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Serial season 2: Why the podcast will only release every other week from now
The creators require more reporting time following an "unexpected development"
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Your support makes all the difference.If you're enjoying the second season of podcast Serial, we have some bittersweet news for you - new episodes are to now be released every fortnight.
Don't worry, though - the podcast isn't in trouble; The New York Times reports that the team behind Sarah Koenig's hit series are responding to an "unexpected development" in the story being covered this season - the one of Sergeant Bowe Berghdal who was captured by a Taliban-affiliated group in 2009.
Berghdal went on to be released in 2014 following a prisoner exchange arranged by the White House.
The extra week between episodes will enable the Serial crew to carry out "additional reporting."
Executive producer Julie Snyder revealed that since the show began, "...we have gotten more people willing to talk, and because of that, it has opened up more avenues of reporting."
Just whom they are interviewing, however, remains unknown.
The change means that tomorrow's episode will be pushed to 21 January with every episode released fortnightly from then on out.
Serial's first series was a cultural hit, investigating the 1999 case of Adnan Syed who was imprisoned for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee
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