Overview
- Prime Crime Productions, a new crime and news company formed by Joe Budden and Ian Schwartzman, announced its first series, 'Crime in America', and released a trailer this week.
- The weekly video podcast will debut on Tuesday, Aug. 11 and roll out across major podcast platforms with new episodes every Tuesday.
- Wolf Entertainment and Advance Local’s Headline Studio are production partners, with Wolf offering decades of crime‑story expertise and Advance Local supplying local journalists to report on developing cases.
- Each episode will spotlight fresh or unfolding cases and follow them week to week, using on‑scene interviews and original reporting rather than retrospective true‑crime storytelling.
- Budden said he and Schwartzman chose to finance and build the series themselves, a move that leans on his large direct audience and creator revenue model to reach listeners without a traditional platform deal.