The #NOTwatching Podcast

This week we're highlighting some of our favourite TV shows from the first half of 2026!Tune in next time for the results of this year's Summer Movie Wager!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

We're back like clockwork for another Summer Movie Wager in which we try to come up with the correct order for the biggest movies this summer, whilst getting suitably hyped for actually watching them. Disney have a particularly strong slate this year with new entries in all their main pillar franchises, but does Spider-man have what it takes to outwit Woody & co or do battle with not just a Mandalorian, but a Grogu too?We also talk about some of our favourite movies of the year so far, including the second part of the 28 years later trilogy, Bone Temple, the exceptionally well-timed (for Rob) Rental Family and much much more!For more information & the actual rules of the summer movie wager, check out https://www.thesummermoviewager.com/Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

Here we are once again and at such a late time of year we really should know better AND we actually do! It was the BAFTAs last night and the Oscars is still some weeks away - so we're still firmly in Awards season and as much as the turn of phrase turns my stomach, we want to dish out some flowers too!So here are our picks of 2025 as if you didn't already have enough to watch - same format as usual: Returning/Ending & New/One-off TV shows. We don't like to cross the streams here. Enjoy!Back in a few weeks for this year's Summer Movie Wager. You have been warned! :)Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

It's that time of year again. 2 podcasters. 20 movies. Some honourable mentions and dissapointments. As usual, this is as tardy as we can probably get away with, but hey, we don't get paid for this. And we still had a few movies to catch up on before we could justify any authority on the subject. Enjoy! Back in a few week's with our TV picks. We really will be taking the piss by then lol!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

On this week's episode we're back on the small screen where no one can hear you scream. From the mind of Noah (Fargo) Hawley comes the first outing of the storied Alien Franchise to TV! Also up for discussion is the second season and next entry in the newly rebooted DC Universe, Peacemaker. Did the new opening song & dance cut it?Find out this and so much more on this week's #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter/X: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

This week we're discussing some of our small-screen-based-highlights of the year so far, including the rebirth of Matt Murdoch on Disney+, the infuriating cancellation of Amazon's Wheel of Time & much much more!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter/X: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

Our last recording was cut short by a Cat-based emergency, so consider this the second part of that with a few extra movies that we've seen since then added for good measure.The Summer Movie Wager is now well underway as well so we check in on how we're doing on that front too!All this and more on another blockbuster #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

It's that time of year again when we try to predict which movies will rule the summer. Can Disney work their live action magic once again with Lilo & Stitch or will it be the turn of Dreamworks to capitalise on the same kind of phenomenon with How to Train your Dragon?Meanwhile, it's a two horse race for Marvel after last year's strike-felled showing, and that's without even mentioning Captain America: Brave New World, which we check in with, amongst a bunch of other moves to grace our eyeballs so far in 2025.We were gonna get into TV as well (since face it, that really has been where it's at so far this year), but we had to pause our witterings to deal with a cat-based emergency, so that will have to wait for a bit.We'll definitely be back before our end-of-summer results show though. There can be only one... and all that... jazz?For more information & the actual rules of the summer movie wager, check out https://www.thesummermoviewager.com/Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

What's this down the back of the sofa that we almost forgot to put out into the world, why, it's our favourite TV shows of 2024, which we absolutely didn't delay in publishing to pad out the gap between our next episode, which might actually feature something from the year that we are in.Nevertheless here is our authoritative take on what from last year is still worth checking out, as if the screens aren't already flooded with things to watch. We'll be back in a few weeks with our summer movie wagers, movies of 2025 so far and what's been clogging up our telly boxes more recently.Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

On this week's show we're going over our favourite movies of 2024 and for the first time I am pleased to report we didn't have single pick in common. Has Rob fully disappeared up his arsehole into the Dune metaverse - or was Marcus' fascination with killer swimming pools just too obscure to cope with. All this & more on a most clockwork-like #NOTwatching Podcast! Back in a few weeks with our small screen selections! Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

This week we're talking about some of our favourite TV picks of late summer / early autumn including the latest season of Amazon's blockbuster Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Apple's now appointment level Slow Horses, which is back for it's 4th and grandest arc yet. All this & more on another small-screen focussed #NOTwatching Podcast! Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

This week we’re reconvening after a summer movie season we once again failed to accurately predict and therefore once again commiserating over how badly we did on the Summer Movie Wager this year! We also get into some Alien Romulus, which managed to make the cut despite only releasing a few weeks before the labor day finale, and also the very long awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which also would have featured had it not missed the SMW window entirely. Still, a massive comeback for Tim Burton and Michael Keaton just rips it up again in that role as you might expect. Back in a few weeks time with our late summer/early autumn TV picks… Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

Apologies for such a long break between episodes, but the hiatus was far from intentional. In the panic of migrating all his files from an old work laptop, Rob accidentally forgot to move across the last couple of episodes that we intended to go out and sadly they are now lost forever. We arrive at the main event though for the summer. Everything before was really just a preamble before this year's sole MCU entry and a debut for both Deadpool & Wolverine. How can such a pair integrate with the slick PC stylings of the Disney owned franchise, which for almost 20 years has been a wholesome and claret free environment? All will be revealed on this most pointy and mutton-chopped #NOTwatching Podcast! Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

We're actually with you a little sooner than expected given the sudden realisation that release of The Fall Guy a couple of weeks ago technically spelled the start of the 2024 Summer Movie season. So here we are once again with our takes on how we think this year is going to shake out. Will the good will of Mad Max Fury Road be enough to propel Furiosa? Or will it be a double animation lockout between Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4? And what effect will Kevin Coster's two part self-financed western epic, Horizon: An American Saga have? It's all to play for on this week's #NOTwatching Podcast! For more information & the actual rules of the summer movie wager, checkout https://www.thesummermoviewager.com/ Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

Sorry we haven't been around much this year, but have no fear listeners - we will be back very soon with our pick of the best movies and TV shows of 2024 as well as our Annual Summer Movie Wager! In the meantime, we had a bit of chat on our sister show, The #NOTplaying Podcast about the recent Prime Video series, Fallout, based on the beloved videogames and we thought this might have some crossover interest on this feed too. With the superhero well beginning to dry out, this may well turn out to be a recurring situation. We'll be back with a proper show in a few weeks time... Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

So as tardy as it may seem releasing an episode like this so far in to 2024, a lot of the shows we're discussing here didn't even finish until a few weeks ago. And with the lag those strikes are likely to cause this year, you will probably end up scrolling over some older releases so these are the ones we think you should prioritise. Also, we decided to do things a little different this year and separate the ongoing or ending shows (Succession, The Bear etc) from the new and/or one-off shows (The Last of Us, Poker Face) to give the new guys a chance. It's been such a busy year it seemed unfair otherwise. So here it is, pushed as far into awards seasons as can credibly be allowed: Our favourite TV shows of 2023! Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

Barbenheimer, The Writer's Strike & the slow death of Superhero movies could all be attributed to 2023, but there were still quite a decent bunch of movies for us to pick through, as we always do when it comes to this time of year. Indeed, listen on as Marcus and Rob count down their 10 top movies of 2023. Back in a few weeks with our TV picks of the year! Contact us on Email at: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!

On this week's show we're talking about some of our favourite TV shows from the back half of 2023, including the latest installment of Star Wars, Ahsoka, the second season of Apple's gloriously ambitous Foundation, Neil Gaiman's continuation of the much beloved Good Omens and much much more! Contact us on Email at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! If you're interested in videogames why not check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠#NOTplaying podcast⁠

No one could have predicted the Barbenheimer phenomenon when we were putting together our Top 10 lists for this year's Summer Movie Wager, but here indeed we are after a summer full of surprises amidst a quite chaotically aggressive release calendar. Contact us on Email at: ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! If you're interested in videogames why not check out the ⁠⁠⁠#NOTplaying podcast⁠

On this week's episode we are going through some of our favourite TV shows of the year, including the monumental adaptation of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us by HBO, Rian Johnson's superb homage to Columbo and Natasha Lyonne starring Poker Face, the return of 90s throwback Yellowjackets & more! Contact us on Email at: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! If you're interested in videogames why not check out the ⁠⁠#NOTplaying podcast⁠

On this week's show we'll be going through some of our favourite movies of the year, including the latest (and possibly final?) installments of some of the most gigantic franchises of recent times! Enjoy! Contact us on Email at: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! If you're interested in videogames why not check out the ⁠#NOTplaying podcast

On this week's episode we're previewing our Summer Movie Wager that we like to do each year. It's a bit late to join in now, but you can find out all the details here, see which one of us is winning and perhaps join in with us next time: https://www.thesummermoviewager.com/index.php?addPlayer=bobiroka%2Ccastiel&year=2023 (That's Rob - bobiroka and Marcus - Castiel). We also check in the Writers Strike currently happening in Hollywood and the new leadership of the DCEU announced earlier in the year. Contact us on Email at: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4 If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! If you're interested in videogames why not check out the ⁠#NOTplaying podcast

Once again we're well into the year again before we announce which movies we are most looking forward to, but with release dates still slipping all over the place there's a good chance most of what we're banging on about here still won't be out yet! That cinema schedule is looking bright though and it's about time really that we refocussed our attentions on the big screen, with all our favourite franchises getting ground into the dust on the various streaming platforms at least we have the likes of John Wick and Indiana Jones to get off the sofa for, another death-defying outing for Tom Cruise and the Mission Impossible franchise and at last, finally and possibly the actual release of The Flash??? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's show we're covering our favourite TV shows of 2022, and such a task it was that you've had to wait until now for it. Too many streaming networks & services means too many goddamn shows. Suffice it to say there is very little crossover this year between Rob & Marcus's choices, which doesn't help when we felt obliged to each prepare a full top 10. Apologies for the running time in advance, there was just no other way quite frankly. Enjoy!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the first episode of a brand new year and like clockwork here once again are our favourite movies of the last 12 months. It's been another strange year for movies, despite a far healthier calendar of releases at the big screen, more streaming options, narrowing theatrical windows and a decline in living standards have made it difficult for people to make the effort anymore, while some movies ended up skipping the format entirely.But we're not here to complain, instead sit back and enjoy over an hour of our picks of 2022. We're even counting down from 10 this time, with a few honourable mentions to round things off. Next week, you guessed it, will be our Top TV of 2022! You're welcome! :DContact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Box office receipts have so far failed to return to pre-pandemic heights the small screen continues to thrive. With a summer dominated by Stranger Things and yet more entires in the Star Wars and Marvel canon, how could we possibly top that? The answer? Not one but two enormous high budget fantasy epics. We're back to Westeros AND Middle Earth. And how can we possibly process this? Well, by unfairtly comparing them of course... All this and we haven't mentioned that there's yet ANOTHER streaming service in town, bringing it with it one of the best new Star Trek shows for quite some time and whole lot more besides...Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a while, but we've been quite busy over the summer with the world now mostly back in business and that can only mean a fairly packed schedule at the box office. First though, we have all the Marvel Phase 4/5 news that dropped at Comic Con and the results of our summer movie wager. Enjoy!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the interest of full discretion this episode was recorded back in May, but has there really been much better on since. James Gunn's Suicide Squad spin-off had no right to be this good, blending satire and outright hilarity to glorious effect. And then there's the Ben Stiller difrected Severance, who mad sci-fi concept not only justified every episode, but probably added up to most successful first season of television for quite some time, solidifying Apple TV+ as a streaming service too far, but one we can't be without.All this and more on another TV-centric #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's a lot to fit in this week as we welcome the first proper summer movie season for 2 years with the first Marvel offering of the 2022 and a sort of bizarre Spider-man follow-up in more ways than one, for none other than Sam Raimi is behind the camera for this Doctor Strange sequel. We also go over some of the more notable releases so far this year, including The Batman and Everything Everywhere all at once and we go over our picks for this year's Summer Movie Wager, back by popular demand (honest ;)).We'll be back after the dust settles to see how well we did...Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!If you're interested in videogames why not check out the #NOTplaying podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this month's episode we're just focussing on a couple of shows Marcus and I have both been dipping back into recently. Well, we're definitely at different points along a Doctor Who rewatch as has been previously mentioned anyway - it's only a short one, but these two cult retro shows might not be for everyone so we thought we might as well spin these conversations into their own mini-episodes rather than derail the main show.Please induldge as we take a brief detour though time and space where this show *may* not have quite gone before!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!If you're interested in videogames why not check out the #NOTplaying podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New year, New Movies & New TV. That we know about anyway.On this week (month?)'s episode we're going through the things we're most excited about that are due to surface on a screen of some size in the next 11 months (or slightly less).Highlights include a new prequel series for Game of Thrones, the return of Ewan McGregor's take on the Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi, a new Batman movie and yet another tidal-wave of Marvel hitting both cinemas and the ever growing behemoth that is Disney+And who can forget Avatar 2, which might actually see the light of day in a year full of long delayed treasures. We can but hope at least.Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!If you're interested in videogames why not check out the #NOTplaying podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even with production scheduled blown off course by covid, the floodgates couldn't hold back the inevitable tidal wave of TV.So once again it's that time of year when we look back on the year that was and which shows were particular highlights of the past 12 months.It's no surprise that Netflix's The Witcher series features once again after a year away in COVID jail, nor Disney's most recent MCU offering, Hawkeye, after an incredibly strong year of original programming. Apple TV has also been fighting for our time with For All Mankind, See & Foundation, while HBO (via NowTV/Sky) continues to pile on hits like The White Lotus. And who can forget the insantiy of Squid game!?!... Oh what a year it has been!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!If you're interested in videogames why not check out the #NOTplaying podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well 2021 was another funny old year for the movies wasn't it?With cinemas closed for the first third of the year, premium video on demand became almost a given for most theatrical releases, whilst Netflix continued to deliver blockbusters and oscar-bait in equal measure.We saw the Marvel stretch the credibility of the MCU to it's absolute lengths with it's belated Black Widow film and highly inclusive Eternals, while on a happier note, Denis Villeneuve's Dune finally came out and people actually went to see it, despite it going on HBOMax day 1, meaning part 2 is now confirmed for 2023!More importantly though, which films made our Top 5s? All this and you know the drill... enjoy!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4If you're listening on iTunes or Spotify, please give us a review!If you're interested in videogames why not check out the #NOTplaying podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode marks the return of an anti-hero in whose ashes this very podcast was born, for as a means of recognising quite how extraordinarily bad that series finale was, we decided the devote an entire episode to it.Yet hear we find ourselves at the beginning of a new chapter in a series that unlike many of it's characters simply refuses to die.It's not all doom and gloom though, cos we can't ignore the phenomenon that is Netflix's Squid Game, Apple TV's epic adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation and whole lot more besides...Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back to full force this month after Marcus's unfortunate accident and while he's not quite up to cinema visiting strength he has finally caught up on some recent cinema releases, including Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. Meanwhile Rob actually HAS been to the cinema to see the newest lega-sequel that is Ghostbusters Afterlife, Denis Villeneuve's masterful adaptation of Dune and Marvel's slightly more recent phase 4 offering, Eternals.All this and whole lot more on another big screen focussed #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who'd have thought if you gave the man behind Guardians of the Galaxy a chance to have another crack at DC's Suicide Squad, you'd end up with the greatest summer blockbuster of 2021. Or at least perhaps, the film we all deserve after such a wretched couple of years.It's also been a cracking few weeks for the small screen, with the return of Ted Lasso, Netflix's utterly deranged Brand New Cherry Flavour and the cutting satire of The White Lotus on Sky/Now.All this and more on another you know the score by now ENJOY! :)Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's show we're back at the cinema once again, this time watching the already quite tardy, but also massively delayed Black Widow, which sees Scarlett Johansson's ill fated former assassin tackling the demons of her past in another bombastic MCU adventure.Meanwhile in another ludicrously sprawling franchise, Vin Diesel literally shoots cars into orbit in the latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise.And not to be outdone, Netflix attempts to launch it's own cinematic universe on the small screen based on R L Steins 'Fear Street' novels, with an impressively gory trilogy of slasher movies set across several centuries. All this and bunch of Loki spoilers at the end, as we get to grips with the implications of that ending on not just a second series of the show in question, but the entire future of the MCU!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cinema is BACK! And with it an actual proper release schedule of blockbuster films that have been put on hold for more than a year! Chiefly among those is A Quiet Place 2, which while being completely unnecessary yet almost entirely inevitable stays true to the original's formula and expands it's universe. Also at the flicks is the Bob Odenkirk brutalfest, Nobody, which sees the small screen's favourite corrupt lawyer going to town on fools like a less beardy John Wick.Meanwhile Loki returns, this time to the small screen in his own Disney+ show, graphic novel adaptation, Sweet Tooth lands on Netflix and Sean Bean stars in the delightlfully grim Time on the BBC.Before all that though, we dive into the recent shock (in a good way) news that Good Omens is coming back for a second season! Hoorah!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's awards time again and despite cinemas being closed, we've managed to catch some of the nominees and winners of this years most prestiguous ceremonies, including Riz Ahmed's star turn in Sound of Metal and the outrageously dark Promising Young Woman.Also worthy of mention outside the torrent of awards contenders finding their way onto the various streaming platform is Andy Samberg starring Palm Springs, which puts a unique spin on the suitably popular time loop genre, which couldn't be more appropriate for the times we've found ourselves in lately.And finally, spoilers at the ready for the ten ton 4 hour elephant in the room that is Zack Snyder's Justice League, which couldn't be a more appropriate monument to the last couple of years. I don't know when else we would have found the time to watch it!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's show we're picking over the carcass of what's actually managed to get released in 2021 so far, including the stunning third and fully netflix backed season of Cobra Kai, the also youtube-premium originated Wayne on Amazon Prime and the second insane season of M. Night Shyamalan's Servant on Apple TV+There's also been a couple of decent enough movies out across the various streaming platforms that would have felt equally at home of the big screen, including Amazon Prime's Gerard Butler starring disasterpiece, Greenland and Paul Greengrass's new western, News of the World starring Tom Hanks.So have no fear dear listeners, as sad as it is, there is much more to watch on TV than the life Story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh RIP. :'(Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com 25 days ago #disney+, #marvel, #marvelcinematicuniverse, #mcu, #notwatching, #wandavision Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We know it's taken a while to get an episode out this year, but we wanted to make sure we had something significant to discuss before we did. And it doesn't get much more significant than the first official MCU show on Disney+Wandavision arrived in all it's retro-glory back in January and now the final episode has aired we can get into it spoilers an' all. There's also some chat about all the other Disney+ shows that got announced as part of THAT investor call just before Christmas. So consider this your final warning. Fast forward to 25:00 if you want to skip the Wandavision Spoilers.We'll be back soon with the best of the rest so far in 2021!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Once again, we're well into another year, but there's still time to go through our picks of the best TV from last year, especially in a year that was so hugely reliant on the small screen, with more streaming services than there are days in the week now - it was a small mercy in a year where entertainment options were at a premium.Disney+ made a belated but hugely significant impact, with not one, but two seasons of the first live action TV show set in the Star Wars Universe, Gareth Evans brought his cinematic chops to bear on Sky's Gangs of London & even Apple had something to say with their impressive slate of comedy and drama.It's quite telling that Netflix shows feature far less heavily than in recent years. So here it is, our top TV of the shambles that was 2020.Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well we were honestly expecting to be talking about the new James Bond movie by now, but alas it was not to be. With cinemas shut, we once again turn to the small(er) screen to keep ourselves sane and what a relief that we are once again in the company of Disney's The Mandalorian, as it's second season begins to air during another national lockdown. Honestly, having new live action Star Wars to look forward to each week is a blessed godsend right now.We also take a look at some even newer streaming services, namely Apple TV+ and their arguably must-see, Ted Lasso, the revival classic puppet satire, Spitting Image, on 'another thing you have to pay for', Britbox and after all that, we're back on Netflix for The Haunting of Bly Manor and the latest season of The Crown. All in all, there's enough here to keep you happy until Christmas probably. We'll be back in the new year with our picks of these fetid stinking awful past 12 months. Good riddance etc...Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The cinemas might have been a wasteland this year and with restrictions delaying productions of all kinds you could be forgiven for believing the small screen might be barren too. Thankfully there's been a constant drip-feed of entertainment to keep us sane in this most bunkered down of years.In fact, we've had some of the highest quality shows of the year these past few weeks, including the second seasons of the Umbrella Academy and The Boys and the debut of HBO's twisted take on the black experience in 1950's Lovecraft Country. It's all about libraries and tentacles on this month's #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoorah for the 2020 Blockbuster Movie Summer!Did you enjoy it?Never could we have believed we would be able to cover all of it in just one episode, but here we are! The great white hope of Christopher Nolan's Tenet was able to keep cinemas open where possible, Disney+ invented an entirely new category of premium access for Mulan and Bill & Ted arrived on the high seas via a combination of limited theatrical and video-on-demand. That we had any movies at all this year, under the circumstances, we should be grateful. Hopefully this won't be it until next year!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While 2020 won't go down in history as anyone's favourite year, the lockdown was made slightly more bearable thanks to two notable events. First, the entire Studio Ghibli was made available on Netflix over the course of three monthly drops. Second, a little company called Disney launched their own streaming service. So we could all at least find a little animated comfort in these darkest of times. We thought we'd save this chat out as it's own thing to celebrate the point!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The cinemas have been shut most of the year, but there's still been loads to watch on TV during this endless lockdown. First there was the Joe Exotic/Tiger King phenomenon, then the skull splitting violence of Gareth Evans' Gangs of London, followed by the mind-bending Sci-Fi of Alex Garland's Devs. All this & more on another fully locked down #NOTwatching Podcast!Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When we said we weren't gonna be putting out shows regularly anymore, we didn't expect to be taking a break for this long! So first of all, apologies for that, but we weren't expecting the cinematic release schedule to actually stop.So for lack of any actual new releases, we're gonna be going through some of the more notable movies we've seen so far in 2020. Spoiler Alert: the shortlist isn't that long. Rob's got the Oscar winners covered, while Marcus has been digging deep into the streaming horrorsphere. They've also both been marvelling over the Russo's post-avengers Netflix actionfest, Extraction.Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We know it's a bit late, but there were a number of things from 2019 that we needed to get to before we put together our end-of-the-year lists, so this week, we're talking about our favourite movies of 2019, a few things we still haven't got round to yet and then a few things we're looking forward to in 2020. We'll be back in a few weeks to do more or less the same thing for TV, by which time you'll no doubt be stuck underneath a pile of new stuff, such is the relentless volume of content we have to deal with these days. Oh and Happy New Year, if that's still an appropriate greeting this far into it?Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After an explosive resurrection with the Force Awakens and a thoughtful follow-up in the Last Jedi, the finale to this new trilogy was never going to be an easy task. And so Rise of Skywalker has so far been the most divisive Star Wars movie ever. Listen on for our thoughts on this finale to this most holy trilogy of trilogies, not to mention a quick time jump to next March when we are enjoying The Mandalorian on Disney+. The force is strong in this one... etc... :) Contact us on Email at: [email protected] us on Twitter: @notwatchingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.