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: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com 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...

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...

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 forma...

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 l...

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 #NOTw...

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: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter/X: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spotify.com/show/4fJm3pdTpuehEqHBV5kE55...

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: notwatchingpodcast@gmail....

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 m...

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...

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 s...

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: notwatchingpodcast@gmail...

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...

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&...

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...

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 cros...

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 ye...

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: notwatchi...

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:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwat...

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:  ⁠⁠⁠notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://open.spot...

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:  ⁠⁠notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchi...

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:  ⁠notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com⁠ Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find all episodes at: https://shows.acast.com/61dc2bc83a030a0012ae34a4 If you're...

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 che...

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 f...

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 tim...

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...