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{{Infobox radio show
|show_name = ''This American Life''
|image = This American Life logoThisamericanlife-wbez.svgpng
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|first_aired = November 17, 1995
|last_aired = present
|num_episodes = [[Lists of This American Life episodes|629633]]
|audio_format = [[Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]
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===Television===
{{Main|This American Life (TV series)}}
Discussions of a television adaptation of ''TAL'' date back to at least 1999.<ref name="slate">{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/29923/entry/29924|title=A Weeklong Electronic Journal|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|author=[[Ira Glass|Glass, Ira]]|date=June 1999|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125233247/http://www.slate.com/id/29923/entry/29924/|archivedate=January 25, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In January 2006, [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]] announced it had [[greenlight]]ed six episodes of a new series based on ''TAL''.<ref name="sho">{{cite press release|url=http://www.sho.com/site/announcements/060120amlife.do|title=Showtime Greenlights TV Adaptation of This American Life|publisher=[[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]]|date=January 19, 2006|accessdate=March 3, 2007}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The announcement noted that each half-hour episode would "be hosted by Ira Glass and [...] explore a single theme or topic through the unique juxtaposition of first-person storytelling and whimsical narrative."<ref name="sho" />
 
For budgetary reasons, Glass and four of the radio show's producers left Chicago for New York City, where Showtime is headquartered.<ref name="nymag">{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/16762/|title=A Chicago Radio Hit Moves to New York, and TV|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|author=Ladd, Chris|date=May 1, 2006|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304110025/http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/16762/|archivedate=March 4, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In January 2007, it was announced that Glass had completed production on the show's first season, with the first episode set to premiere on March 22. Originally the series had a contract for a total of 30 shows over the four years,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2006/060203_1.html|title=Going Coastal|publisher=Chicago Reader|author=Miner, Michael|date=February 3, 2006|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305211740/http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2006/060203_1.html|archivedate=March 5, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> but after two seasons Glass announced that he and the other creators of the show had "asked to be taken off TV", largely in part to the difficult schedule required to produce a television program.<ref name="wbez">[[WBEZ]] official blog: "[http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=6109 Exclusive: Ira Glass dishes on end of TAL TV. Will he return to Chicago?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923152357/http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=6109 |date=September 23, 2009 }}"</ref> He went on to state that the show is officially "on hiatus", but would like to do a television special at some point in the future.<ref name="wbez" />
 
===Film===
Stories from TAL have been used as the basis of movie scripts. In 2002 the show signed a six-figure deal with [[Warner Bros.]] giving the studio two years of "first-look" rights to its hundreds of past and future stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.current.org/people/peop0216glass.html|title=This American Life Negotiates 'First-Look' Deal with Warner Bros.|work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]]|author=Mike Janssen|date=September 2, 2002|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306235707/http://www.current.org/people/peop0216glass.html|archivedate=March 6, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> One film to have apparently emerged from the deal is ''[[Unaccompanied Minors]]'', a [[2006 in film|2006 film]] directed by [[Paul Feig]] and reportedly based on "In The Event of An Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position" from "Babysitting".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/200611223minorsclip|title=Six Minutes of Paul Feig's Unaccompanied Minors|work=[[/Film]]|author=Sciretta, Peter|date=November 23, 2006|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=noyes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220554/http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/200611223minorsclip|archivedate=September 27, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In June 2008, [[Spike Lee]] bought the movie rights to [[Ronald Mallett]]'s memoir, whose story was featured in the episode "My Brilliant Plan".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0249463/|title=Lee To Make Movie About Black "Time Traveler"|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|author=Wenn.com|date=June 18, 2008|accessdate=June 19, 2008|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314181619/http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0249463/|archivedate=March 14, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Potential Warner Bros films from ''TAL'' episodes include "Niagara", which explored the town of [[Niagara Falls, New York]], after those who sought to exploit the [[tourism]] and [[hydroelectricity|hydroelectrical]] opportunities of the area left; "Wonder Woman" (from the episode "Superpowers"), the story of an adolescent who took steps to become the [[superhero]] she dreamed of being, well into adulthood; and "Act V", about the last act of ''[[Hamlet]]'' as staged by inmates from a [[Types of US federal prisons|maximum security prison]] as part of Prison Performing Arts Adult Theatre Projects. [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Broadway Video]] are in production on ''Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill'', a film based on the ''TAL'' story in the episode "My Experimental Phase".<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0424920|title=Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.current.org/radio/radio0317tal.html|title=Hollywood Finds Kernels for Movies in This American Life|work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]]|author=Janssen, Mike|date=September 23, 2003|accessdate=March 3, 2007|deadurl=noyes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306224712/http://www.current.org/radio/radio0317tal.html|archivedate=March 6, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
 
''This American Life''{{'}}s 168th episode, "The Fix Is In", inspired screenwriter Scott Burns to adapt [[Kurt Eichenwald]]'s book about business executive and FBI informant [[Mark Whitacre]], titled ''[[The Informant (book)|The Informant]]'', into a [[The Informant!|major motion picture]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=239|title=The Informant Review, The Informant|publisher=FlickDirect|date=September 16, 2009|accessdate=March 19, 2012|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227065307/http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=239|archivedate=February 27, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The film was directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]] and stars [[Matt Damon]].<ref name="fix">[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168 Episode #168: "The Fix Is In"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926220729/http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168 |date=September 26, 2007 }}. ''This American Life''.</ref> Glass has stated that the radio show has no financial stake in the film, but noted that he appreciated how well the movie stuck to the original facts.<ref name="fix" />
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Since October 2006, the program has offered a free podcast feed to the public. Under this arrangement, each show is made available to podcast feeds and aggregation programs Sunday evening at 8 p.m. ET, allowing radio stations a 43-hour window of exclusivity to carry the episode. After seven days, the link to the MP3 is removed from the podcast feed. Older shows can be streamed online via the show's website, or purchased from Apple's [[iTunes Store]] for $0.95 per episode.
 
Since the move to MP3 files in 2006, the show has relied on an extremely lightweight [[Digital Rights Management]] system, based on [[security through obscurity]] and legal threats. While the show episodes are removed from the podcast RSS feed after a week, they remain on ''This American Life''{{'}}s server, accessible to anyone who knows the location. On at least three different occasions, Internet users have created their own unofficial podcast feeds, [[deep linking]] to the MP3 files located on the ''This American Life'' webserver. In all three instances, the podcast feeds were removed from the Internet once representatives from Public Radio International contacted the individuals responsible for creating the feeds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/06/21/unofficial-this-american-life-podcast-is-no-more/|title=Unofficial This American Life Podcast Is No More|accessdate=September 28, 2008|last=Benedict|first=Jared|date=June 21, 2006|publisher=the future is yesterday|deadurl=noyes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202020420/http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/06/21/unofficial-this-american-life-podcast-is-no-more/|archivedate=December 2, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/06/20.html|title=A Takedown Request from This American Life|accessdate=September 28, 2008|last=Udell|first=Jon|date=June 20, 2006|publisher=Jon's Radio|deadurl=noyes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929053044/http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/06/20.html|archivedate=September 29, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/06/emotional-blackmail-takedown-remove.html|title=An Emotional Blackmail Takedown: Remove The Podcast, Or We Shoot This Puppy|accessdate=September 28, 2008|last=Soghoian|first=Christopher|date=July 17, 2007|publisher=Slight Paranoia|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929173730/http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/06/emotional-blackmail-takedown-remove.html|archivedate=September 29, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
 
{{as of|2012|3}}, a typical podcast episode was downloaded 750,000 times.<ref name="retracting">{{cite web|url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory|title=Retracting Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory|date=March 16, 2012|first=Ira|last=Glass|authorlink=Ira Glass|publisher=This American Life Blog|quote=The response to the original episode, 'Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,' was significant. It quickly became the single most popular podcast in This American Life's history, with 888,000 downloads (typically the number is 750,000) and 206,000 streams to date.|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328152430/http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/03/retracting-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory|archivedate=March 28, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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In 2012, in Season 6, Episode 12 of "30 Rock": "St. Patrick's Day", Ira Glass's voice appears on the radio, apparently presenting TAL, with his studio having been overrun by drunken thugs.<ref>{{cite web|title=St. Patrick's Day|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2268675/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_34|website=IMDb|publisher=Amazon|accessdate=15 May 2017}}</ref>
 
In 2013, Stanley Chase III, Mickey Dwyer, Ken Fletcher, and Matt Gifford launched the parody podcast ''That American Life'' on iTunes, which is hosted by "Ira Class".<ref name=IL>{{cite web|last=Keel|first=Eli|title=THAT American Life: Homegrown parody podcast hits 100K downloads, reaches no. 6 on iTunes comedy charts|url=http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2013/09/09/that-american-life-homegrown-parody-podcast-hits-100k-downloads-reaches-no-6-on-itunes-comedy-charts/|archive-url=https://archive.is/20140207033414/http://insiderlouisville.com/news/2013/09/09/that-american-life-homegrown-parody-podcast-hits-100k-downloads-reaches-no-6-on-itunes-comedy-charts/|dead-url=yes|archive-date=7 February 2014|publisher=Insider Louisville|accessdate=8 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelwolf/2014/01/03/4-predictions-about-podcasting-for-2014/ |title=4 Predictions About Podcasting For 2014 |work=Forbes |date=2014-07-30 |accessdate=2014-08-13 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=httpshttp://webwayback.archive-it.org/weball/2014080504485420151031230715/http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelwolf/2014/01/03/4-predictions-about-podcasting-for-2014/ |archivedate=AugustOctober 531, 20142015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
 
In two episodes of Season 1 of ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'', [[Robert Stanton (actor)|Robert Stanton]] portrays a radio personality, Maury Kind who hosts an NPR show called ''Urban Tales'', a fictional portrayal of ''This American Life''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weber |first=Lindsey |url=http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/ira-glass-was-asked-to-be-on-oitnb.html |title=Ira Glass Was Asked to Be on OITNB |publisher=Vulture |date=2014-05-15 |accessdate=2014-08-13 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807092608/http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/ira-glass-was-asked-to-be-on-oitnb.html |archivedate=August 7, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162/fullcredits/|title=Orange Is the New Black (TV Series 2013– )|work=IMDb|accessdate=October 13, 2014|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212042112/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162/fullcredits|archivedate=February 12, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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*[https://stownpodcast.org/ ''S-Town'']
 
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