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Wondery, the leading podcast studio and network, is teaming up with Mills Entertainment, a leading producer and promoter of live entertainment experiences, for a multi-year collaboration to produce live tours based on Wondery’s critically-acclaimed podcast series. The first of the live experiences kicks off this fall with Wondery’s true crime collection Exhibit C, bringing the popular true crime podcast Dr. Death to the stage.

The live tour titled “Exhibit C Live Presents: Dr. Death - A Closer Look,'' begins in November 2024, diving into the unsettling true stories of medical malpractice and lapses of accountability brought to light by the acclaimed podcast. Pre-sale tickets will be available starting today, August 6 for Wondery+ subscribers, and to the general public starting on Friday, August 9. A full list of “Exhibit C Live Presents: Dr. Death - A Closer Look” tour dates and additional information including participating panelists and ticket availability can be found on the website.

Wondery is going on tour.

The premium podcast studio from Amazon has partnered with live events producer and promoter Mills Entertainment for a “multi-year strategic relationship” that will see the companies come together to mount live tours based on various genres across the Wondery universe.

The first live offering to roll out from the collaboration will take place this fall with Wondery’s true crime collection Exhibit C and popular podcast Dr. Death, the Laura Beil-hosted series now in its fourth season. The live tour, Exhibit C Live Presents: Dr. Death — A Closer Look, kicks off in November. Pre-sale tickets are now available for Wondery+ subscribers while the general public will have access on Aug. 9. A full list of tour stops, dates and additional information can be found on a dedicated Dr. Death Live website. The launch of the tour is presented by Audible.

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Podcast and media executive Geoff Isenman has been named the new CEO of Campside Media, home to the popular podcast franchises, Suspect and Chameleon.

With the appointment, Campside co-founder Adam Hoff, who had been serving in the CEO role, will move to a full-time role overseeing the company’s film and television slate.

Hoff, a screenwriter and producer, founded Campside with veteran journalists Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis and Matthew Shaer. The company specializes in reported narrative non-fiction podcasts, including the newest, White Devil, and has produced more than 40 limited series podcasts, in addition to 15 documentary projects and 25 projects in development for television and film. Campside is backed by the entertainment company, Sister, founded by Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone.

Isenman was most recently at AccelPro, an audio-based career development platform that he founded. He was also the producer of the podcast Big Sugar, which was released in partnership with Imagine Entertainment and iHeartMedia,...

Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the podcast company behind series such as To Live and Die in LA and Up and Vanished, and Campside Media, the company behind the Chameleon podcast franchise, have closed a multi-show deal and announced their first slate. Their first two series, Radical and Cop City, are focused on stories from Atlanta, Ga, and intersect social justice, true crime and journalism.

Investigative documentary podcast Radical, distributed by iHeartPodcasts, premieres December 5. It tells the story of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a Muslim leader who was convicted of shooting two sheriff’s deputies — one fatally —in 2000, outside a mosque in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. Prior to converting to Islam, Al-Amin was known as the Black Power activist H. Rap Brown, and was one of the most polarizing figures of the movement, gaining a reputation as a charismatic orator and passionate revolutionary. H. Rap Brown was an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party,...

Ventureland is teaming with podcast companies Campside Media and Tenderfoot TV on a new doc and companion podcast chronicling the fight around Atlanta’s “Cop City.”

The film will explore the politics, activism and turmoil that has surrounded the development of the 85-acre police and fire training center — set to be one of the largest facilities like it in the United States and located in a preserved forest — since it was announced by the city’s then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms back in Spring 2021. Currently in development, the doc will include on-the-ground reporting and key subjects who can shed light on the political flashpoint being constructed within the unofficial capital of the American South.

“The debate over Cop City is a microcosm of what’s happening in cities across the country,” says Campside co-founder Matthew Shaer. “It brings together all these different discussions: About race, about policing, about urban development and environmental resources.

Ballen Studios, the global content company behind mystery and true crime master storyteller, MrBallen, announced today the acquisition of the highly-anticipated podcast series Run, Fool! starring award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator Rodney Barnes. The series, in partnership with At Will Media and Campside Media, is set to premiere across all major podcast platforms on November 14 and will feature a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales guaranteed to make you scream.

“It’s difficult to convey how excited I am to be working with MrBallen and our entire producing team,” said Barnes. “I’ve loved horror my entire life, and I’m thrilled to share a new terrifying story with the world each week.”

Barnes, whose vibrant and emphatic creative voice has established him as a Hollywood mainstay, is best known as the writer and executive producer for tentpole television series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,...

Exclusive: Fresh from two seasons of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Rodney Barnes is moving to a slightly different court.

Barnes, who has also worked on Heels and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, has teamed up with Ballen Studios for Run, Fool!, a scary podcast series that already has one eye on being adapted for film and TV.

The series, which is produced in partnership with At Will Media, which produced Apple’s Wild Things podcast, and Chameleon producer Campside Media, will launch on November 14.

It is a weekly compendium of grisly and harrowing tales, where Barnes will tell a new story each week, each of a different place and period, all equally frightening with immersive sound design.

Barnes and MrBallen, otherwise known as breakthrough podcaster John Allen, will exec produce with At Will Media CEO Will Malnati and VP of Originals Rosie Guerin, as well as Campside Media’s co-founder,...

The Podcast Academy, a group of 1,000-plus industry creators and executives, awarded Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment’s Chameleon: Wild Boys with the top honor at this year’s 2023 Ambie Awards.

Wild Boys, which serves as the third season of Campside’s Chameleon series, uncovers the story of two young men who claimed to have been raised in the wilderness in British Columbia and proceeded to fool a small town. The eight-part series was led by Sam Mullins with producer Abukar Adan, senior producer Ashleyanne Krigbaum, editor Karen Duffin and ep Matthew Shaer.

“I had nothing happening in my career. I had two young kids, I was working in a taco restaurant, and I never made a podcast before. And Campside deserves so much credit because I cold-emailed these guys, and they just believed in the story, and they believed in me, and they changed my life, and I’ll never forget it,...

Exclusive: Rodney Barnes, exec producer of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is prepping a horror podcast devoted to legends and myths stemming from black folklore.

The writer/producer of series such as Everybody Hates Chris and The Boondocks has teamed up with Campside Media, the company behind Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, and At Will Media, which is behind Apple’s podcast and docuseries Wild Things for Run, Fool.

Run, Fool will follow an anthology format in the style of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history.

For instance, legend has it that a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn moved his family to a residence just north of a bridge in a Maryland known today as Goatman’s Bridge. It got that name because it was haunted by a half-man,...

Exclusive: The team behind Chameleon: The Hollywood Con Queen, the breakout podcast series that unmasked the man behind one of the strangest entertainment-related grifts, has set its second season.

Campside Media, the Sister-backed company that produces the show in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, is making Chameleon: High Rollers with new host Trevor Aaronson.

You can listen to the trailer below.

The second season, which has been described as American Hustler-esque, will follow the FBI as they investigate a money laundering conspiracy in Vegas — or track a conspiracy that never existed at all.

The series will investigate the stranger-than-fiction tale using more than 20 hours of FBI recordings, taking listeners into a sordid, neon-lit world of diet clinics, fitness models, high-end restaurants, strip clubs, lascivious men, arms dealers, secret scams, and lawsuits.

Hollywood Con Queen Subject Of eOne Will Gluck-Noah Pink Scripted Series & Unscripted Docuseries Based On ‘Chameleon’ Podcast That Unmasked...

Exclusive: The Con Queen has gone from Hollywood horror to series subject. Entertainment One, Olive Bridge Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, Campside Media and Circle of Confusion are developing two series projects based on Campside’s podcast Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen. A scripted television series created and written by Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit) and Noah Pink (Genius: Picasso) is in the works with Gluck directing. There is also an unscripted docuseries by the same group, detailing the investigation.

Executive producers are Pink, Gluck and Richard Schwartz of Olive Bridge; Andy Horwitz, Richard Suckle and Curt Kanemoto of Atlas; Josh Dean, Adam Hoff, Matthew Shaer and Vanessa Grigoriadis of Campside Media; and Charles Mastropietro, Frank Frattaroli and Brad Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion.

eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the projects worldwide.

This is quite a turnabout in one of the oddest sagas to hit Hollywood in years. Deadline was the...

Sister has acquired “Never Far Away,” the new novel from bestselling author Michael Koryta, and will develop it as a feature film. Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman, who previously oversaw “Crash,” will produce the thriller for the company. Koryta will adapt the novel for the screen and will also executive produce.

“Never Far Away” centers on Nina Morgan, a private pilot and witness to a shocking murder, who is forced to orchestrate her own death to protect her husband and two children from harm. Ten years later, she’s living under an assumed identity as a guide in the Allagash Wilderness when she hears her husband has died in a car accident. Forced back onto the grid to protect her children, the family becomes caught up in a cat-and-mouse thriller and a legacy of lies.

Sister was launched in 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, the founder of the Shine Group; Stacey Snider, the...