You Must Remember This Returns With Eight-Part Season 'The Bisexuals'

You Must Remember This returns on 15 September for its 18th season, an eight-episode story titled The Bisexuals.

Host Karina Longworth, a former film critic, spoke to Variety before the launch about the new season and a related autumn tour. The return date was first reported by Variety in July.

The season looks at bisexual people in the entertainment industry. It tells that history through two lives. Eight episodes. Two subjects.

The first is Libby Holman, a Broadway torch singer, a performer known for slow, sad love songs. The second is Montgomery Clift, the American movie star. Longworth uses their stories to open up a wider circle of friends, lovers and colleagues.

The podcast describes itself as a show about the secret and forgotten history of Hollywood's first century, according to You Must Remember This. That is the material Longworth has mined for 18 seasons. Each run takes one theme or era and tells it in serialised, carefully researched chapters.

Holman is a striking choice to lead the season. The show's own notes bill her as a torch singer and accused murderess, and describe the season as centred on Holman and her sexually-fluid group of friends. Clift gives the season its second anchor. His screen career made him famous. His private life has long drawn interest from historians.

Longworth is also taking films connected to You Must Remember This on the road this autumn. The tour includes stops in Houston, New York, Boston and Chicago. Screenings give listeners a chance to see the source material on a big screen and hear more of the backstory in person.

Longworth's husband is filmmaker Rian Johnson. He is the director behind the Knives Out mystery series and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

For fans, this means a familiar rhythm. A long run. A tight cast of characters. And room to linger on details that never make the film histories.