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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran and Yara Shahidi are leading a fictional adventure podcast for tweens. The Star Wars actor, who voiced Raya in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, and the Grown-ish star will host Cultureverse, a 12-part series produced by Studio Ochenta for TRAX for public media organization PRX. The…

USG Audio is shooting for three with its latest podcast series. The podcasting division of the NBCUniversal studio is launching The Greatness with Kareem Maddox, a podcast about what it means to be an Olympian, on June 23. The series follows Kareem Maddox, a professional 3×3 basketball player and a lifelong fan of the…

Podcast consolidation continues. Sony Music Entertainment has acquired British audio and TV producer Somethin' Else. The record label is expanding its global podcast division after the deal, which will see it ramp up its in-house creative production capabilities. It is the latest M&A deal in the audio world following…

If you have seen Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Video, you probably already had your breath taken away by its beauty, riveted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction. There is one other major takeaway from the series…

EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Lemonis, host of CNBC's The Profit, is launching an unconventional business podcast. One Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis is produced by Lincoln and Frozen In Time producer Glass Entertainment Group and distributed by Wondery, the podcast firm behind The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death. The series…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Chappelle is doubling down in the podcast space. The comedian's Pilot Boy Productions has joined People's Party With Talib Kweli as an executive producer as the series is moving exclusively to subscription podcast platform Luminary. It marks the latest example of exclusivity of hit podcasts, such as The…

EXCLUSIVE: A controversial shooting in Belize by the daughter-in-law of British Conservative donor Lord Michael Ashcroft is to be the subject of an interesting new project from Will Gluck and Campside Media, the company behind the hot Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen podcast. The Peter Rabbit writer/director and the…

EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious death of Danyé Jones, a prominent activist in Ferguson, MO, is the subject of podcast series After The Uprising. The 11-part investigative series comes from mobile news brand NowThis, podcasting start-up Double Asterisk and iHeartMedia will tell the story of the 24-year-old activist Danyé…

EXCLUSIVE: The wild story behind the heist of Dorothy's iconic ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz is the subject of a new podcast series hosted by Seyward Darby and Ariel Ramchandani. No Place Like Home is a limited run podcast docuseries that comes from Audacy-backed C13Originals. Dorothy's ruby slippers from…

It’s a very In The Heights week for Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast. Earlier this week, we had star Anthony Ramos as a guest and, in a bonus episode, we welcome In The Heights director Jon M. Chu as well as the music man who created the original Tony-winning musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the Heights, which opens in…

EXCLUSIVE: Famed sports broadcaster Jim Rome has signed with ICM Partners for representation. Boasting more than three decades as a broadcasting star, Rome is best known for his nationally syndicated radio program, The Jim Rome Show, which airs on CBS Sports Radio and streams to over two million listeners on 200…

EXCLUSIVE: The final years and death of radio legend and entertainer Casey Kasem is explored in a new documentary podcast series narrated by The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Martin Kove. Bitter Blood: Kasem vs. Kasem comes from AYR Media and has been set at Audible as part of the producer's overall deal at the…