Unwell Fall Slate: Alex Cooper Adds Four New Shows on YouTube

Alex Cooper's Unwell network is adding four podcasts to its fall slate, Every one of them is launching on YouTube first, which says the Call Her Daddy host's media company now treats video as the future of podcasting rather than an add-on. The lineup mixes three brand-new series with a returning favorite, and it arrives as one of the new shows is already tangled in an online feud before its debut week is even over.

The expansion was detailed by Adweek this week, with Unwell vice president of marketing Ali Lee describing the Unwell fall slate as spanning history, lifestyle, and internet culture. Petticoat Revolution, hosted by twin sisters Charlotte Long and Daphne Woolsoncroft, and Chronically Out of Line with Molly Scheader were set to debut this week. Dani's Side Quest, hosted by UK creator Dani Babes, and a new season of Me and Who Els with Elsy Guevara will follow in October. Petticoat Revolution, Chronically Out of Line, and Dani's Side Quest are all new series, while Me and Who Els is an existing franchise coming back for another season.

The four new additions

Petticoat Revolution is the most high-profile of the bunch. Woolsoncroft is a true crime podcaster and writer, and she and her sister Long bill the show as a place where history meets girl talk, aimed at listeners who want historical storytelling delivered the way friends trade stories over wine. Me and Who Els returns Guevara to the Unwell roster for a new season, while Chronically Out of Line and Dani's Side Quest round out the slate with lifestyle and internet culture formats. According to Adweek, Unwell now has 14 shows in active production, with a combined audience of nearly 100 million followers across platforms.

The network is also putting real organizational weight behind the slate. Samir Sama, the company's head of ventures, corporate development, and podcast strategy, told Adweek that mixing established franchises with new launches was a deliberate choice, aimed at programming most likely to connect with the Unwell audience. The Unwell fall slate is the latest step in Cooper's push to turn Unwell from a single hit podcast into a diversified media company, one that looks increasingly like a traditional network with talent rosters, brand partnerships, and live events on the horizon.

A debut already mired in drama

Petticoat Revolution has not had a quiet launch. Within days of the announcement, the hosts of the independent history podcast Right Answers Mostly accused the new show of lifting their concept and tagline. Right Answers Mostly, hosted by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald, has run for five years with the tagline "history is just gossip," and its hosts posted an Instagram reel claiming Unwell had ripped off both the concept and the wording when Petticoat Revolution launched with the tagline "history meets girl talk."

The backlash moved fast. Evie Magazine reported that fans of Right Answers Mostly flooded the announcement, and the hosts of Petticoat Revolution were removed from Unwell's official post about the show. On September 22, Woolsoncroft responded in an Instagram comment, writing that she had only learned about Right Answers Mostly the night before and had messaged the hosts directly to discuss it. She also clarified that her "it's not gossip, it's just history" shirt seen in a reel was bought on Etsy, not official show merchandise, and that the show's tagline had always been "where history meets girl talk."

The episode has opened a wider conversation about independent creators versus network-backed shows. Right Answers Mostly built its audience over five years on its own, with appearances on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen along the way. Petticoat Revolution, backed by one of podcasting's biggest networks, booked Emma Roberts as a guest for its inaugural episode. The contrast has not gone unnoticed by listeners, and it puts pressure on the new show to win over the exact audience it was designed to attract.

Why YouTube is the whole bet

Putting all four shows on YouTube first is the point of the announcement. YouTube has become the platform of choice for podcast listening, with 37 percent of weekly podcast consumers naming it their most-used service in 2026, up from 31 percent two years ago, according to Edison Research data cited by Adweek. That shift explains why a network born in audio is now thinking in video first. Viewers who find a clip can fall into a full episode without leaving the app, and the format gives hosts a second life as on-camera personalities.

Unwell is hardly alone in the pivot. Apple is bringing video subscriptions to its podcast platform, Disney and Hulu are doubling their video podcast output, and Spotify keeps expanding its podcast partner program into new countries, but Cooper is moving faster than most. The network already announced a creator-led competition series, Unwell Games, for YouTube this fall, announced at YouTube's Brandcast upfront, and the fall slate extends that experiment across the company's core podcast business. With Petticoat Revolution and Chronically Out of Line debuting this week and the October launches close behind, the next month will show whether Cooper's bet on video-first podcasting can turn a tagline controversy into appointment viewing.