Pivot · Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Ina Garten is launching a new podcast called "Happy Hour with Ina," which will focus on conversations about drinks, both cocktails and mocktails. Garten explained that she wanted to move beyond the typical short interview format of TV shows to allow for longer, more in-depth conversations with guests.
“So the podcast. The reason I'm asking this is the podcast is called Happy Hour with Ina Garten and the focus is going to be on drinks, both cocktails and mocktails and longer conversations.”
“When I've been doing, um, my TV shows, I really started out thinking I wanted to do a conversation with somebody. And to really connect with them and find out who they are and what's interesting to them. And we ended up doing a cooking show with a conversation, but I just found a very short conversation is hard because you end up actually doing an interview, not a conversation.”
“Um, I wanted a long form conversation. And so that's what I've done. And so the conversation is about an hour and we edit it down to 45 minutes, but it's exactly the way it is.”