When Spotify canceled the podcast Heavyweight in 2023, every audio producer I know (and listeners on Reddit) mourned. The podcast, which I can best describe as “a show about regrets and resentments and the past but FUN,” was an audio darling, with its signature mixture of wry humor and deeply touching stories that seemed to prove the old adage of audio being an intimate medium. Longform called it “one of the most compelling and moving things that anyone puts out in media anywhere.”

I’d been holding out hope that Heavyweight would, by some miracle, return, in part because of a short update from host Jonathan Goldstein last October that hinted at a comeback. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that it’s coming back this year — with a new home at Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell’s audiobook and podcast production company.

It’s a rare bit of good news in the world of narrative audio, which has taken hit after hit lately. Goldstein, along with Heavyweight producers Kalila Holt and Stevie Lane, will join Pushkin as full-time staff members. The show will release new episodes this year, but it’ll look slightly different from before: there will be ten episodes in the full season that’s releasing later in the year, as opposed to the usual six, and in the meantime it looks like they’ll be putting out a few less intensive follow-ups to previous episodes this spring. Even Heavyweight, it seems, can’t avoid the content mines entirely.