Here's the bad news: Serial's feverishly anticipated third season probably isn't coming until the new year. The good news? It's delayed because the production team are busy working on a whole lot more podcasts, one of which launches next week.
Producer Julie Snyder revealed the tentative date for Serial's third season to Esquire.com during a conversation about the This American Life team's upcoming podcast S-Town, which will be the first show to launch under their new production banner, Serial Productions.
"I'm the worst at predicting this, and I will give you my totally honest answer: I would think maybe not even until the beginning of 2018," Snyder said. "I don't like to run the show over Christmas… so to get it done by Christmas we would have to launch in October, and I bet that won't happen." Snyder has been working full-time on S-Town for the past six months, where Serial host and co-creator Sarah Koenig has also been helping out. "It's been a little bit slow going on Serial Season Three, but [Sarah's] kicking it in," Snyder continued. "She's working hard."
S-Town, the subject matter of which has been kept tightly under wraps, will be released in full next Tuesday (March 28). The show begins with a man from small town Alabama reaching out to the This American Life's Brian Reed, asking him to investigate a local man who was allegedly "bragging that he got away with murder." Shortly after Reed agreed to investigate, the synopsis for the show teases, "someone else ended up dead, and another story began to unfold–about a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure and the mysteries of one man's life."
