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September brought a rash of film festivals (well, maybe "rash" is the wrong word; that sounds like a skin condition. How about a "slew" instead?). In any case, it was one film festival after another this month, beginning with Venice, continuing with Telluride, then Toronto, and for documentary…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Kyle Prue has partnered with iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players on Get Worse with Kyle Prue, a new weekly podcast launching with two episodes on October 6. Get Worse is an “advice” show where Prue responds to write-in questions while interviewing fellow comics…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedians Leslie Liao and Jason Cheny have teamed with All Things Comedy on Happy Fun Times with Leslie Liao and Jason Cheny, a new podcast that will release weekly on Tuesdays, everywhere podcasts are found, beginning September 29. On the pod, Liao and Cheny come together — sometimes…

The oldest human being alive right now, in case you've been wondering, is Ethel Caterham of Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, England, who turned 117 in August. She succeeded to the title of oldest person in the world after the death of Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian nun who died in 2025 at the age…

EXCLUSIVE: Bobbi Althoff’s The Really Good Podcast is making a return with a brand new season that kicks off on Sept. 30. Yes, we know, we wrote that the video podcast was coming to an end back in July 2025. While the billion-plus-viewed Althoff shortly rebranded a new interview series as Not Th…

The zombie – slow moving, with sallow complexion, hollow eyes, rotting teeth and a hunger for human flesh – has been lumbering through Hollywood movies for decades now. In fact, the first representation of the undead creatures came in the film White Zombie, released all the way back in 1932. That…

EXCLUSIVE: Almost Friday Media is bringing the absurdity of classic ’90s courtroom television into the modern digital age with Petty Cases, a new video podcast hosted by stand-ups Willie Simon and Steve Furey that premieres on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts on Tuesday, September…

EXCLUSIVE: After laying bare Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Jeffrey Epstein in a bombshell interview, Emily Maitlis is now delving deeper into the world of the deceased child sex offender. The former BBC presenter will host A Very British Epstein for UK audio company Global. It will trace…

Adrian McElwee, son of the filmmaker Ross McElwee, was such an interesting child, full of precocious wisdom. For instance, when his father asked young Adrian during a seaside trip, "Why do you think you like fishing so much?" the boy spontaneously replied, "I don't know. I just love the deep…

Carisa Hendrix, the Canadian-born comedian, magician and variety artist, has a business mind as unusual as her career origin story. It’s a story that took Hendrix from performing at haunted houses for $50 a night as a teenager to building a global touring business around Lucy Darling, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Morgan (Merlin) and Katie Leung (Harry Potter) will narrate The Haunted Library, a podcast about based around classic horror stories. The concept is for the pair to read titles from a fictional Gothic library, the doors to which open on September 21, with BBC Studios Audio…

EXCLUSIVE: The Rest is Entertainment maker Goalhanger is behind an audio drama series that it is billing as the “British Bourne.” Bear Hunt is the first release from Goalhanger Drama, a new scripted unit for Gary Lineker, Tony Pastor and Jack Davenport’s UK-based media business that launches…