CBC is launching a new fall slate of original podcasts, including a new series on Celine Dion and her career, a first-person narrative about vision loss, and the return of true-crime series Someone Knows Something, centered on the disappearance of an Ontario teenager in 1993.

New titles are Split Screen: Thrill Seekers; Celine: Understood, Uncover: Bad Results; and Personally: Short Sighted, while the returning programming includes Personal Best (season three); and Someone Knows Something: The Christine Harron Case (pictured, season nine).

The broadcaster will release the full collection of podcasts on CBC Listen and on various streaming audio platforms. Some titles can also be streamed on YouTube. The new titles join CBC’s current podcast grid, which include 45 series in genres such as true crime, comedy and audio fiction such as Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Crime Story, The Dose, Front Burner, Q with Tom Power, and Sickboy.

The popularity of podcasts has been on the rise in recent years, with consumption outpacing other media, according to a new global study by Acast. The report revealed that 81% of respondents listen to podcasts, while 77% watch streaming TV, 75% consume streaming music and 65% social networks. The study also found that audio consumers are more willing to listen to podcast ads (64%) than commercials in other media (59% watch ads on streaming TV, 58% say they listen to ads on radio, and 54% watch ads on cable TV). And more than 95% of respondents expect to spend the same or more time listening to podcasts in the next six months.