The makers of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy announce new story line-up, and they’re all podcasts

Grey’s Anatomy maker Shondaland has teamed up with podcast leader iHeartMedia to release three original podcasts

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Shonda Rhimes, producer of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder, has announced a new line-up of stories, all of which are podcasts. Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Published: 6:45pm, 15 Aug 2020Updated: 8:29pm, 16 Aug 2020

From the makers of the hit TV series Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal comes … a whole slate of new podcasts.

Untangle your ear buds and flash back to your morning commute, because Shondaland Audio and iHeartMedia are teaming up for three new original podcasts this month, with more to come in the months ahead.

In October, TV producer Shonda Rhimes, who also executive-produced How to Get Away With Murder, signed a deal with iHeartMedia, the top global publisher of commercial podcasts.

You Down?, a talk show-style podcast hosted by Obama’s Other Daughters – a Los Angeles-based comedy group of four black women – kicked off on Tuesday. Next week will see the arrival of the historical true-crime show Criminalia and Go Ask Ali, hosted by actress Ali Wentworth.

Obama’s Other Daughters is a Los Angeles-based comedy troupe, whose You Down? podcast is part of Shondaland Audio’s line-up.

In such a saturated podcast market (more than 800,000 active ones exist in the United States alone), these fresh shows might have a hard time cutting through the noise. But for Sandie Bailey, Shondaland Audio’s chief design and digital media officer, the content resonates with people – just as the Grey’s plots did.