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From the Murdoch empire to Hollywood’s upheaval, the global media landscape is shifting fast. Michael Thompson talks to Tim Burrowes from Mumbrella and Unmade about Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s consolidation of power, the streaming wars, Hollywood’s structural challenges, and why Netflix, Amazon and Apple are reshaping old business models - just as AI emerges as a new threat. This is Fear & Greed's summer series - all-new short episodes every day, with regular news back from January 12.Find out more: https://fearandgreed.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Murdoch empire to Hollywood’s upheaval, the global media landscape is shifting fast. Michael Thompson talks to Tim Burrowes from Mumbrella and Unmade about Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s consolidation of power, the streaming wars, Hollywood’s structural challenges, and why Netflix, Amazon and Apple are reshaping old business models - just as AI emerges as a new threat. This is Fear & Greed's summer series - all-new short episodes every day, with regular news back from January 12.Support the show: http://fearandgreed.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Free-to-air TV, newspapers and radio have all been declared “dead”... repeatedly. Michael Thompson speaks with Tim Burrowes, founder and publisher of Mumbrella and the Unmade newsletter, about the short-term future of Australia’s legacy media, from the big TV stations to networking radio shows like Kyle & Jackie O. This is Fear & Greed's summer series - all-new short episodes every day, with regular news back from January 12.Find out more: https://fearandgreed.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Free-to-air TV, newspapers and radio have all been declared “dead”... repeatedly. Michael Thompson speaks with Tim Burrowes, founder and publisher of Mumbrella and the Unmade newsletter, about the short-term future of Australia’s legacy media, from the big TV stations to networking radio shows like Kyle & Jackie O. This is Fear & Greed's summer series - all-new short episodes every day, with regular news back from January 12.Support the show: http://fearandgreed.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts STEPHEN SCARLATA (producer, Jodorowsky's Dune) and JOSH MILLER (writer, Sonic The Hedgehog, Violent Night) talk with filmmaker JASON EISENER (Hobo With a Shotgun, Dark Side of the Ring) about his career, starting out in Nova Scotia, and all the projects the got away over the years, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Masters of the Universe, New York City Outlaws, Drifting Classroom, Hobo With a Shotgun 2, and more!Theme music by Brian J Casey

#223. This year was simultaneously the best and worst of my life, and I need to talk about it before we close out 2025. I got married and made a home, but I also fell apart—moved twice, worked through emotional exhaustion, developed a bitterness I didn't recognize, and met parts of myself I didn't want to meet. If you're ending this year feeling overwhelmed from the weight of it all, like you can't wrap it up neatly before January 1st, this one's for you. FOLLOW PAYTON:https://instagram.com/paytonsartain https://www.tiktok.com/@paytonsartain https://youtube.com/c/paytonsartainhhSUBMIT TO NOTE TO SELF:→ Ask P: Advice Column: https://forms.gle/avvSu4ibYygZP5rq8 Sponsors:Chase: Head to Chase.com/holidayscams for tips, tools, and resources to help keep your finances safeVisit 47brand.com to shop best sellers and new arrivalsCanopy: Go to getcanopy.co to save $25 on your Canopy Humidifier purchase today with Canopy's filter subscription. Even better, use code NOTETOSELF at checkout to save an additional 10% off your Canopy purchase.Woo: Listeners can get 20% off sitewide at woomoreplay.com with code NOTETOSELFFace Foundrie: Visit facefoundrie.com and use code NTS at checkout for 20% off your first serviceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

24 Hour Raga People at a festival in Redhook, NY; by the banks of the River Nore, Tadhg O'Sullivan journeys into art that might not get made ; and in Piccadilly, the largest ever European Survey for the veteran American, Kerry James Marshall, a painter of Black American life like no other.

After the, cough, 'underwhelming' A Good Day To Die Hard in 2013, the assumption was that the Die Hard saga had run aground. But for a while, that wasn't the case, and by 2015, there was a plan hatched for one final movie in the series. Bruce Willis was set to return as John McClane, Len Wiseman - after Die Hard 4.0 - was coming back to direct. And this time, we were going to be told the origin story of John McClane too. The film was active for nearly half a decade. And this is the story of the Die Hard that never was. Plus, a small update too on the Film Stories podcast... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's back to business-as-usual this week on WTFolklore as we re-calibrate our fairy tale senses with some good ol' fashion eastern european fare, The Glass Mountain, which stars a guy dressed as Hugh Jackman, who is dressed as Jack Black, who is dressed as a school boy.Suggested talking points: A Farquaad Wandering Amongst the Furries, Schrödinger's Wizard, Everything is Shaped like Jack Black, Unmade by Apples, The Line Between "Wonder" and "Nightmare", Prison in the Shape of a PrizeCheck out Gordie's TTRPG, MythomorphosisIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Este es el momento: final de la parte 4 y se desvela el mejor plot twist de Sanderson hasta la fecha; no sin ser previamente anunciado por un top 10 momentos antes de que todo se vaya a la mierda. Azure nos cuenta sobre su espada y Sangre Nocturna, Pati teoriza sobre el cuarto Ideal Windrunner, Dalinar traumatiza un rato a Venli, presenciamos las altatormentas en Shadesmar, Ahu se va de los Simpsons y vuelve (aunque sea solo mencionada) La Que Spawnea. Entramos con los interludios preSanderlanche y Sof nos cuenta el origen de los nombres de los Unmade y unas cuantas curiosidades sobre los guiones.

Welcome to the first Unmade podcast post sent via Substack since last week's migration of our written content into the Mumbrella publishing stack. Fingers crossed the tech still works from our new domain, and this finds your feed.Today's conversation features the first podcast interview with ARN Media's new CEO Michael Stephenson, along with chief audience and content officer Lauren Joyce.Supercharging the ARN transformation strategyThe largest audience of Upfronts season gathered at Sydney's Star Entertainment Centre last night to hear about ARN Media's ambitious plans for 2026.Ahead of the series of announcements (see Mumbrella's coverage of the details via this link), new CEO Michael Stephenson and content boss Lauren Joyce talked to Tim Burrowes.The wide-ranging conversation covered:* The national rollout of Gold, spearheaded by the Christian O'Connell Show live into Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and on delay into Perth and Adelaide;* August's rushed announcement of the switch of The Jonesy & Amanda Show, featuring Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones, from Sydney breakfast to national drive;* Whether this is finally the moment when the industry starts properly marketing its DAB+ stations;* Why there's still been no move to expand The Kyle & Jackie O Show, from Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson, beyond Sydney and Melbourne. Are ongoing enforcement actions from Australian Communications and Media Authority a factor despite “continued confidence”?;* The inheritance left by outgoing CEO Ciaran Davis* An explanation for CADA's controversial Thy AI voice experiment* Reaching the inflection point where the audio industry returns to growth* Where ARN fits into the media consolidation cycle - could it get back into the outdoor advertising business? And why we shouldn't read too much into the Are Media tie-in* Opportunities for the industry to come together to rethink how it does Upfronts season* Domain expertise - does it matter that neither Stephenson or Joyce are radio natives? According to Joyce: “I may not have the hard programming skills of a radio programmer, but what I do know is how to motivate people and how to engage people, and I also understand audiences.”Today's podcast was edited by Abe's Audio.You'll find lots more coverage of the ARN Upfronts on Mumbrella. And I'll be offering my own analysis in our Best of the Week email on Saturday.Have a great day.Toodlepip…Tim Burrowestim@unmade.media This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unmade.substack.com

In this episode the entire group is back... We cover everything. #StarWars #BenSolo #Movies #Streaming #LasVegas #Orlando #WDW #WaltDisneyWorld #Universal #Ahsoka And plenty of real life stuff Aer Lingus Joe is restarting his travel podcast now, Your Italy

Welcome to an audio-led edition of Unmade, focused on yesterday's Nine Upfronts. And further down, the investment market seems to like Vinyl Group's plan to use AI to create ten times as much editorial content.It's your last chance to sign up to a paid membership of Unmade and lock in all of the current benefits. Next week, we're going to stop accepting new paying members of Unmade. Instead we'll be offering membership of an expanded Mumbrella Pro as we bring the two brands closer together.All Unmade membership perks will be carried across, including complimentary tickets to Unlock and Compass for our annual paying members. These won't be available to anyone else as part of the new Mumbrella Pro membership.Your paid membership also includes exclusive analysis and access to our content archive, which goes behind the paywall six weeks after publication.Upgrade today.Nine's low risk Upfronts: ‘Fundamentally we are still a premium content long-form business'It's already been a long Upfronts season. Yet until yesterday afternoon's Nine Upfront, none of the free to air TV players had set out their wares. In the podcast accompanying this post, I talk to Nine's new chief sales officer Matt James.It was also Matt Stanton's first Upfronts as CEO. And although he didn't come on stage, it was the first for Peter Tonagh not just as a Nine board director but incoming chair.So the event, ultimately, was a vibe check. After the sale of Domain, this was the first look at how Nine is facing the future in what has been a depressed advertising market.On the new content side, this was the least ambitious Nine Upfront I've been to since 2008 (the year the best content they had to talk about was Gordon Ramsay and Two and a Half Men). Not that this worried the audience - marketers and media agency people who prefer certainty when they book campaigns. The reliable shows are on the slate - The Block, Married At First Sight, Lego Masters et al. And sport - NRL, tennis and now the English Premier League - were prominent. Plus the winter Olympics.But with the exception of Shark!, featuring Nine-aligned celebs like The Block's Scot Cam meeting a shark. There was not a single big drama commission from Nine. That was a first, I think.There were some interesting choices around the preso, which was all business. There was no on-air talent on stage. And no lighter moments - imagine a whole Nine Upfronts without Today presenter Karl Stefanovic poking fun at himself. In what must have been a deliberate tone, there wasn't a single joke in the script. All the men wore suits (of course); all the women wore pantsuits.In our conversation, Matt James reveals that Nine's management have been working on their purpose for the business - and it's as a content company: “Fundamentally we are still a premium content long-form business.” But not, it would seem, one that plans to take big risks with that content. Not in this market, anyway.Most of the announcements were iterative - an upgraded self service Nine Ad Managers platform; lots of data and tech partnerships. (What would an Upfront be without a data partnership?)Instead this was an interim Upfront before Nine's future direction is settled. How to invest the money from the sale of Domain remains an open question. So too is the business-defining decision of what Nine does in the next NRL rights negotiation.Stanton gave a couple of interviews this week to coincide with the Upfronts. He said remarkably little. Giving the benefit of the doubt, it could be that revealing the plan would drive up the price of whatever asset(s) Nine wants to purchase. But it leaves a gap where the vision belongs. After these Upfronts, I'm none the wiser on the vision.The conversation with James does offer a couple of glimpses. As you'll hear, he is fond of business jargon, but there was a little more than that.Tellingly, was the fact that James was bullish on his ability to monetise NRL across free to air and streaming if Nine chases all rights in the next deal. “To have that control and flow of audience between your BVOD subscribers and your SVOD consumers… would be a phenomenal opportunity. So we already have an incredibly powerful and growing asset base, both in the BVOD and SVOD environment. I think we'd be very successful at it and would absolutely back myself 110%. If not, I'm shortly out of a job in six months.”In other words, as well as free to air, Nine may chase the pay rights currently held by Foxtel.Speaking of Foxtel, James also sent the strongest signal yet that Nine is going to become part of the Video Futures Collective. The VFC was created by Foxtel Media when Foxtel resigned from industry marketing body Think TV and later OzTAM.Despite the fact that Nine unveiled new research designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of television - the sort of thing that might previously have been industry funded via the moribund Think TV - James says that there will be collaboration with competitors.For more than a year, there have been ongoing promises from the TV players to imminently come back together to market their medium. Yet they never quite seem to happen. In our interview, James puts a timeline on it “I would like to think that certainly within the next two months, we can at least start to give clarity on how we would like to move forward as an industry. You know, it's critical.”More than once, James talked about the virtues of a private exchange. It sounds like the concept - effectively one place where premium video ads can be traded - is a few steps further than just being a concept.In the conversation, we also explore the virtues of Nine buying an outdoor company. And then there's the question of radio. With Nine Radio's talk network on the block, it must have been a dilemma on how to present it.The signal on the night was not entirely subtle - while publishing and TV presented side by side, Nine radio's commercial boss Brian Gallagher did his bit solo. It was a pretty good shop window, and he made Nine Radio seem like an asset worth buying.In our interview James accepted the premise that Nine might be better off owning an FM radio network that does better in the 25-54 demographic. “Obviously, in the FM environment, it does obviously attract to younger audiences. And there are actually strategically some interesting dynamics there that can work when you think about the sort of drive time integration and what those younger audiences represent.”By the time the next Nine Upfronts come around, things should be much clearer. The next NRL deal should be done. If Nine is going to buy into FM radio or outdoor, it will have happened. We'll see.Vinyl's AI bet gets early voteThe investment market appeared to like yesterday's announcement from Vinyl Group that it intends to use AI to create ten times the amount of content it currently produces, while reducing staff costs. Vinyl shares rose by 4.6%.Meanwhile, of the bigger stocks, Seven West Media had the best day, improving by 2.2% while its merger partner Southern Cross Austereo lost 0.6%The Unmade Index closed almost flat for the day, on 472.1 points.More from Mumbrella* Vinyl sticks to break-even deadline, aims to use AI to increase content 10x* ABC admission reignites decades-old ABC paedophile interview furore* Opinion: Instagram's new PG-13 content rules will hit adults harder than kids* Opinion: Why smart marketers should keep measurement simpleToday's podcast was edited by Abe's Audio.Time to leave you to your day. We'll be back with more soon.If you happen to be at SXSW Sydney this afternoon, the Mumbrellacast is a late addition to the podcast stage. Our guest will be agency bad boy turned big brand builder Mat Baxter. Hopefully we'll see you there.Have a great day.Toodlepip…Tim BurrowesPublisher - Unmade + Mumbrellatim@unmade.media This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unmade.substack.com

Grenzen, Staatsgewalt und Machtstrukturen — die indische Künstlerin Shilpa Gupta setzt sich mit den harten Themen unserer Zeit auseinander. Die Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck widmet ihr gerade eine Einzelausstellung. Kunst und Leben – der Monopol Podcast ist der Kunst-Podcast von detektor.fm und dem Monopol Magazin. Hier entlang geht’s zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/kunst-und-leben Den kostenlosen Monopol-Newsletter gibt’s auf https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/monopol-podcast-shilpa-gupta

Grenzen, Staatsgewalt und Machtstrukturen — die indische Künstlerin Shilpa Gupta setzt sich mit den harten Themen unserer Zeit auseinander. Die Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck widmet ihr gerade eine Einzelausstellung. Kunst und Leben – der Monopol Podcast ist der Kunst-Podcast von detektor.fm und dem Monopol Magazin. Hier entlang geht’s zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/kunst-und-leben Den kostenlosen Monopol-Newsletter gibt’s auf https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/monopol-podcast-shilpa-gupta

Grenzen, Staatsgewalt und Machtstrukturen — die indische Künstlerin Shilpa Gupta setzt sich mit den harten Themen unserer Zeit auseinander. Die Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck widmet ihr gerade eine Einzelausstellung. Kunst und Leben – der Monopol Podcast ist der Kunst-Podcast von detektor.fm und dem Monopol Magazin. Hier entlang geht’s zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/kunst-und-leben Den kostenlosen Monopol-Newsletter gibt’s auf https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/monopol-podcast-shilpa-gupta

There's a time travel theme to this latest episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, starting with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Quite the story behind this, too. The distributor going bankrupt just as the movie was being finished, the year-long delay to its release, the audition that threw Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter together...? There's quite the story behind it all. In the early 2010s too, one interview ignited a whole conversation about a possible Doctor Who movie, around the era when Matt Smith was in the TARDIS. In theory, this would have been made in America, seperate to the TV show that was being put together in Wales. Things, er, went awry... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unmade decisions create a heavy kind of chaos. We carry them everywhere, into our work, our families, even our prayers. In this episode, I reflect on Emily P. Freeman's book The Next Right Thing and what it means to become a “soul minimalist.”Instead of calling a committee every time we're at a crossroads, what if we cleared the clutter, leaned into silence, and made space to hear God?I share:The kinds of big decisions that often leave us stuckWhy asking for more input can sometimes make things worseHow I made one of the biggest decisions of my life by staying quiet firstPractical ways to fast from noise and distractions so you can hear what matters mostIf you're carrying a decision that feels too heavy, this one's for you.Contact Us Ask a question or leave a comment, visit shepact.com/voicemail Follow me on Instagram at instagram.com/remiroy Email us: thedrivenintrovert@shepact.com Enjoying the podcast? Share the podcast with a friend: shepact.com/TDIPodcast Leave a review: We'd appreciate it if you could WRITE a review for us. Your support and feedback mean a lot to us. Thank you! For driven introverts, introvert leaders, introvert entrepreneurs, dreamers, passionate leaders and anyone who wants to close the gap between where they are and where they need to be.

THIS VOYAGE, MARK A. ALTMAN (Pandora, The Librarians, 50 Year Mission), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE) & ASHLEY E. MILLER (writer, Thor, X-Men: First Class) prove they haven't had enough of you as they take another deep dive into the world of STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK as they welcome authors JOHN & MARIA TENUTO for an all-new TREKS NOT TAKEN to discuss the development of "The Rise of Khan" and "Return To Genesis" to celebrate the release of their new book, STAR TREK III: THE MAKING OF THE CLASSIC FILM from Titan Books, LIVE AT GALAXYCON DES MOINES. BONUS EPISODE FOR TREKSPERTS+ (trekspertsplus.com) SUBSCRIBERS AVAILABLE NOW: DAVID GERROLD in conversation with SCOTT MANTZ. Don't miss it by subscribing today on Spotify.DON'T MISS THE TREKSPERTS AT GALAXYCON ST. LOUIS, MILWAUKEE & COLUMBUS THIS FALL! FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO GALAXYCON.COM. **TREKSPERTS+ SUBSCRIBERS NOW GET COMMERCIAL FREE EPISODES ONE WEEK EARLY! SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT TREKSPERTSPLUS.COM****Join us on our new INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS DISCORD Channel at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/7kgmJSExeh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rate and follow us on social media at:Blue Sky: @inglorioustrekspertsTwitter/X: @inglorioustrekFacebook: facebook.com/inglorioustrekspertsInstagram: @inglorioustrekspertsLearn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Blue Sky. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed."Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times

Welcome to a midweek update from Unmade, dropping a little later than usual to accommodate the reporting embargo around this afternoon's Amazon's Upfronts.Further down, Vinyl Group shares sink to a 12 month low.To get maximum value from a paid membership of Unmade, sign up today.Your annual membership gets you tickets to October's Unlock conference on marketing in the nighttime economy; and to Unmade's Compass end-of-year roadshow.You also get access to our paywalled archive.Upgrade today.‘We are ready now': Willie Pang on Amazon's entry into the Australian advertising environment What was most notable about this afternoon's Upfront with Amazon Australia was not so much the content, but the fact that they decided now is the time to hold such an event.This week was something of a coming out moment for Amazon's local operation. It seems like longer ago, but Amazon only launched its Australian website in late 2017, with a local Amazon Ads team starting a couple of years later.This week was the most industry-facing Willie Pang has been since becoming Amazon's country manager two years ago. On Monday we recorded the podcast interview published alongside this post. Yesterday he presented the keynote at REmade, our retail media conference. And tonight he was on stage at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, talking to the biggest industry audience Amazon has yet addressed in Australia.As Pang put it in our interview: “It took us a couple of years there to build, to scale, and we feel like we are ready now.”The increased profile is a function of the inexorable progress being made by Amazon. Back in 2023 it passed the threshold as Australia's most visited online retail destination. And last year, came the big move - the arrival of an ad tier on Amazon's Prime Video.Unlike other streaming services, the default for users is that advertising tier. That instantly made Amazon one of the biggest players in Australia's connected TV ecosystem.In our interview, Pang claims a five million total audience, although I think I detected a reticence to expand on where that number comes from. That was answered in this afternoon's presentation, with the asterisk “Amazon internal”.Pang said there have been talks with ratings body OzTam. Good. I suspect the market will want independent audience verification.Amazon's challenge now is to get that audience actually watching more Prime Video content.That was a shortcoming revealed at tonight's event. It was an upfront with very few local upfront content announcements. We already knew that Amazon has the ICC cricket and NBA basketball rights. The only new local announcements were a second season of comedy drama Deadloch and an as-yet-untitled AFL documentary from the production team behind Netflix's F1 series Drive to Survive.Prime's content strategy is global rather than local.Not returning, by the looks of it is the Australian edition of workplace comedy The Office. The reviews for the first season were rotten.Instead, the focus was on Amazon's claim to all parts of the marketing funnel, backed with some tech updates. “Full funnel” was the most frequently used phrase of the afternoon. Pang also appears to be coming to the market with more humility than some of the players Amazon is seeking to displace (Cartology in the retail media space, and Google in the online space spring to mind). Says Pang in our interview: “We would love for brands, marketers, agencies to perceive us as firstly, humble and hardworking. And second, that we're here to deliver incredible results and value.”He repeated the words “humble and hard working” on stage this afternoon too. That's a smart position. The message: ‘We can do the same stuff as Google and Meta but we're nicer' might well resonate locally.I suspect that the market will soon be talking about Amazon's demand side platform Performance+ campaign optimisation tool and its audience discovery tool Brand+, in the same breath as Meta's Advantage+ and Google's Performance Max. The naming convention certainly suggests that's the aim.Amazon's DSP now extends across premium partners including Netflix along with Prime, the Amazon retail platform and the company's live streaming platform Twitch.A decade ago, the conversation was what Amazon would do to the market when it finally arrived. Without a shadow of a doubt, Amazon is now here.Vinyl Group hits one-year lowMusic publishing and platforms company Vinyl Group took the biggest tumble on the ASX today as its share price fell to the lowest point in more than a year. Vinyl lost 4.4% to land on a market capitalisation of $119m.Meanwhile Southern Cross Austereo lost 1.7% and Ooh Media lost 1.6%.Among the broadcasters, Seven West Media had the best day, gaining 3.7%.The Unmade Index lost 0.21%, closing on 477.6 points.More from Mumbrella:* How Commonwealth Bank slowly became a national media network* ‘This is hate, pure and simple': Muslim pork ad pulled from awards* Opinion: Why trust actors but not AI?* ASX-listed Lifestyle Communities launches new brand platformToday's podcast was edited by Abe's Audio. Time to leave you to your evening. We'll be back with more tomorrow.Have a great nightToodlepip…Tim BurrowesPublisher - Unmade + Mumbrellatim@unmade.media This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unmade.media/subscribe

Welcome to an audio-led update from Unmade. Today we hear a fly-on-the-wall interview with marketing strategist Mat Baxter in which he unloads on premium brands seeking cheap media, and lays out the marketing strategy for his new luxury tattoo skincare brand.It's your last chance to sign up for a paid membership of Unmade and lock in all of the current benefits. Next month, we're going to stop accepting new paying members of Unmade. Instead we'll be offering membership of an expanded Mumbrella Pro as we bring the two brands closer together.All Unmade membership perks will be carried across, including complimentary tickets to REmade, Unlock, and Compass for our annual paying members. These won't be available to anyone else as part of the new Mumbrella Pro membership.Your paid membership also includes exclusive analysis and access to our content archive which goes behind the paywall six weeks after publication.Upgrade now or miss out.Baxter the iconoclastHal Crawford writes:Mat Baxter has launched a luxury tattoo skincare brand. After spending a career in agencies persuading others to do things, the brakes are off and “it's time to put up or shut up.”“We are going to be the client that I always wanted. I wanted a client that didn't want to go to pitch … I wanted a client who cut us in on the success we contributed to without caps or exception … and I wanted a client who, when I was in a meeting and gave a recommendation, they actually took that recommendation.”Baxter says that the Skingraphica brand he is launching (on October 1) is a new category. I spoke with him — for the news story I wrote in Mumbrella — right after his morning gym workout, and he was pumped. The words and numbers flow: tattoos globally are a $6 billion industry, a billion people around the world and one in four Australians sport a tattoo. Baxter discovered there are no scientifically formulated high-end products aimed at the market while he was preparing to receive his first tattoo in the Sydney studio of Swedish maestro Mikael Rämgård. The interesting thing about the venture is Baxter's marketing strategy: 100% out-of-home in terms of brand spend, with a healthy whack of influencer in the form of the world's top tattoo artists. “We recognize we have to engage with the best artists in the world … [of the world's top 10 artists] we're working directly with two of them, and we know the balance.”“There will be no performance marketing … no low-end buys at all. Build a great brand, have great products. Customers will come and find you and buy you. We're not interested in cheap. We want quality.“Above the line, we're going a 100 percent out-of-home. Out-of-home is the last superpower brand channel, in my view, outside of digital.”Baxter, who led strategy for IPG Mediabrands in New York before becoming CEO of Initiative and then Huge, is caustic about the influence of finance on marketing.“ I purposely kept the company private because in my experience, bankers f**k brands. I'm not prepared at this point trying — as a frustrated marketer for years, not being client side, being agency side — I'm not prepared to make brand compromises because of money at this stage.“I want the brand to be looked after and executed and launched in the most pure and uncompromised form possible.”More from Mumbrella…* Clemenger BBDO wins MFA Grand Prix for Samsung campaign* Medibank appoints new chief marketing officer* IAB Australia unites the MMM world for how-to guide* Mumbrella Publish adds Nine's Tory Maguire to lineup* Channel Seven sanctioned for on-air domestic violence jokes* Opinion: Bigger doesn't mean better: How moving to a contractor-led model boosted my bottom lineToday's podcast was edited by Abe's Audio. Tim will be back with Best of the Week iun the morning.Have a great dayHal CrawfordEditorial Director, Mumbrellahcrawford@mumbrella.com.au This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unmade.media/subscribe

Welcome to an audio-led edition of Unmade. Today we explore last night's Foxtel announcements and a record breaking crash in Nine's share price.To get maximum value from a paid membership of Unmade, sign up today.Your annual membership gets you tickets to September's REmade conference on retail media; to October's Unlock conference on marketing in the nighttime economy; and to Unmade's Compass end-of-year roadshow.You also get access to our paywalled archive.Upgrade today.Foxtel Upfront: More sport, better techSo now we have the first proper look at what the new Foxtel will be like. Five months on from the sale to DAZN, last night's Foxtel Upfront ‘26 event signalled that for the most part, it will be business as usual. Those of us who trooped across Anzac Bridge to Sydney's old White Bay Power Station saw a show that (not surprisingly given the new owner) swung the emphasis towards the sport portfolio, with less focus on the Binge side of the entertainment portfolio.So far, more has stayed the same than has changed. Kayo, not DAZN, will remain the sports streaming brand, for now at least.Despite losing its HBO content when Warner Brother Discovery launched Max, Binge remains - now leaning on NBC Universal for content. The Paper, the spinoff from The Office, started streaming last week. Ahead of the event, CEO Patrick Delany told me: “It's held its own and it's far more profitable without the extraordinary cost of Warner Brothers in it.”Delany wasn't at last night's event, instead flying to London for a DAZN board meeting; he sent a video message. His absence wasn't particularly jarring. The Foxtel Upfronts have always been more the domain of the boss of the Foxtel Media sales house, Mark Frain.As well as Delany, we also spoke to Frain ahead of the event. Highlights from both those conversations accompany this post as a podcast.Although the emphasis was on sport - with perhaps two-thirds of the presentation dedicated to that side of the business - there were entertainment recommissions announced too, including Colin from Accounts, High Country, The Great Australian Bakeoff and Selling Homes. And new content included Run, The Postcard Bandit, and Tough Love.But the direction is towards sport. According to Delany, they've never let a rights deal go that they wanted to keep. “We've never lost a sports rights content that we didn't want to lose.” Apart from the English Premier League back in 2015, perhaps.Soon the platforms will slide across to DAZN's platform technology. And, says Delany, subscribers to the original Foxtel broadcast service will eventually see their streaming service Foxtel Go move across too. (As a grumpy subscriber, that can't come too soon for me.)Not that the company will be investing any more in the Foxtel hardware. IQ4 and IQ5 boxes will be refurbished or retired. There will be no IQ6.The other piece of hardware that will quickly fade from view is Hubbl. Delany confirmed in the interview that the push is over 18 months after it began. Hubbl is, as he puts it, “in maintenance mode”. That's not quite send to the farm, but close. Given that the company sold more than 100,000 units (Delany revealed it's “not tens of thousands” - they can't just turn off the tap. So technical support for Hubbl will presumably remain for some time.And Frain's push to create a new centre of gravity for the screen industry away from free to air continues to edge forward with the Video Futures Collection becoming an organisation in its own right.Director of customer engagement Toby Dewar told the room:  “All of this has brought us to a key milestone for the VFC. We are becoming an independent industry backed body. What started two years ago as an informal think tank led by Foxtel Media, it's now becoming something bigger.“With structure, governance and a simple mandate to go faster, to go broader, and to ensure we keep the customer at the center of how we push forward with the streaming revolution.”There was no announcement last night of one of the free to air players joining the VFC, which Foxtel has been pushing for. But Dewar did announce, slightly vaguely: “I'm excited to say that along with Seven, Nine and Paramount, we are exploring ways to collaborate and focus on shared research projects to better understand the outcomes across screens.”Other announcements included a move into gaming via a tie-up with Livewire; a push into retail media and a new brand-funded content arm with (I thought rather clever) name of Narratv. Is branded entertainment back?* Declaration of interest: Foxtel provided me with accommodation and covered some of my travel to the eventNine share price drops by a third after Domain exitNine's share price went through a record 35.9% wipeout on Thursday, taking almost $1bn off its market capitalisation.However the change was expected, as the market revalued the stock after the sale of Domain to US real estate giant Costar. Yesterday was the date for Nine's shares to go ex-dividend, which means that anybody who buys Nine shares from now on are not entitled to the special dividend from the Domain sale when it is paid out at the end of the month.Nine's new market cap is $1.7bn.It was also a generally down day elsewhere on the Unmade Index, which monitors the performance of Australia's listed media and marketing companies.Seven West Media lost 3.5%, Ooh Media lost 2.6% and Ive group lost 2.2%.In the lower reaches of the index, Sports Entertainment Group - owner of SEN Radio - lost 7.3% while research house Pureprofile lost 6.7%. Vinyl Group gained 15%.Thanks to Nine's big drop, the Unmade Index also saw the biggest one-day fall in its history, losing 20.3% to land on 464.2 points.Time to leave you to your Friday.I'll be back tomorrow with Best of the Week. I've been thinking about the Lachlan succession, and last night's news of a potential Paramount takeover of WBD.Have a great dayToodlepip…Tim BurrowesPublisher - Unmade + Mumbrellatim@unmade.media This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unmade.media/subscribe

Lachlan Murdoch is set to control the family’s global media assets, including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The Australian, under a new deal that ends years of infighting and speculation about what happens when Rupert Murdoch passes away. The agreement effectively sidelines Lachlan’s siblings James, Elisabeth and Prudence, who will each walk away with about $1.7 billion.Sean Aylmer speaks to Tim Burrowes, publisher of media and marketing website Mumbrella and the newsletter UnMade, and co-host of Medialand on ABC radio.Fear & Greed Q+A: Join Sean Aylmer & Michael Thompson and the team as they answer questions on business, investing, economics, politics and more. If you have your own question, get in touch via our website, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook!Join our free daily newsletter here.Find out more: https://fearandgreed.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THIS VOYAGE, the Treksperts, MARK A. ALTMAN (Pandora, The Librarians, 50 Year Mission), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), ASHLEY E. MILLER (DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Thor, X-Men: First Class) are joined for the first of their TREKS NOT TAKEN series by author DAVID TILOTTA (author, Star Trek: Lost Scenes), BEN ROBINSON (author, Voyager: A Celebration), SCOTT & DAVID TIPTON (comic book writers & historians, Star Trek: The Mirror War) as they do a deep dive into unmade scripts for The Original Series to celebrate the series 59th anniversary along with a special appearance by The Network Executive (a/k/a Kevin Levy). DON'T MISS THE TREKSPERTS AT GALAXY CON DES MOINES, ST. LOUIS, MILWAUKEE & COLUMBUS THIS FALL! FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO GALAXYCON.COM. **TREKSPERTS+ SUBSCRIBERS NOW GET COMMERCIAL FREE EPISODES ONE WEEK EARLY! SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT TREKSPERTSPLUS.COM****Join us on our new INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS DISCORD Channel at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/7kgmJSExeh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rate and follow us on social media at:Blue Sky: @inglorioustrekspertsTwitter/X: @inglorioustrekFacebook: facebook.com/inglorioustrekspertsInstagram: @inglorioustrekspertsLearn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram and Blue Sky. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed."Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times

In a recent interview with Josh Horowitz, director Darren Aronofsky dove into his unmade Batman Year One adaptation. Years ago, before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Aronofsky co-wrote a script with comics legend Frank Miller, providing a new spin on the mythos in which Bruce Wayne rejects his family fortune and grows up on the streets of Gotham. A similar idea has recently made it to DC Comics in the popular series Absolute Batman. Aronofsky’s unmade Batman Year One would’ve starred […] The post Darren Aronofsky’s Unmade Batman Year One appeared first on Multiverse Of Color.

We mark our eight-year anniversary with Tim and Brady being quizzed by Colonel Katrina, with questions submitted by listeners.Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFMJoin the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/Catch the podcast on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@unmadepodcastUSEFUL LINKSPictures of Spoon of the Week - https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-weekSofa Shop Covers playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-m3gXId-GDRssENnBaNR-CPkVQdxIFWThe Shroud of Tim - https://the-unmade-podcast.creator-spring.com/listing/shroud-of-tim?product=651More quizzes on Unmade - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY2OYgTm-83M2-FMJqtsodvslkW7tKp-4

In today's episode, Hugh is joined by historian Dr Cormac Moore to discuss one of the most consequential but little-known episodes in modern Irish history: the Irish Boundary Commission. Based on Moore's new book The Root of All Evil, the conversation explores the hopes, fraught negotiations, and ultimate anticlimax that defined the commission's work 100 years ago this year.How did a clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty come to carry the weight of nationalist aspirations and unionist fears? Why did so many believe that the commission would redraw the map of Ireland in favour of the Free State – and how did those expectations unravel so completely? Was the commission's failure inevitable, or did political miscalculations and miscommunications seal its fate?Moore, historian-in-residence with Dublin City Council, brings a forensic eye to the detail and a deep sense of the human stakes involved. He unpacks the central roles played by figures such as David Lloyd George, James Craig and WT Cosgrave.What lessons does the Boundary Commission hold for how borders are made – and unmade – in contested spaces? And in a world where the political future of Northern Ireland is once again up for debate, is this century-old episode a cautionary tale of how not to manage competing nationalisms?What happened in 1925 offers lessons for anyone interested in the deeper roots of partition, the evolution of identity on this island, and how historical decisions continue to cast long shadows.Produced by Declan Conlon with JJ Vernon on sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CTO coach Joel Chippindale joins Robby to share what he's learned over two decades of building and leading software teams. Joel argues that maintainability has less to do with “clean code” and more to do with how teams communicate, prioritize, and make progress visible. Drawing on his time at Unmade and his current coaching practice, Joel outlines practical ways teams can build trust, navigate brittle systems, and stop letting technical debt conversations get lost in translation.Episode Highlights[00:01:10] A Working Definition of MaintainabilityJoel explains why “software that's easy to keep changing” is the gold standard—and why context matters as much as code.[00:05:24] The Pitfalls of Pre-OptimizationHow developers can trap themselves by designing for futures that may never arrive.[00:10:40] Challenging the Iron TriangleJoel pushes back on the idea that teams must sacrifice quality for speed or cost.[00:15:31] Quality Is a Team ConversationWhy code quality starts long before you open your editor.[00:20:00] Unmade Case Study: From Chaos to ConfidenceHow Joel helped a struggling team at Unmade regain trust by delivering less—and showing more.[00:28:08] Helping Business Stakeholders Buy Into Maintenance WorkHow to reframe backend investments in terms that resonate across departments.[00:33:40] First Steps for Fragile SystemsWhat Joel looks for when coaching teams overwhelmed by legacy code.[00:41:32] The Value of Boring TechnologyWhy solving real problems matters more than chasing resume polish.[00:45:20] The Case for CoachingWhat makes leadership coaching valuable—and why it's not a sign of weakness.[00:51:10] Building Your Manager VoltronJoel shares why every developer should cultivate their own support system, including mentors, peers, and coaches.Resources & MentionsJoel's Coaching Site – Monkey's ThumbJoel on Mastodon“Take Back Control of Code Quality” – Joel's Blog Post“Manager Voltron” by Lara HoganNever Split the Difference by Chris VossThanks to Our Sponsor!Turn hours of debugging into just minutes! AppSignal is a performance monitoring and error-tracking tool designed for Ruby, Elixir, Python, Node.js, Javascript, and other frameworks.It offers six powerful features with one simple interface, providing developers with real-time insights into the performance and health of web applications.Keep your coding cool and error-free, one line at a time! Use the code maintainable to get a 10% discount for your first year. Check them out! Subscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.Keep up to date with the Maintainable Podcast by joining the newsletter.

We come face-to-face with one of the Unmade, and it's ... a trip. Joe's still on hiatus, but the rest of the crew has thoughts.

Brooke and Tyler trap themselves in the depths of suffering with Ba-Ado-Mishram in order to learn about the Era of Solitude, the imprisonment of an Unmade, and the Recreance caused by the breaking of Honor. #AllSpoilers Katie Payne Artwork that you could win (https://www.patreon.com/posts/become-or-remain-127701309?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Support this podcast by becoming a Patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CosmereConversations) Original music by David Gruwier (https://twitter.com/DGruwier). "Radiant" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CFAZUv4C0) by David Gruwier.

Alan J. Porter's The James Bond Lexicon has discovered details of another unmade 1950s 007 film project.

In this episode we punch are way through the history of Popeye and sail through the unmade Popeye movie by Genndy Tartakovsky. PatreonMerchTikTokBskyInstagramPipedream podcastsSpreakerClips used in this episode:Popeye the Sailor (1933)Betty Boop: A Language all my own (1935)“Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” by Barry WhiteSaturday Night Live (1975)Popeye the Sailor (1960)Dragonslayer (1981)Felix the Cat (1930)Genndy Tartakovsky's POPEYE Animation TestHook (1991)To Tell The Truth (1974)Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)Popeye's Island Adventures (2018)Popeye and Son (1987)Popeye (1980)Betty Boop (1932)Popeye Quaker Oats Commercial (1989)Popeye The Sailor: Popeye, The Ace of Space (1953) Popeye the Sailor Man: Spooky Swabs (1957)Popeye the Sailor Man: Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)REBOOT (1994)The Magnetic Fields “Andrew in Drag”The Phantom in Popeye Meets The Man Who Hated Laughter (1972)The Popeye Valentine's Day Special Sweethearts at Sea (1979)Futurama (1999)Weird Al  Yankovic “Ricky”Music by Kevin MacLeod"Discovery Hit""Jazz Brunch""Miami Nights"“Adventure”“Alchemists Tower”Alls Fair in Love”“Ancient Rite”“Big Eyes”“Busybody”“Epic Unease”“Fancy Family”“Fun in a Bottle”“Gothamlicious”“Managing Mischief”“Parisian”“The Show Must Be Go”“There is Romance”

Carla Seyler's debut novel "A Place Unmade" has won multiple awards in different categories. Enjoy this visit with her.

The path to the 26th James Bond film is one already filled with quite the story. Unmade at the point this episode is released in 2025, James Bond 26 has looked in limbo since the release of No Time To Die in 2021. There's no new 007, no script, no director...and it's an impasse that's cost $1bn to resolve. More conventionally, Long Shot did actually get made, released in 2019. Still, a romantic comedy with movie stars was going to be a tough sell, and a film whose script popped up on the Black List in 2011 had to take its place in the queue behind the infamous The Interview here. Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is it! The exciting conclusion! The finale of the live script reading of the never-seen first draft of the unmade 5th Christopher Reeve Superman movie that was performed in Los Angeles on November 12th, 2024. The stage reading of the script was made with actors. The audio is presented here like an old-fashioned radio play. It stars Ray Carsillo as The Narrator, Jonathan Cahill as Clark Kent / Superman, Kenna Roubicek as Lois Lane, Jamal Henderson as Brainiac, David Pinion as Kosmo David Kocher as Jimmy Olsen / Ensemble Barry Papick as Perry White / Ensemble Veronica Warner as Lyla / Ensemble Bill Kates as Max - Dur / Ensemble and Caitlin Morris as Martha Kent / Ensemble. It was directed by Ray Carsillo and produced by Ilya Salkind, David Kocher, and Ray Carsillo.—story by Ilya Salkind, Mark Jones, and Cary Bates Screenplay by Mark Jones and Cary Bates. The story so far: Superman was “killed” in Part 1 (Episode 413) and was transported to the Bottle City of Kandor. Lois Lane, desperate to find out what happened to Superman, gets transported to the bottled city as well. Superman V was in the script stage that was drafted when Alexander and Ilya Salkind reacquired the rights to Superman. They attempted to restore the franchise to greatness by making Superman V. Salkind met with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder to discuss a plan to make the 5th movie, but ultimately, it was never made. Superman is created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Based on characters from DC. This Presentation was funded by the Kaplan-Loring Foundation. For more information on the project and history of Superman Reborn, please visit our official IMDb page at the link below. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34615846... Please donate to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for spinal cord injury research at the link below. https://www.christopherreeve.org/.

This episode is a continuation of a live script reading performance of the never-seen first draft of the unmade 5th Christopher Reeve Superman movie that took place on November 12th, 2024. The stage reading of the script was made with actors. The audio is presented here like an old-fashioned radio play. The presentation stars Ray Carsillo as The Narrator Jonathan Cahill as Clark Kent / Superman Kenna Roubicek as Lois Lane Jamal Henderson as Brainiac David Pinion as Kosmo David Kocher as Jimmy Olsen / Ensemble Barry Papick as Perry White / Ensemble Veronica Warner as Lyla / Ensemble Bill Kates as Max - Dur / Ensemble and Caitlin Morris as Martha Kent / Ensemble. It was directed by Ray Carsillo, and produced by Ilya Salkind, David Kocher, and Ray Carsillo. Story by Ilya Salkind, Mark Jones, and Cary Bates Screenplay by Mark Jones and Cary Bates. The story so far: After Superman IV bombed, Alexander and Ilya Salkind reacquired the rights to Superman. They attempted to restore the franchise to greatness by making Superman V. Salkind met with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder to discuss a plan to make the 5th movie but ultimately, it was never made. After the events of Part 1, the story continues in this episode. Notably, the original script was written BEFORE the famous “Death of Superman” comic book was released in 1992. Superman is created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Based on characters from DC. This Presentation was funded by the Kaplan-Loring Foundation. For more information on the project and history of Superman Reborn, please visit our official IMDb page at the link below. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34615846... Please donate to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for spinal cord injury research at the link below. https://www.christopherreeve.org/.

For the first time ever, a live script reading performance of the never-seen first draft of the unmade 5th Christopher Reeve Superman movie took place in late 2024. After Superman IV bombed, Alexander and Ilya Salkind reacquired the rights to Superman. They attempted to restore the franchise to greatness by making Superman V. Salkind met with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder to discuss a plan to make the 5th movie but ultimately, it was never made. Now, a staged reading of the script was made with actors. The audio is presented here like an old-fashioned radio play. The presentation stars Ray Carsillo as The Narrator Jonathan Cahill as Clark Kent / Superman Kenna Roubicek as Lois Lane Jamal Henderson as Brainiac David Pinion as Kosmo David Kocher as Jimmy Olsen / Ensemble Barry Papick as Perry White / Ensemble Veronica Warner as Lyla / Ensemble Bill Kates as Max - Dur / Ensemble and Caitlin Morris as Martha Kent / Ensemble. It was directed by Ray Carsillo, and produced by Ilya Salkind, David Kocher, and Ray Carsillo. Story by Ilya Salkind, Mark Jones, and Cary Bates Screenplay by Mark Jones and Cary Bates. Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Based on characters from DC. This Presentation was funded by the Kaplan-Loring Foundation. For more information on the project and history of Superman Reborn, please visit our official IMDb page at the link below. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34615846... Please donate to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation for spinal cord injury research at the link below. https://www.christopherreeve.org/.

Dalinar learns dark secret upon dark secret, Adolin gets hit hard, Szeth fights with his sister and Shallan learns how she met her mother. Okay not really on the last one but I wanted to make the joke. We talk about: Warframe, F1,Dark Souls 2, LUKE WATCHED TOTALLY SPIES, Sea of Thieves, Romeo + Juliet, Bazaar, Earthsea, Too Human, What Is The Listener Plot Really, Darkest Before The Dark, Eye Spikes, Shardpen, Listener Homophobic Moment, Lying Windrunner, Men Have Problems Too, Talm Smokes Too Tough, Kaladin Is Racist, Adolin Edgedancer, Lifting Up, Debate Me Bro, Odium's Champion, Dalinar Is So Good At Trauma, Non Political Army, Unmade, #NotAllLightEyes, Shallan's Special Mom, Ashley Fujos Out, Patent Law, Uniting Them,

Filmmaker Brandon Salisbury joins us to shine a light on a forgotten corner of cinematic history with his documentary, GEORGE A ROMERO'S RESIDENT EVIL. Together, we unravel the story of how Romero, fresh off his zombie classics, was tapped to adapt the iconic video game franchise before creative differences sent the project spiraling into limbo. Salisbury recounts his journey to track down rare materials, conduct interviews, and ultimately honor the legacy of one of horror's greatest filmmakers. Let's get Spooky!

Host Anthony Desiato and Superman historian Ed Gross dig into SUPERMAN REBORN, the unmade fifth Christopher Reeve film written by Cary Bates and Mark Jones (based on a story by Bates, Jones, and producer Ilya Salkind).This episode covers the long-unseen FIRST draft of the screenplay, which was performed live at The Broadwater Theater in Los Angeles on November 12, 2024, and is now available to view in its entirety HERE. It's the ultimate epilogue to the podcast's recent coverage of the Reeve film series!PLUS: Anthony speaks with the man behind the script reading, David Kocher, all about how the production came to be! David's editor: Jacob Harlow (TVandFilmPost@gmail.com).Please donate to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation HERE.Ed's books: Superman: The Definitive History, Voices from Krypton, Fleischer and the Wonderful World of Oz. Visit Ed's website for more!Support the show and receive exclusive podcast content at Patreon.com/AnthonyDesiato, including the spinoff podcasts BEYOND METROPOLIS and DIGGING FOR JUSTICE!Visit BCW Supplies and use promo code FSP to save 10% on your next order of comics supplies. FACEBOOK GROUP: Digging for Kryptonite: A Superman Fan GroupFACEBOOK PAGE: @diggingforkryptonitepodINSTAGRAM: @diggingforkryptonitepodTWITTER: @diggingforkrpodEMAIL: flatsquirrelproductions@gmail.comWEBSITE: FlatSquirrelProductions.com Digging for Kryptonite is a Flat Squirrel Production. Key art by Isaiah Simmons (2020-2024 version by Gregg Schigiel). Theme music by Basic Printer.Mentioned in this episode:Hang On To Your Shorts Film FestivalFat Moose ComicsAlways Hold On To SmallvilleAw Yeah Comics

The Western world faces a tidal wave of secularisation, which shows no signs of receding. In the UK, Christian self-identification has plummeted – dropping, for example, from 72% in 2001 to 47% in 2021. The secularists argue that this trend reflects a shift towards an inclusive and intellectually progressive society; their critics, however, warn that the decline of faith erodes our moral foundations and frays our social ties. “The secular flood isn't just about church attendance,” they say, “but strikes at the heart of our nation's identity and stability.” For many conservatives, nowhere is this betrayal of our values more evident than our education system. In the UK, the 1944 Education Act introduced free secondary education to all children for the first time – with grammar schools said to offer exceptional educations to our most talented students. Today, grammar schools are in decline, and the founding of new ones prohibited. It was argued that these schools favoured the middle classes and perpetuated social divisions; others, however, believe that closing these pathways has reduced educational and social opportunities. Like the Christian identity of the nation, grammar schools are at risk of being confined to history books. In this episode, we'll be speaking with Peter Hitchens – British journalist, author, and social critic – about what religious and educational changes mean for the soul of Britain. Together, we'll explore whether this shift marks the dawn of a more inclusive era – or the washing away of a once Great Britain. Links Peter Hitchens, Mail Online: Blog Peter Hitchens, The Spectator Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God (book) Peter Hitchens, A Revolution Betrayed (book)

Tune in to this episode of 'Lost in Roshar' as we explore and discuss chapters 27-28 of Wind and Truth. Join us and discover the wonders that await within the pages of Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy saga, The Stormlight Archive. Timestamps 0:00 Banter and ARCs 6:54 Wind and Truth is under a month away! 8:30 Cremlings, pacing and release plans 18:06 Shallan's mother and personalities  20:37 Warlord Adolin? Navani becomes Cultivation? 23:51 Where's Moash? 26:49 Chapter epigraph 30:07 Szeth's flashback and current day scene 46:53 Shallan's chapter moments and theories 55:56 Bad joke of the week

The Western world faces a tidal wave of secularisation, which shows no signs of receding. In the UK, Christian self-identification has plummeted – dropping, for example, from 72% in 2001 to 47% in 2021. The secularists argue that this trend reflects a shift towards an inclusive and intellectually progressive society; their critics, however, warn that the decline of faith erodes our moral foundations and frays our social ties. “The secular flood isn't just about church attendance,” they say, “but strikes at the heart of our nation's identity and stability.” For many conservatives, nowhere is this betrayal of our values more evident than our education system. In the UK, the 1944 Education Act introduced free secondary education to all children for the first time – with grammar schools said to offer exceptional educations to our most talented students. Today, grammar schools are in decline, and the founding of new ones prohibited. It was argued that these schools favoured the middle classes and perpetuated social divisions; others, however, believe that closing these pathways has reduced educational and social opportunities. Like the Christian identity of the nation, grammar schools are at risk of being confined to history books. In this episode, we'll be speaking with Peter Hitchens – British journalist, author, and social critic – about what religious and educational changes mean for the soul of Britain. Together, we'll explore whether this shift marks the dawn of a more inclusive era – or the washing away of a once Great Britain. Links Peter Hitchens, Mail Online: Blog Peter Hitchens, The Spectator Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God (book) Peter Hitchens, A Revolution Betrayed (book)

Brooke and Tyler split themselves among the many timelines of Shallan Davar to discover the mysteries hidden within. The tale is sometimes confusing and contradictory but within the depths of Shalln lies many secrets to understanding the Stormlight Archive. #AllSpoilers Cosmere Questions: 1. Who is Shallan's mother and what impact will that revelation have on Stormlight Archive? 2. How do you think Shallan's story will conclude? Support this podcast by becoming a Patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CosmereConversations) Original music by David Gruwier (https://twitter.com/DGruwier). "Radiant" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CFAZUv4C0) by David Gruwier.

2016 marked the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, and not unreasonably, Paramount Pictures wanted a movie. But far from being a straightforward production, Star Trek Beyond would go through different directors, and eventually find itself without a script just months ahead of filming. It made for a tense situation, and that's explored in this episode. Also explored: the moment when Quentin Tarantino was suddenly announced as the potential writer/director of a new Star Trek movie. It involved a writers' room coming together, a move into R-rated territory - and Tarantino deciding whether he wanted it to be his final film... --- Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brooke and Tyler return to where it all began to examine the timeline and major plot events leading up to Gavilar's Feast. How'd Gavilar manage to squeeze so many meetings into so little time? Where'd his bag of voidlight gemstones end up? How many of the famous faces can we identify? #AllSpoilers Conversation Questions: What evidence is there for ancient communication between Roshar and Scadrial? (18 mins) Could the small bridge that Gavilar created between Roshar and Braize be enough to trigger a desolation? (42:30) Who is the “they” that must not get the anti-voidlight gemstone according to Gavilar? (56 mins) Support this podcast by becoming a Patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CosmereConversations) Original music by David Gruwier (https://twitter.com/DGruwier). "Radiant" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CFAZUv4C0) by David Gruwier.

Brooke and Tyler question the meaning of Enlightenment to better understand nine (or maybe ten!) of Roshar's most haunting mysteries- The Unmade. We examine how The Unmade were created and changed, detail the known aspects of each individual Unmade, and theorize wildly about one of their chosen Radiants, Renarin Kholin. #AllSpoilers Conversation Questions: How do the terms Made, Unmade, and Enlightened interconnect and differ? (23 mins) What mechanism did Ba Ado Mishram use to bond the Singers? (42 mins) Does there need to be a rebalancing among the Knights Radiant & Spren in order to account for Odium's new nature as a True Tone of Roshar? (1h 36mins) Support this podcast by becoming a Patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/CosmereConversations) Original music by David Gruwier (https://twitter.com/DGruwier). "Radiant" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CFAZUv4C0) by David Gruwier.