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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s come to my attention that we’re not using our full allocation of Team Empire tickets for tonight’s live show at Kings Place. You can, of course, still buy tickets online or at the box office. Or be one of the first to respond to this with the phrase GIMME GIMME, and I’ll put you on the list.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Came out of review retirement to bang on about the funniest film I’ve seen this year. You don’t have to read the review (which reminded me why I hate writing reviews). Just take my word for it and seek out GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS. www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

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Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass review: Arguably the funniest film of the year

Zoey Deutch is on a mission to hook up with Jon Hamm in David Wain's raucous comedy. Read the Empire review.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Five days to go! Final day for this ticket offer! So many great shows await you!

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Have you got your tickets for the live Empire Podcast at Kings Place next Saturday? I’m told that there’s 20% off ALL London PodFest tickets until Monday, so you can get tickets to see us, @bentravis.bsky.social’s Disniversity, and more! Discount code PODFEST20 www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/pod...

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The Empire Film Podcast • Podcast • Kings Place

The podcast arm of the world's biggest movie magazine returns to Kings Place with a fascinating and often very funny discussion of the hottest movies around, plus a cracking surprise special guest. Yo...

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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The Empire Film Podcast • Podcast • Kings Place

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Any questions or comments for our Brand New Day listeners’ questions spoiler, folks? We’re recording it tomorrow, as long as my train back from Paris is on time! Slide into my DMs! Don’t talk to The Hand!

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Spider-man Spider Man

ALT: Spider-man Spider Man

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just saw Sade working in a branch of Joe And The Juice. She’s a smoothie operator.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The last thing the world needs right now is another Hewitt making a terrible podcast.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A second viewing of THE END OF OAK STREET has confirmed my suspicions: this film rocks and rolls and is, thus far, my favourite of the year. And THAT moment — I think you know the one I’m talking about — is perfection. Going to do a spoiler special on this when I get back to Blighty next week.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Once again, I’m running my 3 Points Is A Recommendation league in #FPL. Join me at the rarely visited intersection between Empire and football! Defeat me with your squads filled with actual good players, unlike mine, which boasts a bunch of bums. Here’s the code: vvieu5

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just watching Logan Lucky on Sky. There’s a scene in which a group of rioting prisoners demand that The Winds Of Winter be added to the prison library, only to be told that George R.R. Martin hadn’t finished writing it. He still hasn’t. Logan Lucky came out in 2017.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great thread. This was either before my time, or when I was so junior that I wouldn’t have been included on any Empire pub quiz team. That said, I’d still fancy my chances of beating Bruce Campbell on an Evil Dead round.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, knock me down with a feathered dinosaur — The End Of Oak Street is the real deal. Better than a whole box set of Jurassic Park sequels. Funny, scary, moving, and beautifully directed by David Robert Mitchell.

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David Mitchell's Friendly Wink

Alt: David Mitchell winking. But not David Robert Mitchell winking.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Slide into my DMs with your questions and comments for our Odyssey spoiler special, folks! Thankee!

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Here is a podcast. Ain’t that enough?

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s time to return to the Whale’s Vagina. Who’s Comic-Conning this year?

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Absolutely gutted by the loss of Sam Neill. What an actor he was, and I was blessed over the years to interview him a bunch, and discover what a lovely guy he was in real life too. First person I ever interviewed for Empire. Happened to be on a Zoom with him a few weeks ago too.

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Hello Alan Grant

ALT: Hello Alan Grant

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You grow up watching FRIENDS, and you wonder which of the gang you most closely resemble. Am I Ross? Perhaps I’m Phoebe. Could I be Chandler? Or maybe even Monica? Then one day, perhaps in your 40s, the realisation hits you like a slap to the face. You’re Ugly Naked Guy.

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Joey Tribbiani Peeking in Friends

ALT: Joey Tribbiani Peeking in Friends

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Kelechi Ehenulo @ LFF @kehenulo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And this is why physical media is important.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Recording our Disclosure Day spoiler special later this afternoon. Hit me up with your questions! DMs only, please!

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I'M Gonna Show You Disclosure Day

ALT: I'M Gonna Show You Disclosure Day

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

What a series of Taskmaster that was. Loved them all. I think Joanna Page’s gleeful cackle will live long in the memory.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

So, I was on a cruise ship with two of my golf buddies, I think we were going on some kind of a trip. Then I bumped into Scott Aukerman, and we started riffing so well that he invited me on Comedy Bang Bang, but then we all met Sofia Vergara at the buffet restaurant and he asked her on instead…

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Wow. Can’t believe Grace Dent and Anna Haugh are the Masterchef finalists, given that they host the damn show. Feels like a pretty disgraceful abuse of power. Surely the BBC should investigate this?!?!?!?!!??!?

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=2T68... With the World Cup just a few days away, here’s the greatest World Cup song ever: Del Amitri’s Don’t Come Home Too Soon, for the Scotland team in 1998, a maudlin masterpiece that basically says, ‘look, we know you’re shit, but try not to be too shit’. It didn’t work.

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Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)

YouTube video by DelAmitriVEVO

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We’re recording our THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU spoiler special in about three hours. Any questions or comments? Slide into my DMs like Pedro Pascal sliding into Mando’s armour during his many days on set.

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The Mandalorian: Din Djarin & Grogu Flying

ALT: The Mandalorian: Din Djarin & Grogu Flying

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Goddamn Skeletor locked me out of the podbooth.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My hero. My mate. Thanks for everything, Mo.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’ve just seen a TV advert for a 10pm showing of Anchorman 2, entirely featuring footage from the first Anchorman.

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Anchorman 2: Quit Yanking Our Crotch Hoses

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

www.thelondonimprovfestival.com This sounds awesome, and is happening next week, featuring the likes of @connorratliff.bsky.social, Ryan Gaul, Suzi Barrett, and improv troupes from across the Pond. Going to try to get to a couple of shows (I don’t have the courage to try some of the workshops!).

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The London Improv Festival

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Watching Taskmaster. Joel Dommett just did a task where he was brave by having three tiny spiders put on his face. He then claimed he had never had a spider on his face. HE WAS RUNNER-UP ON I’M A CELEBRITY HE MUST HAVE HAD A SPIDER ON HIS FACE I DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION

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Greg Davies: Okay, Explain Yourself Taskmaster

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

*speaks into tiny recorder* Memo: idea for seafaring prequel to Dude, Where’s My Car?, entitled Moby, Where’s My Dick?

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just read about New Order (and others) being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame today, and it casually mentioned a 1993 Top Of The Pops performance of Regret from the set of Baywatch, featuring The Hoff. And now I’ve seen it, so must you. Regret rien. youtu.be/JfI8pJQbcZQ?...

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New Order - Regret [Baywatch Version] [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Everyone’s laughing at Tilly Norwood being deactivated, but not me. I’ll simply treasure her nuanced and heartbreaking performances in DIE, HUMAN SCUM! and SET THE WORLD ALIGHT, not to mention her delightful comedic turn in YOU CAN’T SPELL STANISLAVSKI WITHOUT ‘AI’. She will be missed.

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Well, here’s something lovely to start your day: Christopher Cross performing Arthur’s Theme (certified banger, and one of the few worthy Best Original Song Oscar winners), with actual Arthur, Dudley Moore, on piano. youtube.com/watch?v=BIJh...

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Christopher Cross & Dudley Moore • “Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” • 1981 [RITY]

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

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Chris Hewitt @chrishewitt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

People who listen to the Empire Podcast: where (and when) are ads showing up in the show for you? Hearing some reports of ads appearing mid-sentence, which should not be the case. Let me know! Cheers, Your Pal, Chris

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Reading about the making of John Boorman's Deliverance and you know that scene where Lewis (Burt Reynolds) somersaults into the waterfall...?

Reynolds They sent a dummy over the waterfall and it looked like shit, like a dummy. So I went over the waterfall and hit a rock about a quarter of the way down and cracked my hip bone and my coccyx. They told me if I got caught in the hydro flow, swim to the bottom and it'll shoot you out. They didn't tell me that it would shoot me like a submarine torpedo! They couldn't find me for five minutes. A mile down the river, they saw this nude man stumbling, crawling towards them. I'd had on these high boots and they were gone, the pants were gone, the underwear was gone, the jacket was gone. I said to Boorman, "How's it look, John?" He said, "Like a dummy going over the waterfall."

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