The Pitch: Joe Pera lulls you to sleep with his low-key comedy. The Product: Every so often a podcast comes along that makes you feel like it has been made exclusively for you. …

The Pitch: A podcast about the peculiar, with Dan Schreiber. The Product: Dan Schreiber grew up loving comedy and facts, a set of seemingly disparate passions that were not shared by those around him, leaving him feeling like a weirdo. Well, jokes on everyone else, because the universe works in mysterious ways — or…

The Pitch: A podcast about pop culture misconceptions. The Product: Compared to some of the other podcasts covered here recently(ish), You’re Wrong About is pretty straightforward. Every week(ish), journalist Sarah Marshall is joined by a guest to discuss a person or event that has been miscast in the public imagination. It’s a fun premise…

The Pitch: Harvey Guillen discusses What We Do in the Shadows with the cast & crew. The Product: Behind the Shadows is a tricky little venture to pin down. Much like gender is a spectrum, so too is this podcast. …

The Pitch: Screenwriters discuss screenwriting, TV, and film. The Product: Scriptnotes is a weekly podcast hosted by John August (Big Fish etc) and Craig Mazin (The Last of Us etc), with deep dives on all things related to screenwriting and storywriting. If this sounds a little niche and inside baseball, it’s because it is…

The Pitch: A weekly podcast about frogs. That’s right, frogs. The Product: Frog of the Week is a very straightforward podcast, until it’s not. Each week, a frog is highlighted, in a short-form episode. It’s pleasant, educational, and can veer into absoluate absurdism with very little forewarning. It’s hosted by Kim, who has a…

The Pitch: An interview-based curated guide to culture. The Product: Bullseye with Jesse Thorn somehow escaped Podcasteroid’s eye until now, which is odd as it sits squarely in our wheelhouse of pop culture interviews and being an increasingly fervent NPR fan the older we get. Multiple ~hour-long episodes drop each week, each featuring a…

The Pitch: A sci-fi comedy podcast about sentient spaceships. The Product: What qualifies as a podcast these days is pretty fluid, for better or worse. Every so often though, the malleable medium presents something new and refreshing to listen to. …

The Pitch: A podcast about film, from Picturehouse Cinemas. The Product: The Love Of Cinema is a multi-format podcast from the UK’s Picturehouse film company. It’s about all things film, including discussions of weekly new releases and interviews with the creators or stars of new releases, or occasionally, re-releases. …