Epix to Premiere Watergate Docu-Series ‘Slow Burn’ Feb. 16

Epix will premiere docu-series Slow Burn Feb. 16. The six-episode series is based on the podcast of the same name.

Leon Neyfakh will look back on the Watergate crisis, “excavating the strange subplots and forgotten characters involved in the downfall of a president -- and flashing back to politically tumultuous times not so far removed from today,” said Epix.

Slate produces the podcast. The series is produced in partnership by Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company, and Slate.

Slow Burn is executive produced by Neyfakh, along with Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver and John Marks for Left/Right and Dan Check, Julia Turner and Gabriel Roth for Slate.

Neyfakh started his reporting career at the New York Observer before joining The Boston Globe and then Slate, where he created Slow Burn with Andrew Parsons. 

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.