Dr Death and
Dirty John quickly climbed the charts, and it now has a broad slate of shows (including
The Apology Line, reviewed in these pages at the end of April). The company was acquired by Amazon at the end of 2020. The
New York Times suggested that the deal was valued at $300m; Bloomberg called it “the biggest deal yet in the booming podcast market”. Wondery is an American podcast giant with big budgets, and now it has launched its first podcast produced in the UK.
As its first UK series,
British Scandal is something of a baffling choice. Following on from the success of Wondery’s