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The debut episode of Diminishing Returns. Calvin, Sol and Allen take turns pitching sequels to Dr. No, the first film in the James Bond franchise.

Independence Day: Resurgence, the 20-years-too-late sequel to 1996's Independence Day, is out this week. What would the film have been like had Allen, Calvin or Sol been in charge? Listen to find out.

Calvin, Sol and Allen are back with sequel ideas for Finding Nemo. As usual, Dreamworks manages to get in on the act, too.

In a slightly mould-bending episode, the Diminishing Returns trio chime in with their thoughts on classic television series Absolutely Fabulous and discuss Britcoms making the leap to the big screen.

Diminishing Returns take some time to discuss human-diminishing-returns (i.e. ghosts). They also find the time to discuss Ghostbusters and how they would have handled the third film in Sony's supernatural comedy franchise.

Diminishing Returns discuss Star Trek before pitching their ideas for the 13th film in the franchise.

Diminishing Returns go back to their spy-movie roots and take on the Bourne franchise, consisting of The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum and Legacy.

This week, Diminishing Returns use Frankenstein as a jumping-off point, with Calvin, Sol and Allen each taking ideas from elsewhere and cobbling them together to create ambitious, grotesque and ultimately doomed pitches for the sequel.

Allen, Calvin and Sol embark on a whistle-stop tour of the screen iterations of Batman, covering everything from the 1943 movie serial to the upcoming Suicide Squad. Oh, and Superman also.

Diminishing Returns discuss all things The Office in anticipation of Ricky Gervais' film David Brent: Life on the Road.

Diminishing Returns follow their last episode with an episode about how they'd follow It Follows.

In which Diminishing Returns have a religious awakening thanks to the 1959 cinematic epic Ben-Hur.

Diminishing Returns return (without diminishing) to the James Bond franchise in order to pitch sequels to 1963's From Russia with Love.

They at Diminishing Returns decided to take control of their lives and start a podcast (an aural diary, if you will). In this, the 15th episode, they take on fellow diarist, Bridget Jones and, as always, pitch ideas for the future.

If you're not familiar with Pink Flamingos, then be warned: this episode sees Diminishing Returns discuss things as repulsive as cannibalism, incest and Donald Trump.

Season 2 of the wonderful Ash vs Evil Dead will soon be upon us. In anticipation, the gang take a whistle-stop tour of the franchise, then pitch their own ideas for new Evil Dead movies. Groovy.

Not content with trying something new last time, this week the gang pitch how to adapt the Super Mario Bros. games to the big screen.

A look at the career of Tim Burton, all the way from his early short films up to the upcoming Miss Peregrine's House of Weird Kids. Allen, Calvin and Sol pitch what they would like to see Tim pick up as his next project.

In which the Diminishing Returns trio seek to uncover the truth about how to best sequelise the film adaptation of 2003 best-selling novel: The Da Vinci Code.

Diminishing Returns cast their minds back to 2008; a simpler time in which superheros weren't constantly Venn-diagramming around and getting up in each other's faces all the time.

We were going to do an episode about The Ring this week, but then Rings got delayed until 2017, so here's another James Bond episode instead.

You yell "barracuda", everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell "shark", we've got a new episode of Diminishing Returns on our hands, in which Calvin, Sol and Allen talk through the Jaws movies.

What better film to discuss in the first Halloween episode of Diminishing Returns than John Carpenter's iconic, 1978 slasher movie of the same name? Listeners beware; you're in for a scare.

Since making its debut almost 20 years ago, Harry Potter has shoe-horned itself into books, movies, video games, websites, stage-plays and, now, episodes of the Diminishing Returns podcast.

What better film to get you into the festive spirit than this horror classic in which a senseless killer harasses and murders his way through a sorority house?