{"id":329862,"date":"2026-08-26T03:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329862\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:40:37","slug":"new-york-times-kyle-buchanan-exits-paper-to-launch-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329862\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times&#8217; Kyle Buchanan Exits Paper to Launch Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNew York Times pop culture writer and awards columnist Kyle Buchanan has left the newspaper after eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI can exclusively report that Buchanan is launching a new video podcast about Hollywood, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-kyle-buchanan-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-kyle-buchanan-show\" data-tag=\"the-kyle-buchanan-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Kyle Buchanan Show<\/a>,\u201d in mid-October. His last day at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-new-york-times\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-new-york-times\" data-tag=\"the-new-york-times\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> was Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tReleased twice weekly, \u201cThe Kyle Buchanan Show\u201d will feature two distinct formats. Every Tuesday is \u201cThe Panel,\u201d with Buchanan joined by two to three rotating industry guests to break down the biggest stories in Hollywood. Every Friday is \u201cThe Profile,\u201d a one-on-one conversation with a major star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIn a new media landscape overloaded with quick hits, nothing beats a real conversation,\u201d Buchanan said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cIn fact, I think audiences and talent are hungrier than ever for talk that goes deep. \u2018The Kyle Buchanan Show\u2019 will offer a genuine inside look at Hollywood, with a perspective that industry figures and fans can trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show will launch with Acast as its exclusive partner for advertising, brand partnership and distribution. Acast, the world\u2019s largest independent podcast company, is home to \u201cGiggly Squad,\u201d \u201cThe Comment Section With Drew Afualo and \u201cThe Lonely Island and Seth Meyers.\u201d The Buchanan series will be available to watch and listen on Apple Podcasts, in both audio and video, as well as all other major podcast platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDuring his tenure at The New York Times, Buchanan profiled dozens of Hollywood\u2019s biggest names, including Michael B. Jordan, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Channing Tatum and Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBuchanan is also the author of the bestselling book <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/tom-hardy-armie-hammer-mad-max-audition-1235175972\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBlood, Sweat &amp; Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road,\u201d<\/a> an oral history based on more than 130 interviews that Entertainment Weekly called \u201cno less jaw-dropping than the movie itself.\u201d Before joining The New York Times in 2018, Buchanan was a senior editor at New York Magazine\u2019s Vulture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1234848148\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Just-for-Variety-Logo-Lockup-Headshot.pngtiw=639\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"236\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Times pop culture writer and awards columnist Kyle Buchanan has left the newspaper after eight years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,124042,5489],"class_list":["post-329862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-the-kyle-buchanan-show","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}