"Serial" Podcast is Coming Back for 2 More Seasons

[JamesG]

Serial Will Have 3 Seasons, So Get Ready for More Love, Justice & Truth
by Jennifer Still
5/28/15


In an email sent to Serial newsletter subscribers on Wednesday, May 27, Serial producers Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder discussed the updates on Season 1 subject Adnan Syed’s ongoing court appeal and then gave us the best news ever: the show’s coming back with a focus on brand new cases (which, we don’t know quite yet), and it’s all happening beginning later this year.

"We are hard at work reporting not one, but two distinct new stories. This means we’re planning on a third season of Serial. And we hope it means we can reduce the amount of time between the end of Season Two and the beginning of Season Three.

As it stands, we intend to launch Season Two this fall and Season Three next spring. Sorry - we can’t tell you details about the new stories yet. What we can say is that they’re very different from Season One, but no less interesting to us."





The news will come as a welcome update to fans who found themselves absolutely obsessed with Season 1 — and let’s be honest: who among us wasn’t?

Regardless of your feelings about the show’s editing or standards of reporting, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who wouldn’t say that Serial is immensely listenable, fascinating, and, frankly, rather illuminating when it came to a case of possible injustice.



Because of Serial, Adnan Syed now has a second chance, however small, at reopening his case. I’d say that’s pretty important progress.

Who knows what could happen for the subjects of the next two series? Either way, I can’t wait to find out.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/86087...-justice-truth

[tarheelslim]

I'm glad to hear they'll be taking it in a different direction... I'm a huge fan of podcasts, true crime and This American Life, but Serial wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be (despite being the biggest podcast ever by a longshot).