Find this take a bit weird, though:
I mean, I know Herring thinks he invented both podcasting and blogging (and to be fair, has been doing both for aaages), but even so, the show has been a podcast for nearly as long (if not as long?) as it’s existed in its current form, from before the BBC was really doing much in this space, and I’d wager the lion’s share of the long-term/dedicated listener base was to the podcast, not the live show.
Couldnt disagree more tbh, I absolutely love all the jokes and letters and features. It’s just a really comfy chill listen for while I’m cooking or walking etc, built around films but with just actual friendship and listener community surrounding it
Keep it all the same!
And yeah to @parm ’s point above, only ever listened to it as a podcast - been 4 years maybe now?
I stopped listening to the pod because it was overtly over congratulatory to me, and stuck to just the YouTube reviews, but then I stopped giving a shit about film and fell away.
This isn’t going to bring me back
Got to say I really don’t get the smugness comments. Enough people say it that there must be soemthing there but I can’t hear it at all? Or I can see why a hater would call them smug, but can’t see what would cause a fan to find the listener stuff so off putting
I definitely see how Kermode could come across as a bit smug. It’s what put me off his film reviews for years. Think he’s a national treasure now, like…
Yeah that’s basically nonsense from Herring there. I’ve always listened to it as a podcast, bar once or twice when I happened to be in my parents car on a long journey on a Friday afternoon. It was one of the very first podcasts I ever downloaded, from iTunes, when I got my first iPod Mini in about 2004/2005. It was the podcast you subscribed to if you liked films, top of the iTunes genre chart or w/e. If Kermode & Mayo haven’t earned their podcast chops I don’t know who has.
going to quite annoying waiting for them to get back on the (virtual) air
Do you know if Radio 5 is replacing them with a new show? Or do they just think that most listeners will just follow them to their new show(s) and there’s no point.
Oh christ imagine if they replaced them with Ali Plumb and Robbie Collin
Or Ben ‘Havem’t seen that one’ Bailey-Smith
literally didn’t listen when the replacements were on
(unless it was Left of the Dial hahaha)
I don’t mind Robbie Collin, but that’s maybe my ‘he’s Scottish so he must be alright’ bias coming out.
I thought he was alright but then he counteracted a point that Edith Bowman was trying to make by literally going LA LA LA LA LA over her so she couldn’t speak so now I think hes a bellend
Some were good - Sanjeev, Anna Clarisse (who disappeared from it for some reason) but mostly, nah
i remember that, what was the film/argument again?
Jojo Rabbit I think
I generally tend to agree with his opinions about films, which is a shame as he seems like a complete fucking prat in most other respects.
https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/cancel-culture/50235/768?u=steved
Good to see my examples of him being an idiot havent changed
Can’t even remember posting that or what it’s about or who Gino Carano is! I trust my summation though.