--- description: Thanks to listener donations and sponsorships, Serial says it will return for a second season title: Serial Set for Season 2 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b8889fad45fcd5e/6987635935ba6f8fb3c04b90/sarah-koeinig.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [radio](/tag/radio/) ## radio Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Serial Podcast Gets Season 2  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 26, 2014 7:57 PM CUT  Sarah Koenig, host and executive producer of Serial Sarah Koenig, host and executive producer of SerialMeredith Heuer  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 26, 2014 7:57 PM CUT Serial, the most popular podcast [in the history of podcasts](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/media/serial-podcastings-first-breakout-hit-sets-stage-for-more.html "undefined"), will return to give listeners one story, told week-by-week, with its [just-announced second season](http://serialpodcast.org/posts/2014/11/there-will-be-a-season-two-of-serial-thanks-to-everyone-who-donated "undefined"). “This American Life funded the bulk of Season One, but for Serial to continue, it needs to pay for itself,” [staffers wrote on their website](http://serialpodcast.org/posts/2014/11/there-will-be-a-season-two-of-serial-thanks-to-everyone-who-donated "undefined") Wednesday, about one week after first asking listeners to donate. “Today, we have good news: between the money you donated and sponsorship, we’ll be able to make a second season.” Reporter and executive producer [Sarah Koenig told TIME earlier this year](http://time.com/3541264/serial-this-american-life-sarah-koenig/ "undefined") that her team “want\[s\] to keep it going and the idea is that we will, if people seem interested in it.” The producers don’t know when the season will air, nor what that story will be, probably because they still don’t know how their _first_ story will end. The inaugural and current season of Serial is investigating the 15-year-old murder of Maryland teenager Hae Min Lee. “I’m still reporting,” Koenig [recently told the New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/magazine/sarah-koenig-cant-promise-a-perfect-ending-to-serial.html?smid=pl-share&%5Fr=0 "undefined"). “I said it’s not my responsibility to make a perfect ending. I do want a solid ending that is based in my reporting. But I don’t feel a responsibility to make it the kind of entertainment that you would get on some TV drama.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3608144/serial-podcast-season-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3608144/serial-podcast-season-2/"},"headline":"Serial Podcast Gets Season 2","datePublished":"2014-11-26T19:57:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:25:05.272Z","description":"\"Between the money you donated and sponsorship, we’ll be able to make a second season\"","url":"https://time.com/3608144/serial-podcast-season-2/","keywords":["radio","Podcast","Serial"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b8889fad45fcd5e/6987635935ba6f8fb3c04b90/sarah-koeinig.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b8889fad45fcd5e/6987635935ba6f8fb3c04b90/sarah-koeinig.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sarah Koenig","caption":"Sarah Koenig","creditText":"Meredith Heuer","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/radio/","name":"radio"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3608144/serial-podcast-season-2/","name":"Serial Podcast Gets Season 2"}}]}] ```