What is The Handoff podcast with Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon?
NOTHING will be “off limits” when pals Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon launch a podcast called The Handoff later this spring.
Cuomo‘s CNN show Cuomo Prime Time, which airs at 9 pm on weeknights, is immediately followed by Lemon‘s CNN Tonight. The hosts often chat with each other during the transition from one show to the other.
What is The Handoff podcast with Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon?
Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are teaming up for the new CNN podcast The Handoff, which is expected to debut in May of 2021.
“Each night during the primetime hours of CNN’s television programming, viewers witness the deep love, honest candor, and respect that these two anchors – and friends – have for one another in their unscripted ‘handoff’ conversations between shows,” the cable network said.
“Now, with no broadcast clock to hold them back, they are stepping out from behind their anchor desks to come together and ignite even more personal and hot topic conversations.
“Nothing is off limits.”
In order to listen to the podcast, fans will need a subscription to the CNN channel when Apple Podcasts Subscriptions launches later in May, according to Deadline.
Cuomo, the brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, started at CNN in 2013.
Lemon, a number one New York Times bestselling author of This Is The Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism, joined CNN in 2006.
What is Apple Podcasts Subscriptions?
The launch of the Cuomo-Lemon project comes as Apple launches the “next chapter” of podcasting.
Apple Podcasts Subscriptions was unveiled in April and will debut in May.
Listeners in more than 170 countries and regions will be able to sign up for premium subscriptions with “a variety of benefits,” according to Apple.
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“Fifteen years ago, Apple took podcasts mainstream, offering creators a premier, open platform to inform, entertain, and inspire hundreds of millions of listeners around the world,” said Apple’s Eddy Cue.
“Today, Apple Podcasts is the best place for listeners to discover and enjoy millions of great shows, and we are proud to lead the next chapter of podcasting with Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.
“We’re excited to introduce this powerful new platform to creators around the world, and we can’t wait to hear what they make with it.”