[9] On 11 March 2022, Simon Mayo announced that the programme would end its run on BBC Radio 5 Live, with the final show being broadcast on 1 April 2022.

Following the final show, the duo announced on social media that the format would continue on a new twice weekly podcast with Sony Music, Kermode and Mayo's Take.

[11] The full programme started on Radio 5 Live in 2001, as a "short review segment" on the Friday episode of Mayo's weekday afternoon show.

[12] When Mayo started presenting BBC Radio 2's weekday drivetime programme, the movie reviews were kept on 5 Live,[3] and expanded to two hours to become a show in its own right from 14:00 every Friday.

[14] The change became effective 7 October 2011;[2] as of that date Simon Poole was the show's producer, Robin Bulloch was its editor, and Rowan Woods was the guest booker.

[9] On 11 March 2022, Kermode and Mayo announced that the show would be coming to an end on 5 Live, saying "21 years is a long time to be clogging up the schedules.

This replacement review show, launched in May 2022, includes discussions about television series as well as films, with the Take 2 version of the podcast being exclusive to subscribers.

Throughout each show Kermode and Mayo engaged in "on-air sparring" that was compared to a "bickering married couple";[14] the decade-long partnership included numerous in-jokes and ongoing arguments.

Jason Isaacs is always the first on the list, having been a school friend of Kermode, but other people named in the past include Michael Sheen, David Morrissey, Stephen Fry[26] and various English folk groups.

[27] The phrase has also made an appearance on The Jay Leno Show, having been inserted into various on-screen graphics,[28] whilst Isaacs was a guest on the podcast version of the final episode, added to BBC Sounds on 1 April 2022.

Other 10th Anniversary extras, during a month of special programming (in May and June 2011), include a 'Best of', broadcast on 29 May 2011, presented by Hugh Bonneville, an appearance on the Richard Bacon show on 31 May 2011 discussing the beginning of the partnership and four online videos.

[46] During his review of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Kermode made a passing comment that it was so similar to the Harry Potter franchise it might as well be called 'Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins'.

[47] Listener Jeremy Dylan then took this title and produced posters, a trailer and, eventually, an independent film based on the concept, with Stephen Fry as narrator.