Hello, listeners, how are you. It's it's me here, Mike Bennett,
obviously dropping a podcast into my podcast feed, because that's what podcast feeds
are for, and it's been a while since I've done one, so I
thought i'd do one. No, this is not the start of Underwood Finch
season five. That will be somewhere in twenty twenty four. No, this
is just a kind of a you know, just to catch up podcaster,
to keep you in my loop as to what I'm doing. So what am
I doing. I'm enjoying the summer here in Ireland and I'm writing. I'm
writing season eight of Underwood and Finch and which i've I've actually just started podcasting
that Spotify Ever, I've podcast episode one of season eight, which was which
was fun and generally well received, I'm happy to say, in fact,
it was completely well received. Everybody really enjoyed it, at least those people
who commented enjoyed it. But to that point, do you remember a while
ago I put out a kind of a bonus episode of underwooden Flinch season four,
and it featured Ronnie Bishop talking about a girl called Isabel May and a
mysterious figure called Vincent and you know, basically, Isabel sort of disappeared and
Vincent sort of shrugged and saday. I don't know a thing about it,
but there's something definitely sinister about him, wasn't there. So anyway, I
did a little pole Spotify and asked you to, you know, to pop
over and you know, vote and also do if you had any comments to
share them with me, and some of you did. So what are the
results, you may wonder, Well, I'll tell you the results of the
whatever happened to Isabel May? Would you like to find out? Pole at
Spotify were forty one votes, of which thirty two said yes please, and
the remaining nine said surprise me. And your comments at Spotify on this issue,
well, let's just have a look. It's quite a few. Actually,
there's twenty twenty published responses, and you know they're they're all pretty in
favor as well. Mark Kingsland said, great little story. Could be an
interesting side story of a rogue acolyte of the lord of someone from a different
sect. Courtney Kelsey said loved it, definitely enjoying the eighties goths scene with
the element of a mysterious vampire. Moonwitch Vibes said yes, I love all
the episodes, Yan said, it would be perfect to have another story going
in this universe. I love to see you build this world bigger and hear
it in my ears. Thank you for all the fun thus far. Rm
x R S said, I did enjoy this cut scene. I always like
that your characters are people that I'm sure I know. I want to find
out about Vincent and it was great. The sisters got to mention. Brendan
said, thanks Mike, love the episode. Great idea to have the cut
scene as a pod rob I go so just finished this episode as I've been
behind. I like to save the episodes up and binge listen, he says.
I think a spinoff would be another wonderful addition to the Underwooden Flinch catalog.
Matthew Willock said, indeed, as always, I very much enjoyed your
reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I know this must be time consuming, but
do you have any plans to read other classics of the genre. And my
answer to that one is have you heard my HP Lovecraft readings. They're all
in a separate feed called The Vault of Lovecraft by Mike Bennett, or alternatively,
you can find them in this very feed that you're listening to right now.
All my HP Lovecraft readings are in this feed, as are my readings
of classic short stories by the likes of Edgar Allan, Poe Saki, and
others. So just look through this podcast feed and you'll find quite a few
of my readings of classic fiction. From that, I'm not going to be
doing any new readings of classics because I'm too busy writing and recording Underwooden Flinch,
which I think everyone will agree is probably the best use of my creative
time. But thank you Matt for your comment, So there we are.
Thank you to all those people who commented, and indeed to everyone for all
the comments that you have left at Spotify. I do read them all and
I approve them all as well, unless they're horrible, and thankfully none of
them have been, so yes all respondents. They're very positive and interested in
finding out the fate of Isabelle May and Vincent, so I'm currently looking at
ways of working that into Underwooden Flinch season eight. I see a couple of
possible places where we can find out, and I'm not decided yet which one
to use, but I will use one of them, and I will get
that kind of resolution, you know, to that story in there. Will
it be a spinoff in itself? I don't think so, not yet,
but we will find out what happened to Isabelle and indeed Vincent. And so
that naturally brings us to the Spotify question for this episode. And I thought,
rather than just you know, leaving it to the usual Spotify default question,
what did you think of this episode? This time around, I'd ask
you something a bit more interesting, and it's this regarding the possible Underwood and
Flinch television series, Bearing in mind that the roles of Lord Underwood and David
have already been cast, who would you like to see play Lydia Flinch?
Because Lydia hasn't been cast yet, and she won't be until after the show
gets sold and properly greenlit. So if that happens, then you're suggest questions,
listener suggestions. You know, the people who know Lydia best are going
to be of interest to the producers, aren't they. The actress doesn't have
to look exactly like my Lydia. Modern casting favors diversity, so she can
be white, she can be black, she can be brown. She could
be Asian. And since the producers would also be looking for a sort of
a type of person, if there's no one living you fancy for the role,
why not suggest someone who's dead but for you would be the perfect LYDIA
type. Please leave your answers at Spotify in this episode's comments. To do
that, you just tap on the episode at Spotify and there you will see
my question. Leave your comments there and I look forward to reading them,
sharing them, and reading some of them aloud on my next podcast episode.
And for those of you who don't use Spotify but would like to let me
know through some other means, I'm on Twitter at the Mike Bennett and you
can also find me on Facebook Mike Bennett Author. And I'll also leave this
question at substack as well, for any sub stackers out there. And the
last thing, and I'm sure a lot of people are kind of wondering about
this, is there any news on the Underwoodenfinch television series? And the answer
to that is, I'm afraid no reason being and this is this was It's
kind of frustrating, you know that the people who were responsible for for doing
the pitches to networks and streamers that being the stars, the executive producers,
and the showrunner of the Underwooden Finch television series. They were they were all
geared up and ready to start the pitches. It's taken a long time to
get there, but they were finally ready and they were all set to go,
and then the Writers Guild of America went on strike and that has basically
put the KAI bosh on things in Hollywood, you know, for any kind
of new productions. So there's no point in pitching anything to you know,
companies over there because of that. You know, no companies are thinking of
starting anything, you know, until they know where they stand regarding the writers
strike situation, until that's resolved. I should point out that I do absolutely
support the writers in what they're doing. They're trying to obviously get better terms
and conditions, but also to protect their jobs against AI, which is I
was reading today, actually build newspaper in Germany is going to be sacking a
load of their editorial staff and replacing them with AI. So really, you
know, the the Writers Guild of America are doing what they have to do
to ensure that there is a future for humans in the writing of TV and
film entertainment. So all the best to them. It's just a pity that
we didn't get Underwood and Flinch pitched and hopefully sold before the strike. But
you know, fingers crossed. After the strike, the guys can pitch it
and hopefully find a home for Underwood and Flinch in the future and written by
humans who So yeah, basically, then, no news, no news on
the TV show. It is still there. It hasn't gone away, you
know, hasn't been scrapped. But yeah, I'll let you know. I'll
let you know. Keep an eye on the writers strike, you know,
in the newspapers, and if you see it's being resolved, you can say,
all good. Maybe this means that the Underwood and Flinch TV series will
soon start pitching or being pitched. We shall see. And that's about it,
ladies and new gentlemen. There's not a heck of a lot of other
stuff going on. I will now resume a monthly podcast going forward with any
news, and I'll get I'll drag my wife into the show as well,
and we can talk about things like what we're watching on television and stuff.
So do stay subscribed and I'll keep you up to date on everything in my
little podcast. Here, so yeah, great, brilliant. Thank you for
listening, ladies and gentlemen. But for me, for now, it's Pip,
pip and cheerio.