- Mar 22, 2017 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.
- The third season of the popular podcast returned Thursday with new episodes exploring the Cleveland criminal court system. Sarah Koenig's hit podcast Serial is back and on a new case — or more.
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Sep 05, 2018 Serial, the Peabody Award-winning true crime podcast narrated by journalist Sarah Koenig, returns to the airwaves for Season 3 on September 20, Variety reports. Serial is heading back to court. This time, in Cleveland. A year inside a typical American courthouse. This season we tell you the extraordinary stories of ordinary cases. One courthouse, told week by week.
Get ready Serial fans!
A spokesperson for Serial only said, 'Over the last few months they've been reporting on a variety of stories for both Seasons 2 and 3 of Serial, along with other podcast projects.' The first episode of the season was released, without any previous release date announcement, on December 10, 2015. Serial, the Peabody Award-winning true crime podcast narrated by journalist Sarah Koenig, returns to the airwaves for Season 3 on September 20, Variety reports. But fans of the first two seasons.
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The third season of the hit podcast series has a premiere date—and it's just a few weeks away.
That's right! Serial season three will be available to download starting Sept. 20. The podcast's official Twitter account announced the news on Wednesday and shared a trailer for the upcoming season.
'We spent a year inside the criminal courts in Cleveland,' part of the account's tweet read. 'This season, you'll see what we saw—from the inside.'
The new season focuses on the criminal justice system. During the episodes, host Sarah Koenig recounts her experiences from inside the city court.
'I don't think we can understand how the criminal justice system works by interrogating one extraordinary case,' Koenig says at one point in the trailer. 'Ordinary cases are where we need to look. This season of Serial, we do just that.'
So, why focus on the Ohio city's court? Koenig suggests it was about access.
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'We chose Cleveland because they let us record everywhere—courtrooms, back hallways, judges' chambers, the prosecutors office,' Koenig explains. 'And then we followed those cases outside the building, into neighborhoods, into people's houses, and into prison.'