True crime podcast host Mike Boudet brings his edgy show Sword and Scale to television with a new app, allowing fans to immerse themselves in cases through original audio, visuals, and an interactive social platform to discuss episodes.
In 2013 true crime host Mike Boudet launched the podcast Sword and Scale. The result was "One of the most singular, visceral, podcasts in existence" -Rolling Stone Magazine. Reaching the top of the charts while continuing to be told with an edgy and unapologetic delivery style. Ten years later Sword and Scale will bring this podcast to life in a new television series. Bringing fans the first independent true crime television series and app. Using original audio, including 911 tapes, news clips, interviews from people who were there and those that knew the victims. Sword and Scale is now in their homes, on their doorsteps, in their police stations, combing through their autopsy photos, and is challenging the fans to stand in the victim's shoes. Sword and Scale is an independent app that can be downloaded directly from the app store. You can also sign up at SwordandScale.TV and go to the tab "JOIN +PLUS" to join. This app has a unique approach of combining a social platform where viewers can comment on the shows in real time, locate other fans of the episodes, chat back and forth with other watchers, and keep track of the episodes that have been consumed. This is the next advancement in how true crime viewers will consume content.