Bowen Yang at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (Photo by Evans Vestal Ward/NBC via Getty Images) Audible and Broadway Video Enterprises’ podcast Hot White Heist returns for a second season on March 7. The new season of the queer, scripted, action-comedy podcast will return with six half-hour episodes available exclusively on Audible.
Hot White Heist was created, written and directed by Adam Goldman, who also produces the project in collaboration with Alan Cumming. The first season of the podcast was notable for featuring an all-queer cast, including Bowen Yang, Cynthia Nixon, Jane Lynch, Shannon Woodward, Abbi Jacobson, Bianca Del Rio, Stephanie Beatriz, Katya Zamolodchikova, Cheyenne Jackson, and Tony Kushner, who have also all returned for season 2. Raúl Esparza, Sara Ramírez, Joel Kim Booster, Ian McKellen, Jane Krakowski, Trixie Mattel, Yvie Oddly, Sarah Steele and Jesse James Keitel have been added to the cast for season 2.
Season 2 starts two years after getting away with the heist of the century in season 1 as Judy Fink (Yang) and his team must ensure their secrets stay on the low when a true-crime podcaster starts to poke around.
Scripted podcasts are still an emerging medium. However, Audible has been producing several scripted comedy podcasts, including Trust Fall, starring Colin Jost and Wanda Sykes; Yes We Cannabis, starring Sam Richardson, Langston Kerman, Punkie Johnson and Method Man; Excessive, starring Chloe Fineman and Joshua Jackson; Michelle Rojas Is Not Okay starring Dascha Polanco; Past My Bedtime starring David Harbour and Motivated! created by and starring Nia Vardalos and Rob Riggle.
Hot White Heist is in many ways a spoof of heist films. However, it also functions as one itself. While Hot White Heist isn’t the first Audible Original to receive a season 2, it reflects the excitement over comedy world-building.
“Adam Goldman did such a bang-up job the first time. He made great use of the medium and got amazing people for this project. It is a pretty spectacular cast. So many wonderful people, and Ian McKellen. This is one of those projects that I really took something away from. My hope is that a lot of people also have that same thing happen to them,” Yang says.
Hot White Heist season 2 is available on Audible starting March 7.
