The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

RORY SCOVEL LIVE WITHOUT FEAR: Reviewed!  You did it, you’re here, you’re live without fear. Or you live without fear. Both. Let’s say you do both. Just like us. Here on this show. The triple C. The A to the H. Where we appraise for an hour. Where the culture flows freely and well because we are artists and the content is consumed and disseminated because we live in a capitalist society.&nbsp...

STRANGER THINGS FINALE: Reviewed!  It’s a Stranger Things finale special! We simply had to do it. Because we share a lot of things in common with Stranger Things. Ultimately, across years and years of episodes … our show is also a show about growing up. A real coming-of-age story, if you will. Just don’t ask for a numerical value of said age. And also … despite all manner of tangents and unex...

Welcome to the third annual CCCAH AWARDS for THE 2025 THAT WASN’T! Only one way to welcome in 2026 right!? WE ARE ON THE MOST SPECIAL RUN OF SPECIALS OF OUR LIFETIMES GANG! You did it and you’re here for it. We’re here for it. Lock in. 2026 about to get welcomed the fuck in.  We have been on the craziest run of specials and we have been having a hell of a time. But this is the crown jewel. Th...

What are the Top 5 Christmas-related episodes of television all time!? It’s time to find out, on: IT’S THE THIRD ANNUAL CCCAHCSS (Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour Christmas Special Spectacular)!!! Insert *obvious humour laughter* here!   That’s right. We did it again. You thought we had said our piece. Music and movies. The two … things! All the bases covered. Goodnight and God ble...

The Dung Beatles: Reviewed!  So your boys saw The Dung Beatles live! It’s been quite a year and you have very much made the nice list having tuned in for all manner of episodes, whether they be regular or special. So your stocking stuffer this year … is as much a surprise to you (the receivers) as it is to us (the givers)! A review show of one of the premier Beatles tribute bands in the UK: T...

PLURIBUS SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Well, we still haven’t sold our souls to hit monkeys! And our Patreon era beckons. But for now … it’s Christmas time! Can you believe it’s back already!? I for one certainly cannot. And yet here we are. And on your podcast advent-calendar, there are barely any left episodes left until your favourite time of the year: a Christmas special and a Fomo awards. Yay...

MOJO MAGAZINE ISSUE 384 NOVEMBER 2025: Reviewed!  Long live years of discovering new music and new things, in every which way! Welcome to a podcast reviewing a magazine full of reviews! We will finally reach peak meta when Mojo reviews us reviewing them. There will be a day, mark my words. Until then, I suppose we’ll just carry on reviewing things that review things without being reviewed by...

Radiohead live: previewed and reviewed! IT'S THE HOUR AND A HALF SPECIAL BABY! The one we've all been waiting for. Well. We did it and we were there. We previewed it for you. We reviewed it for you. Radiohead at the 02 in 2025. This is really happening, happening. We talk you through all the things, all of them. The history, the back stories and all assorted lore drops galore.  Radiohead are...

NOW YOU SEE ME: Reviewed!  You did it, you’re magic! That’s right! The third Now You See Me (aka Now You See Three aka Now You Don’t See Me So What Is It Exactly You’re Seeing Then) has come out this week so of course your boys are out here IN PODCAST LAND reviewing the first Now You See Me. It is pretty much ONLY SPOILERS. It is another Spoiler Special. We spoil the film early and then we co...

THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS FINALE: Reviewed!  Remember when you were gassed about The Traitors? Well good, that means you’re ready for our episode CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS! Because, you guessed it, we’re late to the party baby! And almost fashionably so, with my fresh haircut and Christopher’s new slicked back look (the curtains have been tamed today folks! Future patreon video-viewers get it) we’r...

THE NEWSROOM SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  Now you hear my brand spanking new and expensive recording equipment … now you don’t! Crying emojis for days.  This is like a comprehensive Aaron Sorkin episode, we cover everything. Well, in a very CCCAH way we cover everything. We comprehensively cover everything related to our feelings about Aaron Sorkin … in relation to this pilot, primaril...

SOUTH PARK SEASON 27 EPISODE 3: Reviewed!  Welcome to the show, fans of off-points and points-off alike! You’ll never believe what we have in store for you today! Yet another edition of The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! Another #REVIEW1THING edition. Season six. The most controversial of seasons. Famously, most podcasts last an average of six seasons before … joining up with Pa...

PEEP SHOW SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! You did it and you’re here you c**kmunchers! We are so happy to have you. It’s Thursday, you know what that means. If you’re in England, we hope you are getting through the day with all the rain and winds in one piece with us providing some fun audio content in your headphones. And if you’re not in England, I hope you’re laughing at us for moaning about the...

BBC RADIO 6 HUW STEPHENS 1ST OCTOBER SHOW: Reviewed! Or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND NEARLY REVIEW … THE CONCEPT OF TURNING ON THE RADIO FOR A BIT?  Well well well dear listeners and future Patreon and/or YouTube subscribers. You who visit our website cccappraisalhour.show on a weekly basis and continue to draft an e-mail to us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com waiting for the day when you’...

EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: Reviewed! Welcome welcome film fans! Fans of movies about making movies! Are you also fans of documentaries about making movies? I know some of you are even fans of podcasts about making podcasts (shout out our K-Pop Demon Hunters episode lol, iykyk) because I am. Listening to them anyway, not recording them necessarily lol.  This week we are watching a documentary...

THE STUDIO SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  It’s Thursday morning, you know what that means! It means it’s showtime baby. Let’s start the show. The show that reviews one thing. And only one thing, ever, really. And what is that one thing, ever, really? OUR OWN SELVES, REALLY, AND OUR FRIENDSHIP! As Cat Burns taught me on the Jamie Laing podcast: all relationships are but mirrors anyway. And isn...

AMERICAN MOVIE: Reviewed!  Our BRITISH PODCAST is reviewing AMERICAN MOVIE today! And it’s not just any American Movie … it’s THE American Movie directed by Chris Smith and released in 1999. One of the 1,000 Greatest Movies Ever Made according to the New York Times. Will we one day feature in the 1,000 Greatest Podcasts Ever Made? Or will the chronicling of our rise and fall as a podcast empi...

THE PAPER SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: REVIEWED! Good morning CCCAH fans! It is the hour and the hour is upon us. It is time to culturally consume and then to appraise content. It is a ritual, six seasons in, really. And as we amend the ritual to stay current and up to date with the times (#Review1Thing is thriving) we ask you to join us and watch along! Let’s slay queens, let’s eat that, let’s smash it an...

THE FOUR SEASONS (1981): REVIEWED! WARNING: WE SPOIL THE WHOLE MOVIE!  But besides that, it’s a chill episode. It warms up as it goes, maybe starts off more chill than usual lol but it definitely gets warmer as we get going. Much like the movie we review. And much like friendships in general.  Now the question this week, really, is: are you really ready for the #ReviewOneThing era to beg...

EARLY TWENTIES BY CAT BURNS: REVIEWED! Listen Cat Burns ok (a “you did it, you’re here” to you and yours) I know you’re wicked and you’re doing your thing. And the lack of capital letters is your intentional choice as a gen z artist and I respect that. But we here at the cccah and in the cccahc do things a little differently, ok? We capitalise EVERY piece of art we’re reviewing in the first line o...

K POP DEMON HUNTERS: Reviewed! Please skip to 12 minutes 26 seconds if you would like to skip some opening Taylor-Swift-related-faff and get right into us addressing the elephant in the room. Sure. You’re tight for time. Additionally. Please skip to 23 minutes and 29 seconds in if you don’t necessarily want to sit in our own so-how-are-we-going-to-do-this-season pre-production meeting and would in...

KNEECAP and WALLACE AND GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL: Reviewed! Welcome to Season 6 of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! It’s been five seasons in the making. All this lead up to #ReviewOneThing and we’re kicking it all off with … a CLASSIC #ReviewTwoThings Thing! Kneecap and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Two of the best new (new-ish) movies the pod has covered in a while....

THE BOYS MAKE A MIXTAPE TO CELEBRATE FIVE SEASONS!  It’s another heatwave special! It’s another in-between-seasons special! It’s a music special! Is this the most special special we’ve ever special’d? The definitive answer is: YES or at least MAYBE or like at least TOP 5!  Today we will be making a playlist for you in live time. Oh what a treat for your ears. Does it get any better? You...

GREEN MAN FESTIVAL PLAYLIST BY JEFFREY BAHLO and HAPPY GILMORE 2: Reviewed! Ok season 5 fans. We’re finally wrapping this shit up. Season 5 has been a controversial time, we’re not going to lie to you. We’re not going to front. Even more than in previous seasons … it’s been a shit show. But here we are. It’s the end of the season. Fucking finally. Let’s go. We’re reviewing a playlist festival. The...

NANETTE BY HANNAH GADSBY and RICKY STANICKY: Reviewed! Hey there podcast fanatics! It’s time to listen to another episode of the cccappraisalhour.show Incorrect lineal scoreline for this season says the scores are: Jeffrey: 12 Christopher: 12 But we know that's wrong. Christopher and Jonny insist I am ahead. I am the only one saying I'm not ahead. 2025 is the weirdest year on record in so many dif...