Harlequin romance novels are getting a new lease of life in audio form.
The company has struck a deal with podcast company Audio Up, which is behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring, to adapt a number of its books into audio series.
Harlequin is the company responsible for the books behind series such as Sweet Magnolias and Virgin River. The plan is to turn 52 books into podcasts.
First up is Montana Mavericks, a scripted dramatic podcast based on In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick, written by Christine Rimmer.
The series is set in Bronco Heights with its small-town charm and Western allure, where Melanie Driscoll, seeking a fresh start, returns home from the big city into the waiting arms of Gabe Abernathy, a rugged cowboy from the town’s most powerful family with secrets of his own.
It will also have an original soundtrack from a number of rising stars...
The company has struck a deal with podcast company Audio Up, which is behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring, to adapt a number of its books into audio series.
Harlequin is the company responsible for the books behind series such as Sweet Magnolias and Virgin River. The plan is to turn 52 books into podcasts.
First up is Montana Mavericks, a scripted dramatic podcast based on In Search of the Long-Lost Maverick, written by Christine Rimmer.
The series is set in Bronco Heights with its small-town charm and Western allure, where Melanie Driscoll, seeking a fresh start, returns home from the big city into the waiting arms of Gabe Abernathy, a rugged cowboy from the town’s most powerful family with secrets of his own.
It will also have an original soundtrack from a number of rising stars...
- 10/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
From Inventing Anna to a newly invented career. On Tuesday, Anna Delvey — the convicted fraudster and fake socialite who served as inspiration for Netflix’s Inventing Anna — announced that she’ll be releasing a weekly podcast and a debut single.
Delvey, who’s currently on house arrest, will work with podcast company Audio Up on The Anna Delvey Show, a new project which will feature interviews with the likes of Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Julia Cumming, Jeremy Harris, and Whitney Cummings.
Given her legal status and house arrest, the project...
Delvey, who’s currently on house arrest, will work with podcast company Audio Up on The Anna Delvey Show, a new project which will feature interviews with the likes of Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Julia Cumming, Jeremy Harris, and Whitney Cummings.
Given her legal status and house arrest, the project...
- 5/30/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Anna Delvey, the fake heiress who was the inspiration behind Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix series Inventing Anna, is getting into the podcast business.
Delvey, who is currently under house arrest after being convicted of a series of crimes including attempted grand larceny, is launching a weekly podcast series – The Anna Delvey Show.
She has teamed up with Audio Up, the company behind The Playboy Interview, and Sean Glass’ Reunion Audio on the project.
The series will feature guests including Julia Cumming, Whitney Cummings, Julia Fox, Jeremy Harris, Emily Ratajkowski and Kenny Schachter. Listen to the trailer below.
It will be recorded from Delvey’s East Village apartment given her house arrest. Delvey and her guests will discuss traditional concepts of right and wrong while unpacking what it means to be a rule breaker in 2023.
Delvey will also use the podcast to debut her first single, featuring original words and lyrics...
Delvey, who is currently under house arrest after being convicted of a series of crimes including attempted grand larceny, is launching a weekly podcast series – The Anna Delvey Show.
She has teamed up with Audio Up, the company behind The Playboy Interview, and Sean Glass’ Reunion Audio on the project.
The series will feature guests including Julia Cumming, Whitney Cummings, Julia Fox, Jeremy Harris, Emily Ratajkowski and Kenny Schachter. Listen to the trailer below.
It will be recorded from Delvey’s East Village apartment given her house arrest. Delvey and her guests will discuss traditional concepts of right and wrong while unpacking what it means to be a rule breaker in 2023.
Delvey will also use the podcast to debut her first single, featuring original words and lyrics...
- 5/30/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hollywood set it sights on the wild story of fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and his Ftx empire last year with the likes of Apple, Amazon and Vice all getting in on the action.
Now Bankman-Fried’s mentor, Anthony Scaramucci Jr, the investment banker best known as President Donald Trump’s short-lived Press Secretary, is set to open up about his experiences with Sbf in a new podcast series.
Audio Up, the company behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring and The Playboy Interviews, is launching podcast series Tales from the Crypto.
The six-episode series will explore Scaramucci’s work with Sbf and Ftx before transitioning into a twice-weekly podcast series about the world of crypto.
The story will explain how only a few months ago, Bankman-Fried and Scaramucci were on top of the world, traipsing through the Middle East on a grand fundraising tour after Sbf bought 30% of Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital.
Now Bankman-Fried’s mentor, Anthony Scaramucci Jr, the investment banker best known as President Donald Trump’s short-lived Press Secretary, is set to open up about his experiences with Sbf in a new podcast series.
Audio Up, the company behind Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring and The Playboy Interviews, is launching podcast series Tales from the Crypto.
The six-episode series will explore Scaramucci’s work with Sbf and Ftx before transitioning into a twice-weekly podcast series about the world of crypto.
The story will explain how only a few months ago, Bankman-Fried and Scaramucci were on top of the world, traipsing through the Middle East on a grand fundraising tour after Sbf bought 30% of Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital.
- 2/23/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Two major figures from the literary world – Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh – are getting together to create a scripted podcast.
Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, and Trainspotting author Welsh have struck a deal with podcast studio Audio Up to produce The Reckonings.
In 2020, it emerged that the pair were working together on a television series – American Tabloid – with British production company Burning Wheel Productions.
The logline of the podcast is being kept under wraps although don’t bet against drug use and violence.
Easton Ellis is also behind books such as Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms as well as upcoming book The Shards. He wrote and produced Paul Schrader-directed 2013 feature The Canyons starring Lindsay Lohan and hosts his own interview podcast series.
Irvine Welsh is best known for Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film starring Ewan McGregor, as well as Filth, Glue,...
Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, and Trainspotting author Welsh have struck a deal with podcast studio Audio Up to produce The Reckonings.
In 2020, it emerged that the pair were working together on a television series – American Tabloid – with British production company Burning Wheel Productions.
The logline of the podcast is being kept under wraps although don’t bet against drug use and violence.
Easton Ellis is also behind books such as Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms as well as upcoming book The Shards. He wrote and produced Paul Schrader-directed 2013 feature The Canyons starring Lindsay Lohan and hosts his own interview podcast series.
Irvine Welsh is best known for Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film starring Ewan McGregor, as well as Filth, Glue,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Audible has snapped up the rights to three podcasts from Audio Up – two series created by James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of American literature, and The Playboy Interviews.
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
The Amazon-owned company will launch two Ellroy adaptations – Hollywood Death Trip and American Tabloid – and The Playboy Interviews, which features the voice talents of the likes of Michael Shannon and Taye Diggs, as Audible Originals.
It comes on the back of a deal between the two companies for Maejor Frequency, a series fronted by Justin Bieber and Drake collaborator Brandon Green.
Hollywood Death Trip will launch first on July 7 2022. The five-part series will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Range Media Partners, which manages stars including Emilia Clarke, Bradley Cooper, Gabrielle Union and Michael Fassbender, is getting into the audio space.
The company has signed a partnership with fast-growing podcast company Audio Up that will include Range helping Audio Up adapt its slate of podcasts, which include Anthony Anderson-fronted Sonic Leap and James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip, for film and television. The deal will also see Audio Up create branded audio content for Range clients.
It is the latest tie-up between a podcast company and a TV/film firm, following the likes of Chernin Entertainment and Spotify signing a first-look deal.
Range will package talent and other content opportunities for Audio Up’s IP and will be designated as the studio or executive producer on all Audio Up projects across film, tv, or non-scripted television series and features.
The two companies have entered into early discussions...
The company has signed a partnership with fast-growing podcast company Audio Up that will include Range helping Audio Up adapt its slate of podcasts, which include Anthony Anderson-fronted Sonic Leap and James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip, for film and television. The deal will also see Audio Up create branded audio content for Range clients.
It is the latest tie-up between a podcast company and a TV/film firm, following the likes of Chernin Entertainment and Spotify signing a first-look deal.
Range will package talent and other content opportunities for Audio Up’s IP and will be designated as the studio or executive producer on all Audio Up projects across film, tv, or non-scripted television series and features.
The two companies have entered into early discussions...
- 10/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: James Ellroy, the demon dog of American crime fiction, is doubling down on the world of podcasting.
Ellroy, who Deadline revealed in April was working on true crime audio series Hollywood Death Trip, has teamed up with podcasting firm Audio Up to adapt his American Tabloid novel into a scripted podcast series.
The idea is that the L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author and the Jared Gutstadt-run company are going to go where many others – including David Fincher, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks and James Franco – have tried and failed before and take his book from the page. But rather than make it as a film or a TV series, he’s going to turn it into a 12-part audio project.
Ellroy will adapt himself with Audio Up’s Cco Jimmy Jellinek. The series, which will be exec produced by Gutstadt, Jellinek and COO Phil Alberstat, will...
Ellroy, who Deadline revealed in April was working on true crime audio series Hollywood Death Trip, has teamed up with podcasting firm Audio Up to adapt his American Tabloid novel into a scripted podcast series.
The idea is that the L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author and the Jared Gutstadt-run company are going to go where many others – including David Fincher, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks and James Franco – have tried and failed before and take his book from the page. But rather than make it as a film or a TV series, he’s going to turn it into a 12-part audio project.
Ellroy will adapt himself with Audio Up’s Cco Jimmy Jellinek. The series, which will be exec produced by Gutstadt, Jellinek and COO Phil Alberstat, will...
- 9/8/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A slew of stars including Rosanna Arquette, Taye Diggs, Gael Garcia Bernal and Maya Hawke, are to portray famous figures across history in a new podcast series from Playboy and Audio Up.
The two companies are launching Playboy Interview, an audio series that features teleplay-style re-enactments of the most iconic Playboy interview conversations.
Other stars also include Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Kevin Corrigan and Gina Gershon.
The series, which is set to debut in September, will see Arquette voice feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, Diggs will portray Muhammad Ali, Garcia Bernal plays Salvador Dali, Shannon is Tennessee Williams, Shea Whigham is John Wayne, Maya Hawke is Helen Gurley Brown, Kevin Corrigan is Frank Sinatra and Gina Gershon is Oriana Fallaci.
The first two episodes will feature “conversations” with Friedan and Ali.
The series is based on the classic Playboy Interview, which started in 1962 with Alex Haley’s conversation with Miles Davis...
The two companies are launching Playboy Interview, an audio series that features teleplay-style re-enactments of the most iconic Playboy interview conversations.
Other stars also include Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Kevin Corrigan and Gina Gershon.
The series, which is set to debut in September, will see Arquette voice feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, Diggs will portray Muhammad Ali, Garcia Bernal plays Salvador Dali, Shannon is Tennessee Williams, Shea Whigham is John Wayne, Maya Hawke is Helen Gurley Brown, Kevin Corrigan is Frank Sinatra and Gina Gershon is Oriana Fallaci.
The first two episodes will feature “conversations” with Friedan and Ali.
The series is based on the classic Playboy Interview, which started in 1962 with Alex Haley’s conversation with Miles Davis...
- 6/24/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: James Ellroy, the Demon Dog of American literature, is time-tripping back to hellacious Hollyweird in a five-part podcast series.
The L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author has teamed up with podcast firm Audio Up – the company behind Where The Bodies Are Buried and Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa – to produce Hollywood Death Trip, a series that will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Irv Kupcinet, famed columnist and friend to mobsters. Stephanie tells the haunting tale of Stephanie Gorman, who met an untimely end in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965. Clash By Night fast forwards to 1976, to the...
The L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia author has teamed up with podcast firm Audio Up – the company behind Where The Bodies Are Buried and Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa – to produce Hollywood Death Trip, a series that will take listeners on a nocturnal tour of murder and mayhem in LA.
The series, based on his own true crime reporting, will be narrated by Ellroy and will tell the story of a slew of memorable mid-century murders.
Episodes include Glamour Jungle, which explores the 1963 unsolved murder of Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Irv Kupcinet, famed columnist and friend to mobsters. Stephanie tells the haunting tale of Stephanie Gorman, who met an untimely end in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1965. Clash By Night fast forwards to 1976, to the...
- 4/14/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dennis Quaid recently saved a cat, named Dennis Quaid, from an animal shelter in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The actor, who starred in Amazon’s Goliath and has upcoming feature Reagan, is to turn the story into a non-scripted TV project after teaming with ITV America’s Leftfield Pictures, producer of History’s Alone and Forged In Fire.
Saving Dennis Quaid will follow the actor, who also recently starred in feature films A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey, and his business partner Jimmy Jellinek as they set out on a mission to adopt the cat.
The series, which is being taken out to broadcasters imminently, will document the journey and the ensuing crusade to bring the feline from Lynchburg to Los Angeles.
Quaid recently co-founded a podcast company, Audio Up Media, alongside Jared Gutstadt, and the story will also be turned into a companion podcast mini-series. It will sit alongside...
The actor, who starred in Amazon’s Goliath and has upcoming feature Reagan, is to turn the story into a non-scripted TV project after teaming with ITV America’s Leftfield Pictures, producer of History’s Alone and Forged In Fire.
Saving Dennis Quaid will follow the actor, who also recently starred in feature films A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey, and his business partner Jimmy Jellinek as they set out on a mission to adopt the cat.
The series, which is being taken out to broadcasters imminently, will document the journey and the ensuing crusade to bring the feline from Lynchburg to Los Angeles.
Quaid recently co-founded a podcast company, Audio Up Media, alongside Jared Gutstadt, and the story will also be turned into a companion podcast mini-series. It will sit alongside...
- 8/24/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Audio Up, the podcast company co-founded by actor Dennis Quaid, has made a number of senior hires including the appointment of reality veteran David Hurwitz.
Hurwitz, who has exec produced series including ABC’s Don’t, NBC’s Fear Factor and Ellen’s Game of Games, joins the company as Head of Content.
This comes after the business, which is led by Jingle Punks founder Jared Gutstadt, scored investment from MGM and publishing and talent management company Primary Wave.
“The share of ear between people spending their time on Spotify, Apple, and countless other platforms, is now a full arm’s race. Whoever has the best content and the best talent, wins. We’re aiming to be the first in that race,” said Dennis Quaid.
Quaid, who recently starred in Amazon’s Goliath and Midway, is also chief artist-in-residence at the company, which made his podcast interview series, The Dennissance.
Audio...
Hurwitz, who has exec produced series including ABC’s Don’t, NBC’s Fear Factor and Ellen’s Game of Games, joins the company as Head of Content.
This comes after the business, which is led by Jingle Punks founder Jared Gutstadt, scored investment from MGM and publishing and talent management company Primary Wave.
“The share of ear between people spending their time on Spotify, Apple, and countless other platforms, is now a full arm’s race. Whoever has the best content and the best talent, wins. We’re aiming to be the first in that race,” said Dennis Quaid.
Quaid, who recently starred in Amazon’s Goliath and Midway, is also chief artist-in-residence at the company, which made his podcast interview series, The Dennissance.
Audio...
- 6/17/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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