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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.
That show, “Here’s The Thing,” remains on hiatus but will return “soon,” according to its production company, Cavalry Media, which is also producing the new venture.
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.
Alec Baldwin spoke with reporters about the deadly on-set shooting on the movie ‘Rust.’
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“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.”
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He also told Fox News Digital that even with more Americans working from home and fewer commuting, podcast popularity as a whole continues to grow. But following the death of Halyna Hutchins on the “Rust” set on Oct. 21, new episodes of “Here’s The Thing” stopped appearing.
“Given the gravity of the ‘Rust’ situation, the first thing that Alec Baldwin does after that, you want to make sure it can’t be really in any way be tasteless, or that you could read something into it that could comment upon the ‘Rust’ [incident],” Thompson said. “I think a true crime show like this is probably a fairly safe bet.”
Because it focuses on the dramatic world of art fraud, far removed from the tragedy in Santa Fe.
“I don’t think you want to have a true crime thing about a shooting,” he added. “That would…
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