Serial host Sarah Koenig will exec produce with Serial Productions’ Emmanuel Dzotsi and Alissa Shipp. The United States of America that centers on Muhammed Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the US Army during the Vietnam War. He wrote and directed the feature The Last Tree, which premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and is set to direct the Searchlight feature based on Leigh Montville’s novel Sting Like a Bee: Muhammed Ali vs. It was originally intended as a project for Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin but after he bowed out, James’ The SpringHill Company became involved and Amoo came in with a new take.Īmoo is writing, directing and exec producing. HBO had originally optioned it while Antholis was President of Miniseries and Cinemax Programming at HBO. The television adaptation will follow a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it illuminates the deeply flawed inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts every person it touches: cop, lawyer, and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.ĭeadline understands that a version of the project has been in the works for a couple of years. Ira Glass, host of “This American Life” who serves as an editor for “Serial,” commented that even the early drafts of season 3 left him with “this dumbass, fanboy ‘OMG it’s ‘Serial’! feeling” that reflected Koenig’s “deeply ‘Serial’-ish, super-methodical, annoyingly well-reasoned investigation into the deeper truths that underlie all the stories.The Sound & The Flurry: How Podcasts Are Becoming A Hollywood Gold Mine
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And for the past year I’ve had this urgent feeling of wanting to kind of hold open the courthouse door and wave people inside. “People who work in the system, or have been through the system, they know this. “Every case Emmanuel and I followed, there came a point where we thought: ‘No, this can’t be how it works,’” Koenig said in a prepared statement. The executive producer of “Serial” is Julie Snyder, who also created the company’s “S-Town” podcast with Brian Reed that launched last year. The show comes from Serial Productions, formed by the podcast’s original producers in 2017, and is partnered with “This American Life,” which is produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media. The duo say they documented various manipulations, distortions and justifications that they say produced a disparity between what people did and what they were punished for.
For the latest season, Koenig and reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi - an Ohio native and former “This American Life” fellow - spent more than a year in the city, looking at small criminal cases like marijuana possession and disorderly conduct and more serious ones including felonies. Producers said they chose Cleveland because they were given an unusual level of access to record inside courtrooms, judges’ chambers, hallways and attorneys’ offices. Now, with season 3, “Serial” tells the stories of ordinary cases as they wind through the justice system in Cleveland. The first two seasons of “Serial” have been downloaded more than 340 million times. (The show led to a judge’s ruling granting Syed a retrial, which remains pending.) Season 2 of “Serial” documented the story of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. In the first season, Sarah Koenig narrated an investigation into the 2000 conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in Baltimore. When “Serial” first launched in 2014, the spinoff of NPR’s “This American Life” became an overnight podcasting success. Instead of telling a single story over the course of the show, as the first two seasons did, the third run will follow many different stories with some spanning two or even three episodes. 20, with subsequent episodes to be released weekly on Thursdays. The first two episodes of “Serial” season 3 will debut Sept.
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The team behind podcast hit “ Serial” are premiering the latest season of the investigative series - digging into the inner workings of Cleveland’s criminal-court system - later this month.