Discount Code: WOODALL (ft. guest, James McAvoy)
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ok, first things first. Let's get it out of the way. Yes, the Empire Podcast team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and John Nugent — spend a great deal of this week's podcast answering a listener question about great movie quartets. They also spend a great deal of time, in the Movie News section, talking about The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum. And yes, despite all that, they spectacularly fail to mention Bilbo, Samwise, Merry and Pippin in the former category. So, just letting you know that now lest you wish to shout at your podcast device of choice. Forewarned is forearmed and all that. Or maybe fourwarned is more apt in this case. Anyway, it's a fun episode in which our own quartet also talk Taskmaster series 21, discuss other nuggets of movie news, and review James McAvoy's directorial debut, California Schemin', Francois Ozon's The Stranger, rom-com You, Me & Tuscany, and podcasting horror, Undertone. And Chris has a lovely chat with James McAvoy, who pops into the podbooth to talk about directing for the first time. [41:45 - 1:00:32 approx] Oh, and the group make tentative and fun plans with this week's work experience person. Enjoy.
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| 0:24.0 | What's on TV? The answer is a lot. There's never been more choice ever what to put on the box with an abundance of great new shows, but you can miss them all if you don't know where to look. And that's where the pilot TV podcast comes in, your essential guide to every show that matters. Each week, we sift through the very best in Prestige TV to help you decide what's worth spending your time on and what isn't. So join me, James Dyer, as well as venerable TV critics, Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro, |
| 0:26.4 | and let us help take the stress out of your downtime. |
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| 0:32.8 | You can't do much in under five minutes. |
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| 0:45.7 | authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. See website for details. And our podcast this week. |
| 1:06.0 | We're rapping with California Schemean director. |
| 1:09.0 | That's right, he's turned director, James McAfoy. |
| 1:12.9 | How exciting. |
| 1:14.9 | Plus, the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast |
| 1:17.5 | that has been stirred and moved by the Artemis II mission, |
| 1:22.5 | and it's been trying to come up with words |
| 1:24.0 | to fit the occasion, sense of wonder it is engendered in me. In the end, the person |
| 1:30.0 | who managed to sum it up all best was, as is almost always the case, Samson, the alpha |
| 1:35.8 | infected from 28 years later at the Bone Temple, when he said, and I quote, moon. Wise words, |
| 1:44.0 | Samson, wise words. Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the Empire podcast. We'd be delighted to know unlike Samson. I am fully clothed, despite the fact that it's the hottest day of the year so far. Exciting, exciting, exciting. Anyway, we're in the pod booth today, and I'm joined by three colleagues of such lethal cunning. Helen O'Hara Geek Queen is here. How are you? I am delighted. I'm loving the moon mission. It's distracting me from things back here on Earth, which is great. Why? What's happening on Earth? It's okay. Don't worry about it. Okay. But yeah, I mean, how great is that? I mean, really, the tie-in budget for all mankind is really not out of hand. They went to the moon, and they missed. They must have felt like such idiots when they flew by and were like, no, moon. Moon got back. But anyway, they can always do it again. Hopefully they'll find George Clooney and John Favreau up there. |
| 2:35.5 | We can just scoop them up and bring them back on the way down. John Nugent is also here, the fifth people. Hello, how are you? Hello, I'm good. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, not too bad. Not too bad. Good, good, good. Excellent. Good small talk, John. You're welcome. So, uh, they call him, I think officially now, the mad Titan. |
| 2:54.8 | He is, of course, James Dyer. |
| 2:57.3 | I'm feeling it. |
| 2:58.0 | I'm definitely feeling it. |
| 2:58.7 | I hope you're not on the hottest day of the year so far. |
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