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Smash hit comedy podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno will come to an end this year with three final episodes coming out from the end of November, the creators have announced.
The final episodes will premiere at the end of this month with the first being released on 28 November, the second on 5 December, and the finale on 12 December, ending on an exclusive interview with the creator of the Belinda Blinked book series that the show is based on, author ‘Rocky Flintstone’.
“Basically, we’re breaking up,” co-host Jamie Morton told PodPod. “Yes, My Dad Wrote A Porno is coming to an end unfortunately this Christmas but it isn’t all sad, you know, there’s no hideous backstory to dig through it just feels like it’s time.”
After a successful six-season run including the most-listened to pilot of a show on Acast, the team have decided “with a heavy heart” that they’ve reached the final chapter of the podcast; but also teased that this may not be the last time that the fans will be hearing from Belinda – indicating that there might be future content to come.
The My Dad Wrote A Porno team announced the end of the series on social media on Sunday (13 November), prompting a wave of praise from fans and widespread media coverage.
"This show has been the backbone of our lives for the past eight years. We've had new jobs, new homes, break-ups, breakdowns and a truckload of Chilean Chardonnay,” said Morton and co-hosts Alice Levine and James Cooper. “But the three of us sitting around the kitchen table reading Rocky’s bad dad porn has been a constant, guaranteed belly laugh no matter what was going on elsewhere.
“We know it has been a comfort (and cause of nausea) to millions of listeners too, and it's been our privilege to be an escape to a different world,” they added. “The community we have built together around the globe is something we couldn't be prouder of.”
The team sat down with PodPod following the announcement for an exclusive podcast interview – released on 15 November – to discuss why they chose to end the show and what people can expect to happen in the future of the Belinda series.
My Dad Wrote A Porno premiered in 2015 after the host of the show, Morton, discovered that his dad has written an erotic novel series titled Belinda Blinked under the pseudonym Rocky Flintstone – and decided to create a show reading it out loud with his friends and now co-hosts Levine and Cooper.
The podcast has amassed over 430m downloads globally since its launch and has since published an HBO comedy special in 2019, completed two sold-out world tours of the live show, and featured numerous A-list celebrity guest stars appearances, including Hamilton’s Lin Manuel Miranda and Dame Emma Thompson.
