DRUNK CINEMA 088: "Smokey and the Bandit" Is Up!

 
"For the good old American life -- For the money, for the glory, and for the fun...Mostly for the money."
-- Bo "The Bandit" Darville, Smokey and the Bandit

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we Xan and I celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Drunk Cinema as we watch Smokey and the Bandit, the 1977 action comedy road film directed by Hal Needham, introducing Burt Reynolds as Bo "The Bandit" Darville, Sally Field as Carrie/"Frog", Jerry Reed as Cledus "The Snowman" Snow, and Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like five years of Drunk Cinema, paying tribute to my mom by watching one of her favorite movies, Smokey and the Bandit inspiring The Dukes of Hazzard TV series, Burt Reynolds being a proponent for more recognition for stuntpeople, Smokey and the Bandit coming out just a couple of months after Star Wars, Xan meeting Paul Williams, Cledus being the only trucker with a mural on his truck, Burt Reynolds being involved in Fred's casting, the little-known "West Bound and Down", Burt Reynolds photographed in the nude for an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, Frog taking up smoking, the love theme from Smokey and the Bandit, why you shouldn't bring motorcycles to a truck fight, real-life truckers getting fed up with people having CB radios, a special cameo appearance by Hank Worden from Twin Peaks, not seeing a red interior in cars anymore, new Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor and Christine Peruski, our brand-new official Drunk Cinema t-shirt and merch, Xan and talking the Batman you don't expect in our next episode, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch Batman, the 1966 superhero film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, featuring Adam West as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Burt Ward as Robin/Dick Grayson, Lee Meriwether as Catwoman, and Cesar Romero as The Joker!

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 358: "Snare" Is Up!

 
"Get back in there and finish your waffles."
"No can do, Jackie. It's weird over waffles every time."
-- Jackie Tyler and the Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Snare"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guest companion Holly Mac to discuss "Snare", the first audio drama from Series 4 of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures range, featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, and Camille Coduri as Jackie Tyler!

In this episode, Jesse, Holly and I discuss things like Jesse's thoughts on the Bruce Springsteen film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Holly surviving the school year with chocolate, a Next Stop News Flash about Doctor Who returning in Christmas 2026, Disney not knowing what to do with Doctor Who, whether Russell T Davies should continue as showrunner, our reactions to Christopher Eccleston reuniting with Billie Piper, where this story is set on the Ninth Doctor's timeline, the Gardener's reference to Bad Wolf, some explanation for Americans on what Mini-Battenbergs are, Jesse loving the ending, Rose calling out the Doctor after he's rude to Kevin, the Ninth Doctor being reluctant to show how much he cares, Kevin trying to defend Marlene, needing the story of the Ninth Doctor on the Titanic, Jesse offering to hook Holly up with Tex-Mex, Kevin not getting the closure with his father that he needed, the revelation of who the Gardener is, wondering if we'll get the explanation of what happened to Monty the cat, the Ninth Doctor audios working better with a companion, our favorite quotes from the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Sandi from Oregon, finishing off the Peter Davison era, and more!

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We have a NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic right HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Terminus", the fourth serial from Doctor Who Season 20 in 1983, featuring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka, Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough, and the departure of Sarah Sutton as Nyssa!

DC CRIME Series Hosted by Jimmy Olsen in Development at HBO Max

 
Jimmy Olsen is getting his own true crime series. Well...DC crime at least.

Variety is reporting that a fictional "true crime" docuseries is being developed by DC Studios for HBO Max. Titled DC Crime, the series will be hosted by DC Comics character Jimmy Olsen, with actor Skyler Gisondo reprising his role from Superman (2025).

According to the article, the first season will focus on DC supervillain Gorilla Grodd, a longtime nemesis of The Flash.

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault will serve as writers, executive producers, and showrunners on the series. James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios will also serve as executive producers, with DC Studios’ Galen Vaisman overseeing the production from Warner Bros. Television. Yacenda and Perrault created the critically-acclaimed Netflix show American Vandal, which parodied the true crime genre. The show aired for two seasons and won Peabody Award for best writing for a comedy series. The duo went on to create the Paramount+ mockumentary series Players, which was set in the world of eSports.

Created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jimmy Olsen first appeared in Action Comics (vol.1) #6 as an unnamed "office boy" with a bow tie until he was formally introduced as Jimmy Olsen on the Superman radio show The Adventures of Superman in 1940.  Jimmy first appeared as a named character in Superman (vol.1) #13 in 1941, where he became a cub reporter and photographer for the Daily Planet newspaper as a co-worker with Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Perry White.

Recently, Olsen's antics, glamorous lifestyle as Superman's pal, and strange transformations were depicted as a source of streaming-media ad revenue that was keeping the Daily Planet afloat. In Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (vol.2), the 12-issue series explored Jimmy's siblings Janie and Julian, his family's historic relations with Lex Luthor's family, a plot involving the attempted murder and faked death of Olsen, and a marriage in Gorilla City that Jimmy subsequently forgot to annul. The series poked fun at DC Comics' own history, including a sequence in which Jimmy angered Batman by suggesting a phone-in campaign to decide whether Robin lived or died. By the end of the series, Jimmy received a new Signal Watch and became the publisher of the Daily Planet.

Created in 1959 by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, Gorilla Grodd first appeared in The Flash (vol.1) #106 as a hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla able to control the minds of others. He and other gorillas gained sapience and psychic powers after an alien spaceship crashed in their area. The gorillas lived in peace until their home was discovered by explorers. Grodd forced one of the explorers to kill the alien and took over Gorilla City, planning to conquer the world. Solovar, King of Gorilla City, telepathically contacted Barry Allen to warn of the evil gorilla's plans, and Grodd was defeated. The villain managed to return again and again to plague the Flash and the hero's allies.

Most recently, in the "We Are Yesterday" storyline, Grodd appeared as a leading member of the Legion of Doom. He manipulated Air Wave into spying on the Justice League on his behalf, claiming that Air Wave was dying from "tachyon poisoning". Grodd later absorbed Omega energy from the rift created following Darkseid's death and dubbed himself "Gorilla God". However, Air Wave betrayed Grodd and defeated him with help from a group of heroes summoned from the past. Following his defeat, Grodd allied himself with Time Trapper and the World Forger, forming the Quantum Quorum to deal with Darkseid's return and the damage caused to the timestream.

V FOR VENDETTA TV Series in Development at HBO

 
"Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."
-- V, V for Vendetta

Variety is reporting that is developing a TV series based on DC Comics' V for Vendetta, the 10-issue limited series written by Alan Moore and drawn by David Lloyd. According to their sources, Pete Jackson is attached to write the series adaptation. DC Studios' James Gunn and Peter Safran will serve as executive producers, along with Ben Stephenson via Poison Pen and Leanne Klein of Wall to Wall Media, which is part of Warner Bros. Television Studios UK. Warner Bros. Television will produce the series for HBO.

Created in 1982 by Moore and Lloyd, V for Vendetta was published originally between 1982 and 1985 in black-and-white as an ongoing serial in the British anthology Warrior. Its serialization was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue color limited series published by DC Comics in the United States.

The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The Nordic supremacist, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascistic, and homophobic fictional political party Norsefire has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps, and now rules the country as a police state. The series follow the story's title character and protagonist, V, an anarchist revolutionary wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, as he begins an elaborate and theatrical revolutionist campaign to kill his former captors and torturers, bring down the fascist state, and convince the people to abandon fascism in favor of anarchy, while inspiring a young woman, Evey Hammond, to become his protégée.

In 2005, Warner Bros. adapted V for Vendetta as a film, directed by James McTeigue, from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. The film made $134.7 million at the box office and starred Hugo Weaving as V, Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, Stephen Rea as Chief Inspector Eric Finch, Stephen Fry as Gordon Deitrich, and John Hurt as High Chancellor Adam Sutler.

NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 357: "The Rescue" Is Up!

 
"We left in 1963."
"1963! But that means you're about five hundred and fifty years old!"
"Why...yes, I suppose I am. Yes, it's a way of looking at it, but I'll try not to look at it too often."
-- Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister, Doctor Who: "The Rescue"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guest companion DJ Nik to discuss "The Rescue", the third serial from Doctor Who Season 2 in 1965, featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, William Russell as Ian Chesterton, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, and introducing Maureen O'Brien as Vicki Pallister!

In this episode, Jesse, Nik and I discuss things like Jesse going to a personal premiere of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Nik celebrating his upcoming 42nd birthday, Jesse watching "The Rescue" for the very first time, small stories like "The Rescue" standing out because of its restraint, Vicki's introduction as the first new companion, the second episode being the first episode of Doctor Who to break into the top ten most-watched programs of the week, "The Rescue" being the first serial where the Doctor arrived on a planet other than Earth and claimed to have been there before, the other names considered for Vicki, differences in writer David Whittaker's original draft, Maureen O'Brien refusing to dye her hair to make her resemble Susan Foreman more, Carole Ann Ford wishing Maureen O'Brien good luck on the first day of rehearsals, Koquillion being credited as the pseudonym "Sydney Wilson", the First Doctor and Ian getting along better by this point, Barbara being the emotional anchor of the serial, that awkward moment when Barbara kills Vicki's pet Sandy, Vicki's vulnerability in her loneliness, Vicki being gaslighted by Bennett, the Doctor and Vicki having a mutual reliance on one another, the revelation that Bennett is posing as Koquillion, Bennett's plan to use Vicki as his alibi to cover up the murder he committed, whether the two Didoans are vengeful ghosts, our favorite quotes from the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Sandi from Oregon, Holly Mac and Dave Proctor, the first Big Finish audio reuniting the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler, and more!

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We have a NEW Next Stop Everywhere t-shirt, which you can find on TeePublic right HERE!  This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite Doctor Who podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool Next Stop Everywhere merch there as well!

Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I are joined by special guest companion Holly Mac to discuss "Snare", the first audio drama from Series 4 of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures range, featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, and Camille Coduri as Jackie Tyler!