I’ve expanded and contracted coverage of new podcasts. Each Friday, the This Week in Podcasts newsletter includes a curated list of the most notable and best new podcasts of the previous seven days. Think high-charting debuts, pods with buzz and my own critical preference, with commentary.
This is my staging ground, a longer, evolving list of new and upcoming podcasts for 2021.
I’ll include details about each podcast when I can. Sometimes, though, you’ll find just a title, or even a snippet of information about a podcast in development. It’s a living page and I’ll update it regularly.
Last Update: June3, 11:04 p.m.
Written Off (July)
The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra (July 27)
The Flame (Summer)
Let Genius Burn (Summer)
- The pod “examines the life of Louisa May Alcott from many angles.”
Toxic: The Britney Spears Story (Summer)
Sugar Maple (October)
Gates McFadden InvestiGAtes: who do you think you are? (TBD)
All the Hacks (TBD)
The Midnight Miracle (TBD)
Glamour Jungle (TBD)
Alive Again (TBD)
- It’s the “story of Trey Anastasio’s solo career, from the Trey Anastasio Band to The Beacon Jams and beyond.”
The Friendship Onion (TBD)
Ava DuVernay/Spotify Law Enforcement Accountability Project
Slow Burn: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Absolutely Mental (TBD)
Demi Lovato pod TBD
- Elle Fanning and Jessica Wapner will investigate “how the chemical DNP (originally used for munitions and artillery shells) found its way into diet pills and bodybuilding aids on the internet.”
- The scripted comedy “follows the Golden family as patriarch Sam attempts his road to recovery. If getting sober wasn’t hard enough, he’s paired with an unusual sponsor: the ghost of his recently departed mother, Mia.”
Mama Says
- The Wondery pod’s hosted by Barbara Weber, mother of Peter Weber of “The Bachelor.”
RIP: G.I. Joe
- Another Wondery show. This one’s a follow-up to Over My Dead Body.
Here Comes the Break
- It’s a serialized hip-hop podcast from Double Elvis and Def Jam.
The Battle For L.A.
- The pod from the upcoming Dan Patrick Podcast Network “will focus on the history and rivalry of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, both currently among the top teams in the NBA.”
Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Podcast
- Another pod from Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network features singer Bolton “as a sincerely self-obsessed show host serving up outlandish questions and requests to his wide range of unsuspecting celebrity guests.”
The Case of Adirondack Rose
- A scripted true crime comedy from Paul Feig’s production company. It’s a Spotify exclusive.
Prisoner
- Journalist Jason Rezaian focuses on his time in an Iranian prison in a Crooked Media podcast.
- The project from Penn Badgley promises to take “the sting out of rejection—one crushing middle school story at a time.”
- The former congresswoman promises to be: “Honest. Independent. Unafraid. Always with aloha.”
This Duckburg Life
Zachary Quinto Podcast TBD
Bianca Del Rio Podcast TBD
Burn
Dark Art
The Playboy Interview
Coleman’s Finest
American Coup
Electric Easy