What’s The Best Role To Take In Panto?
On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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🤬 Ben’s been doing a lot of big film watching so that he’s ready for his BAFTA voting, so expect a film of the year level review.
And what’s so significant about this proposed Netflix takeover of Warner Bros? If you want to know which panto role Colson is desperate to play, then this is the episode for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to On the Sofa with Colson. |
| 0:14.3 | Jack and Burn. |
| 0:16.2 | You might know the three of us from the tellies. |
| 0:19.9 | But this is our podcast where we chat about film. |
| 0:23.7 | Wednesday is film. |
| 0:25.2 | Yes. |
| 0:26.1 | And a bit of telly. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.7 | Have we been watching on the film? |
| 0:31.9 | So I've gone to all the BAFTA films, which are on this website, have now, it's been a bit, it's |
| 0:39.4 | been a bit strange. When's your deadline to vote? So what do you usually get? Usually get |
| 0:46.7 | the DVDs in the post. Years and years ago, pirate copies. You used to get, used to get, a man, |
| 0:53.6 | used to get a man with a pirate a man. A man. A black umbrella. In the park. Usually, they used to send you the videos. Yeah. But they sent you them early. Now, as it's gone on every year, now it's just a website with screeners. Yeah, they say they'd send you early. Would you get like the DVD in like an unbranded case or what it |
| 1:11.1 | be like? Yeah, some of them really early. And then some of them are branded. But you get them a good long time before they come out. But now it's got less and less because the window with a release to cinema, to DVD. And I don't know whether. I know what you mean now. It's just much less. So they wait until kind of this week and next week is when you actually can watch them. |
| 1:33.4 | There's been a lot early ones have come on early, but not the ones where... |
| 1:37.4 | So is that why a lot of the short list and long lists and all long lists and that are coming out later and later? |
| 1:43.7 | Yes. |
| 1:44.0 | Because the people haven't fucking voted yet. |
| 1:46.2 | What strange was before is, when you used to get BAFTA films, you used to think, |
| 1:53.2 | there's a few here that could go up for it and whatever. |
| 1:56.2 | And now what you find in the Oscar films or the Baptist, there's definitely four that everyone goes. |
| 2:19.4 | Oh, they're going to be the four. Okay. So one battle after another. Everyone's talking about that. Marty Supreme. Okay. Everyone's talking about that. Right. So one of them, Hamniz. The Rock, Dwayne? No. He's not in it. He's out. It's on Amazon now to buy and it's not the ratings. |
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