who has The Ron Burgundy Podcast on the iHeart network, opened the show with a series of badly informed statistics. The awards were simulcast tonight on iHeart radio, YouTube and Facebook. The Office…

Oscar-winning filmmaker and producer Ava DuVernay’s Array is expanding its imprint when it comes to inclusive storytelling. The Selma director and her social impact collective has partnered with Spotify for a multi-year partnership to produce exclusive scripted and unscripted original audio programming. Under the…

Lisa Kudrow revealed more details about the anticipated Friends reunion for HBO Max during an interview with Rob Lowe. During Lowe’s Literally! podcast, Kudrow revealed that the project is already underway and seeks to beginning shooting “early, early spring.” The Booksmart actress doubled down on a hint Matthew Perry…