07-02-2024, 12:04 PM
What a creative name.
It's becoming a trend now. I get it's to establish a stable of similar podcasts, but The News Agents and The Rest Is History work as those are actual plays on words. But these spin-off names just jar a bit and leave me thinking 'that's not a phrase, put some effort in'. Like if James Acaster and Ed Gamble launched a sport-based spin-off called Off Sport.
I guess it's the 'perplexing' end of the bad name spectrum, with the BBC's obsession with the blandest possible names at the other.
It's becoming a trend now. I get it's to establish a stable of similar podcasts, but The News Agents and The Rest Is History work as those are actual plays on words. But these spin-off names just jar a bit and leave me thinking 'that's not a phrase, put some effort in'. Like if James Acaster and Ed Gamble launched a sport-based spin-off called Off Sport.
I guess it's the 'perplexing' end of the bad name spectrum, with the BBC's obsession with the blandest possible names at the other.