Now, the Game Of Thrones star has co-created his own podcast series, Audible Original crime drama Radioman, written by Joe Derrick. He says he has loved audio ever since he started as an actor in the early 1990s, working in radio drama in Denmark. “But a podcast is much more exciting for them to listen to.”Īctor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau recalls listening to several different podcasts during the pandemic lockdowns. “It’s much harder to take a script out and to get all the dominoes to fall because people aren’t going to read that script,” he says. Hoff links podcasts’ growing popularity to the observation younger generations are reading less and less these days. They are bingeable in a way that TV dramas must also be to succeed. Successful podcasts also build in plenty of twists and turns as well as cliffhangers, to keep audiences tuned in from episode to episode. “There’s an intimacy to them - people can’t shake these things.” Showrunners and actors “fall in love with these shows”, he says and become determined to make them work. Hoff reckons that podcasts’ ability to “emotionally connect” with audiences is another reason why so many are picked up for adaptation. The company also has a first-look deal with Sister, which has optioned The Bering, about the rescue of 47 crew aboard a sinking Alaskan fishing boat. These include true-crime tales Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen with eOne and Run, Bambi, Run for Apple TV+. Podcast producer Campside Media, which is part of independent studio group Sister ( Chernobyl, The Power), is only two years old but has seven of its podcasts under option for TV, according to co-founder Adam Hoff. “They are episodic shows that provide the basis for a structure that might work, even though it’s a different medium.” On top of that, he points out, successful podcasts have a built-in audience that can follow the adaptation to TV. These include two for FX: Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez And Football Inc on the rise and fall of the NFL superstar, for Ryan Murphy’s new scripted anthology series American Sports Story and Dying For Sex, the true story of a terminally ill woman who left her husband to explore her sexuality.Įxplaining why so many podcasts are now being adapted for television, Lewy says they are more than just source material. And Marshall Lewy, chief content officer at Wondery, says the company has several more of its podcasts in TV development. Wondery was an early pioneer in this field: its true-crime podcast Dirty John was adapted back in 2018 by Bravo. Carole - were both adapted from Wondery podcasts. Death and Tiger King scripted show Joe Vs. Two recent Peacock series - neurosurgeon crime drama Dr. Its true-crime podcast The Shrink Next Door also inspired the Apple TV+ show of the same name, starring Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell. Hulu’s The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and Apple TV+’s WeCrashed, with Jared Leto playing WeWork’s charismatic founder Adam Neumann, were based on the eponymous podcasts by ABC News and Wondery respectively.Īmazon Music-owned podcast network Wondery has emerged as a key source of material for TV. Starz’s Watergate break-in series Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, drew inspiration from Slate Plus’s history podcast Slow Burn. Podcasts have inspired many of this year’s highest-profile TV dramas. Yet the printed word is facing stiff competition, with the booming podcast industry emerging as a popular source of material for scripted TV producers. Books have a long track record for inspiring TV dramas, providing the storylines and characters for countless screen adaptations - and handsome paycheques for authors when their work is adapted.
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