How Long Gone Launches How Long Gone Today, New Digital Comedy Series With Talkhouse And Amplify Pictures

Los Angeles, CA (February 18, 2026) – Talkhouse and Amplify Pictures today announced the launch of How Long Gone Today, a new digital video series based on the acclaimed podcast, How Long Gone, hosted by Chris Black and Jason Stewart. The premium studio-produced format marks a strategic expansion of the popular bi-coastal culture podcast into video, with distribution across YouTube and Spotify Video now, and Apple soon. 

The series was initially introduced in December 2025 with the release of the How Long Gone 2025 Year in Review special on YouTube. Building on the podcast's established audience, the new format will feature studio-based conversations, guest interviews, musical performances, and additional segments rolling out throughout 2026. The series is executive produced by Chris Black and Jason Stewart; Ian Wheeler for Talkhouse; two-time Emmy winner Joe Lewis (100 Foot Wave, Fleabag), Colin King Miller, Rachel Eggebeen and Luke Esselen for Amplify Pictures.

"We could only resist the pivot to video for so long. This approach feels like the right one for us and the audience. A natural extension of the audio podcast that allows us to show up on your YouTube algorithm," says Chris Black. 

"We realized that, with the exception of the pages of The New York Times, New York Magazine, W Magazine, American GQ, British GQ, American Vogue and Vogue Scandinavia, many people have never seen Chris and Jason's faces or towering bodies. So, we're out to fix that," says Ian Wheeler, founder of Talkhouse.

Shot at a news-desk studio in Los Angeles, How Long Gone Today adopts a television aesthetic, distinguishing it from traditional podcast-to-video adaptations. Some of that can be credited to Amplify Pictures, the acclaimed indie studio behind the Emmy-winning 100 Foot Wave and currently Oscar-nominated Come See Me in the Good Light, in collaboration with Talkhouse, How Long Gone's longtime network home and one of the companies behind last year's Björk: Cornucopia (Apple TV), as well as a number of other soon-to-be-announced features. 

How Long Gone Today will be available on the How Long Gone YouTube and Talkhouse YouTube accounts, as well as on Spotify Video, and Apple soon.

ABOUT TALKHOUSE

Talkhouse is a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company, podcast network, and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Talkhouse's podcast series include SubwayTakes, How Long Gone, Blank Check, Alison Roman's Solicited Advice, Life of the Record, Craig Finn's That's How I Remember It, Santigold's Noble Champions, Björk: Sonic Symbolism – which GQ praises as "a road map to the creative life," delivering what The New Yorker calls "a rare chance to listen in as one of the most mysterious and mystical artists working today explains herself" – as well as the new Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, which critics are raving about and represents Jad Abumrad's triumphant return to audio. Björk's Cornucopia represents Talkhouse's first foray into producing TV/film. Other projects are currently in development and production.

ABOUT AMPLIFY PICTURES

Amplify Pictures is the pioneering independent studio that develops, finances and produces award-winning, commercially driven scripted series, documentary projects and theatrical productions, including HBO's Emmy-winning 100 Foot Wave and the currently Oscar-nominated Come See Me In The Good Light. Founded in 2018 by two-time Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe-winning producer and Amazon Studios co-founder Joe Lewis (100 Foot Wave, Fleabag, Transparent), Amplify Pictures is helmed by CEO Lewis alongside founding partners Rachel Eggebeen, Chief Content Officer, and Colin King Miller, Chief Operating Officer.

The third season of Amplify Pictures' hit series 100 Foot Wave premiered on HBO in 2025 and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and took home its third Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program. The first two seasons of 100 Foot Wave also won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program, and season one won a PGA Award for Outstanding Sports Program. 

Amplify Pictures' slate also includes Jay Duplass' comedy series Sleep King, produced with Duplass Brothers Productions; the comedy series The Earliest Show from Ben Schwartz who stars alongside Lauren Lapkus; Jeremiah Dunlap and Cory Quintard's comedy series Mt. Mystic, based on the creators' YouTube pilot; Matt Wolf's Soaps, an epic and unprecedented look into the unseen world of soap operas; Ryan White's Oscar nominated Come See Me in the Good Light, an unexpectedly funny and joyful love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley navigating life and mortality in the face of an incurable diagnosis for Apple TV; Bollywood Dance U, the electrifying new docu-series that follows the high-stakes world of competitive collegiate Bollywood Fusion dance, directed by Smriti Mundhra (Indian Matchmaking) and Game Changers, which explores the backstories behind the video games that changed our world, streaming on HBO Max.

Amplify Pictures has recently expanded their live division and is currently co-producing Clare Barron's You Got Older at the Cherry Lane Theater. In 2025, Amplify co-produced Maia Novi's buzzy semi-autobiographical play Invasive Species for its London run, and co-produced Julia Randall's dark comedy Dilaria starring Ella Stiller, Chiara Aurelia and Christopher Briney, which opened off Broadway. On Broadway, they were co-producers on Gutenberg! The Musical!, starring Grammy award-winners Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Amplify CEO Joe Lewis previously won a Tony Award for co-producing A Strange Loop in 2022. The first season of Amplify Pictures' podcast, Pretty Sure I Can Fly, hosted by Johnny Knoxville and Elna Baker, is out now and produced alongside SmartLess Media and Campside Media.

 

For more information on Talkhouse, please contact Matt Hanks, Greg Jakubik or Henry Thomas at Shore Fire Media, 718-522-7171