The Shameless Plug: An Aliens Special Special
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This time it's more. Yes, folks, The Shameless Plug — the show in which Chris Hewitt and Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen, chat about the stories behind the current issue of Empire — is usually a two-hander (well, four hands), but for reasons unknown this month we've also invited James Dyer into the podbooth to add a third pair of hands, and one more mouth. Well, not for reasons unknown, as Jimbo is here to talk about his favourite film, Aliens, which just happens to be the cover film of this month's issue, which is still on sale in all good, evil, and virtual newsagents. So we decided to turn this month's Shameless Plug into an Aliens appreciation special, as well as getting the full story on how we managed to get James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn and Jenette Goldstein to come together on Zoom and natter about Aliens as it hits 40. Elsewhere, our intrepid trio also talk about the rest of the issue, and how it came together, but really, this one is fully focused on Ripley, believe it or not. Enjoy!
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| 0:28.0 | At all protected. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to a very special edition of The Shamedus Plug, |
| 0:51.0 | the monthly spin-off show from the Empire podcast in which I sit down with Empire |
| 0:55.6 | editor Nick Dissomley and hello Nick. Hello. Hello. And we go through the latest issue |
| 1:00.7 | of Empire magazine, which in this case is the summer 226 edition, issue 454, which has aliens on the cover. |
| 1:11.6 | 40 years of aliens, folks. |
| 1:15.6 | But you know what? |
| 1:16.6 | What was that you were doing? Sorry? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, aliens doesn't really have a catchy theme tune, but it does have a bit at the beginning. |
| 1:21.6 | Where Ripley's in cry of sleep, it's like a... |
| 1:25.6 | That one? That one. That one. It's very catchy. It's a real earworm. It's a real, yeah, James, well, listen, it's like a boboboboboo that one that one it's a real earworm |
| 1:28.4 | it's a real |
| 1:29.1 | yeah |
| 1:29.4 | listen it's a great |
| 1:30.6 | James Horter score it's a great James Horner score as we will discuss it's just one of the many things we're going to discuss about aliens over the next 45 minutes to an hour or so because we decided to do a shameless plug with a difference, Nick. |
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