Catch the new third season FREE premiere episode as video podcast from the acclaimed Showtime series " The Tudors " in the Zune Marketplace . THE TUDORS focus is on the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry 8's nearly 40-year, omnipotent reign of England played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. This early release premiere episode will not be airing on Showtime until April 5th.

Everyone has switched into fall mode and that has translated into a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace software . This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter. Well, this year is no exception and we have seen a 30% or more jump in new podcast subscriptions from August to September . This heightened activity around podcasts involves Zune users discovering great new podcasts in...