Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 234, dated November 12, 2019.
The podcast–entertainment industrial complex, revisited. Should I ever run out of ideas for columns, I’d probably get decent mileage out of revisiting older pieces with the purposes of revising, updating, and/or straight-up retracting. This would be one of those columns, except it’s not one born out of an ideas deficit. There’s a legitimate news peg here, one that brings into focus something that’s been floating in the background for a while now.
That peg is this recent Deadline story, which reports on a specific development that functions as a single data point within a larger trend. Here’s the news:
After adapting four podcasts into high-profile TV series, Homecoming, Dirty John and the upcoming Dr. Death and Joe Exotic, UCP is getting into the podcasting business itself with the launch of UCP Audio.
The podcast network is set to launch in 2020 with The End Up, a scripted…
