Basic!
Hosted by Doug and Jen and hosts and podcast hosts · Pantheon Media
4.7from 99 ratings
- 54
- Episodes
- 99
- Ratings
- 2022
- First episode
- 59M
- YouTube views
About Basic!
Before binging, there was cable. Welcome to Basic!, the official podcast bringing you the unofficial history of cable TV. Go behind the scenes of a glorious time in pop culture, when shows like MTV’s ‘The Real World,’ ESPN’s ‘SportsCenter’ and AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad’ made basic cable a must-have for every American home. With the help of guests like Jimmy Kimmel, Cindy Crawford and Amy Schumer, hosts Doug Herzog (former network executive at MTV, Comedy Central, Fox) and Jen Chaney (TV critic at New York Magazine/Vulture) explore basic cable history through the experimental shows, ground-breaking creators, and Zeitgeist-shifting trends that defined the medium. 2023 Signal Arts & Culture Listener’s Choice Award Winner. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.
- Publisher
- Pantheon Media
- Category
- comedy · society & culture · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 22 Feb 2025
Latest episodes
54 episodes in the feed.
22 Feb 2025
Welcome to Music City San Francisco: The Podcast
26 Apr 2023
John Mulaney
19 Apr 2023
Eric André
Who has been a guest on Basic!
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- John Mulaney
- Eric André
- Trevor Noah
- Padma Lakshmi
- John Slattery
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 58,995,036
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 99 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 51
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