Tenderfoot TV
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Address: 
675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA
Website: tenderfoot.tv
About Tenderfoot TV
Founded by Atlanta director and filmmaker Payne Lindsey and music industry veteran Donald Albright, Tenderfoot TV is an award-winning podcast and entertainment studio behind some of the industry's most acclaimed shows. The company's breakthrough came in 2016 with Up and Vanished, the true-crime phenomenon that helped bring renewed attention to a decade-old cold case resulting in two arrests and has generated more than 500 million downloads across four seasons.
With more than 1 billion downloads to date, Tenderfoot's acclaimed productions include “Atlanta Monster,” “Dear Alana,” “The MLK Tapes,” “Radio Rental'' starring Rainn Wilson, the Associated Press’ Podcast of the Year (2019), “To Live and Die in LA,” and “Wisecrack,” named The Guardian's Best Podcast of 2025. The company continues to expand into television and film, most recently with Universal Studio Group's UCP acquiring the rights to adapt Wisecrack into a scripted television series.
A recipient of the 2020 Icon/Pioneer Award at the iHeart Podcast Awards, Tenderfoot has collaborated with leading entertainment companies including A24, HBO, Netflix, iHeart, Audible, Audacy, Spotify, and Issa Rae's Raedio. Visit tenderfoot.tv for more information.
Latest news
- Oct 23: Tenderfoot TV's Radio Rental debuts stop-motion LEGO-inspired horror short film on YouTube - The Handcrafted 10-Minute Documentary Short, Directed by Twisted Bricks Creator Kristian Stenslie, Brings a Fan-Favorite True Story to Life PRESS RELEASE
- May 12: The Podcast Academy is to celebrate two international awards at The Podcast Show in London. Goalhanger's The Rest is History will receive the International Governor’s Award, while the International Impact Award goes to Wisecrack from Tenderfoot TV & iHeartPodcasts, "recognizing a podcast or individual based or set outside of the United States whose recent work has had a significant, positive impact on the global podcasting landscape". (The show is set in the UK).
- Mar 9: “We couldn’t find a home for this on television”, said Jodie Tovay the cohost of Wisecrack, in her acceptance speech for Podcast Of The Year at The Ambies a few weeks ago. Well, that didn’t take long. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, has acquired the television rights in a competitive process. The writer will be Eli Journé, who is currently working on Severance for Apple TV; Eat The Cat will executive produce, alongside Tenderfoot TV, iHeartMedia and Starwipe Productions.
- Feb 11, 2025: Crook County launches today from iHeart and Tenderfoot TV. It's a story of Ken Tekiela, a celebrated Chicago firefighter and loving father of two who led a secret double life as a hitman for the Chicago mafia. For over two decades Ken, known in crime circles as “the Kid,” successfully kept his mafia life a secret from his family and closest friends. In 2013, that all changed when he broke down and told his son Kyle everything. Kyle hosts the podcast.
- Jan 14, 2025: A new series in the Monster true-crime podcast franchise, Monster: BTK, launches today from Tenderfoot TV and iHeartMedia. It's the sixth season, and focuses on "BTK", the true story of Dennis Rader, known as the BTK Killer (Bind, Torture, Kill), who murdered at least 10 people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991.
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