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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this month's Shameless Plug, the show in which Chris Hewitt sits down with Empire editor Nick de Semlyen to do a deep dive into the latest issue of Empire, Chris Hewitt sits down with Empire editor Nick de Semlyen to do a deep dive into the latest issue of Empire. Which, for the first time in our history, has a musical on the cover, Jon M. Chu's Wicked For Good, and Nick explains how he went down the yellow brick road towards making that happen. Elsewhere, the pair discuss eating panna cottas on the set of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, asking Josh Brolin about lions, and much, much more. And if you haven't read the new issue yet, it's on sale right now in all good, wicked, and virtual newsagents. Enjoy!
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| 0:47.1 | The Pilot TV podcast, because you can't watch everything. Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewett, and welcome to the latest episode of The Shamedous Plug, |
| 1:10.5 | the magazine podcast |
| 1:11.9 | crossover type thing, writes it down every single month with Empire editor Nick Dissamblion |
| 1:17.4 | and we go through the latest issue of the world's biggest movie magazine, which is Checks |
| 1:21.9 | notes, Empire, our very own magazine. Here it is, I'm holding up to the camera right now. |
| 1:27.6 | That is last month's issue. |
| 1:31.1 | It is. |
| 1:32.3 | You had one job. |
| 1:35.6 | I chased myself around London |
| 1:37.7 | and I found myself |
| 1:38.7 | and I shouted the running mag |
| 1:39.7 | at myself. |
| 1:40.9 | For my efforts, |
| 1:43.5 | I was rewarded with a copy of the running mag. |
| 1:46.2 | This is meant to be the shameless plug, not the shameful plug, what you just did. |
| 1:50.3 | Anyway, the reason I have last month's issue, not this month's issue, is because I had |
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