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C21Podcast is hosted by C21Media. The show has published 573 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "BBC Studios’ Zai Bennett and Shelley Macintyre on Blue Planet III, Brad Caleb Kane dives into Crystal Lake, Rainbow Group’s Iginio Straffi on going D2C" (29 October 2026, 45 minutes), "GammaTime’s Alex Montalvo, COL Group’s Timothy Oh, Every Media’s Tim Vloothuis and Dutch Core’s Lorraine Joore put microdrama under the microscope" (22 October 2026, 45 minutes), and "Mipcom 2026 wrap: C21’s Nico Franks and Neil Batey, the BBC’s Kate Phillips, Uncensored’s Rashida Jones, After Party’s Ben Doyle, ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry, ProsiebenSat.1’s Henrik Pabst and MFE’s Giacomo Poletti" (15 October 2026, 88 minutes).
C21Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 573 episodes.
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