Slow Burn Docuseries to Launch on EPIX

Slow Burn, the docuseries about the Watergate crisis based on the podcast of the same name, is slated to premiere on EPIX on Sunday, February 16.

In the six-episode series, reporter Leon Neyfakh will expand on the podcast’s first season, excavating the subplots and forgotten characters involved in the downfall of former U.S. President Richard Nixon. Winner of the best podcast award at the first iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, Slow Burn is produced by Slate. The docuseries will be co-produced by Slate and Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company.

Slow Burn is executive produced by Neyfakh, along with Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver and John Marks for Left/Right and Dan Check, Julia Turner and Gabriel Roth for Slate.