Podcasts
‘Bound’ Stars Downed Tequila and Chocolates Before Filming Lesbian Love Scenes
What’s the secret to Bound‘s steamy, same-sex love scenes? Tequila and truffles, it turns out. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly joined The Hollywood Reporter’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast for an episode about the making of the 1996 noir — the pulpy, lesbian thriller that served as a debut for Lilly and Lana Wachowski, three years […]
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Dick Van Dyke on Ageist Knocks Against Joe Biden: “I’ve Got All My Marbles, and I’m Old Enough to Be His Father”
Dick Van Dyke weighed in on whom he’ll be supporting in the upcoming election on a recent episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. “I’m going to support [Joe] Biden,” the 98-year-old actor, who publicly supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid four years ago, told THR‘s Scott Feinberg about the November election. When asked […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Dick Van Dyke on His Emmy-Contending 98th Birthday Special, His Greatest Roles and Ageist Criticisms of Biden
Dick Van Dyke, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a truly legendary screen actor. An Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner who was a 1995 inductee into the Television Hall of Fame, a 2012 recipient of the SAG life achievement award and a 2021 honoree at the Kennedy Center […]
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MrBallen Launches First Live Tour This Fall
Popular YouTuber and podcaster MrBallen will embark on his first live tour this fall. The tour, which kicks off Sept. 26 in Dallas, will see John Allen, aka MrBallen, share some of the true crime and unsettling stories that populate his YouTube channel and his show MrBallen: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories. After playing Dallas’ […]
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‘Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?!’ Podcast Team on Making the “Queerer Version of Clue”
“I would say I wanted to do a gay version of Clue, but Clue is the gayest thing ever,” writer Ted Malawer jokes about his new scripted podcast Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?! “So, I would just say a gayer, queerer version of Clue.” Malawer, along with cast members Michael Urie, Cheyenne Jackson, […]
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Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird to Relaunch Podcast ‘A Touch More Live’ With Vox Media
Former pro athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are relaunching their sports and pop culture podcast A Touch More Live with Vox Media. The podcast was originally launched on Instagram by the couple during the pandemic and will continue to feature a dissection of sports news and games, stories from their respective worlds of basketball […]
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Calista Flockhart on Dealing With Sudden ‘Ally McBeal’ Fame: “I Stopped Leaving My House”
Calista Flockhart is opening up about her titular role in the hit ’90s show Ally McBeal. In a conversation for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, the Feud: Capote vs. The Swans star discussed how her quick rise to fame thanks to Ally McBeal changed her daily life. Flockhart, who was in a play at […]
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Spotify Renews ‘The Louis Theroux Podcast,’ With Season 3 Launching in September (Exclusive)
Season three of Spotify’s The Louis Theroux Podcast will launch this September, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The British documentarian, author, journalist — and some would say, a national treasure — has topped both the Spotify and Apple charts since the podcast’s inception in 2023 as he connects with high-profile guests in his distinctively […]
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SiriusXM Inks New Podcast Deal With Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media
SiriusXM has struck a podcast partnership agreement with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media. The agreement gives SiriusXM exclusive advertising rights to Dirty Mo’s programming slate and will see Earnhardt’s podcast Dale Jr. Download airing twice a week on the SiriusXM NASCAR Radio channel beginning in early June. SiriusXM and Dirty Mo Media […]
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‘Cheers,’ ESPN Hobey Baker Podcasts Among Titles Announced at IAB Upfront
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) held their 2024 Podcast Upfront in New York on Thursday, May 9. IAB gathered brands, agencies and media buyers to provide an exclusive glimpse into upcoming podcast programing. The event, of which The Hollywood Reporter was a media sponsor, included presentations from Wondery, iHeartPodcasts, Acast, NPR, SiriusXM Media, Libsyn Ads, […]
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Podcast Advertising Growth Slowed in 2023, But This Year Looks Better So Far
After many years of double-digit growth, U.S. podcasting advertising revenue growth slowed down in 2023. But there is hope ahead. Per a new Interactive Advertising Bureau study, released Thursday and prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, podcast advertising revenue in the U.S. increased 5 percent to $1.9 billion in 2023, due to an overall challenging ad market that […]
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How Michelle Rodriguez Foresaw Blockbuster Success for ‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise
With one movie, Michelle Rodriguez went from a Toys “R” Us employee with zero acting experience to a bona fide movie star. That movie was 2000’s Girlfight. Karyn Kusama, the writer-director of that indie — which tied for the grand jury prize at Sundance — joined The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast to […]
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