13 Minutes to the Moon

[Blackstar]

I got an update about 16 Sunsets. See image. Not sure if I am allowed to share the link, so I did not.

Still have not heard anything about the third season of 13 Minutes (the one I was interviewed for in March 2023).

Although everybody and their dog now has a podcast, somebody told me that the ad revenue for podcasts has taken a big hit recently. So that might be hurting the BBC one.

I think the 13 minutes third series and the sixteen sunsets are one and the same? Unless I'm missing something!

Steve.

No. The narrator Kevin Fong, and at least one producer, worked on 13 Minutes for two seasons. They then left BBC and started this new podcast, 16 Sunsets. Meanwhile, BBC decided to continue 13 Minutes for a third season with a new producer and without Kevin Fong. They are both essentially covering the same subject, the space shuttle. I was told that 13 Minutes was going to cover the shuttle up to STS-27.

[SteveGoodey]

I got an update about 16 Sunsets. See image. Not sure if I am allowed to share the link, so I did not.

Still have not heard anything about the third season of 13 Minutes (the one I was interviewed for in March 2023).

Although everybody and their dog now has a podcast, somebody told me that the ad revenue for podcasts has taken a big hit recently. So that might be hurting the BBC one.

I think the 13 minutes third series and the sixteen sunsets are one and the same? Unless I'm missing something!

Steve.

No. The narrator Kevin Fong, and at least one producer, worked on 13 Minutes for two seasons. They then left BBC and started this new podcast, 16 Sunsets. Meanwhile, BBC decided to continue 13 Minutes for a third season with a new producer and without Kevin Fong. They are both essentially covering the same subject, the space shuttle. I was told that 13 Minutes was going to cover the shuttle up to STS-27.

So I was missing something.  Thanks very much for that, interesting.

[laszlo]

Podcast is a great format for this story.

In the last episode you can feel the anguish of the flight controllers more than when you also have video. (At least for me.)

It's an excellent format for another reason. One of my biggest gripes with pretty much every space documentary is the use of stock footage from other flights for scenes where there was no footage. For example, the Apollo 4 staging film has been shown as every Saturn V ever launched and then some. While in that case the producers are probably using the only available footage as a typical representation, there are many documentaries where the wrong NASA footage is dropped in even though footage exists for the actual event. One of the most egregious examples was a documentary using Apollo 16 lunar EVA footage for Apollo 17. With an audio podcast that doesn't happen.

Wonderful series.

[Blackstar]

We finally got an update--16 Sunsets will be available in November.

Still nothing on Thirteen Minutes...

https://sixteensunsets.com/