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| format = {{hlist|[[Comedy-drama]]|[[news satire]]|[[surreal comedy|surrealism]]|[[paranormal fiction|paranormal]] [[horror fiction|horror]]|[[deadpan]]|[[Mystery fiction|Mystery]]|[[magical realism]]}}
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| producer = Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
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*Hunter Canning as Hugh Jackman, the owner of the new start up company eGemony who shares his name with [[Hugh Jackman|the famous actor of the same name]]
*[[Lusia Strus]] as Missy Wilks, a Night Vale citizen and former [[Playboy]] Playmate.
*Erica Livingston and Christopher Loar as Maggie and Donald Penebaker, a husband and wife who serve as the voices of the phone tree menus for all services in
*Flor De Liz Perez as Lacy, a representative for the Night Vale Department of Water
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A third podcast, ''[[The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air)]]'', was released October 12, 2016. This podcast was written by and stars musician [[Julian Koster]].<ref>[http://orbitinghumancircus.com/podcast.html The Orbiting Human Circus], OrbitingHumanCircus.com. Retrieved 9/25/16.</ref>
Night Vale Presents launched two non-fiction podcasts, Dylan Marron's ''Conversations With People Who Hate Me'' and Joseph Fink's ''I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats'', in 2017. A new fiction podcast, ''It Makes A Sound'', was also launched, detailing an amateur radio host's love of a local musician and her hopes of revitalizing her hometown. The podcast was created and written by Jacquelyn Landgraf.
==Reception==
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Co-producer Jeffrey Cranor attributed this spike in popularity to both [[Tumblr]] and fans of the television series ''[[Hannibal (TV series)|Hannibal]]''. Max Sebela, a creative strategist for Tumblr, stated that the fan following began to "spiral out of control" beginning on July 5, with that week having "20,000-plus posts about 'Night Vale,' with 183,000-plus individual blogs participating in the conversation, and 680,000-plus notes".<ref name="Awl">{{cite news |title=America's Most Popular Podcast: What The Internet Did To "Welcome to Night Vale" | first = Adam | last = Carlson |url=http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/americas-most-popular-podcast-what-the-internet-did-to-welcome-to-night-vale |newspaper=[[The Awl]] |date=July 24, 2013 |accessdate=July 24, 2013}}</ref> The [[Twitter]] account for the podcast has been noted as having more than 20,000 followers by July 2013.<ref name="Artifice"/>
According to ''[[The Daily Dot]]'', new listeners primarily come through [[fandom|fan following]] and word of mouth primarily on [[Tumblr]] with [[fan fiction]] and fan art focusing on the romantic relationship between the show's narrator and scientist Carlos.<ref name="Daily Dot1">{{cite news |title=In the surreal shadows of "Night Vale," a new fandom lurks | first = Gavia | last = Baker-Whitelaw |url=http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/welcome-night-vale-podcast-fandom/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=July 23, 2013 |accessdate=July 23, 2013}}</ref> Fans have published "fanscripts", [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcripts]] of the podcast, in order to widen the accessibility of ''Welcome to Night Vale''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fan-created transcripts make it even easier to get into "Night Vale" | first = Aja | last = Romano |url=http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/welcome-night-vale-podcast-fan-transcripts-fanscripts/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=August 5, 2013 |accessdate=August 6, 2013}}</ref>
On October 15, 2015 producers Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor were interviewed on ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'', and Cecil Baldwin appeared for a Community Calendar public service message for Night Vale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/FABGSnxyBDmbj1DMs4pLZj3IYUnV5ZvG/the-late-show-10-15-2015-oprah-winfrey-joseph-fink-jeffrey-cranor-judith-hill-/ |title=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Video - 10/15/2015 (Oprah Winfrey, Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Judith Hill) - CBS.com |publisher=CBS Interactive |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016113338/http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/FABGSnxyBDmbj1DMs4pLZj3IYUnV5ZvG/the-late-show-10-15-2015-oprah-winfrey-joseph-fink-jeffrey-cranor-judith-hill-/ |archivedate=October 16, 2015 }}</ref> Mike Rugnetta of [[PBS]]'s web show Idea Channel compares the show to horror writer [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s style of writing about fear of what we don't know. He says "But Night Vale turns Lovecraft's 'unimaginable terror' into 'drab mundanity'."
== Television adaptation ==
In December 2017, it was announced that [[Gennifer Hutchison]], a writer and producer on ''[[Better Call Saul]]'' and ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', is adapting ''Welcome to Night Vale'' for television. The series is being produced by [[Sony Pictures Television]], where Hutchison has an overall deal, and developed for [[FX (TV channel)|FX]]. Fink and Cranor will serve as executive producers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://deadline.com/2017/12/fx-welcome-to-night-vale-production-deal-podcast-1202222829/|title=FX To Develop ‘Welcome To Night Vale’ Podcast For TV; Harper Perennial Orders Two New Books|last=Evans|first=Greg|date=2017-12-08|work=Deadline|access-date=2017-12-20|language=en-US}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:LGBT-related podcasts]]
[[Category:Science fiction podcasts]]
[[Category:Scripted podcasts
[[Category:Weird fiction]]
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