The Rest is Entertainment

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PercyPig

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I really can’t describe how much I love The Rest is Entertainment. The quite impassioned chat about (moopy point of contention) the BBC on the latest episode I thought was wonderful.

And then there’s the tidbits about The Biz and Marina being sarcy about celebs :D
 
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Am I alone in vastly preferring and almost exclusively listening to their Q&A episodes? I honestly wouldn't mind if that was the entire podcast!
 
Marina basically going off about how terrible journalists are in response to the newsroom hierarchy question :disco:
 
The Rest is Entertainment are starting a premium version with in-depth extra episodes (plus ad-free etc.). It would be the first podcast I’d consider paying a monthly sub for.
 
Slightly tempted by extra content and to escape their bloody friends at Sky.

Currently on holiday and quite convenient to have adverts in Spanish rather than Marina and Richard 'reviewing' the latest Sky offerings.
 
The House of Goalhanger really have managed to dominate and dare I say elevate British podcasts, in a way I don't think think any other British production company have.

It's only really Steven Bartlett (of the British podcasters) that has remained so consistently high on the podcast charts, normally among Goalhanger's top products. The rest of the top level seem to be celebrity podcasts that come and go.
 
FetchFugly said:
Slightly tempted by extra content and to escape their bloody friends at Sky.

Currently on holiday and quite convenient to have adverts in Spanish rather than Marina and Richard 'reviewing' the latest Sky offerings.
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Oh I did like the Spanish adverts on holiday - everything sounded so dramatic and exciting even though I had no what was being said.
 
Isn’t it funny how we value things. Netflix for 7.99 and its wealth of entertainment “yeah I could probably cancel that tbh”

A twice weekly podcast that deeply resonates with me? “I’ll pay £7.99 for that, thanks Gary”.
 
The Rest Is Entertainment are doing a live Christmas show at the Royal Albert Hall on 4th December which I’m very tempted by, although aren’t these live podcast shows usually released as a podcast before long anyway?
 
I took the plunge and paid the subscription for The Rest Is Entertainment and it’s absolutely worth it. I came for the Traitors Q&A but I stayed for the It’s A Royal Knockout two parter, which I listened to open-mouthed throughout.

It’s quite good value really because they do a bonus deep dive episode every week (they come out on a Friday I think) so even if I cave and listen to the Q&A episode early in the week (another perk) there’s still an extra helping to look forward to.
 
I was very tempted for the Traitors extras but I haven't worked through the A Journey Through SAW bonus episodes yet.

I really would expect £5.99 a month to include the bonus episodes though.
 
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Well this is filling me with DREAD. I'm very concerned that Marina in particular might need cancelled at some point in those 26 minutes.
 
I wouldn't have thought so. They both seem savvy enough to keep a million miles away from anything like that.
 
Pingu said:
I wouldn't have thought so. They both seem savvy enough to keep a million miles away from anything like that.
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Yeah, they definitely pulled their punches I reckon. The question was on creative control that authors have beyond the books, and didn't mention that JK Rowling not having much to do with Hogwarts Legacy ended up becoming a selling point.
 
They got a side eye from me with the episode a while back where they were FAWNING over Jeremy Clarkson.

Oh yes, he said that the BBC pointing out something he said about inheritance tax was TYPICAL BBC which sounds a bit TRUMPIAN, but he didn't mean it like THAT. He's such a pleasant chap!
 
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They got a side eye from me with the episode a while back where they were FAWNING over Jeremy Clarkson.

Oh yes, he said that the BBC pointing out something he said about inheritance tax was TYPICAL BBC which sounds a bit TRUMPIAN, but he didn't mean it like THAT. He's such a pleasant chap!
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I don't think they were FAWNING over him, they said he could be Prime Minister, which, well... *gestures around*
 
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Yeah, they definitely pulled their punches I reckon. The question was on creative control that authors have beyond the books, and didn't mention that JK Rowling not having much to do with Hogwarts Legacy ended up becoming a selling point.
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I doubt either of them think ill of Rowling, to be honest. Whenever they broach politics there is always a painful level of centrist both-sides-ing.
 
I was quite taken aback when Richard was discussing the Daly Nails made up quote about someone leaving the Peter Kay gig early because they were so appalled.

“You know what, bullshit. Didn’t happen!”

They talked about similar before but this one seemed to come from a real annoyance.
 
It was a really good show yesterday. Although I was surprised they didn't mention the fact that's been floating about, that Bond goes out of copyright in a few years.
 
I'm sorry but them both insisting that looking at your phone at the theatre is fine... Electric chair :(
 
This show has actually become quite annoying.

I'd take an hour of Marina's hot takes, but Richard's endless unfunny quips and interjections really drag the whole thing down.
 
Christian said:
I'd take an hour of Marina's hot takes, but Richard's endless unfunny quips and interjections really drag the whole thing down.
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I like most of it but can live without the riffing on people's names in the Q&A edition.
 
They're this decade's Stephen Fry

Mostly benign, and often on the money - but smug, worshipped by twee centrists, and ultimately such an ick.
 
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I'm sorry but them both insisting that looking at your phone at the theatre is fine... Electric chair :(
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A war crime as Marina would say (and then have to apologise on screen for a week later)
 
I'm still broadly enjoying it, but I have quite a high tolerance for centrists and Dad jokes. I did raise an eyebrow at Marina's war crime comment last week, but I dismissed it as hyperbole (ill timed and inappropriate, but nothing you wouldn't read on Moopy).
 
I've tried with this podcast a couple of times, but I've never warmed to Richard Osman. He sucks the energy out of everything he appears in for me.
 
Christian said:
This show has actually become quite annoying.

I'd take an hour of Marina's hot takes, but Richard's endless unfunny quips and interjections really drag the whole thing down.
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I can cope when they're off the cuff, but when he attempts scripted comedy I start skipping ahead
 
Not the renewal of their friendship with Sky. It was SO NICE when they announced they were going to a break and came right back.
 
These DEMONS gave Shakespeare's Sister as an example of a bad Glastonbury headliner. They are SICK.
 
lolly said:
I've tried with this podcast a couple of times, but I've never warmed to Richard Osman. He sucks the energy out of everything he appears in for me.
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I'm the opposite in that I just can't warm to Marina Hyde. She's undeniably witty, but often comes across as a bit sneering and aloof.
 
I mean this as no insult to my many capital-dwelling friends, but she really seems like the worst kind of terminally London type of personality.
 
I mean Hyde is literally the daughter of a BARONET - a terminally posh cunt, even if she writes for one of the marginally less shit newspapers.
 
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