
Alec Baldwin returns to podcast mic, with curious new format
Fox News
Hollywood A-lister Alec Baldwin has hosted an hour-long radio show and podcast for the past decade — until he paused new episodes following the tragedy on the “Rust” movie set in Santa Fe last October.
"He knows what he can and can't get away with, and he knows where he can protect himself and protect his image. And also, he's putting his talent forward again."
For now, Baldwin has returned with a scripted true crime podcast, "Art Fraud," delving into a scandal at New York City’s historic Knoedler Gallery that cost tens of millions of dollars and caused the venue’s collapse.
"The kind of thing he's doing with this fraud podcast is very, very much in a genre that is really popular," said Robert Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. "Matter of fact, the first podcasts to really break through were these true crime kinds of things."