TAL Announces New Podcast: 'Serial'

This American Life is expanding its brand by producing a new podcast called Serial to debut this fall.

Writing on the TAL blog, Ira Glass says:

"We’re starting a new show! We’ve never done this before. It’s coming out in the fall. It’s called Serial and it’ll be a weekly podcast, not a radio show at all. The main way it’s different from This American Life is that instead of bringing you a different theme each week, every episode of Serial will bring you back not just to the same theme but to the same story, to bring you the next chapter. We’re starting with a crime story, that’ll run for about a dozen episodes. Our hope is that it’ll play like a great HBO or Netflix series, where you get caught up with the characters and the thing unfolds week after week, but with a true story, and no pictures. Like House of Cards, but you can enjoy it while you’re driving."

Serial is produced by TAL's Senior Producer Julie Snyder. Sarah Koenig will host.