The End Up, Usg Audio’s first scripted podcast, has set its cast.
The series, which is exec produced by Sam Esmail, will feature the voices of Station Eleven’s Himesh Patel and Unbelievable’s Merritt Wever as well as Search Party’s John Reynolds and Homecoming’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
The End Up, takes place in a tilted near-future where terminal cancer patients who wish to end their suffering must attend a weeklong bootcamp. Two best friends wrestle with their goodbye after one enrolls in the program and the other grows skeptical.
Patel stars as Jacob, Benji’s best friend and caregiver, Reynolds stars as Benji, Jacob’s best friend who is terminal and ready to go, Wever plays Ms. Gabby, a staff member at The Place who finds hope in a new patient and Jean-Baptiste stars as Dr. Rajan, founder of The Place, an innovative end-of-life facility.
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The series, which is exec produced by Sam Esmail, will feature the voices of Station Eleven’s Himesh Patel and Unbelievable’s Merritt Wever as well as Search Party’s John Reynolds and Homecoming’s Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
The End Up, takes place in a tilted near-future where terminal cancer patients who wish to end their suffering must attend a weeklong bootcamp. Two best friends wrestle with their goodbye after one enrolls in the program and the other grows skeptical.
Patel stars as Jacob, Benji’s best friend and caregiver, Reynolds stars as Benji, Jacob’s best friend who is terminal and ready to go, Wever plays Ms. Gabby, a staff member at The Place who finds hope in a new patient and Jean-Baptiste stars as Dr. Rajan, founder of The Place, an innovative end-of-life facility.
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- 4/18/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Podcasting is so hot right now. Top tier talent both in front of and behind the camera are rapidly moving into the medium, buoyed by the opportunities to tell different types of stories.
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
- 12/26/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Universal Content Productions announces a new podcast platform, and Netflix announces Ronny Chieng’s debut comedy special.
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Hgtv announced that the holiday special “Outrageous Holiday Houses” will air Nov. 28 with Nsync founder Lance Bass as the host. Bass will take viewers on a coast-to-coast tour of North America’s holiday displays, spotlighting festive towns like Santa Claus, Indiana and North Pole, Alaska. The special will kick off with Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan showcasing their historic home after it has been transformed into a gingerbread house bakery just in time for the holidays.
Netflix announced that Ronny Chieng’s stand-up comedy special, “Asian Comedian Destroys America!,” will premiere Dec. 17. In his Netflix comedy debut, Chieng will share his perspective on the effects of consumerism while theorizing the efficacy of the United States under an Asian-American president. All of his experiences combined...
Dates
Hgtv announced that the holiday special “Outrageous Holiday Houses” will air Nov. 28 with Nsync founder Lance Bass as the host. Bass will take viewers on a coast-to-coast tour of North America’s holiday displays, spotlighting festive towns like Santa Claus, Indiana and North Pole, Alaska. The special will kick off with Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan showcasing their historic home after it has been transformed into a gingerbread house bakery just in time for the holidays.
Netflix announced that Ronny Chieng’s stand-up comedy special, “Asian Comedian Destroys America!,” will premiere Dec. 17. In his Netflix comedy debut, Chieng will share his perspective on the effects of consumerism while theorizing the efficacy of the United States under an Asian-American president. All of his experiences combined...
- 11/6/2019
- by Lorraine Wheat
- Variety Film + TV
After adapting four podcasts into high-profile TV series, Homecoming, Dirty John and the upcoming Dr. Death and Joe Exotic, Ucp is getting into the podcasting business itself with the launch of Ucp Audio.
The podcast network is set to launch in 2020 with The End Up, a scripted podcast starring Lakeith Stanfield, from Homecoming executive producer Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp. banner and two unscripted podcasts featuring true-crime investigations, House of Prayer and the untitled Troubled Teen Industry Project. The new platform will release episodes weekly.
“After the experience of adapting Dirty John, Homecoming, Dr. Death and more, we are firm believers that audio is as important for IP creation as books, film and television,” said Dawn Olmstead, President, Ucp and Wilshire Studios. “With the launch of Ucp Audio we can offer storytellers the opportunity to write for multiple platforms, making Ucp a one stop shop for whatever story you want to tell.
The podcast network is set to launch in 2020 with The End Up, a scripted podcast starring Lakeith Stanfield, from Homecoming executive producer Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp. banner and two unscripted podcasts featuring true-crime investigations, House of Prayer and the untitled Troubled Teen Industry Project. The new platform will release episodes weekly.
“After the experience of adapting Dirty John, Homecoming, Dr. Death and more, we are firm believers that audio is as important for IP creation as books, film and television,” said Dawn Olmstead, President, Ucp and Wilshire Studios. “With the launch of Ucp Audio we can offer storytellers the opportunity to write for multiple platforms, making Ucp a one stop shop for whatever story you want to tell.
- 11/5/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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