Danielle Fishel Expands iHeart Slate, Turning The Tables On Teen Fame.

Actress Danielle Fishel — who signed a reported seven-figure deal in September to executive produce a new slate of shows for iHeartPodcasts — is launching a new series that will put her in front of the mic. Fishel will host the pop culture interview series titled “Teen Beat” when it debuts next month.

The weekly series will feature Fishel sitting down with other celebrities to unearth details from their upbringings, cracking open childhood diaries for embarrassing fashion choices, school crushes and dramatic friend fallouts. It is a twist on her own public journey, as Fishel spent her own teen years growing up playing the character Topanga Lawrence on the ’90s television sit-com “Boy Meets World.”

Fishel was on the series from the ages of 12 to 19, and even though she has gone on to do other things — including a recent appearance on Season 34 of “Dancing with the Stars” — she thinks it is the role that most people know her for. In a preview for the new podcast, Fishel says her first kiss was caught on camera, and now 30 years later she has decided it is time to turn the tables on other celebrities.

“Since their first pimple wasn’t broadcast as part of the TGIF Block of Shame, the least they can do is share it with me,” she says. “I’m asking guests to open their childhood diaries and reveal embarrassing facts and choices, school crushes, dramatic friend fallouts, using our nostalgic and awkward pasts as a roadmap to understand who we are today.”

Fishel took podcast listeners along with her DWTS adventure on the “Danielle with the Stars” podcast this fall. It marked her fourth collaboration with iHeart, joining her hit series “Pod Meets World,” which she continues to co-host with Will Friedle and Rider Strong, as well as executive producing “How Rude, Tanneritos!” with Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin, and “Magical Rewind” with Sabrina Bryan and Will Friedle. Now “Teen Beat” will further deepen the long-standing creative partnership between Fishel and her husband Jensen Karp, who co-executive produce their growing slate of shows for iHeartPodcasts.

“I have cherished my relationship with iHeart over the past three years and look forward to our newly minted future,” Fishel says in a statement. 

The new “Teen Beat” series will be distributed by iHeartPodcasts as part of its Popworthy slate, where trending culture and nostalgia intersect. No specific start date has been announced.