Fast jokes, big franchises, zero reverence.
The Weekly Planet follows current movie, TV, and comics news with loose banter and quick comic pivots. It treats blockbusters, trailers, remakes, and cult favorites as fuel for half-review, half-argument pop-culture riffing.
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The Weekly Planet is a movie, TV, and comics show with the energy of a review podcast that keeps getting distracted in useful ways. It knows the material. It also refuses to behave. A discussion of War of the Worlds can cover Spielberg's alien designs, film grading, buried tripods, Anne Robinson, Gene Barry, miniature effects, and the bad idea of greeting Martians with a white flag. Then it will veer into a bit about Hugh Jackman, Rupert Murdoch, or whether someone would personally have found an alien machine under the earth. That is the basic charm. The show takes pop culture seriously enough to have opinions, but not so seriously that the opinions become the whole personality. Episodes regularly open with chatter before settling into the big movie of the week, industry news, trailers, casting, sequels, remakes, and streaming-era franchise moves. Recent topics include The Boys, Supergirl, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, Ready Player One, Serenity, new Conan updates, Ocean's Eleven prequel talk, Malcolm in the Middle, and multiple War of the Worlds adaptations. James, also known as Mr. Sunday, and Nick Mason work as a quick comic pair, trading corrections, objections, half-formed bits, and sudden pivots. Short jokes stack up quickly. Longer tangents turn into their own little arguments. The show is especially good at spotting when nostalgia, adaptation logic, or franchise branding starts to look ridiculous. It can be sharp about visual effects, shallow political parallels, remake risk, and manufactured reference culture. It is not a quiet recap feed. It is busier, scruffier, and more conversational than that. The analysis arrives through the joking, not around it. Listeners get the news and the take, but they also get the detour that makes the take memorable. The result is pop-culture commentary that feels informed, irreverent, and constantly one sentence away from falling into another bit.
Made for: For listeners who follow movies, TV, comics, trailers, and franchise news, but prefer sharp banter to formal criticism. Best for people who like their reviews digressive, joke-dense, and a little chaotic.
What sets it apart: The show mixes current pop-culture coverage with a durable comic rhythm, so even standard trailer and remake talk turns into running bits and strange side roads. Its edge comes from knowledgeable fandom undercut by constant self-sabotage.
The Weekly Planet covers all things movies, TV shows and comics. Often considered the first and worst podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
James and Nick Mason pair detailed screen criticism with comic disagreement, finding craft choices and absurdities in new releases and older films.
The Weekly Planet turns screen criticism into a running argument between James, also known as Mr. Sunday, and co-host Nick Mason. Their conversations move from current movies and television to comics, trailers, remakes, and older science-fiction films, with quick jokes threaded…
A white flag meets Martians; you get James and Nick Mason asking what the humans expected.
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A loose War of the Worlds rewatch where fog, tripods, and a Grok font check all stay in frame.
Caravan of Garbage circles back to Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's 2005 War of the Worlds as part of a three-movie run through the title. The episode starts in its usual loose register, with a halfway-point alarm gag, a joking Wolverine appearance, and a font check with Grok…
The Boys talk is sharpest when it measures shock value against a season already soaked in it.
The Weekly Planet leans into The Boys season five by treating its early shocks as a live test of how far gross-out escalation can still go. The hosts move through the mega dong, a death by penis, M.M.
A lively visit to 1953 alien-invasion cinema, Martian miniatures, and very confident human mistakes.
The Weekly Planet's Caravan of Garbage treats 1953's War of the Worlds as the first stop in a wider run of alien-invasion history. The episode lingers on the movie's stranger pleasures: Gene Barry's constant motion, Anne Robinson's connection to later versions, the metal-snake…
A loose, funny remake debate that stays quick, light, and easy to listen to.
The episode is a loose, fast moving hangout built around Harry Potter TV series remake panic, and that question ends up carrying most of the talk.
A tiny title technicality turns into dry, mock-serious banter about whether leaving out 2019 counts as lying.
Serenity - Caravan Of Garbage works from a small title joke and lets it hold the whole closing stretch together. The hosts notice the wording around "Serenity 2019," then turn the omission of 2019 into a mock-legal defense: if the year is left out, they are technically not…
A funny, concrete look at alien hardware and the practical tricks behind it.
The episode works best as a brisk autopsy of effects and choices, starting with the priest who walks toward the invaders in a bid for peace while holding a religious symbol.
A loose crime-movie chat finds its footing in Emily the Criminal's everyday pressure.
The Weekly Planet opens with James and Nick Mason letting a repeated "bad" riff set a loose comic rhythm before the chat turns toward a John Patton Ford crime story about murder and consequence.
Star Wars minutiae, treated like headline news.
Fast banter for serious Star Wars fans.
Star Wars, comics, and creator-room candor.
Old scares, fresh horror conversations.
Film talk with a packed archive.
Legends scrutiny with canon-aware bite.
James and Mason discuss the movie 'How to Make a Killing', a loose remake of the 1949 film 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', starring Glenn Powell as a man killing his wealthy family for inheritance.
The hosts discuss the 2012 Disney film 'John Carter', analyzing its financial failure, casting choices, and comparisons to other movies like Avatar.
Mason and James review the 1953 film 'The War of the Worlds' on Caravan of Garbage.
The hosts discuss The Empire Strikes Back, comparing sequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and exploring George Lucas's initial uncertainty about the film's production.
James and Mason review Steven Spielberg’s 2005 War of the Worlds as a post-9/11 destruction movie, comparing its city panic to Independence Day and Cloverfield.
The hosts spend the segment on The Boys season five so far.
The Weekly Planet's Caravan of Garbage revisits the 1953 War of the Worlds adaptation, starting from H.G.
The hosts discuss upcoming entertainment news including the Super Mario Galaxy movie and Supergirl trailer, along with casting updates for the Hunt for Golem adaptation.
The hosts discuss and critique the 2018 film Ready Player One, focusing on its heavy use of 80s pop culture references and video game elements.
James and Nick open with sleep deprivation, party rocking, and a mock-welcome for new listeners that quickly turns into a joke about not wanting too many more of them.
Serenity 2019 is the title, and somehow the missing year turns into the whole mock-legal system.
This episode discusses upcoming movies and TV shows including Supergirl test reactions, Man of Tomorrow casting, an Ocean's Eleven prequel, and Conan the Barbarian updates.
The hosts of the Weekly Planet podcast engage in humorous banter about their dynamic and James's unusually energetic personality at the start of the episode.
This episode covers recent entertainment news including trailer releases from the Game Awards, updates on Netflix and Warner Bros deals, and announcements about movies like Lord of the Rings and Hunger Games.