Presents
In
Deep
One obsession. Thirteen episodes. The full story.
Some stories need
room to breathe.
Some stories are too big for a single documentary and too rich for a single podcast episode. In Deep is a video podcast series for The Ringer / Spotify that gives those stories exactly that space.
Each season runs 13 episodes — 30 to 60 minutes each — devoted entirely to a single subject: a moment, a movement, an institution, or an era from the worlds of sports and popular culture that shaped who we are and how we see the world. The subject changes every season. The format stays the same: cinematic, long-form documentary interviews — the kind of access and intimacy that transform history into something you feel.
Think of it as the long-form treatment that every great sports and culture story deserves — told by the people who lived it, anchored by The Ringer's editorial voice, and built for an audience that doesn't just want the highlight, they want everything that led up to it.
The Stories
We Tell First
Fourth
And Fox
In 1994, Rupert Murdoch paid $1.58 billion for the NFL — a number so reckless that even his own executives thought he'd lost his mind. What followed was one of the most audacious disruptions in the history of American media. Fourth and Fox tells the story of how a brash upstart network weaponized football to become a cultural institution — told across 13 episodes by the people who built it, fought it, and were changed by it forever. The talent wars. The tabloid tactics. The Sunday afternoon that rewrote sports broadcasting.
The Death
Of Pride
Before the UFC owned combat sports, there was Pride FC — a Japanese promotion that was louder, stranger, and more theatrical than anything the fight world had ever seen. The Death of Pride is the rise-and-fall epic of a promotion that defined a generation of fighters, seduced a global audience, and died in a swirl of organized crime allegations, corporate intrigue, and broken dreams. The definitive account of Pride's birth, its golden age, and its stunning collapse.
A Multi-Season
Franchise
Designed to scale across sports, media, and entertainment without losing its identity — each season a standalone event, each franchise a growing body of work.
Why Now.
Spotify has built the infrastructure. The Ringer has the voice and the audience. What's been missing is a format that marries the depth of documentary film with the reach and intimacy of podcasting — and that scales across sports, music, film, television, and culture without losing its identity.
In Deep is that format. The single-topic season model creates genuine event programming — a reason to come back every week, a season people recommend to friends as a complete experience.
Let's go.