Exclusive: Epix comedy documentary series Unprotected Sets is moving from television to podcasting with a 12-episode audio series.
MGM and Audio Up, the podcasting company that the studio invested in earlier this year, will launch the series on August 5.
It is the latest MGM series to move into the podcast form after the company launched audio series based on its unscripted franchises including Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court and Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.
The Unprotected Sets TV series ran for 12 episodes, launching in October 2018, on Epix. Exec produced by Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz, it featured rising comedians including Zainab Johnson, Mia Jackson, Becky Braunstein and Paris Sashay.
Epix President Michael Wright inherited the series when he took the network job and said he “loved it” but told Deadline last year that he wasn’t sure that a weekly comedy series works on Epix.
The podcast (listen...
MGM and Audio Up, the podcasting company that the studio invested in earlier this year, will launch the series on August 5.
It is the latest MGM series to move into the podcast form after the company launched audio series based on its unscripted franchises including Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court and Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.
The Unprotected Sets TV series ran for 12 episodes, launching in October 2018, on Epix. Exec produced by Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz, it featured rising comedians including Zainab Johnson, Mia Jackson, Becky Braunstein and Paris Sashay.
Epix President Michael Wright inherited the series when he took the network job and said he “loved it” but told Deadline last year that he wasn’t sure that a weekly comedy series works on Epix.
The podcast (listen...
- 7/30/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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