The #NOTwatching Podcast

Name the franchise and there's a fair chance it has a flag planted in 2015. For some time now, this year has been looking like a Battle of the Brands: Marvel, Bond, Jurassic Park, Terminator - hell, even Star Wars is back to (hopefully) cap off what's set to be one of the most epic years in cinema history! We thought it only right to list off some of the movies we're looking forward to most, whils...

2014 seems like a very long time ago now, but with awards season in full swing we figured it's still fair game to discuss our favourite movies of last year. We put a bit of a twist on things though, having already recounted our favourite TV shows of the year in a fairly standard way. Enter Flickchart.com - the movie-rating platform, which allowed us to face off every movie from 2014 against each o...

We're only a week into 2015 and already a tidal-wave of TV is starting to lap around our toes: The second season of Broadchurch just started on ITV, Banshee is back for it's third season this weekend and the final season of Justified kicks off later this month! So before we're up to our necks in it we thought we'd take this opportunity to recount our favourite TV viewing experiences of 2014! Rob @...

On this final #NOTwatching Podcast of 2014 we are mostly discussing the recently released trailers of what are sure to be some of the biggest films of 2015. None of them can be bigger though than Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the 88 seconds of which we've seen being responsible for dare we say a thousand times as much conversation. So bear with us while we dissect it - it won't take that long we p...

This episode was actually recorded a few weeks back, but we thought we’d hang on to it for a while in the hope that people might be more caught up on this autumn’s crop of killer TV, oh and Gotham. So on this week’s show we discuss the first few episodes of the latest (and sadly, in some cases final) seasons of The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Boardwalk Empire & Homeland. There’s also a brief me...

Quite a short one this time, but that's probably on account of the official title for Episode VII dropping some time AFTER we recorded this. So you'll have to wait for our official opinion on that. What we do have though is some discussion on the recently leaked concept art and our first impressions on the new Star Wars Rebels animated show, which represents the first in-cannon contribution from D...

It feels like only last week that we were discussing an epic line-up of interconnected superhero movies from a big-time comics publisher and major hollywood studio, but here we are again with an unscheduled emergency show to discuss what can only be described as a megaton response from Marvel and an almighty smack-down of epic proportions. Last Tuesday's announcement event gave us not 1 but 2 more...

At the time of recording it was mere speculation, but it is now indeed fact that the third Captain America will indeed focus on Marvel's infamous 'Serpent Society' storyline... just kidding, it's actually gonna be Civil War, co-starring Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, no less. Also, at time of recording it was only Warner Brothers and DC who had announced Super Hero movies all the way up to 2020,...

Steven Soderbergh's apathy for the studio movie system is no secret, so it's fortunate to see him thriving on TV. The Knick stars Clive Owen as Dr. John Thackery, an innovative surgeon and struggling drug addict at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital at the turn of the 20th century. Soderbergh directed all 10 episodes of this first season, airing on Sky Atlantic in the UK this week and we can't reco...

So news on Episode VII has been light on the ground for the past few weeks, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything else to talk about! We have a proper Emmy Update this time, as opposed to our shockingly ill-timed predictions last episode. We also have news on Game of Thrones, The Wire (being remastered and rebroadcast) , new shows in the works based on Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Spielber...

So this TV-centric episode was recorded so hilariously long ago that the 2014 Emmy winners were actually announced ahead of our stunningly accurate(ish) predictions. We also talk about Guillermo Del Toro and FX's refreshingly gruesome take on the Vampire genre, The Strain (which believe it or not is one show we might all be on the same page for), the surprisingly awesome home-export conspiracy thr...

This week's suitably feature-length show is the first one completely and utterly dedicated to movies! ...aside from a couple of bits of news regarding Comic Books, but what are Comic Books if they aren't storyboards for AAA Blockbuster movies anyway!?! We also discuss some of the trailers that dropped at the San Diego Comic Con a couple of weeks back, including Mad Max: Fury Road & Christopher Nol...

As predicted, there's been no shortage of Star Wars related news since we last recorded, so here's a fairly comprehensive run down of everything that was rumoured, reported or strategically leaked over the past month or so, including Kevin Smith's set visit and those tears that spoke a thousand words, some highly suspect plot details and news of who JJ will be passing the torch to for Episode VIII...

On this show we dig into a whole bunch of things we’ve been watching over the past couple of months... In TV we take a look at the latest season of Orange is the New Black and AMC’s new period piece, Halt & Catch Fire. We also pay our belated respects to the late great Rik Mayall who will be very sorely missed :( (we recorded this almost a month ago!). Then we talk about a whole bunch of movies, i...

Unless you’ve been submerged in a Bacta Tank for the past couple of years, you’re probably aware of a new Star Wars Trilogy breaching the outer rim of our Galaxy. Many bothans died to bring you this round-up of all the news, rumour and speculation regarding JJ Abrams eagerly awaited reboot, with the possible exception of Rian Johnson taking over for Episode VIII (and quite possibly beyond), the Ke...

Chances are if you're fan of Game of Thrones then you'll have seen the season 4 finale by now - in which case you should be safe to listen to this spoiler filled conversation about how this season shaked out, our personal highlights and a potentially troubling over-use of the C word. It's been a while, the show-name's changed, but we're back with a bang! Enjoy! Game of Thrones http://www.hbo.com/g...

The latest season of Game of Thrones might be well underway, but we’ve decided to hold off until it’s all over for a full spoiler rant about it in a few weeks time. Meanwhile, there’s been an absolute mountain of other things on worth mentioning, including the phenominally successful conversion of the Coen Brothers’ Fargo to the small screen, the return of Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another Day, the p...

Believe it or not, there has been more good stuff on TV this year than just True Detective and Game of Thrones. First up we have the TV adaptation of Rodriguez’s From Dusk Til Dawn debuting in the US on his own ‘El Ray’ network and shortly after on Netflix in the UK. Amazon then respond with their acquisition of Starz’ brutal pirate epic, Black Sails. The Sundance channel follows up last year’s ma...

With the first season of True Detective now concluded in the UK on Sky Atlantic, we thought we’d take the opportunity to share our thoughts on the show in spoilerific detail. So those of you who have yet to catch up on the most talked about new show of the year best steer clear of this bonus episode. For the rest of you though, enjoy! The TV Dumpcast, part of the Barker Podcasts collection, is whe...

After a prolonged absense, Iain returns to discuss some of the more noteworthy news since the last episode, including new shows for Amazon Instant Video, the triple renewal of Big Bang Theory, casting news for American Horror Story, Gotham and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. There's also some discussion regarding Game of Thrones on the eve of it's fourth season... (Hoorah! It's nearly here! :D). A...

On this second part of our conversation with our lord and master Adam Barker, we talk about where the latest season of The Walking Dead is at, our 'exclusive' access to the premiere of the new season of Vikings and a bunch of other shows we've been watching... Enjoy! Please note: Spoilers up to and including Episode 10 of season 4 of The Walking Dead from about the 10 - 20 min mark. You have been...

On this latest episode we're joined by Podcasting Legend, Adam Barker (without whom this show probably wouldn't exist - so it's great to finally have him on the show!) to discuss the resurrection of Heroes and Ripper Street, the cancellation of Frank Darabont's Mob City and some exciting casting news for Fox's upcoming Gotham show and the BBC's Peaky Blinders. And then of course there's the confir...

It’s official: we watch too much TV, as is clearly evident by the running time of this latest episode. To be fair though we took a bit of a break over Christmas and New Year, while the TV networks didn’t! As well as new shows like Michael Bay’s new pirate epic, Black Sails and HBO’s star-studded True Detective, we welcome the return of Banshee, The Bridge and discuss the third series of Sherlock i...

After an extended hiatus, the TV DumpCAST returns with a month's worth of news headlines, including some super-announcements regarding both Fox's upcoming Gotham show and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, last month's Golden Globe Winners and premiere dates for Mad Men, 24: Live Another Day, From Dusk Till Dawn and Game of Thrones. We also lament the end of a whole bunch of shows including Justified...

With the end of the year fast approaching we thought it would only be right to look back over the past 12 months and figure out what really rocked our TV sets. We've all come up with a personal Top 5 although it would be fair to say there's a wee bit of crossover towards the end (if there wasn't this podcast probably wouldn't exist!), we also mention a few shows that didn't quite make the cut and...