Betrayal: Secrets & Lies with ABC News Studios | BONUS
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Find out how Betrayal Weekly became a new series on ABC Primetime.
Check out Betrayal: Secrets and Lies. Episodes air every Sunday at 10pm EST/9pm CST on ABC.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.0 | I am joined today by David Sloan and Mariel Pearson. |
| 0:09.1 | I know who you are, and you guys are huge advocates of betrayal. |
| 0:14.2 | But can you tell the audience who you are in relationship to the show? |
| 0:18.9 | David, why don't you go first? |
| 0:20.5 | Sure. I'm the creative lead for ABC News Longform. in relationship to the show. David, why don't you go first? |
| 0:21.0 | Sure. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm the creative lead for ABC News Longform, |
| 0:27.1 | which comprises ABC News Studios, |
| 0:29.8 | 2020, Nightline, and Impact, |
| 0:32.1 | our other news magazines. |
| 0:33.8 | So I'm the creative lead over content. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Ariel Pearson. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm the executive producer over here overseeing your wonderful show, Andrea. And yeah, I work really closely with David on a lot of the things that |
| 0:46.8 | he's working on, but I work really closely with your producer, John Hirsch, on making beautiful |
| 0:52.5 | television out of your amazing podcast. |
| 0:54.7 | How did you guys get into true crime? |
| 0:57.8 | David is the king of true crime. I'm passing that to you. |
| 1:01.6 | I mean, I have been doing crime since I worked on 20, 25 years ago, or maybe a little longer. |
| 1:09.2 | And I became the executive producer for 20 years. And it's ferreting |
| 1:14.4 | out these stories of not only the most notorious. And it's like the seven deadly sins. I mean, |
| 1:21.4 | why crimes are committed. It's jealousy. It's envy. It's anger. These are universal kinds of feelings |
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