PHILADELPHIA, PA – January 7, 2025 – Leading premium podcast network Audacy Podcasts, in partnership with Red Hour and Great Scott, today announced the launch of “The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott,” a companion podcast to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ workplace thriller series.
Season 1 of “The Severance Podcast” debuts today, January 7, 2025, with the first two episodes on the Audacy app and everywhere podcasts are available. Listen to the trailer and first two episodes (E1, E2) and follow the show here.
New episodes of Season 1 will be released daily on weekdays through January 16. Confluence by Atlassian is the Presenting Sponsor of Season 1. Season 2 of the “The Severance Podcast” will launch on January 17, immediately following the Season 2 premiere on Apple TV+, and new episodes will be released weekly on Fridays throughout the season. State Farm® is the Presenting Sponsor of Season 2.
“The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott” is an episode-by-episode, behind-the-scenes breakdown of the award-winning show, conducted with the creators, cast, crew, and fans. “Severance” director and executive producer Ben Stiller and star/executive producer Adam Scott will rewatch Season 1, ahead of the series’ highly-anticipated return, sharing in-depth, never-before-heard analysis, and then provide weekly insights throughout Season 2.
Stiller and Scott will be joined by guests including “Severance” editor Geoffrey Richman and superfans Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. “Severance” star Tramell Tillman (Milchick) will join as a guest in Season 2.
Previously announced guests include “Severance” creator Dan Erickson, producer Jackie Cohn, and stars Zach Cherry (Dylan), John Turturro (Irving), and Britt Lower (Helly), and superfan Jon Stewart.
“The Severance Podcast” is produced by Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios, creators of award-winning television companion podcasts including “HBO’s Succession Podcast” Adweek’s 2023 Podcast of the Year and Webby Award winner); “HBO’s The Last of Us Podcast” (Webby Award winner); “The Chernobyl Podcast” (Webby Award winner); “The Official Hacks Podcast;” HBO’s “The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of the Dragon;” Apple TV+’s “Foundation: The Official Podcast;” and Amazon’s “The Official The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Podcast.”
“We have severed ourselves from the world for 5 years making this show. While we have no memory of what happened during that time, we thought we should do a podcast for all the Innies who will have no recollection of watching, in an attempt to reintegrate them with their memory of the show,” said Ben Stiller and Adam Scott. “We’re happy not to be working with Lumon Industries on this podcast and instead to be bringing it to the world with Audacy Podcasts, who would never send us to the break room.”
“‘Severance’ fans are in for a huge treat as Ben, Adam, and their outstanding guests go deep inside Lumon and behind-the-scenes of the making of the show and its many fascinating storylines,” said Jenna Weiss-Berman, EVP, Audacy Podcasts. “We look forward to an incredible two seasons.”
“Severance” is set at Lumon Industries, a company whose employees have undergone a medical procedure which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. Mark (Scott) leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. They begin a journey to discover the truth about their jobs–and themselves. The series also stars Patricia Arquette and Christopher Walken. Stiller was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series for Season 1 and Scott was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series. Scott started the production company Great Scott (formally Gettin’ Rad) with his producing partner Naomi Scott in 2012.
About Audacy
Audacy, Inc. is a leading scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company that connects with 200 million consumers. Powered by its exclusive, premium audio content that includes unrivaled leadership positions in news and sports radio, Audacy operates one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups, a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer digital audio platform, multiple audio networks, a major event business and a leading, award-winning podcast studio and network. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Instagram.
About Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios:
Founded in Brooklyn in 2016 by Jenna Weiss-Berman and Max Linsky, Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios paved the way for in-depth, diverse storytelling by way of high-quality original and partner podcasts. Pineapple Street Studios creates inventive, award-winning original podcasts: multi-episode narratives, investigative journalism, branded series, and talk shows that routinely debut in the top ten on the Apple Podcasts charts, reach hundreds of millions of listeners, and have been cited repeatedly on “best of” lists. Pineapple Street is behind some of the most critically acclaimed shows, including “Hysterical,” “HBO’s Succession Podcast,” “The Chernobyl Podcast,” “9/12,” “Will Be Wild,” “Magnificent Jerk,” “Ghost Story,” “70 Over 70,” “Classy with Jonathan Menjivar,” Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Wind of Change,” “Welcome to Your Fantasy,” “Missing Richard Simmons,” “Back Issue,” The New York Times’ “Still Processing,” activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham’s “Undistracted,” and “The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow.”
About Ben Stiller:
Ben Stiller is one of Hollywood’s most successful and acclaimed actor, director, writer, and producers. Films he has appeared in include Meet the Parents and Night at the Museum, the animated Madagascar films, critically acclaimed arthouse hits; The Royal Tenenbaums, Meyerowitz Stories and While We’re Young, his legendary sketch television series The Ben Stiller Show, and the Oscar-nominated Tropic Thunder, which he starred in, directed, co-wrote, and produced under his production company, Red Hour.
Stiller is the Emmy-nominated director and executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ workplace thriller, Severance, which will return in January for its highly anticipated second season. Created by Dan Erikson, Severance is set at Lumon Industries, a company whose employees have undergone a medical procedure which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.
It was recently announced that Stiller will star opposite Colin Farrell in Andrew Haigh’s upcoming film, Belly of the Beast. The film will tell the timely and true story of the unlikely friendship between notorious literary titan Norman Mailer (Stiller) and his protégé, Jack Henry Abbott (Farrell). The film boarded sales during the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival.
Stiller is also producing the recently announced pickleball comedy, The Dink, and will star in a supporting role alongside Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen and Ed Harris. Directed by Josh Greenbaum, production on the film begins this November.
Onscreen he recently appeared in David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers, which follows the work-obsessed Mike (Stiller), who must reluctantly travel to rural Ohio to look after his recently orphaned nephews. Stiller also produces the film, which had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and is available to stream on Hulu now.
About Adam Scott:
Adam Scott received rave reviews for his starring role in AppleTV+’s “Severance,” opposite Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken. The series, for which Scott is also a
executive producer, is directed by Ben Stiller and created by Dan Erickson. For his role, Scott received an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series,” a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series,” a Golden Globe Award nomination for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama,” a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for “Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series” and a Critics Choice Award nomination for “Best Actor in a Drama Series.” The series also received an Emmy nomination the same year for “Outstanding Drama Series,” a Gotham Award nomination for “Breakthrough Series – Long Format,” a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series,” a Golden Globe Award nomination for “Best Television Series,” a Critics Choice Award nomination for “Best Drama Series,” and was chosen as one of the AFI Awards “Top TV Programs of the Year.” Season 2 is set to premiere on January 17, 2025. Scott started the production company Great Scott (formally Gettin’ Rad) with his producing partner Naomi Scott in 2012.
