Exclusive: A podcast about the disappearance and murder of a number of Grateful Dead fans is the latest audio series to be adapted for television.
Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker behind iconic rock doc Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and a slew of true-crime docuseries, has teamed up with Wheelhouse Entertainment to develop Dead and Gone as a scripted series.
The podcast, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band, comes from To Live and Die in LA producer Tenderfoot TV and Disgraceland producer Double Elvis.
It tells the story of how the bodies of Mary Regina Gioia, 22, and Gregory Allen Kniffin, 18, two fans of the Grateful Dead, were found in the San Francisco Bay, beaten and shot to death in August 1986.
Thirty-one-year-old Ralph International Thomas, a Black man, was arrested and sentenced to death for the murders. He died in prison in 2014, after multiple unsuccessful appeals.
Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker behind iconic rock doc Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and a slew of true-crime docuseries, has teamed up with Wheelhouse Entertainment to develop Dead and Gone as a scripted series.
The podcast, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band, comes from To Live and Die in LA producer Tenderfoot TV and Disgraceland producer Double Elvis.
It tells the story of how the bodies of Mary Regina Gioia, 22, and Gregory Allen Kniffin, 18, two fans of the Grateful Dead, were found in the San Francisco Bay, beaten and shot to death in August 1986.
Thirty-one-year-old Ralph International Thomas, a Black man, was arrested and sentenced to death for the murders. He died in prison in 2014, after multiple unsuccessful appeals.
- 5/9/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the podcast company behind series such as Atlanta Monster and To Live and Die In LA, is exploring the murder of Afrikka Hardy and why it should have been prevented in a new audio series.
Algorithm, which is a co-production between Tenderfoot TV and iHeartMedia, will be the first series to premiere exclusively on TenderfootPlus+, the company’s new Apple Podcast Subscriptions service.
It will launch on the premium service on June 8 and June 15 wide.
When Afrikka Hardy was strangled in 2014, it seemed completely random, but it wasn’t. It was part of a pattern. Four years earlier, a reporter, Thomas Hargrove had created an algorithm to detect serial killers, and that algorithm flagged Gary, Indiana as the site of an unusual number of murders by strangulation. Hargrove reached out to warn local police that they might have an active serial killer operating in the area, but he was ignored.
Algorithm, which is a co-production between Tenderfoot TV and iHeartMedia, will be the first series to premiere exclusively on TenderfootPlus+, the company’s new Apple Podcast Subscriptions service.
It will launch on the premium service on June 8 and June 15 wide.
When Afrikka Hardy was strangled in 2014, it seemed completely random, but it wasn’t. It was part of a pattern. Four years earlier, a reporter, Thomas Hargrove had created an algorithm to detect serial killers, and that algorithm flagged Gary, Indiana as the site of an unusual number of murders by strangulation. Hargrove reached out to warn local police that they might have an active serial killer operating in the area, but he was ignored.
- 6/1/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Update (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards.
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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.
Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...
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The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for their inaugural Awards for Excellence in Audio, a.k.a. the Ambies.
Matthew McConaughey, Tessa Thompson, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell and Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the 164 nominees in 23 categories that include Best Performer in Audio Fiction, Best Podcast Host,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Podcasting is so hot right now. Top tier talent both in front of and behind the camera are rapidly moving into the medium, buoyed by the opportunities to tell different types of stories.
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
Deadline has been increasing its coverage of podcasting over the last 12 months, breaking stories about the likes of Demi Moore making QCode’s Dirty Diana and Elle Fanning narrating a non-fiction series about a deadly internet diet drug that cooks people alive. We’ve covered the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Jordan Peele and Will Ferrell moving into the medium as well as the plethora of TV and film projects that are now in development based on podcast IP.
This move has undoubtedly sped up since the pandemic hit – it’s easier to produce a podcast under lockdown than film or TV – and many of the major Hollywood studios are increasingly entering the arena with the likes of...
- 12/26/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tenderfoot TV, the podcast company behind series including NBA cheat scandal series Whistleblower, has struck a partnership with scripted podcast firm Lights Out.
The two companies are developing two original scripted audio fiction shows inspired by true events.
Lights Out was formed by veteran producer and director John Scott Dryden, whose series Passenger List, starring Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran is being developed for TV by Weimaraner Republic Pictures and Warner Bros Television, and writer Brett Neichin, who has projects in development at Audible, iHeartMedia and Cadence13.
Dryden will continue to operate out of the UK and run his production company, Goldhawk Productions.
Tenderfoot TV has produced series including Atlanta Monster and To Live and Die in LA and is gearing up to launch Dead and Gone, a series about the disappearance of a number of Grateful Dead fans, produced in partnership with Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan, next week.
The two companies are developing two original scripted audio fiction shows inspired by true events.
Lights Out was formed by veteran producer and director John Scott Dryden, whose series Passenger List, starring Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran is being developed for TV by Weimaraner Republic Pictures and Warner Bros Television, and writer Brett Neichin, who has projects in development at Audible, iHeartMedia and Cadence13.
Dryden will continue to operate out of the UK and run his production company, Goldhawk Productions.
Tenderfoot TV has produced series including Atlanta Monster and To Live and Die in LA and is gearing up to launch Dead and Gone, a series about the disappearance of a number of Grateful Dead fans, produced in partnership with Disgraceland’s Jake Brennan, next week.
- 10/9/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The murder of two Grateful Dead fans following a Bay Area concert in 1985 — as well as the possible wrongful conviction of the person found guilty of the double-homicide — will be examined in the upcoming podcast Dead and Gone.
Podcast companies Tenderfoot TV and Double Elvis Productions — the team behind of Disgraceland — have partnered for the true crime series about the aforementioned murders, and other mysterious disappearances and deaths that have befallen Deadheads over the years.
Tenderfoot TV’s Payne Lindsey leads the podcast’s investigation, with Disgraceland host Jake Brennan serving as co-host.
Podcast companies Tenderfoot TV and Double Elvis Productions — the team behind of Disgraceland — have partnered for the true crime series about the aforementioned murders, and other mysterious disappearances and deaths that have befallen Deadheads over the years.
Tenderfoot TV’s Payne Lindsey leads the podcast’s investigation, with Disgraceland host Jake Brennan serving as co-host.
- 10/8/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: The murder and disappearance of a slew of Grateful Dead fans is the subject of a true crime podcast from Tenderfoot TV, the company behind the Atlanta Monster and Up and Vanished series.
Disgraceland host Jake Brennan has teamed up with Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey in Dead and Gone, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band.
It will look at how, over the past five decades, a number of Dead Heads are missing, unidentified or dead. One fan died in a car accident, one was murdered and dumped in a ditch, while many others are missing.
The company, which was founded by Lindsey and Donald Albright, has also renewed Neil Strauss’ To Live and Die in LA for a second season and lined up basketball series Whistleblower. All three series, which are produced in association with all produced in...
Disgraceland host Jake Brennan has teamed up with Tenderfoot TV co-founder Payne Lindsey in Dead and Gone, a true crime music mystery set in the world of Jerry Garcia’s psychedelic rock band.
It will look at how, over the past five decades, a number of Dead Heads are missing, unidentified or dead. One fan died in a car accident, one was murdered and dumped in a ditch, while many others are missing.
The company, which was founded by Lindsey and Donald Albright, has also renewed Neil Strauss’ To Live and Die in LA for a second season and lined up basketball series Whistleblower. All three series, which are produced in association with all produced in...
- 6/25/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lewis John Carlino, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and playwright known for writing and directing “The Great Santini,” died on June 17 on Whidbey Island in Washington state, his family has announced. He was 88.
Carlino received an Oscar nomination with Gavin Lambert for best adapted screenplay for the 1978 drama “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” based on the novel by Joanne Greenberg. In 1979, he wrote and directed the screenplay for “The Great Santini,” from the novel by Pat Conroy. The film earned Academy Award nominations for Robert Duvall for his portrayal of a Marine pilot and for Michael O’Keefe as the son of Duvall’s character.
His screenwriting credits include John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds,” “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea,” which he also directed and co-produced; “The Brotherhood,” starring Kirk Douglas; “The Mechanic,” starring Charles Bronson; and “Resurrection,” starring Ellen Burstyn. During production of “The Brotherhood,” he met Jilly Chadwick,...
Carlino received an Oscar nomination with Gavin Lambert for best adapted screenplay for the 1978 drama “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” based on the novel by Joanne Greenberg. In 1979, he wrote and directed the screenplay for “The Great Santini,” from the novel by Pat Conroy. The film earned Academy Award nominations for Robert Duvall for his portrayal of a Marine pilot and for Michael O’Keefe as the son of Duvall’s character.
His screenwriting credits include John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds,” “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea,” which he also directed and co-produced; “The Brotherhood,” starring Kirk Douglas; “The Mechanic,” starring Charles Bronson; and “Resurrection,” starring Ellen Burstyn. During production of “The Brotherhood,” he met Jilly Chadwick,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“The legal drinking age is now ten, but you will need I.D. . Let’s be real!”
Night Of The Comet screens Wednesday, March 1st at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series. Admission is $5
Imagine the horror of being stuck with 80s fashion, style, and music for the rest of your life: that’s the fate facing teenage sisters Regina and Samantha (Catherine Mary Stewart and blonde cutie Kelli Maroney) when civilization comes to a standstill after a passing comet turns most of the human race into orange dust in the 1984 cult-sci-fier Night Of The Comet. Amazingly, Regina and Sam have survived desiccation thanks to the fact they were both surrounded by steel when the Earth passed through the comet’s tail, but that doesn’t mean that they are no...
Night Of The Comet screens Wednesday, March 1st at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series. Admission is $5
Imagine the horror of being stuck with 80s fashion, style, and music for the rest of your life: that’s the fate facing teenage sisters Regina and Samantha (Catherine Mary Stewart and blonde cutie Kelli Maroney) when civilization comes to a standstill after a passing comet turns most of the human race into orange dust in the 1984 cult-sci-fier Night Of The Comet. Amazingly, Regina and Sam have survived desiccation thanks to the fact they were both surrounded by steel when the Earth passed through the comet’s tail, but that doesn’t mean that they are no...
- 2/23/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“The legal drinking age is now ten, but you will need I.D. . Let’s be real!”
Night Of The Comet screens midnights this Friday and Saturday Night (May 1st and 2nd) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse
Imagine the horror of being stuck with 80s fashion, style, and music for the rest of your life: that’s the fate facing teenage sisters Regina and Samantha (Catherine Mary Stewart and blonde cutie Kelli Maroney) when civilization comes to a standstill after a passing comet turns most of the human race into orange dust in the 1984 cult-sci-fier Night Of The Comet.
Amazingly, Regina and Sam have survived desiccation thanks to the fact they were both surrounded by steel when the Earth passed through the comet’s tail, but that doesn’t mean that they are no longer in...
Night Of The Comet screens midnights this Friday and Saturday Night (May 1st and 2nd) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse
Imagine the horror of being stuck with 80s fashion, style, and music for the rest of your life: that’s the fate facing teenage sisters Regina and Samantha (Catherine Mary Stewart and blonde cutie Kelli Maroney) when civilization comes to a standstill after a passing comet turns most of the human race into orange dust in the 1984 cult-sci-fier Night Of The Comet.
Amazingly, Regina and Sam have survived desiccation thanks to the fact they were both surrounded by steel when the Earth passed through the comet’s tail, but that doesn’t mean that they are no longer in...
- 4/27/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Imagine it's the seventies. You have a 70s haircut and cars are really big and made in America. Without warning, the sun sort of blows up, releasing a blinding, earthquaking flare. People start dying - but not you. And not the birds or the trees or the dogs, though they pretty much freak out. After someone dies, he disintegrates, leaving behind a pile of sugar in the outline of what had been his body. You're in the 1974 made-for-tv movie Where Have All the People Gone? A quiet disaster movie. Low-budget, no effects. And that is what makes it fun. Just simple storytelling, building uncertainty, an experiment in our fear of the end. Punctuated by piles of sugar.
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
- 5/21/2010
- Fox Movie Channel - Unvaulted
Actor Peter Graves was best known for his starring role as Jim Phelps, leader of the Impossible Mission Force, on the popular television drama series Mission: Impossible, from 1967 to 1973. He took over as star of the series from Steven Hill with the second season.
Graves was also a leading actor in science fiction films in the 1950s. He spoke with bible-quoting Martians in the 1952 Cold War thriller Red Planet Mars, and battled bug-eyed aliens in Killers from Space in 1954. He fended off a creepy Venusian invader in the Roger Corman cult classic It Conquered the World in 1956, and saved the country from gigantic grasshoppers in 1957’s Beginning of the End.
He was born Peter Aurness in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 18, 1926. He served in the United States Army Air Force near the end of World War II.
He followed his brother, actor and future Gunsmoke star Jim Arness, to Hollywood in the late 1940s,...
Graves was also a leading actor in science fiction films in the 1950s. He spoke with bible-quoting Martians in the 1952 Cold War thriller Red Planet Mars, and battled bug-eyed aliens in Killers from Space in 1954. He fended off a creepy Venusian invader in the Roger Corman cult classic It Conquered the World in 1956, and saved the country from gigantic grasshoppers in 1957’s Beginning of the End.
He was born Peter Aurness in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 18, 1926. He served in the United States Army Air Force near the end of World War II.
He followed his brother, actor and future Gunsmoke star Jim Arness, to Hollywood in the late 1940s,...
- 3/17/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Peter Graves who starred as Jim Phelps on the hit TV series "Mission Impossible," and more recently served as alternating host of the A&E series "Biography," has died.
The actor died Sunday of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, a week away from his 84th birthday.
Graves was the younger brother of "Gunsmoke" star James Arness, a TV icon from the '50s. Graves is perhaps also best remembered by Baby Boomers as the ranch owner on the popular Saturday morning TV series, "Fury," the adventures of a boy and his horse. More recently, Graves was featured in the opening scene of "Men in Black II."
Playing against his image as a tall, silver-haired authority figure, Graves co-starred as Captain Oveur in the zany comedies "Airplane!" (1980) and "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982). Along with such serious acting figures as Robert Stack and, at the time, Leslie Nielsen,...
The actor died Sunday of an apparent heart attack outside his Los Angeles home, a week away from his 84th birthday.
Graves was the younger brother of "Gunsmoke" star James Arness, a TV icon from the '50s. Graves is perhaps also best remembered by Baby Boomers as the ranch owner on the popular Saturday morning TV series, "Fury," the adventures of a boy and his horse. More recently, Graves was featured in the opening scene of "Men in Black II."
Playing against his image as a tall, silver-haired authority figure, Graves co-starred as Captain Oveur in the zany comedies "Airplane!" (1980) and "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982). Along with such serious acting figures as Robert Stack and, at the time, Leslie Nielsen,...
- 3/14/2010
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Imagine it's the seventies. You have a 70s haircut and cars are really big and made in America. Without warning, the sun sort of blows up, releasing a blinding, earthquaking flare. People start dying - but not you. And not the birds or the trees or the dogs, though they pretty much freak out. After someone dies, he disintegrates, leaving behind a pile of sugar in the outline of what had been his body. You're in the 1974 made-for-tv movie Where Have All the People Gone? A quiet disaster movie. Low-budget, no effects. And that is what makes it fun. Just simple storytelling, building uncertainty, an experiment in our fear of the end. Punctuated by piles of sugar.
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
I am always pleased when the people who stay alive in the face of cataclysmic movie disasters are capable survivors and give mankind a fighting chance. Seriously, if the world is threatened by...
- 4/22/2009
- Fox Movie Channel - Unvaulted
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