Sony Music Leisure’s (SME) World Podcast Division introduced the appointment of Serita Wesley to the newly created function of U.S. Leisure Podcasts. Wesley will likely be based mostly in New York and report back to Tom Koenig, Vice President, U.S. Podcasts.
In her new function, Wesley will spearhead the Division’s leisure podcast technique and oversee the event of recent exhibits throughout a variety of genres, together with comedy, popular culture, self-care, chat and extra. As SME focuses on constructing a sturdy slate of all the time on and returning sequence, Wesley may also assist construct and handle the rising leisure staff that features a number of new producers, beginning this spring.
Wesley has greater than 15 years of expertise within the leisure, advertising and podcasting industries. She was beforehand an Govt Producer at Contemporary Produce Media and Senior Producer at Westbrook Inc., working throughout exhibits reminiscent of Purple Desk Discuss Podcast, Positively Gam, and extra. She can also be the co-creator and sole author for the forthcoming scripted sequence Un-Lesh for Love, which debuts on Audible in 2022 by means of Charlamange Tha God and Kevin Hart’s audio manufacturing firm, SBH Productions. Wesley additionally co-founded, produced, and hosted the iHeartRadio Award-nominated podcast On She Goes – a journey and way of life podcast for girls of coloration.
As well as, Sony Music Leisure’s World Podcast Division introduced it has fashioned a podcast partnership with main movie critic Mark Kermode and iconic host and film fanatic Simon Mayo. The seasoned broadcasters will current Kermode and Mayo’s Take a brand new twice weekly podcast sequence specializing in theatrical, streaming, and bodily movie releases, in addition to high-level international tv within the UK and US starting Thursday fifth Could.
Sharing their experience worldwide, Kermode and Mayo’s Take will characteristic the best opinions and previews, large visitor interviews and a cornucopia of viewers correspondence in each episode. Listeners can count on discussions about present and basic releases, suggestions and warnings, in addition to particular episodes that reply to large information and occasions throughout the trade.
For the primary time, the duo may also deliver their much-loved dynamic to the world of TV with Kermode extending his estimable powers of critique to high-level serialized fiction, giving audiences the most effective opinions from binge-worthy streaming sequence to terrestrial TV. The world’s flagship movie and tv podcast, Kermode and Mayo’s Take will likely be an important information to listeners for every little thing they should know on the massive and small screens.
Kermode and Mayo’s loyal listeners may also go deeper into the world of movie and tv by subscribing to Take 2 on Apple Podcasts. Exploring a greater variety of fabric and listener correspondence, Take 2 will characteristic an hour of suggestions for undersign film and televised gems and the pair’s dialogue of massive current film and TV releases in a spoilertastic vogue.
