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‘Slow Burn’ Returns With Two Seasons On Briggs & Fox News As Slate Targets “Disillusioned” Political Audience
EXCLUSIVE: Slow Burn is one of the most popular podcast franchises with seasons on Watergate and the impeachment of President Clinton as well as a TV adaptation on MGM+. Slate is now supersizing the audio series by ordering two seasons at once. The company is preparing a seasons on the Briggs Initiative—the country’s first statewide […]
The idea is the two seasons will appeal to both long-term Slow Burn fans as well as new listeners who are interested in news and politics but are looking for a different way into the discussions as the country heads closer to a Presidential election. Slow Burn started with Watergate, followed by the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a season on Biggie and Tupac, David Duke, The Road to the Iraq War, the LA Riots, Roe v. Wade and Clarence Thomas. The season will feature well-known activists and politicians like former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, Cleve Jones, a Harvey Milk protegee who interned for him at City Hall and went on to start the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Anne Kronenberg, another Harvey Milk protegee who ran his winning election campaign and worked alongside him at City Hall, and Tom Ammiano, a former California legislator who later became famous for telling Arnold Schwarzenegger to “kiss my gay ass”
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