One of Audio Entertainment’s top studios is to gas with a fresh slate of top-tier titles, including a new season of “Revisionist History,” which revisits Pushkin Industries’ co-founder Malcom Gladwell and author Michael Lewis’s “The Big Short” as an audiobook and companion podcast.
Pushkin executives are promoting “heavyweight” return, acting like a “time machine therapist,” a deep quest for issues and personal connections hosted by Jonathan Goldstein. The first season aired under the Pushkin banner will debut on September 18th with a 10-episode run.
“This new podcast slate shows us her passion at Pushkin and her passion for the power of creative and premium audio storytelling,” Pushkin CEO Gretta Kohn told Variety. “We are excited about what a dynamic roster of storytellers brings to our audience as we continue to build one story at a time, as we continue to build the future of audio.”
The fall release slate is due to Pushkin also renewing its sales and distribution agreement for podcast ads with IheartMedia. Founded in 2018 by Gladwell and former CEO of Slate Group, Pushkin Industries first teamed up with Iheart in 2020.
Pushkin has big plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the film “The Big Short,” based on the bestseller of Lewis of the same name. The film surrounded by Adam McKay, starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, captured the dynamics that led to the mortgage meltdown of the 2008-09 crisis.
On October 14th, Pushkin will publish the first audiobook version of “The Big Short,” narrated by Lewis, the highly acclaimed scribe behind non-fiction books such as “Moneyball” and “Liar’s Poker.” Lewis has also hosted a repeatedly pushkin podcast, saying he is “opposed to the rules.” On the same day as the audiobook release, Lewis launches his companion, Big Short podcast.
Lidia Jean Kott is a reporter known to Pushkin Listeners for her work with Lewis on “Regn the Rules” and will be at the helm of her own investigative docs, “The Chinatown Sting,” about the bust of the infamous Manhattan undercover agent in the late 1980s. The six-episode execution begins on September 16th.
Gladwell dives deep into the ominous Alabama murder surrounding Elizabeth Sennett’s murder and returns to his long-running “Revisionist History” series. The long, sleazy, legal story came to a gloomy end in January 2024 when Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed via Alabama’s nitrogen gas after being convicted of a murder-hiring conspiracy. “At the heart of it, it’s a story about a cascade of moral failure, performance justice, and a system set up to alleviate suffering,” Pushkin said. 7 Episode Season Bow October 2nd.
Leon Neyfaq, host of Pushkin’s historic dock series Fiasco, has “strickenly seen the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compounds that have given the Prism to everything from Benghazi, Libya and social media to global politics.” 6-episode season bow on June 8th.
In addition to publishing various podcasts, Pushkin Network includes a healthy menu of audiobook titles.
Pushkin’s fall lineup also includes fresh episodes of six return series.
** “Happiness Lab”
**”Warning Story”
**”Broken Record”
**”Slight changes to the plan”
**”Dangerous Business”
** “What is your problem?”
