The Shameless Plug #7: The Running Mag

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Shameless Plug — the show in which Chris Hewitt sits down with Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen, to shamelessly plug the new issue of Empire magazine — is back back back, folks, and comes with a lovely slice of Brisket. Not the meat, mind you, but Glen Powell's dog, who somehow wound up on Chris' lap during one of his forays to the set of Edgar Wright's The Running Man, in which Powell stars, and which is this month's cover feature. To hear more about that canine encounter, and Chris (and Nick's) observations of the film's sets, and our madcap The Running Mag idea, listen on. But there's plenty more here, as Chris and Nick do a deep dive into the issue, get bogged down in bad maths, and take some advice from Mick Scoresby. If you can't get out of it, get into it! Enjoy.

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0:47.6	podcast, because you can't watch everything. Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to episode seven of The Shameless Plug, the regular show in which I sit down with Empire editor, Nick D'Semlyan, and we talk about the contents and the cover and the whole kitten caboodle of the brand new issue of Empire, which is about now halfway through its on-sale cycle in all good,
1:28.5	evil and Virgil news agents. Hello, Nick D'Semlyan. Hey, Chris, it's a pleasure to be back,
1:33.9	shamelessly plugging with you. And yeah, we do talk about the content, specifically the contents page.
1:38.1	Yes. We didn't talk about last time, but it's my favorite page.
1:43.3	I love it. I love it.
1:44.6	I love it.
1:45.5	It's so good.
1:46.6	We'll talk about it later on.
1:48.3	There are some quality puns in the contents page this month.
1:53.1	But Nick, episode 7 of the Shamest Plug, issue 445.
1:59.2	Wow.
1:59.6	How time flies.
2:00.4	Of Empire Magazine.
2:01.6	Do we have any special plans for 450?
2:03.6	Have you started thinking that far ahead, or are you not that bothered?
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