The Mail’s hit series The Trial is ranked the fifth most popular new show of 2023 on Apple podcasts
- Series has been nominated for awards and has reached 19million downloads
The Mail’s hit series The Trial has been ranked as the fifth most popular new show of 2023 on Apple podcasts.
The first series, The Trial of Lucy Letby, became a global hit and has been downloaded more than 13million times.
It has built on this success with two further seasons about different cases, which has seen The Trial reach about 19million downloads across the three series so far. Season two focused on the murder of Irish teacher Ashling Murphy, 23.
The current season, which launched last month, is following the case of Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl killed earlier this year. The Trial has been nominated for a number of awards. It aims to bring listeners the detail heard by juries and focuses on key moments in trials. It also carries interviews with relatives, experts and detectives.
The latest series of the Mail’s podcast The Trial of Lucy Letby has been downloaded 13million times, and The Trial has racked up 19million downloads across the three series
Big Fish by Spencer Matthews ranked below the Mail’s podcast on Apple’s 2023 list of ‘Top New Shows’
Below it in Apple’s 2023 list of ‘Top New Shows’, based on listening figures, were Big Fish with Spencer Matthews, The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, The News Agents USA, fronted by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, and the BBC’s A Very British Cult.
The Mail’s other hit podcasts include The Crown: Fact or Fiction which has consistently outperformed Netflix’s official Crown podcast. Other top podcasts include football show It’s All Kicking Off!.
Jamie East, head of podcasts at DMG Media, said: ‘Full credit goes to the team, who’ve taken something as complicated and legally challenging as a live murder trial and produced a compelling, sensitive and hugely popular podcast series.’
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