New Podcast 'S-Town' from 'Serial' Creators Tops Charts 31 March 2017

New podcast 'S-Town' from 'Serial' creators tops charts 31 March 2017

The investigation by the journalists of "Serial," from the creators of "This American Life," a weekly public radio show, turned up several troubling elements in the case.

On that basis, a Baltimore judge ordered a retrial of Syed in June 2016.

The success of "Serial" led to a second season, based on a true story on a totally different subject, that of a US soldier in Afghanistan.

A third season is in the works, the producers say, without revealing the subject or release date.

In the meantime, they launched an independent According to Apple's iTunes Charts, the podcast S-Town production company, Serial Productions, which is leading the charts in Australia, Britain, Canada and Germany as well as in the US created the new podcast "S-Town." Both "Serial" and "S-Town" are free to download.

Put online Tuesday, "S-Town," which stands for the The new radio show "S-Town," by the team behind subject's nickname for the rural Alabama town of "Serial," the most downloaded podcast in history, is Woodstock where he lives—Shittown—is now at the leading download charts just about everywhere in top of the most downloaded podcasts in the United the world. States on iTunes.

"Serial" is considered the first big radio hit in the According to Apple's iTunes Charts, it is also history of podcasts, audio files that can be leading the charts in Australia, Britain, Canada and downloaded from the internet and listened to at Germany. any time. The central character in "S-Town" is John B. Put online in October 2014, it has been McLemore, a reclusive antique horologist who downloaded tens of millions of times. On Friday, it asked "This American Life" executive producer was still in second place in the list of the most Brian Reed to investigate a potential murder in his downloaded podcasts on Apple's iTunes. town.

"Serial" tells a true story over the course of a The seven-episode podcast, which begins season in weekly chapters. The first season looked somewhat like "Serial" by looking into a murder, at a murder committed in 1999 in Baltimore and at expands into a fresco of life in America's Deep the man convicted of the crime, Adnan Syed, who South, hosted by Reed. was sentenced to life imprisonment and insisted he was innocent. Producer Julie Snyder explained that the team wanted to create a podcast with the feel of a novel, while "Serial" is more like a television show.

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"You can enter their specific world, and you don't know really know what it's about or where it's going," she told the website Wired. "But hopefully you're compelled to stay in it the whole time."

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