Welcome to the thrilling world of true crime, where every twist and turn is as unpredictable as it is enthralling.
At SiriusXM, we know an excellent crime podcast when we hear one, and we’ve curated the perfect list for you. From cold cases cracked open to in-depth investigations into the criminal justice system, we’ve got something for everyone. So, whether you’re a seasoned sleuth or a newbie to the genre, get ready to delve into the best true-crime podcasts.
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1. Last Update on the Left
Since 2011, “Last Podcast on the Left” has explored cases of serial killers, cults, and much more. Now, with “Last Update on the Left,” the team is looking back at previous episode topics and reexamining them. With much more experience than when they first started, they give audiences a fresh perspective on their most popular episodes.
At SiriusXM, we know an excellent crime podcast when we hear one, and we’ve curated the perfect list for you. From cold cases cracked open to in-depth investigations into the criminal justice system, we’ve got something for everyone. So, whether you’re a seasoned sleuth or a newbie to the genre, get ready to delve into the best true-crime podcasts.
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1. Last Update on the Left
Since 2011, “Last Podcast on the Left” has explored cases of serial killers, cults, and much more. Now, with “Last Update on the Left,” the team is looking back at previous episode topics and reexamining them. With much more experience than when they first started, they give audiences a fresh perspective on their most popular episodes.
- 5/13/2024
- by Sophia Macrae
- SiriusXM
Jennifer Yale (See) is set as co-showrunner for the Untitled James Wan/Simu Liu project at Peacock. The original espionage techno-thriller was one of three Peacock dramas given straight-to-series orders, announced at the recent TCA winter press tour.
Yale wil co-showrun and executive produce with creator/writer/EP Thomas Brandon (Legacies).
The Untitled James Wan/Simu Liu project, which stars Liu, is set five minutes in the future when first-generation American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.
Liu also executive produces alongside Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster. Danielle Bozzone will oversee for Atomic Monster.
Yale wil co-showrun and executive produce with creator/writer/EP Thomas Brandon (Legacies).
The Untitled James Wan/Simu Liu project, which stars Liu, is set five minutes in the future when first-generation American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.
Liu also executive produces alongside Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster. Danielle Bozzone will oversee for Atomic Monster.
- 2/26/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Podcasting’s major advertising power players are set to descend in New York City this Thursday for the Iab Podcast Upfronts, where studios and marketers will look to revitalize the audio industry with an influx of new ad dollars after a slower period of growth.
The day-long event will feature presentations from iHeartMedia, Wondery, NPR, Acast, Sony Music Entertainment, Wnyc, Cumulus Media and SiriusXM, among others. In typical Upfront fashion, the audio giants are bringing out podcasting stars like Conan O’Brien (Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend), Ashley Flowers (Crime Junkie), Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley (Morbid), Emily Ratajkowski (High Low With EmRata), Heather McDonald (Juicy Scoop) and Kelsey McKinney (Normal Gossip) to make their pitches.
This year’s Podcast Upfronts will follow a period of massive spending driven by companies like Spotify, where talent commanded multimillion-dollar exclusive licensing deals, and audio ad revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time in 2021, according to Iab.
The day-long event will feature presentations from iHeartMedia, Wondery, NPR, Acast, Sony Music Entertainment, Wnyc, Cumulus Media and SiriusXM, among others. In typical Upfront fashion, the audio giants are bringing out podcasting stars like Conan O’Brien (Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend), Ashley Flowers (Crime Junkie), Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley (Morbid), Emily Ratajkowski (High Low With EmRata), Heather McDonald (Juicy Scoop) and Kelsey McKinney (Normal Gossip) to make their pitches.
This year’s Podcast Upfronts will follow a period of massive spending driven by companies like Spotify, where talent commanded multimillion-dollar exclusive licensing deals, and audio ad revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time in 2021, according to Iab.
- 5/10/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Podcasts hosted by Conan O’Brien; Ashley Flowers; Jay Shetty and the trio of Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes received the most nominations for the 2023 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards.
In the fan-voted podcast of the year category, returning nominees like Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Crime Junkie and SmartLess will compete against newcomers like Love and Noraebang, a narrative fiction series that blends elements of Korean dramas and telenovelas and stars Randall Park, Justin H. Min and Francia Raísa. Fly on the Wall, co-hosted by Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade, is also nominated in the podcast of the year category alongside Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas, Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon’s Maintenance Phase, Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley’s Morbid, Jay Shetty’s On Purpose and Laci Mosley’s Scam Goddess.
This year, iHeartRadio has...
Podcasts hosted by Conan O’Brien; Ashley Flowers; Jay Shetty and the trio of Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes received the most nominations for the 2023 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards.
In the fan-voted podcast of the year category, returning nominees like Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Crime Junkie and SmartLess will compete against newcomers like Love and Noraebang, a narrative fiction series that blends elements of Korean dramas and telenovelas and stars Randall Park, Justin H. Min and Francia Raísa. Fly on the Wall, co-hosted by Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade, is also nominated in the podcast of the year category alongside Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas, Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon’s Maintenance Phase, Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley’s Morbid, Jay Shetty’s On Purpose and Laci Mosley’s Scam Goddess.
This year, iHeartRadio has...
- 12/15/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new limited podcast series from Wondery tells a twisted tale that investigates the quest for eternal life and the lengths people will go to achieve it. Frozen Head is hosted by New York Times best-selling author Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, the voices behind the chart-topping true-crime podcast series Morbid. This new series begins at the last and ordinary day of Laurence Pilgeram’s life.
- 12/12/2022
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
First episode debuts December 12 on Wondery+, and will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts starting January 23
Wondery’s new limited podcast series Frozen Head offers an unbelievably twisted tale that investigates the quest for eternal life—and the lengths people will go to achieve it. Hosted by New York Times best-selling author Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, the voices behind the chart-topping true-crime podcast series Morbid, Frozen Head debuts its first episode December 12 on Wondery+, with the full series to follow on December 19. The series will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts starting January 23.
The series begins at the final, yet unremarkable, day of Laurence Pilgeram’s life. He had a solitary routine: A shower at the clubhouse, to keep his water bill low; and a dinner at the hospital cafeteria, because it was cheap. Then, on the way home that evening,...
Wondery’s new limited podcast series Frozen Head offers an unbelievably twisted tale that investigates the quest for eternal life—and the lengths people will go to achieve it. Hosted by New York Times best-selling author Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, the voices behind the chart-topping true-crime podcast series Morbid, Frozen Head debuts its first episode December 12 on Wondery+, with the full series to follow on December 19. The series will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts starting January 23.
The series begins at the final, yet unremarkable, day of Laurence Pilgeram’s life. He had a solitary routine: A shower at the clubhouse, to keep his water bill low; and a dinner at the hospital cafeteria, because it was cheap. Then, on the way home that evening,...
- 12/12/2022
- Podnews.net
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Marissa Hurwitz has been at the forefront of some of podcasting’s most exciting — and lucrative — deals.
The digital media agent and newly promoted partner at WME closed one of Spotify’s first major exclusive podcast deals, with Joe Budden, in 2018 — a licensing deal that helped pave the way for the audio giant’s licensing deals with behemoths like The Joe Rogan Experience and Call Her Daddy, even as Budden ultimately walked away from the platform two years later to pursue a wider distribution model for his show.
Since then, the podcast dealmaking space has seen the entrance of new buyers, including Amazon, which struck a massive ad sales and distribution deal earlier this year with Hurwitz’s clients, Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley, who lead the Morbid podcast network. And thanks in part to the success of David S. Goyer’s Batman Unburied,...
Marissa Hurwitz has been at the forefront of some of podcasting’s most exciting — and lucrative — deals.
The digital media agent and newly promoted partner at WME closed one of Spotify’s first major exclusive podcast deals, with Joe Budden, in 2018 — a licensing deal that helped pave the way for the audio giant’s licensing deals with behemoths like The Joe Rogan Experience and Call Her Daddy, even as Budden ultimately walked away from the platform two years later to pursue a wider distribution model for his show.
Since then, the podcast dealmaking space has seen the entrance of new buyers, including Amazon, which struck a massive ad sales and distribution deal earlier this year with Hurwitz’s clients, Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley, who lead the Morbid podcast network. And thanks in part to the success of David S. Goyer’s Batman Unburied,...
- 12/7/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Crime Junkie, the true-crime podcast led by THR Next Gen 2022 honoree Ashley Flowers, was the most popular show on Apple Podcasts this year, the tech giant said on Monday.
To populate the lists, Apple looked at user listenership and engagement between November 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022. Crime Junkie, the flagship show of Flowers’ Audiochuck company, also took the top spots in the top followed and top shared categories, while Audiochuck was honored as the top free channel on Apple Podcasts for the year.
For podcast subscriptions, Morbid — a true-crime show hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley that has an exclusive ad sales and one-week windowing deal with Wondery and Amazon Music — landed at No. 1. Wondery retained its spot as the top subscriber channel on the platform.
Meanwhile, on Spotify, which released its annual Wrapped list on Nov. 30, the most listened-to podcast shows were led...
Crime Junkie, the true-crime podcast led by THR Next Gen 2022 honoree Ashley Flowers, was the most popular show on Apple Podcasts this year, the tech giant said on Monday.
To populate the lists, Apple looked at user listenership and engagement between November 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022. Crime Junkie, the flagship show of Flowers’ Audiochuck company, also took the top spots in the top followed and top shared categories, while Audiochuck was honored as the top free channel on Apple Podcasts for the year.
For podcast subscriptions, Morbid — a true-crime show hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley that has an exclusive ad sales and one-week windowing deal with Wondery and Amazon Music — landed at No. 1. Wondery retained its spot as the top subscriber channel on the platform.
Meanwhile, on Spotify, which released its annual Wrapped list on Nov. 30, the most listened-to podcast shows were led...
- 12/5/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Radio Silence is continuing their Hollywood horror domination, and this time, they're taking it to the small screen. The directing team behind "Scream" and "Ready or Not" are teaming up with Jennifer Yale to adapt the recently-released crime novel "The Butcher & The Wren" as a television series. Yale will serve as its showrunner, while Radio Silence will direct the episodes. Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone are expected to produce the series under their production banner Sister.
"The Butcher & The Wren" was written by Alaina Urquhart and follows a cat-and-mouse game between a mysterious serial killer and accomplished medical examiner Wren Muller. The killer seems to be obsessed with experimenting on their victims, leaving Wren unable to solve the case. When the killer decides to get riskier in their butcherings, the doctor is forced to play a twisted game in order to find justice.
In a statement, Urquhart expressed...
"The Butcher & The Wren" was written by Alaina Urquhart and follows a cat-and-mouse game between a mysterious serial killer and accomplished medical examiner Wren Muller. The killer seems to be obsessed with experimenting on their victims, leaving Wren unable to solve the case. When the killer decides to get riskier in their butcherings, the doctor is forced to play a twisted game in order to find justice.
In a statement, Urquhart expressed...
- 9/24/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The Butcher & The Wren, the crime novel written by Alaina Urquhart, co-host of the hit podcast Morbid, is set for a small screen adaptation.
Chernobyl producer Sister is adapting the book as a series with Dexter and See exec producer Jennifer Yale set to serve as showrunner and Radio Silence trio Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella, who are behind horror films such as Ready or Not and 2022’s Scream, directing.
The book, which has already sold 70,000 copies since its publication ten days ago, is published by Zando, the imprint launched by Molly Stern and back by Sister.
Sister, which is run by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, invested in the company in 2020 with Murdoch and Snider sitting on its board.
The Butcher and the Wren comes from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following his trail of victims, leveraging...
Chernobyl producer Sister is adapting the book as a series with Dexter and See exec producer Jennifer Yale set to serve as showrunner and Radio Silence trio Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella, who are behind horror films such as Ready or Not and 2022’s Scream, directing.
The book, which has already sold 70,000 copies since its publication ten days ago, is published by Zando, the imprint launched by Molly Stern and back by Sister.
Sister, which is run by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, invested in the company in 2020 with Murdoch and Snider sitting on its board.
The Butcher and the Wren comes from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following his trail of victims, leveraging...
- 9/23/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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Apple Podcasts on Thursday added charts for the top 100 most-subscribed shows and channels available on the platform.
Though Apple is not releasing specific subscriber numbers for each show or channel, Morbid — the true crime show hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley — is the top subscription show while Wondery+ is the top subscription channel in the U.S. and Canada, according to Apple, which bases these rankings on a mix of subscription numbers and listener engagement.
For top subscriber shows, Morbid is followed by SmartLess, hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes; Something Was Wrong, hosted by Tiffany Reese; Fed Up, narrated by Casey Wilson; and Crooked City: Youngstown, Oh, created by Marc Smerling.
In the U.S., Wondery+ is followed by the channels Sword and Scale +Plus Light, Sony’s The Binge, Luminary and Pushkin Industries’ Pushkin+.
Apple first launched...
Apple Podcasts on Thursday added charts for the top 100 most-subscribed shows and channels available on the platform.
Though Apple is not releasing specific subscriber numbers for each show or channel, Morbid — the true crime show hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley — is the top subscription show while Wondery+ is the top subscription channel in the U.S. and Canada, according to Apple, which bases these rankings on a mix of subscription numbers and listener engagement.
For top subscriber shows, Morbid is followed by SmartLess, hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes; Something Was Wrong, hosted by Tiffany Reese; Fed Up, narrated by Casey Wilson; and Crooked City: Youngstown, Oh, created by Marc Smerling.
In the U.S., Wondery+ is followed by the channels Sword and Scale +Plus Light, Sony’s The Binge, Luminary and Pushkin Industries’ Pushkin+.
Apple first launched...
- 8/18/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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