https://radiopublic.com/radio-drama-revival-jGERgW/s1!35200 This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for Arden! Is it a true-crime parody? No, not exactly. It takes the crime very seriously. But it is funny, and it is also a show with a mystery: what happened to actress and heiress Julie Capsom, when she disappeared on Christmas a decade ago? The product of three writers—sketch comic Sara Ghaleb, entertainment critic Todd VanDerWerff, and Hollywood historian Christopher Dole—Arden is an engaging … [Read more...] about Arden – ‘Aliens did it’
Satire/parody
A Very Fatal Murder – ‘A Perfect Murder’ & Interview
https://radiopublic.com/radio-drama-revival-jGERgW/s1!21b22 This week, we're playing the first episode of Onion Public Media's* A Very Fatal Murder—it's a spot-on parody of all the true-crime programs you love to binge, from Serial to S-Town to The Staircase. I got to talk to series directors Ryan Natoli and Fran Hoepfner, and writers Louisa Kellogg and David Sidorov. Sidorov plays David Pascall, the host and protagonist of A Very Fatal Murder. We talk about the Onion pitching process, … [Read more...] about A Very Fatal Murder – ‘A Perfect Murder’ & Interview