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Format | Audio drama |
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No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 275 |
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Original release | March 1, 2018 |
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Website | gzmshows |
Six Minutes is a children's podcast by Gen-Z Media and Public Radio Exchange. The podcast consists of 205 episodes and 2 seasons. The third season is a sequel of the show, titled Six Minutes: Out of Time. It was released in early March 2023. A fourth season of the show has been confirmed, and will be released sometime in 2024.
Both the original podcast and the sequel were co-created by Gen-Z Media founders David Kreizman, Benjamin Strouse, and Chris Tarry. Tom Casiello is the head writer, and the scripts are written by Nidhi Mehta and Marla Kanelos. The original podcast was directed by Michelle Tattenbaum, while the sequel is directed by David Kreizman.
Gen-Z Media was founded in 2016 by David Kreizman, Benjamin Strouse, and Chris Tarry. The company launched Six Minutes in March 2018. [1]
The protagonist is a 12-year-old girl named Holiday who was found stranded in the ocean off the coast of Alaska by the Anders family. [2] Six Minutes: Out of Time is set three years after the finale of Six Minutes. The protagonist is Holiday's former classmate and frenemy named Brynleigh, who sets out to Florida to uncover the mystery about her missing mother. [3]
The podcast was produced by Gen-Z Media in partnership with PRX. [4] The podcast was later added to Wondery. [1] The podcast was also translated into Spanish. [5] Each episode is six minutes long. [6]
Additional main characters from Six Minutes: Out of Time [8]
Wil Williams wrote in Polygon that the show has "music that absolutely slaps." [9]
A deal has been made to create a three-book adaptation of the podcast with Razorbill of Penguin Random House. [10]
WBEZ – branded WBEZ 91.5 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, and primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It is owned by Chicago Public Media and is financed by listener contributions, corporate underwriting and some government funding. WBEZ is affiliated with both National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). It also broadcasts content from American Public Media and the BBC World Service. It produces several nationally syndicated shows for public radio stations, including This American Life and has a co-production credit for Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, which is produced by NPR.
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