Realm Is Developing ORPHAN BLACK: THE NEXT CHAPTER Season 2 and Three John Carpenter Horror Podcasts
The audio entertainment company Realm has announced some new podcast projects that some of you will be interested in. They are developing Orphan Black: The Next Chapter Season 2 with series star Tatiana Maslany returning to narrate. She is also set to executive produce and star in an all-new original Realm dark comedy called Power Trip. Realm is also developing three horror-themed podcasts that are being created by legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter.
Orphan Black: The Next Chapter Season 2 will premiere on October 29, 2021. Maslany will be joined on the show by original television series cast members Jordan Gavaris (Felix Dawkins) and Evelyne Brochu (Delphine Cormier).
The series picks up where Season 1 left off, “with the Clone Club dealing with the ramifications of being outed to the world.” It’s written by Malka Older, Madeline Ashby, Mishell Baker, Heli Kennedy, E.C. Myers and Lindsay Smith.
Power Trip is set to premiere this fall, and it’s described as “an irreverent dark comedy in which Maslany plays a screwed-up woman indulging in dark magic tries not to screw herself over.” It’s written by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Smith, and Becca Mix.
John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter’s horror podcast shows include, Roanoke Falls coming in October 2021. The story centers on a woman who “investigates a string of murders in the second Roanoke settlement, leading her to a serial killer from the original voyage who waits in the woods.” The second project is Angel to Some, which is coming in the winter of 2022. It follows “a chronically ill Catholic student who calls on a guardian angel to protect her — but the angel who shows up instead wants her dead.” The third project is Furnace, which will be released in the winter of 2022. This podcast follows “a former tech darling who rebuilds a dilapidated town using large-scale 3D printers to create a utopia called ‘The Furnace’ only to discover the printed structures are made of an AI biotech that wants to kill the city’s residents.”
Realm Plus launches on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions at the end of May, will cost $2.99/month. Subscribers will be able to listen to shows ad-free, receive early access to episodes and get exclusive bonus content. The first three titles available on the premium offering are sci-fi drama The Vela, horror-comedy Low Life, and The Shadow Files of Morgan Knox following a Latina private detective in 1930s Manhattan.
Other shows coming to Realm include:
If I Go Missing, The Witches Did It (summer 2021): Witchy twist on the missing-girl trope written by Pia Wilson (“Genius: Aretha”). When a Black writer goes missing in the Hudson Valley, a white podcast host with a savior complex takes up the cause of finding her — and collides with a coven of influencers she suspects are responsible.
Fault Lines (summer 2021): When the Big One hits, members of an Asian-American family become stranded in different parts of the city. The three siblings must navigate more than just the dangerous physical reality: old resentments, new hurts, and deep-seated family secrets come to the surface. Written by Jennifer Li Shotz and Brian Murphy.
Elixir (summer 2021): A prohibition-inspired fantasy in which magic is imbibed through elixirs, which have recently been forbidden by the gentry in the seaside city of Locq. Written by Ellen Goodlett (Memory Lane, Rule & Rise).
Nemo (Sept. 29, 2021): An Indian prince and scientific genius becomes the enemy of empires in this reimagining of the legendary submarine captain from Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Written by Samit Basu, Mimi Mondal, Shiv Ramdas, and Achala Upendran.
Realm shows are available for free anywhere podcasts can be found through ad-supported distribution. Original Realm shows are also available through the Realm Unlimited subscription ($3.99/month), on Realm.fm and in the Realm apps.