The Shameless Plug: The Fellowship Of The Plug
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Shameless Plug is never late. Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to, roughly halfway through the on-sale cycle of the latest issue of Empire. To which, after all, this show is dedicated to shamelessly plugging. And once again, the Fellowship of the Plug — Chris Hewitt and Empire editor, Nick de Semlyen — have assembled in the Podmines of Moria for that plugging. You have Nick's microphone, and Chris' copy of Adobe Audition, and if the deluge of Lord Of The Rings references hadn't already clued you in, the duo are here to talk about issue 450 of Empire, which is dedicated to celebrating 25 years of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings. Nick regales us all with tales of reuniting the four Hobbits and Sir Ian McKellen, virtually collecting the rest of the Fellowship, plus Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and getting Andy Serkis to write a piece for us. It's not all LOTR, with tales of Raimi-wrangling, a bit of Gore, and a Gollum impression you will never be able to unhear. Simples. Enjoy!
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| 2:01.7 | A podcast is never late, Nick Disamblion, nor is it early. |
| 2:04.9 | It arrives precisely when it means to. |
| 2:06.5 | Hello, Nick. |
| 2:09.6 | Chris, I come to you now at the turn of the tide. |
| 2:17.0 | A line of course spoken in the two towers by Gandalf the White. Not Gandalf the Grey. I just saw the two towers at the weekend. Did you? Extended edition on the big screen, all four hours of it. Did you extend your edition? With a four-hour Peter Jackson intro. Was that exciting? It was amazing. It was amazing. It was mind-blowingly cool. Why are we talking about Lord of the Rings? Nick, hello Pod. I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the latest |
| 2:36.2 | episode of The Shameless Plug. This is the 12th edition, 12th, 12th, can I even say that? 12th edition, |
| 2:42.1 | 12th? I'm tripping up at that. This is the 12th edition of the Shameless Plug, which of course |
| 2:48.1 | brings you the behind-the-scenes stories, behind the latest issue of |
| 2:52.5 | Empire Magazine. And every month I am joined whether I want to be or not by my friend and |
| 2:58.4 | neighbor, Nick Dissamling, the editor of Empire Magazine. Hello, Nick. Hi, Chris. You can call |
| 3:03.8 | me Mithrandier if you like to. This is my proper title. |
| 3:09.1 | I'm trying to enforce that a bit more. |
| 3:11.9 | And the issue we are talking about, Nick, |
| 3:14.4 | remember we, from the very beginning of this podcast, |
| 3:17.0 | I've been asking you, are you doing anything special for issue 450 of Empire? |
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