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Audible Originals are here to spice up your summer, and Murder at the Patel Hotelis offering plenty of laughs with its murder mystery premise. Written by Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock), who also stars in it, the comedic podcast follows an Agatha Christie-esque formula through the lens of an Indian-American family with secrets to bury. It was co-written by Zackary Grady and Achilles Stamatelaky, and Audible has teamed up with Broadway Video to bring the story to life.

The whodunit begins when Milan Patel (Pancholy), a cosmopolitan event planner, returns to his parents' Montana motel in small-town Montana only for his father to drown in the pool. The star-studded ensemble includes Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp, Murray Bartlett, Karan Soni, Poorna Jagannathan, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind, Adam Pally, and more.

Audible · Murder at the Patel Motel - Milan finds out his father’s epi pen was replaced with an Ozempic pen

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Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson are teaming up to not die in Audible’s new narrative podcast, “Hit Job.” And in the first clip below, you can hear how the two come to work together, which Olsen twin is the real entrepreneur, and how Pete Davidson’s character just wants to have friends.

The synopsis per Audible: “‘Hit Job’ follows Brynn Morris (Palmer), an aspiring artist desperate for a job to help her ailing grandmother. As a last resort, she takes a job as an administrative assistant at a company with the motto: “Do Bad Things for Good Reasons.” Joining forces with her awkward tech nerd of a coworker Geo (Davidson), she unexpectedly gets swept up in a company-wide contest that forces her to question her morals. Having a killer job suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.”

The 12-episode podcast is produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video Enterprises and...

Audible is punching up its scripted comedy podcast lineup with two new shows from Broadway Video: “Hit Job,” a high-concept workplace comedy starring Keke Palmer and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson, and “Hot White Heist,” a queer action comedy featuring “SNL’s” Bowen Yang and directed by Alan Cumming.

Broadway Video, which struck a multiyear deal with Audible in 2019, has eight other comedy projects in development for the Amazon-owned audio platform. Those include podcasts from Fred Armisen; Drew Tarver and Gilli Nissim; Chloe Fineman, Dan Robert and Starlee Kine; Chris Redd and Will Stephen; Max Silvestri and Leah Beckmann; and Billy Kimball.

All of the Broadway Video shows will be available as part of Audible Plus, the subscription service that starts at $7.95/month and provides unlimited access to thousands of audio titles.

The 12-episode “Hit Job” is set to premiere April 22. The show is created and written by...