In a recording appended to the StartUp episode released later Thursday evening, Gimlet cofounder Alex Blumberg declined to discuss the issue further, maintaining that some things “need to remain private.” “However, these factors combined make Mystery Show unsustainable to produce and publish on a consistent basis.” The company noted that it’s still in discussions with Kine on how she may proceed to produce the show independently. “Mystery Show is an ambitious production and Starlee has an uncompromising vision for the show, which is what makes it so great,” the statement read. The statement was vague, but it confirmed that the company was no longer participating in Mystery Show’s development. Gimlet published a statement of its own shortly after. “The day I returned, Alex told me the show was unsustainable.” (The note was published both on Kine’s personal Medium account and on the Mystery Show Facebook page, which has since been deleted.) “I’d been having trouble figuring out the new season - second seasons can be tricky - and so I’d gone away, to work on an episode,” she wrote. Kine explained that she had been let go “without warning” by Gimlet in April and spent the past few months figuring out a way forward. Podcastland was lit aflame last Thursday when Starlee Kine, the creative force behind the highly popular Gimlet podcast Mystery Show, published a note explaining the show’s extended silence since wrapping up its first season last July. Okay, there’s a lot baked into this story and I’m still processing, so this isn’t an argument so much as me thinking through this. This is issue ninety-one, published October 11, 2016. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts.
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