Podcasts are giving film and TV stars a path to something rare in Hollywood: IP ownership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On July 21, actor Gina Torres released her first-ever podcast,\u00a0a fictional audio mystery narrative titled \u201cA Murder in Montecito<\/a>,\u201d developed in partnership with the production company Sonoro. Torres is the latest Hollywood actor to throw her hat into the narrative podcast ring, joining the likes of Danny Trejo<\/a> and Rami Malek<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s nothing new for Hollywood stars to launch their own podcasts \u2014\u00a0but Torres is part of a growing wave of film or television actors who have taken on a more direct role in the production and ownership of scripted, narrative podcasts, with an eye toward potential adaptation. In recent months, Audible has taken this approach for co-productions with Hollywood talent. On July 3, for example, \u201cModern Family\u201d star Ty Burrell published the first episode<\/a> of \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d a fictional narrative podcast that he developed and executive produced based on stories from his own childhood. In May, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos launched the narrative fictional podcast \u201cSummer Breeze<\/a>,\u201d which the actor\/talk-show hosts co-produced via their company Milojo Productions. In October 2024, Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone produced the narrative podcast \u201cHildy the Barback and the Lake of Fire<\/a>\u201d through their company On the Day productions.<\/p>\n Continue reading this article on digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Podcasts are giving film and TV stars a path to something rare in Hollywood: IP ownership.\u00a0 On July 21, actor Gina Torres released her first-ever podcast,\u00a0a fictional audio mystery narrative titled \u201cA Murder in Montecito,\u201d developed in partnership with the production company Sonoro. Torres is the latest Hollywood actor to throw her hat into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}