On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben

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Fast sofa chat, telly riffs, everyday chaos.

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On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben is a loose panel hang built around film, TV and the small absurdities of daily life. Talk of Rental Family or Train Dreams can sit beside dry peanuts, paint trouble, school assembly songs and listener letters without losing the thread.

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About On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben

On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben is a friendship-first podcast where film and TV chat keeps getting cheerfully ambushed by real life. The format is simple. Colson, Jack and Ben sit together, talk about what they have watched, and let the room decide where the conversation is going next. That looseness is the point. Rental Family leads to a comparison with Lost in Translation, including a sharper thought about stories that tell the audience too much. Train Dreams becomes part of a weekly watching assignment. Hannah Montana turns into a miniature cultural event, helped along by Peter Gunn joining the episode. Then the show swerves again. Dry co-op peanuts, curly whirly squirrelies, Mini Eggs, pistachios, pork scratchings and the group's snack hierarchy all become fair game. So do hay fever, jiu-jitsu sweat, paint touch-ups, old school assembly songs and the quiet comedy of Fridays off. Listener correspondence gives the show another engine, especially when a letter has a follow-up or a story too odd to leave alone. Regular features and labels drift through the episodes: letters from home, Trick of the Trade, Would You Rather, Pass the Pod, Chad Chats, Commission Impossible and Patreon extras. The pace is fast, but the tone stays friendly. Arguments are mostly mock-serious, built from tiny stakes and familiar teasing rather than real hostility. The show works best when no one is trying too hard to make a point. A throwaway line gets picked up, repeated, challenged and inflated until it becomes the whole room's business. Its entertainment coverage is therefore less about final verdicts and more about the social act of watching something, hating something, rating something and remembering who said what last week. The result feels like being near a table that has already been talking for hours. It is not tidy. It is reliably alive.

Made for: Best for listeners who like entertainment chat, matey panel energy and digressive comedy built from ordinary details. It also suits film and TV fans who enjoy informal reactions more than formal criticism.

What sets it apart: The show stands out because the friendship is the structure: film and TV talk, features and listener letters all bend around Colson, Jack and Ben's quick interruptions, callbacks and tiny shared obsessions.

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A friendship formed on those famous cobbles, join Colson Smith, Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price 'On The Sofa', as the Coronation Street stars chat about their lives, work and everything in-between. Whatever they’ve been up to, and whatever they’ve been watching, these three best mates get together to share their unique insight into the world. Want to share something with the lads? Email us on [email protected]. We can't wait to hear from you! Find us on other platforms here - https://audioalways.lnk.to/onthesofashowSN If you're interested in sponsorship and advertising in On The Sofa, then we'd love to hear from you. Just email [email protected] and we'll tell you more! Hosted on Ac…

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Loose friendship chat turns film choices, television gossip and differing interpretations into an approachable conversation about how screen stories work.

Colson Smith, Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price let screen talk emerge from the loose chemistry of three friends swapping stories. A film can become the main event, as with Rental Family, while other episodes move between television, awards-night recollections, listener…

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A hypothetical sneeze becomes a meatball problem if your screen chat can take a very silly detour.

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Colson, Jack and Ben to debate when a film tells you too much
TV awards gossip that gets invested in who sat at which table

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Did Colson eat Snake skin? 🐍Apr 17, 2026

A daft hay fever tangent turns into the kind of chaotic banter this show does best.

Colson, Jack and Ben build a whole episode out of one ridiculous running joke, taking a simple hay fever idea and pushing it into ever messier territory.

Rental Family 🇯🇵Apr 15, 2026

A snack-fuelled chat that turns into a sharp contrast between what Rental Family says and what Lost in Translation leaves unsaid.

Colson, Jack and Ben start in easy, snacky mode, with co-op salted peanuts and a desert-dry mouth setting the tone before the discussion finds its clearest line of thought.

He's only an Astronaut 🧑‍🚀 🚀Apr 13, 2026

A botched paint touch-up becomes a loose, funny argument about when one wall turns into a whole-room repaint.

On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben settles into the domestic fallout from a paint job gone wrong, then lets the complaint wander in the best possible way.

Oh Gnome you don't 🍄Apr 6, 2026

A loose bank holiday chat turns school songs and egg hunts into comic archaeology.

Bank holiday Monday gives Colson, Jack and Ben room to let memory push the running order around. What starts with Easter egg hunts around the house and garden soon slips into the school songs that once filled assemblies, and the best laughs sit in the tiny specifics: clear…

Animal encounter! 🐿️Apr 3, 2026

A Friday sofa chat turns listener letters, work schedules and one disastrous date into easy comic fuel.

A Friday feeling runs through this loose comic conversation, as Colson, Jack and Ben turn work schedules, mail-room duties and fan correspondence into easy sofa material.

I saw Yoda at the cinema once 🛸

A loose Friday sofa chat where Scream 7, horror games, Yvette Fielding and Robot Wars end up in the same room.

On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben turns a Friday film-and-TV catch-up into a relaxed run through Scream 7, Resident Evil, horror series, anthologies, and the art of passing the pod.

All The NTAs Gossip and How To Lose An Award To Phil Mitchell

Awards-night seating turns into a funny round of TV-name spotting and famous-mate guessing.

The episode turns awards-night gossip into relaxed, funny television chat. It starts with the hosts trying to pin down what the podcast is before Colson describes an event packed with odd pairings and familiar faces.

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Is Wicked 2 As Good As The First?

Train Dreams: Hidden gem or total snooze? 🚂💤🌲

Oh Gnome you don't 🍄

Animal encounter! 🐿️

No Other Choice 📄🇰🇷🎞️

Jacks cosmetic surgery 💉

Hannah Montana With Peter Gunn 🤠👩‍🦳🎤

Oscar Winners & I Swear 🏆🤬

Peter Gunn Special 🤮🙈🎬

The Tuxedo Princess ⛴️ 🪩

Sinners 🩸 🎸 🧛

The Oscars🏆

Celebrity Lingo Champions 🏆

Nicking from Woolworths! ✏️

Arty Farty 🖼️ 🎨

Send Help 🛩️ 🏝️

Ben Price Goes Hitchhiking

Hannah Montana is BACK! 🎤

Wuthering Heights

Who's got the best feet? 🦶

Life is a Rollercoaster 🎢

The Rip 💰

Jack announces baby news 👶

Paul Chuckle - To Me, To You! 🤭

Blue Moon 🍿 📺

Jack gets pulled over 👮‍♂️ 🚓

Can Jack deep throat a Ripple? 🍫

Hamnet 🍿 🎭

It's Jack from the night shift on SkyBet 🎰

Zombies? Meet Abba 🪩 🎵

28 Years Later - The Bone Temple 🦴 🩸

Washing your Mother In Laws Smalls 🩲 👙

Corrie Does Dog Wee 🐶 💦

The Housemaid 🧼 🏠

Come Dine With Me Dishes 🥘 🍱 🍲

Entendo Switch🚜🌾

Marty Supreme 🍿 🏓

Gout of the day 🎣

Would You Rather Be A Doctor Or A Lawyer?

Is Colson Finally Launching His Panto Career?

I’m General Meat - Pleased To Meat You!

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Stranger Things S5 Review and Corrie Christmas Do Gossip

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Corrie Turns 65!

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Corriedale - So That’s Where Jack’s Been!

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Patreon Preview - Buster Ferrybridge: The Biography

Ben Price: The Rumours Are True

Are Films Just Not As Good Nowadays?

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Is The New Frankenstein’s Monster Too Sexy?

Jack and Ben’s Favourite Corrie Storylines Ever

The Secret To How Actors Spill Things

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Colson’s Robbie Williams Experience

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Is This The Best Film of 2025?

Colson's Disastrous Childhood Pond Story

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Will AI Replace Actors?

Jack and Colson Told Roy Cropper To F* O!

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