Welcome to Cine-Lit, a podcast from the film programming team at QUAD in Derby, United Kingdom. Hosted by a cinema programmer with a resident cinema expert plus the occasional special guests, they will be exploring a variety of topics from mainstream cinema, the arthouses, and the history of cinema. Films you know, films you don't know and films you don't know you don't know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
23%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Cine-Lit.
Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Cine-Lit, a podcast from the film programming team at QUAD in Derby, United Kingdom. Hosted by a cinema programmer with a resident cinema expert plus the occasional special guests, they will be exploring a variety of topics from mainstream cinema, the arthouses, and the history of cinema.
Cine-Lit is hosted by QUAD, Derby. The show has published 76 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Metrospective Part 1" (13 October 2025, 57 minutes), "Great Movie Endings" (6 September 2022, 60 minutes), and "The Trouble With Harry (1955) & The Wrong Man (1956)" (30 August 2022, 54 minutes).
Cine-Lit publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 76 episodes.
Booking probability for Cine-Lit is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cine-Lit requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cine-Lit's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Cine-Lit are Film & Video. Cine-Lit has a tv audience.
QUAD, Derby hosts Cine-Lit, a tv podcast with 76 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Episode #1
We're back! After three years plus, the Cine Lit team have reconvened to resurrect the podcast for a very special season of recordings. This new season entltled Metrospective explores the film programming history of...
Episode #69
The End Is Nigh! Well, for Cine-Lit it is at least. For this final episode in an almost three-year run, including over 70 podcasts on a crazy range of subjects, we are bringing the curtain down on Cine-Lit. But we...
Alfred Hitchcock made some of the most well-respected films of all time, Vertigo currently tops the Sight and Sound list of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time but what about some of Hitch's lesser works? Adam and...
Episode #67
Celebrating 35 years of serving and protecting, Robocop is returning to cinema screens this year and Cine-Lit takes a deep dive into the classic Paul Verhoeven original and the less than successful attempts to replicate...
Episode #66
Cine-Lit hits the mean streets of Gotham City as we rundown the lowdown on that nocturnal crimefighter Batman. As the rich history of Batman is a big subject matter, we break it down and cover Batman from 1989 through...
Episode #65
Cine-Lit ventures into What if territory as we take a free-form look at films that deserve a second crack at Hollywood. Adam and Darrell are joined by QUAD's Fright Club programmer Adam Crowther as they pick some...
Episode #64
It is a term that is bandied about by part-time film lecturers and self-styled academics, but what is it? A term popularised by Alfred Hitchcock, the MacGuffin is the sometime incidental 'thing' that the characters in a...
Episode #63
The new Sight And Sound Top 100 Films Of All Time poll that is conducted every ten years, is due in late 2022. In anticipation of this Cine-Lit jumps headfirst into the canon. We begin at the dizzying heights of number...
The Cine-Lit team once again delve into the world of fiction as we have author Sean Hogan on the show to tell us all about his new book, Twilight's Last Screaming. This book, like its predecessor, England's Screaming...
Cine-Lit finally gets around to continuing its look at Crime Cinema in all its many forms. This time we are taking a look at the scourge of the underworld, the champion of deduction Sherlock Holmes. We are focusing on...
Episode #60
With the surprising news that Jon Hamm is starring in a new Fletch film, we thought now was as good a time as any to take a look at this interesting character. Adam and Darrell are joined by Director (and 80s Film...
Episode #59
Cine-Lit continues its adventures in "What If" country as we explore the unmade Hammer projects that were announced, mooted and, in some cases, scripted films, but that languish in the might-have-been archives. In this...
Episode #58
After covering the Count from Transylvania and Mary Shelley's monstrous creation, Cine-Lit once again cracks open the vault of horror from that most British of institutions, Hammer Films. This time we venture into parts...
Episode #57
Adam and Darrell are joined by Italian horror expert and creator of the Giallo Pages fanzine John Martin to take a trip through six crime thrillers made by director Sergio Martino during the golden age of the Italian...
Episode #56
David Lean is one of Britain's most celebrated filmmakers, the master of the epic with such classics as Bridge On The River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. But ever the contrarians, Cine-Lit heads back...
In the second of our podcasts covering the knife-gloved legacy of Freddy Krueger, Adam, Darrell and Adam Crowther of QUAD's Fright Club cover parts IV-VI, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the horror match-up to end them all...
In a recording too epic to be constrained by one episode, Cine-Lit explores the films and legacy of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise over two heart-pounding podcasts. Joining Adam and Darrell is Derby QUAD's Fright...
Episode #53
Before he became KUBRICK and the film criticism world bowed at his feet, director Stanley Kubrick got his foot in the door and established his credentials in two crime films, Killer's Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956)...
Episode #52
Cine-Lit goes to the seaside! In a change to the usual format of the podcast, resident expert (and roving reporter) Darrell Buxton tells Adam the history of the Horror-On-Sea festival in Southend and the low budget...
Cine-Lit heads across the decades and the English Channel to take a deep dive into a five film series from one of the greats of world Cinema. Francois Truffaut's The Adventures of Antoine Doinel is a remarkable series...
Recent guests on Cine-Lit. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
Senior Director of Athlete Relations, Leadbetter Golf Academies
former U.S. District Judge, U.S. Attorney, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Hallsville Independent School District
custom action figure creator, New Jersey State Police Benevolence Association
Founder & Managing Director at Animation Research Ltd, Taylored Sports Communications
PitchCentric classifies Cine-Lit under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ
