Stars from beloved TV shows like 'Gossip Girl' and 'New Girl' are using podcasts to recap the shows they starred in and share their experiences from their time on set.
,” a podcast where actor Jessica Szohr goes on a"walk down memory lane" with the “Gossip Girl” series, in which she played Vanessa.nostalgiaIn 2016, the release of"The West Wing Weekly," a podcast featuring actor Joshua Malina , first put the category on people's radars.
"While true crime remains a popular category in podcasting, one of the things that we started seeing from listeners across the board was this desire to find comfort, escapism and a reason to smile whenever possible," Pearson said. Pearson attributed the popularity of this newer podcast genre to the intimacy that the format itself provides.
Susan Mackey-Kallis, a communications professor at Villanova University who studies pop culture and film analysis, said the rise of the celebrity rewatch podcast genre"wasn't surprising" because viewers often develop"parasocial relationships" — a psychological relationship that describes when an audience member becomes attached to, and invested in, a fictional character.
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