New Creator-Led Brand Follows PAVE’s Success with Crime House (True Crime) and OpenMind (Big, Unfiltered Personalities)
Expert Creators Joining Rewind at Launch Include Dr. Harini Bhat, Dr. Greg Jackson (Creator/Host, History That Doesn’t Suck podcast), Lindsey Cormack and Connor Tomlinson (Netflix series Love on the Spectrum)
PAVE Studios, an entertainment company specializing in creator-led IP across video, audio, live experiences, and more, has today announced the launch of Rewind, a new brand focused on delivering thoughtful, modern storytelling for audiences who are obsessed with history and the stories that go beyond what is taught in classrooms.
Rewind explores significant moments, unresolved questions, and lesser examined narratives from the past, presenting them with a contemporary voice. From the infamous to the unexplained, and everything in between, Rewind is home to the stories that history forgot to finish, unraveling the collapses, mysteries, and secrets that some tried to bury – and the stories that refuse to stay forgotten.
The launch builds on PAVE Studios’ growth since its founding in April 2024. Over the past two years, the company has expanded its audience and portfolio of owned content. It has launched and developed successful brands Crime House (true crime) and Open Mind (featuring big, unfiltered personalities such as Khloé Kardashian). Thanks to the success of shows such as Clues, Khloé in Wonder Land, and Murder True Crime Stories, and a strategy of nurturing a creator network that reaches more than 350 million followers /subscribers – including 50 million across Crime House alone), PAVE Studios has shown an average monthly growth rate in the double digits, with more than 10 million per month watching/listening via Apple, Spotify, YouTube and other top platforms.
“Creators are no longer just a part of the entertainment industry. They are the entertainment industry. The studios that thrive in this new era will be the ones built to amplify multi-hyphenate storytellers across every format, from long- and short-form video to audio and social,” said Cutler. “History has proven itself as a genre that attracts big, loyal audiences interested in high-quality programming. The creators we are choosing to work with have unique voices that we believe will be a strong foundation on which we will build Rewind into our next big brand.”
Many creators and shows will be announced in the coming months with Rewind planning to premiere at least five new original video series this year, all developed and owned by PAVE Studios, and also available as audio podcasts. The initial creators signed with PAVE Studios to work under the Rewind brand are:
• Connor Tomlinson – a breakout star and fan favorite from Seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum U.S., the Emmy-winning docuseries. Living with Level 1 Autism, Connor has built a loyal following of over 2.8 million fans on his social media. He uses his platform to connect with audiences and champion visibility, understanding, and representation for the neurodivergent community. Connor is known for his quick wit, big heart, and deep love of history, British culture, and his Pomeranian, Coco.
• Greg Jackson – best known as the creator and host of the top 10 podcast History That Doesn’t’ Suck, Dr. Jackson holds a PhD in history, is a tenured Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, as well as Fellow of Integrated Studies at Utah Valley University. He is also a frequent commentator in HISTORY® Channel documentaries including History’s Greatest of All Time with Peyton Manning, How Disney Built America, and Abraham Lincoln executive produced by Doris Kearns Goodwin. His recent book, Been There, Done That: How Today’s Crises Are The Same As Yesteryear’s – And Can Be Overcome was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025.
• Harini Bhat – A clinical pharmacist and science storyteller obsessed with questions that don’t have answers, Dr. Bhat has built a following of 2.5 million by making complex science feel like something you can’t stop watching. Her popular YouTube series Today I Learned Science boasts 105 million views and 650K+ subscribers. She also hosts PBS’ In the Margins, an NAACP-nominated series bridging digital-first science with premium educational TV.
• Lindsey Cormack – an associate professor of Political Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Cormack has authored two books, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why it’s Up to You to Do It) and Congress and U.S. Veterans: From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis. She earned her PhD in Government from New York University and created and maintains the digital database of all official Congress-to-constituent e-newsletters at www.dcinbox.com.
Rewind content will be available on YouTube and on top podcast platforms, beginning with Hidden History (premieres May 11) and Government That Doesn’t Suck (premieres in July).
PAVE Studios’ launch of Rewind aligns with continued growth in demand for history based content across digital platforms. According to The Podcast Landscape 2025 by Sounds Profitable, 22% of monthly podcast consumers listen to or watch History-themed podcasts each month. In fact, the popularity of history content continues to grow across both audio (where it’s a top 10 category each year, and according to Acast, in 2021 grew +409%) and video (from YouTube to long-form TV series, including reality, docu-style, and historical dramas).
PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS:
• Hidden History – Some questions don’t have answers. Yet. Every week, Dr. Harini Bhat unravels real events from history that still can’t be fully explained. Mass hysterias. Medical oddities. Vanished civilizations. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating, centuries apart, as if history is trying to tell us something. Hidden History doesn’t dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as incomplete case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn’t a failure of explanation. It’s a constant in human experience, one that evolves, repeats, and sometimes deepens the more we learn.
• Government That Doesn’t Suck – From the creator of top 10 History podcast History That Doesn’t Suck, Professor Greg Jackson, comes a series that will look to history for inspiration from the many times when government has actually not sucked, and the insights of great leadership. Dr. Jackson is joined by a new voice, co-host Dr. Lindsey Cormack.
QUOTES FROM REWIND CREATORS:
• Connor Tomlinson – “History is something I’ve been deeply passionate about my whole life. I’ve always believed that only by understanding where we’ve been can we truly make sense of where we are, and avoid repeating the same mistakes going forward. The past is set in stone, the future unwritten.
PAVE and Rewind are giving me the opportunity to build a video podcast that truly brings these stories to life. With their ability to provide top quality production behind the show, I get to focus on the storytelling and trust that the reach, production, and audience-building are being handled. I’m excited to not only share my knowledge with everyone on the podcast, but to do it alongside someone who’s just as passionate about this as I am, and to give my community a chance to see another side of me they haven’t gotten to explore yet.”
• Greg Jackson – “Government That Doesn’t Suck is the natural next extension of the work I’ve done for the past eight years and I couldn’t be more excited to take this step with PAVE and Rewind because they get all of that. History and government go hand in hand. Just as history told rigorously, unflinchingly, and through stories comes to life and reveals its real value in our lives, so too does government. Like admiring a complicated engine, understanding that unique and brilliant machine known as American federalism makes it exciting. It becomes applicable. More than that, we become able to diagnose and fix that “machine” when a figurative belt slips or a gear gums up.”
• Harini Bhat – “The stories I want to tell aren’t the ones you already know. They’re the weird, buried, frankly nerdier corners of history where the science and the story collide, and those stories take time to find and even longer to tell well. What PAVE and Rewind give me is the room to actually chase them. I get to go deeper, not wider, and that’s a rare thing for a creator to be offered.”
• Lindsey Cormack – “I love books—I’ve written two myself and contributed to others—but video and audio reach people in a way the page just can’t. What made Rewind different for me wasn’t just the opportunity, it was the roster. Getting to build alongside Prof. Jackson and the rest of the creators PAVE is bringing together means there’s a space for a collective of people who care about history done right, amplifying each other. That changes what’s possible for all of us, and for the audience we reach.”
ABOUT REWIND:
Go back. Dig deeper. Press Rewind. We’re storytellers obsessed with history. From the infamous to the unexplained, and everything in between, we’re home to the stories that history forgot to finish. Together, we unravel the collapses, mysteries, and secrets that some history tried to bury – and bring you the stories that refuse to stay forgotten. A PAVE Studios brand, Rewind can be found on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook @RewindStudios or on YouTube @RewindPodcasts.
ABOUT PAVE STUDIOS:
Founded by Max Cutler, PAVE Studios is an entertainment company made up of culturally defining brands spanning genres. These brands produce and scale creator-led IP across video, audio, live experiences, and more. These include Crime House (true crime) and OpenMind – which produces Khloé in Wonder Land with Khloé Kardashian – with more to come. For more information visit pavestudios.com.
