“Serial,” the investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, is back for its third season. This time around, the show will tackle the criminal justice system by following stories collected from “a year inside the criminal justice courts in Cleveland, Ohio.” In the new season trailer, Koenig says, “I don’t think we can understand how the criminal justice system works by interrogating one extraordinary case. Ordinary cases are where we’d need to look.” Listen to the trailer below. New episodes will be released every Thursday starting September 20.
Nick Thorburn, the composer behind previous seasons of “Serial,” will not return for season three (though a remixed version of his theme will be used). The music team behind the new season are composer Adam Dorn and producer Hal Willner. Read “The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the Podcast Score” on the Pitch.
