The New York Times and Serial Productions today announced that Serial will return with a new nine-episode season on Thursday, March 28. In Season Four, host Sarah Koenig is joined by Dana Chivvis to tell the history of Guantanamo through the personal stories of those on the ground who know things the rest of us don’t.
This year marks Serial’s 10th anniversary; the first season aired in 2014 and revolutionized the podcast industry.
Listeners can subscribe to “Serial” wherever podcasts are available and on the Nyt Audio app. The first two episodes launch on Thursday, March 28, with episodes released weekly after that.
“It’s fitting that this show is coming out on Serial’s 10th anniversary, because we’ve been trying to make a show about Guantanamo for almost a decade,” said Sarah Koenig. “Dana and I tried for years to figure out how to make a story that captures...
This year marks Serial’s 10th anniversary; the first season aired in 2014 and revolutionized the podcast industry.
Listeners can subscribe to “Serial” wherever podcasts are available and on the Nyt Audio app. The first two episodes launch on Thursday, March 28, with episodes released weekly after that.
“It’s fitting that this show is coming out on Serial’s 10th anniversary, because we’ve been trying to make a show about Guantanamo for almost a decade,” said Sarah Koenig. “Dana and I tried for years to figure out how to make a story that captures...
- 3/1/2024
- Podnews.net
Todd Field's "Tár," easily one of the best films of 2022, was a long time in the making. It is the first feature film Field made since "Little Children," which came out in 2006. In the intervening 16 years, Field attempted to make multiple projects, most of them based on his favorite books, to no avail. Among the filmmaker's unmade projects were an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," a political thriller he co-wrote with Joan Didion, an autobiographical film about his childhood experiences working for the defunct Portland baseball team called the Mavericks, and a biography of Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner of war. It wouldn't be until "Tár" that his filmmaking career would finally pick up again, his third feature as a director, having made his debut in 2001 with the Best Picture Oscar nominee "In the Bedroom."
Prior to 2001, Field appeared in numerous films as an actor. Most notably,...
Prior to 2001, Field appeared in numerous films as an actor. Most notably,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
At the end of the 1970s, while working as a bat boy for the Portland Mavericks, Todd Field had a bright idea: why not make a stringy-shaped gum (call it Big League Chew) so that kids could mimic the tobacco chewing players on the plate? In 1980 he and his partner sold it to Wrigley’s. He was 16 years old.
Field knows a lot about ideas. He probably knows a phrase like “inside baseball,” too. You’ll find evidence of both in TÁR, his first film in 16 years. For much of its first hour Cate Blanchett (eating up scenery as the eponymous conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic) is made to deliver slightly unconvincing takes on the world of classical music. For the next two she is totally remarkable, stretching out those talents in a work that responds in turn. TÁR is an effort of tremendous skill and restraint, beginning with a...
Field knows a lot about ideas. He probably knows a phrase like “inside baseball,” too. You’ll find evidence of both in TÁR, his first film in 16 years. For much of its first hour Cate Blanchett (eating up scenery as the eponymous conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic) is made to deliver slightly unconvincing takes on the world of classical music. For the next two she is totally remarkable, stretching out those talents in a work that responds in turn. TÁR is an effort of tremendous skill and restraint, beginning with a...
- 9/1/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Three-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Todd Field has emerged with his first film in 15 years since the release of “Little Children,” and it’s set to star Cate Blanchett. The “In the Bedroom” director and Blanchett have paired for “Tar,” an original drama that Field wrote and will direct for Focus Features. While the plot details are under wraps, the film is reported to be set in Berlin. Production is aiming to kick off this September. Deadline first reported the news. Field will also produce “Tar” under his Standard Film Company banner alongside Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert for Emjag Productions.
Todd Field broke out of the American Film Institute to direct his explosive feature debut “In the Bedroom,” starrring Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, and Marissa Tomei in Oscar-nominated roles. The drama about parents grappling with the death of their son after an incident involving his girlfriend earned rave reviews and...
Todd Field broke out of the American Film Institute to direct his explosive feature debut “In the Bedroom,” starrring Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, and Marissa Tomei in Oscar-nominated roles. The drama about parents grappling with the death of their son after an incident involving his girlfriend earned rave reviews and...
- 4/12/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The first season of Serial, the explosively popular podcast from host Sarah Koenig and co-creator Julie Snyder, told the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee, the 18-year-old high school student murdered and left in the woods of Maryland. Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life plus 30 years. After the series aired, he succeeded in getting a retrial. That’s set to commence in December. In the second season, Koenig and Snyder took on the bizarre case of Bowe Bergdahl, the army private...
- 11/17/2018
- by Tana Ganeva
- Rollingstone.com
The beginning of “Serial” Season 3, which focuses on daily life within a Cleveland courthouse, opens like the beginning of a novel. Only, instead of a riveting crime yarn introducing the audience to hardscrabble detectives and unsolved murders, it starts with a bunch of buildings. That the intro is concerned with spatial architecture just as much as the people involved in what goes on inside them is at once a signal that Season 3 is a bit of a departure for the show, but one that still maintains the podcast’s impeccable attention to detail.
Instead of following a single crime or unexplained decision as they did in their inaugural two collections of episodes, this next batch of stories from “Serial” is focused more on an institution. Embedding in that Cleveland courthouse, the aim of this season is to present a representative sample of how our current American judicial system functions. Some...
Instead of following a single crime or unexplained decision as they did in their inaugural two collections of episodes, this next batch of stories from “Serial” is focused more on an institution. Embedding in that Cleveland courthouse, the aim of this season is to present a representative sample of how our current American judicial system functions. Some...
- 9/21/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
When “Serial” Season 2 entered the last week of its 11-episode run, one of its central closing questions was, “Can we prove that anyone died in the search for Bowe Bergdahl?” In trying to determine the answer, host Sarah Koenig spoke to a high-ranking military official about the circumstances surrounding the rescue mission to recover the Army Private kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and returned home after five years in captivity.
This high-ranking military official, contrary to the record of any official military investigation, states unequivocally that the effort to bring back Bergdahl cost the lives of American soldiers. He gets combative when Koenig presses him on details. She asks him about the decision to continue the search for Bergdahl in Afghanistan when a number of signs pointed to him being held in Pakistan. He takes a legitimate question about the burden of proof in military intelligence and uses it as...
This high-ranking military official, contrary to the record of any official military investigation, states unequivocally that the effort to bring back Bergdahl cost the lives of American soldiers. He gets combative when Koenig presses him on details. She asks him about the decision to continue the search for Bergdahl in Afghanistan when a number of signs pointed to him being held in Pakistan. He takes a legitimate question about the burden of proof in military intelligence and uses it as...
- 9/18/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Serial, one of the most popular podcasts of all time, is changing course for its upcoming third season — rather than focusing a single extraordinary case, as it did in its first two runs, the show’s new episodes will chronicle a full year inside the Cleveland, Ohio criminal court system. The first two installments will premiere September 20th, and subsequent episodes will follow weekly on Thursdays.
“If you’ve listened to Serial before, you probably know that our first season was about a murder case in Baltimore,” host Sarah Koenig...
“If you’ve listened to Serial before, you probably know that our first season was about a murder case in Baltimore,” host Sarah Koenig...
- 9/5/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Podcast phenomenon Serial is back for a third season and is set to explore the criminal court system in Cleveland. The podcast, which today debuted its first trailer for the forthcoming season, starts September 20.
The new season, which is once again hosted by Sarah Koenig, will tackle criminal court procedures after receiving permission to record inside courtrooms, judges’ chambers and attorneys’ offices. Koenigh will work with radio host and reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi on the season.
Serial’s first two seasons, which covered the murder of Hae Min Lee and imprisonment of Adnan Syed in season one and the case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in season two, has been downloaded more than 340M times. It is produced by Serial Productions in association with This American Life and Chicago Public Media and exec produced by Julie Synder.
“Every case Emmanuel and I followed, there came a point where we thought: No, this...
The new season, which is once again hosted by Sarah Koenig, will tackle criminal court procedures after receiving permission to record inside courtrooms, judges’ chambers and attorneys’ offices. Koenigh will work with radio host and reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi on the season.
Serial’s first two seasons, which covered the murder of Hae Min Lee and imprisonment of Adnan Syed in season one and the case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in season two, has been downloaded more than 340M times. It is produced by Serial Productions in association with This American Life and Chicago Public Media and exec produced by Julie Synder.
“Every case Emmanuel and I followed, there came a point where we thought: No, this...
- 9/5/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The central character of “Serial” season one has had his murder conviction vacated 19 years after his arrest. Adnan Syed will receive a new trial for allegedly kidnapping and committing the first-degree murder of Hae Min Lee, 18, his ex-girlfriend and former classmate. Maryland Court of Special Appeals panel announced its ruling Thursday. Lee’s body was found a month after her January 1999 disappearance, in Baltimore’s Leakin Park.
Today, Adnan Syed’s appeal in his case was affirmed by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. https://t.co/kMALyCmTGq
— Serial (@serial) March 29, 2018
According to the three-judge panel, Syed’s attorney during his original trial failed him by neglecting to call witness Asia McClain — a “Serial” source — to the stand. If true, McClain’s alibi “would have made it impossible for Syed to have murdered Hae.” Syed, now in his late 30s, served 16 years of a life sentence for the crime.
Today, Adnan Syed’s appeal in his case was affirmed by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. https://t.co/kMALyCmTGq
— Serial (@serial) March 29, 2018
According to the three-judge panel, Syed’s attorney during his original trial failed him by neglecting to call witness Asia McClain — a “Serial” source — to the stand. If true, McClain’s alibi “would have made it impossible for Syed to have murdered Hae.” Syed, now in his late 30s, served 16 years of a life sentence for the crime.
- 3/29/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of acclaimed podcast “Serial,” was been granted a new trial by Maryland appeals court.
The last update from Syed’s case came in 2016, when a lower court judge ruled that he deserved another trial because his attorney failed to cross-examine a key witness, a cell tower expert, about the reliability of data that placed Syed’s cellphone near the burial site.
Maryland prosecutors appealed the ruling, but on Thursday, a panel upheld the grant for retrial.
In 2000, Syed was convicted of murdering girlfriend Hae Min Lee and spent 16 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. Syed’s defense challenged the testimony of an At&T engineer whose sworn statements on cellphone data were used to link Syed to the park where Lee’s body was buried. The engineer, Abraham Waranowitz, said he was not shown a crucial disclaimer about cell tower data that...
The last update from Syed’s case came in 2016, when a lower court judge ruled that he deserved another trial because his attorney failed to cross-examine a key witness, a cell tower expert, about the reliability of data that placed Syed’s cellphone near the burial site.
Maryland prosecutors appealed the ruling, but on Thursday, a panel upheld the grant for retrial.
In 2000, Syed was convicted of murdering girlfriend Hae Min Lee and spent 16 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. Syed’s defense challenged the testimony of an At&T engineer whose sworn statements on cellphone data were used to link Syed to the park where Lee’s body was buried. The engineer, Abraham Waranowitz, said he was not shown a crucial disclaimer about cell tower data that...
- 3/29/2018
- by Kirsten Chuba
- Variety Film + TV
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