Pilot TV Podcast
317 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsFrom the creators of The Empire Film Podcast, The Pilot TV Podcast is your (spoiler free) guide to the essential new shows dropping each week across terrestrial, satellite, streaming and beyond. Bringing you the latest news and reviews, as well as interviews with the biggest names in TV, we're here to cut through the rubbish and make sure every minute you spend in front of the box is a minute worth spending. Served with a heavy helping of insider knowledge, irreverence and humour, the Pilot TV Podcast won't just keep you informed, amused and entertained, but is guaranteed to save countless hours of your life. Because you can’t watch *everything*.
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#282 Red-Eye, Blue Lights, and Dinosaur. With guests Walton Goggins and Lesley Sharp
April 15, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBWalton Goggins and Lesley Sharp join us on this week’s show. Not together, of course, because the former is with us to chat Ghoul life in Prime Video’s Fallout and the latter is here in her capacity as head of MI5 in ITV’s Red-Eye. And speaking of Red-Eye, we review that show, which sees Richard Armitage on the flight from hell, as well as Glaswegian BBC comedy Dinosaur and the return of Belfast police drama Blue Lights, also on the Beeb. Plus we record our first proper podcast in the new st...
#262 Red-Eye, Blue Lights, and Dinosaur. With guests Walton Goggins and Lesley Sharp
April 15, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBWalton Goggins and Lesley Sharp join us on this week’s show. Not together, of course, because the former is with us to chat Ghoul life in Prime Video’s Fallout and the latter is here in her capacity as head of MI5 in ITV’s Red-Eye. And speaking of Red-Eye, we review that show, which sees Richard Armitage on the flight from hell, as well as Glaswegian BBC comedy Dinosaur and the return of Belfast police drama Blue Lights, also on the Beeb. Plus we record our first proper podcast in the new st...
#281 The Regime, The Cuckoo, and Baby Reindeer. With Guest Sonequa Martin-Green
April 08, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBSometimes we at the Pilot TV podcast are the very embodiment of calm, dignified professionalism. This is not one of those times. An early recording prompts unfettered anarchy this week as the team go full Joanna Page, cover a postbag slot we’ve done before and only half review one of the shows (we had our reasons). But all of that’s okay, becasue Star Trek Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Green joins us on the show to talk about her final voyage, plus we watch Kate Winslet become a dictator, Jill ...
#280 Sugar, This Town, Avoidance, and Star Trek: Discovery. With guests Benedict Wong and John Bradley
April 01, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBNot only do we have a 3 Body Problem Spoiler Special with the showrunners now available over on Pilot TV+, but stars John Bradley and Benedict Wong also drop by this week to chat about the show. Elsewhere, we’re raging over the unjust and unforgivable cancellation of The Lazarus Project (for shame, Sky!), examining this year’s RTS awards, and explore our objects of televisual desire — not to mention reviewing this week’s shows, of which there are FOUR (because who needs to go outside?). Coli...
#279 A Gentleman In Moscow, Big Mood, and Mandy. With guest Ewan McGregor
March 25, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBWe’re all about the Bolsheviks this week, as Ewan McGregor returns to our screens for A Gentleman In Moscow on Paramount+ and drops by this podcast to tell us about his Muskovite adventures first hand. Plus, we explore the chaotic life of Nicola Coughlan’s character in Channel 4 comedy Big Mood and catch up with Diane Morgan’s similarly anarchic antics in series 2 of Mandy on BBC2.
#278 Palm Royale, 3 Body Problem, and Twisted Metal. With guest Wunmi Mosaku
March 18, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 87 MBLoki, Luther and We Own This City star Wunmi Mosaku joins us this week to talk all things Passenger, a supernatural mystery show coming to ITV on Sunday at 9pm. Plus we finally get to talk about 3 Body Problem in full and reveal whether Netflix’s new show from the creators of Game Of Thrones could crack Kay’s anti sci-fi armour. Opinions divide quite spectacularly on the other shows this week, specifically Kristen Wiig-starring period piece Palme Royale on Apple TV+ and Anthony Mackie-starri...
#277 Manhunt, The Dry, and Love Rat. With guest Anthony Mackie
March 11, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBIs there a Falcon in the house? Yes there is, in fact, because Anthony Mackie joins us on this week’s show to talk apocalypse survival, not listening to Taylor Swift, and of course Twisted Metal, which comes to Paramount+ next week. Elsewhere, James has a revelation about 3 Body Problem, Kay ponders the existential dilemma of slow-burn TV, and we get into this week’s slate, which includes the hunt for Lincoln’s killer in Manhunt on Apple TV+ and the return of ITVX’s The Dry. And then there’s...
#276 The Gentlemen, Extraordinary, and Mary And George. With guests Julianne Moore and Oliver Hermanus
March 04, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBJulianne Moore pays a visit to the Pilot TV pod studio this week, chatting seducing monarchs in Sky Atlantic’s Mary & George alongside director Oliver Hermanus/ Plus we climb into the brain of Guy Ritchie for his Netflix spinoff of The Gentlemen, and get to find out what’s going on with Jen and Jizzlord in series two of Disney+’s Extraordinary. And it that weren’t enough, there’s some egregious questioning of Kay’s Whovian enthusiasm, which does not go unanswered.
FX's Shōgun: An Empire & Pilot TV Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBThere can be only one thing more exciting than James Clavell’s Shōgun getting a brand new TV adaptation on Disney+, and that’s a special Pilot TV/Empire crossover podcast recorded to mark the occasion! Join Chris Hewitt, James Dyer and Nick de Semlyen as they get together to talk all things Japanese, Nick’s epic read of Clavell’s 1300 page book, and the pros and cons of ninja-themed restaurants. What’s more, James sits down with showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks to talk about bringi...
#275 Shōgun, Dead Hot, and Things You Should Have Done. With guest Jonathan Bailey
February 26, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBThis episode is one for nerds and normies alike as we begin with an audit of the accessibility of sci-fi films and, unexpectedly, trainers. Bit that’s not all, because Fellow Travellers star Jonathan Bailey drops by to talk about that show with Boydy, and James finally gets the chance to hold forth on Shōgun, managing to explode Kay’s brain in the process (in English, not Portuguese). Plus we uncover a mystery in Prime Video’s Dead Hot and break James upon the wheel of BBC3 comedy with Thing...
#274 Constellation, Breathtaking, and The Way. With guests Jodie Foster and Noomi Rapace
February 19, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBJodie Foster joins us on the show this week, to talk about the grand finale of True Detective: Night Country. We get properly into all the twists and turns of that show but don’t worry if you’ve not had a chance to watch the final episode yet, because we’ve put the interview at the very end of the episode with clear spoiler markings (PSA: all six episodes of True Detective: Night Country are available to watch on Sky Atlantic and NOW, or you can download them to own on digital platforms). ...
#273 Alice And Jack, Kin, and Too Good To Be True. With guests Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall
February 12, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBYou’ll have to have listened to last weeks’ Pilot+ to hear our review of One Day but fear not if you didn’t catch that, because stars Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall join us this week to discuss Netflix’s adaptation of the hit David Nicholls book. And speaking of turbulent romances, Alice And Jack comes to Channel 4 this week and sees Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough as a pair of star-crossed lovers. BBC1’s Kin, on the other hand, sees an entirely different kind of turmoil as the Kinsella ...
#272 Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ted, G’wed, and Halo. With guests Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough
February 05, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBWe may not be reviewing it till next week but Alice And Jack is winging its way to screens very soon and stars Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough — both of whom join us on the show this week to chat with Boydy. No one does awkward quite like Larry David so we're delighted to welcome him back to the screen for the 12th and final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sky and Now. Plus Seth MacFarlane's Ted makes the transition to the small screen, we take a trip up north to see Scouse comedy ...
#271 Black Cake, Domino Day, and Here We Go
January 29, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBWe like to think of Pilot TV as the height of professionalism — a finely-honed product in which some of TV journalism's finest minds come together to share their wisdom. We like to think that. Evidence here to the contrary, though, as this one is an absolute shambles. James and Kay arrive unprepared, Boyd decides he'd much rather work with Helen and Dan, plus there's a whole thing about musicals. Honestly, it's a miracle we got through it at all. Still, we did find time to watch Black Cake o...
#270 Griselda, Sexy Beast, and Trigger Point. With guest Lulu Wang
January 22, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBAcclaimed filmmaker Lulu Wang hops to the small screen this week with Expats on Prime and she dropped by the podcast to tell us all about it. Plus we witness Sofía Vergara breaking bad as a cartel boss Griselda Blanco in Netflix's Griselda, revisit London's '90s criminal underworld in Sexy Beast on Paramount+, and rejoin Vicky McClure's bomb squad in the return of Trigger Point on ITV. But that's not all, because the gang talk about the ups and downs of this year's Emmys (#justiceforBetterCa...
#269 True Detective, The Artful Dodger, and Finders Keepers
January 15, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBTrue Detective makes its long-awaited return this week with Jodie Foster in the lead. Is it a return to form for the series? Listen and find out (spoiler: it is). Plus we head down under for some Dickensian fun with The Artful Dodger on Disney+ and go Detectoring with Channel 5's Finders Keepers. The team also mull over hotel scenes, completely fail to discuss the Golden Globes and hear how Boyd got blanked by Phoebe Waller Bridge.
#268 Criminal Record, Big Boys, and After The Flood. With guest Clarke Peters
January 08, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBWe're back! After scandalously taking Christmas off, (Boyd is still furious about it) Pilot makes a triumphant return to your ears this week, accompanied by legendary star of The Wire Clarke Peters, here talking about his new Channel 4 show Truelove. Plus Kay, Boyd and James run through their televisual resolution,s but also catch you all up on all the shows that aired over the first week of January. Beyond that, Jack Rooke's Big Boys returns to Channel 4, Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo arrive...
Review Of The Year 2023, with guest Jamie Dornan
December 25, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 119 MBHappy Christmas! What better gift to wake up to on December 25 than a Pilot TV Review Of The Year Special? Yes, we assemble live on Christmas morning* to bring you festive cheer, run through all the shows that mattered over the past 12 months, and reveal for you our Pilot TV list of the best shows of 2023. But that's not all! Because we also triage a special end of year postbag and Jamie Dornan stops by to talk about The Tourist, which returns to ITV on New Year's Day. See you all in 2024! ...
#267 The Winter King, Percy Jackson And The Olympians, and A Ghost Story For Christmas: Lot No. 249
December 18, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBCider's mulling, turkey's turking, yams are yamming, and the Pilot TV podcast is getting ready for Christmas with this the LAST regular show of 2023. And, because this is essentially our yule send-off, Boydy runs through the vast array of shows coming your way between now and the new year, plus we review one of them: specifically, Mark Gatiss' latest festive frightener, Lot No. 249. We also head back to (Bernard) Cornwell country for the adaptation of his Warlord Chronicles, The Winter King ...
#266 The Serial Killer's Wife, Something Undone, and Doctor Who. With guests Imelda Staunton, Leslie Manville and Luke Treadaway
December 11, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBWe have a right royal podcast for you this week as Her Majesty Imelda Staunton and HRH Leslie Manville join us to talk The Crown with Boydy. Plus, Luke Treadaway stops by for a quick chat about The Serial Killer's Wife on Paramount+. Elsewhere, we embark on perhaps the most shambolic review in Pilot history as we try (and fail) to determine what series of Something Undone we're reviewing on ITVX. All this before we get back inside the TARDIS for the third of RTD's Doctor Who anniversary spec...
#265 Mayfair Witches, Smothered, and Platform 7. With guest Lizze Broadway
December 04, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBWe're all about witches on this week's show as the very VERY belated Interview With The Vampire companion show Mayfair Witches makes its tardy arrival on the Beeb. Plus, Kay finally gets to wax lyrical about Smothered on Sky Comedy and we explore the spooky goings on over at Platform 7 on ITV. Plus we thrash out some of the most iconic scenes in all of TV, Boyd tells the tale of how he lost twenty grand to his local charity shop, Kay causes a seating kerfuffle and Gen V breakout star Lizze B...
#264 Slow Horses, The Couple Next Door, and The Doll Factory. With guests Keanu Reeves & Jenson Button, and Jodie Whittaker
November 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBYes, the much anticipated Keanu Reeves interview lands this week as the man himself chats F1 along with racing legend Jenson Button. Plus former Doctor Jodie Whittaker joins us, though not for Tardis talk, but rather to chat all about One Night on Paramount+. Elsewhere, Chris Hewitt drops by to mourn the cancellation of Blue Bloods, we ponder the question of whether adverts in shows add to the experience, and we review The Couple Next Door on Channel 4, The Doll Factory on Paramount+ and th...
#263 Archie, One Night, and Such Brave Girls. With guests Jason Isaacs, Laura Aikman, and Russell T Davies
November 20, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBWe have a veritable cornucopia of guests this week as Jason Isaacs and Laura Aikman join us to talk ITVX's Cary Grant series Archie, plus we give you a little snippet of our Doctor Who special as Russell T Davies stops by to talk the time lord's return. Elsewhere, we uncover hidden secrets with Jodie Whitaker in One Night on Paramount+, and check out Kat Sadler's sitcom Such Brave Girls on BBC3. Plus we mull over some of the most distinctive voices in all of broadcast television.
#262 A Murder At The End Of The World, Boat Story, The Lazarus Project, and Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters. With guest Brit Marling and special guest host Joe Barton
November 13, 2023 17:00 - 2 hours - 146 MBIt's a BUMPER show this week so you might want to block out a good chunk of time for this one (sorry!). Because to celebrate the return of The Lazarus Project on Sky, Joe Barton dropped by the studio to join James, Boyd and Kay as a special guest host. But that's not all, because Brit Marling also pops up, talking to Boydy about her new whodunnit, Disney+'s A Murder At The End Of The World. Plus we get our kaiju on with Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters on Apple TV+ and find a shitload of cocaine ...
#261 Culprits, The Newsreader, and The Buccaneers. With guest BenDavid Grabinski
November 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBScott Pilgrim Takes Off co-showrunner BenDavid Grabinsi joins us this week to chat resurrecting Canada’s favourite son for an all new anime series. Plus we tear it up in 19th Century London with The Buccaneers on Apple, join the network wars in eighties Australia for The Newsreader on BBC2, and go on the lamb in an attempt to leave a life of crime behind with Culprits on Disney+. Plus, we say our proper goodbyes to Matthew Perry, do our best to mine some news despite a ridiculously early rec...
#260 All The Light We Cannot See, Invincible, and Shetland
October 30, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBThis week the team travel back to WWII for Steven Knight's latest series, an adaptation of Pulitzer-winning novel All The Light We Cannot See on Netflix, plus we find out how Shetland fares with a brand new lead on BBC1. Finally, our long-standing inability to understand adult animation is put to the test when we tackle Invincible Season 2 on Prime Video, there's much discussion of the healing power of silence, and the team wrangle over their favourite Friend (in a segment recorded before th...
#259 Fellow Travelers, The Enfield Poltergeist, and Three Little Birds. With guest Jacob Anderson
October 23, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBGrey Worm himself aka Interview With The Vampire’s Louis de Pointe du Lac joins us on the show to chat all things undead now that the show has arrived in its entirety on BBC iPlayer. Elsewhere on the pod, there’s an unusual amount to toe-sucking discussion as we review Fellow Travelers on Paramount+. Kay gets the willies from spooktacular documentary The Enfield Poltergeist on Apple, and we take a trip down Lenny Henry’s memory lane in Three Little Birds on ITV. Elsewhere, Boyd works his way...
#258 Bodies, Dark Winds, and Breeders
October 16, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBJames and Boyd prepare to sacrifice their friendship on the altar of Peak TV this week as the pair attempt to review the final series of Breeders on Sky without killing each other. Meanwhile, Kay gets sucked in by a stealth sci-fi via Bodies on Netflix, and we investigate murder on the reservation in Dark Winds on Alibi. Plus the team play a little postbag roulette to keep things interesting and a challenge is set to find a horror show that Kay might deign to sit through.
#257 The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Interview With The Vampire, and Lessons In Chemistry. With guest Philip Barantini
October 09, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBWe reach Boiling Point this week with Philip Barantini, who joins us to talk about his chaos in the kitchen series of the same name. Plus, after a year of waiting, Interview With The Vampire finally makes its way to British screens on BBC1, letting us take our first steps into Anne Rice's Immortal Universe. Brie Larson takes a stand against institutional sexism in academia in Lessons In Chemistry on Apple TV+, and Mike Flanagan returns with his final Netflix show in Edgar Allen Poe love lett...
#256 Payback, Everything Now, and Mrs Sidhu Investigates. With guest Morven Christie
October 02, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBCrime is in the air this week, so who better to draft in than the queen of crime, Steph Seelan? Steph holds down the fort for Kay (on holiday, typical) as we find trouble at the gym with Mrs Sidhu Investigates on Drama, a villainous Peter Mullen after his money in Payback on ITV, and a teen drama about reintegrating into secondary school life with Everything Now on Netflix. Plus Morven Christie drops by to talk to Boydy, and we mull over the most magnetic actors on screen (who are then place...
#255 Boiling Point, The Long Shadow, and Brassic
September 25, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBMurder is the name of the game this week, as the gang try to decide which fictional TV detectives they'd like to unpick their own sticky ends, plus there's a disproportionate amount of public transport discussion (sorry). Elsewhere we're in the kitchen for the TV sequel to 2021 movie Boiling Point on BBC1, exploring true crime murders in Yorkshire via The Long Shadow on ITV1, and returning to a life of crime with the latest series of Brassic on Sky.
#254 Sex Education, Juice, and Still Up
September 18, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBWe bid a fond farewell to Laurie Nunn's Sex Education on Netflix this week as Otis, Maeve, Eric and the gang depart Moordale for good. But as some things go, others arrive and Nabhaan and Mawaan Rizwan's Juice launches on the BBC, and insomniac comedy Still Up makes its debut on Apple TV+. Elsewhere Boyd and James have a screener-off, Kay fails to choose an original song and battle lines are drawn for the next Cultural Exchange.
#253 Wilderness, Domina, and Welcome To Wrexham. With Guest Emma Appleton
September 11, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBEmma Appleton joins us on this week's show to talk all about Paramount+'s The Killing Kind, and James gets a potted football primer from Boydy as we dive into the second season of Welcome To Wrexham (though the revelation that it's fine to be offside as long as you're not actually doing anything might have broken him). We also join Jenna Coleman on a homicidal/romantic road trip in Prime Video's Wilderness, and catch up with Domina on Sky. All in an episode that proves to be rather more boob...
#252 The Changeling, The Lovers, and Love & Death. With Rosamund Pike and Johnny Flynn
September 04, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBRosamund Pike joins us this week (well, several weeks ago in reality, as the interview took place before the strike - but you get the point) to talk The Wheel Of Time Season 2, and Johnny Flynn jumps aboard to discuss The Lover. Meanwhile, Love & Death sees Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons embark upon the most well-planned affair in history (with mixed results) in Love & Death, and we go full banana crackers with Apple’s The Changeling. Plus Boyd and Kay once again attempt to induct James i...
#251 The Tower, Starstruck, and The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies. With guests Ruth Wilson and Jonathan Tropper
August 28, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBRuth Wilson is our guest this week, chatting to Boyd about The Woman In The Wall. Plus James gets to geek out to spectacular effect when he talks to Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper, who not only created the show Banshee but does a little 'Banshee' for us as well. The team also takes a look at the BBC's new off-beat series The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies, as well as tackling a couple of returning series in the form of ITV's The Tower and BBC3's Starstruck. Plus we mull over ...
#250 (LIVE) The Woman In The Wall, Invasion, and Who Is Erin Carter? With guests Ricky Gervais, Tom Davis, and Mawaan & Nabhaan Rizwan.
August 21, 2023 16:00 - 3 hours - 170 MBFor our 250th episode we had a big old party at Kings Place in London, joined by special guests Ricky Gervais, Big Tom Davis and Mawaan and Nabhaan Rizwan, not to mention about 400 of you, our brilliant listeners. The Great Pilot TV Bake-Off saw Boyd, Kay and James go head-to-head in a duel to the death with assorted baked goods, plus we found time to answer questions from the audience and review Invasion's return on Apple TV+, The Woman In The Wall on BBC1, and Who Is Erin Carter? On Netflix...
#249 Henpocalypse, Sanditon, and... Running Wild With Bear Grylls. With Guest Krish Majumdar
August 14, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBAward-winning TV producer and until recently Chair of BAFTA, Krish Majumdar joins us to look back on his eventful reign at the British Academy, and working with the likes of Kate Winslet and Elliot Page. It’s also our last pod before the live 250th episode and James is off, apparently sunning himself at his Tuscan retreat, so Basic Bingers legend and editor of Crime Monthly magazine, Steph Seelan is back, joining Boyd and Kay to discuss dystopian comedy Henpocalypse, the return of ITV’s Jane ...
#248 Only Murders In The Building, Annika, and Cruel Summer. With Guest Tiffany Haddish
August 07, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBWe're celebrating the after-Afterparty this week as Tiffany Haddish joins us (in a pre-strike interview) to chat all things murder as we reach the tail end of Season 2 (don't watch it until you've seen this week's episode, if not, you can skip past it at 52:43). Plus we rejoin Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short in the latest pod-sleuthing series of Only Murders in The Building, Nicola Walker is back to addressing us all directly in Annika Series 2, and Cruel Summer returns with an en...
#247 Heartstopper, Wolf, and Vanishing Act. With guest Michael Sheen
July 31, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBThe great Michael Sheen joins us on this week's show (recorded prior to the actors’ strike) to discuss Jon Hamm’s bum, forming a double act with David Tennant and the new season of epic fantasy Good Omens. The other big news of the week is that James is off so no extended stories about buying tickets for Tay-Swif, sorry, and instead Boyd is in charge and wittering on about Dating Naked Germany. The third mic is given to onetime Basic Bingers legend and editor of Crime Monthly magazine, Steph ...
#246 Ghosts Of Beirut, Dreaming Whilst Black, and The Power Of Parker. With guest Zoe Saldaña
July 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBZoe Saldaña joins us on this week's show (fear not, the interview was recorded prior to the strike) to discuss Taylor Sheridan, assigning animals to all her characters, and Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+. Meanwhile, you all have to sit through an extended dramatisation of James' Odyssey to secure Taylor Swift tickets (we're so sorry, please don't unsubscribe - if it all gets too much you can skip the whole of this shaggy dog story by jumping to 14:14), as well as a potted history of door ...
Previewing The Bear S2: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
July 19, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBHANDS! CORNER! BEHIND! Those three words can mean only one thing: one of our favourite shows, The Bear, is back for its second season, and that's an occasion so momentous that the Empire Podcast and Pilot TV Podcast teams have once again joined forces to wax lyrical about it (in association with Disney+). Join Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Kay 'The Bear' Ribeiro as they talk about what they loved about the first season of Christopher Storer's Emmy-nominated comedy-drama, look ahead to season ...
Previewing FX's The Bear S2: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
July 19, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBHANDS! CORNER! BEHIND! Those three words can mean only one thing: one of our favourite shows, FX's The Bear, is back for its second season, and that's an occasion so momentous that the Empire Podcast and Pilot TV Podcast teams have once again joined forces to wax lyrical about it (in association with Disney+). Join Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Kay 'The Bear' Ribeiro as they talk about what they loved about the first season of Christopher Storer's Emmy-nominated comedy-drama, look ahead to s...
#245 The Bear, The Sixth Commandment, and Fifteen-Love
July 17, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBOn this week's show we not only see the whole of Hollywood shut down for the SAG strike but also sift through the detritus of this week's Emmy nominations and get into a fight over what constitutes a comedy. And speaking of things that are dramas and not comedies... we head back to Chicago for the return of The Bear on Disney+, investigate a little true crime with Sarah Phelps in The Sixth Commandment on BBC1 and hit centre court with Aidan Turner for tennis drama Fifteen-Love.
#244 The Afterparty, Heat, and Quantum Leap. With guests Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan
July 10, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBKay gets a much needed Witcher hit this week as we’re joined by stars Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra (although it was quite touch and go for a while), plus we head over to Apple for the after-after party of The Afterparty season 2 (which you must watch form the very beginning, NO EXCUSES), hit the outback with Danny Dyer in Channel 5’s Heat, and head back to set right that one went wrong in the reboot of Quantum Leap on Paramount+.
#243 Then You Run, A Thin Line, and Blindspot. With guest Wendell Pierce
July 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 93 MBWe're in the company of The Bunk this week as Wendell Pierce aka Jack Ryan's James Greer, joins us on the podcast to talk that show's final season. Plus, we go on the run in Rotterdam with Then You Run on Sky, hang out with eco hacktivists in A Thin Line on Paramount+ and hit the beat with Ross Kemp in Blindspot on Channel 5. All that and the team puts to the test how well they truly know each other when forced to programme each other's desert island box sets.
#242 Hijack, Champion, and Cannes Confidential. With guests Anson Mount and Candice Carty-Williams
June 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBOn this week's show, Captain Christopher Pike himself, Anson Mount, joins us to chat all things Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, plus Candice Carey-Williams drops by to talk about her London-based rap drama, Champion, which we also review. Meanwhile, we head up to cruising altitude with Idris Elba for Hijack on Apple TV+, and end up watching Cannes Confidential on Acorn, because both The Witcher and Jack Ryan were embargoed. Elsewhere, we up the stakes for the live show bake-off, and shocking r...
#241 Secret Invasion, The Change, and I'm A Virgo. With guests Annie Murphy and Patrick Gibson
June 19, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.1 MBAnnie Murphy joins us on this week's show to talk all about the first episode of the new Black Mirror, 'Joan Is Awful'. Plus Patrick Gibson gets cornered by Boydy and grilled over what would have happened in Season 3 of The OA (and manages to talk about his show Before We Die as well). Elsewhere, we get our Skrull on for Secret Invasion on Disney+, face midlife with a smile in Channel 4's The Change, and try to become one with the unique mind of Boots Riley in I'm A Virgo on Prime. Plus the t...
The Full Monty: An Empire & Pilot TV Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
June 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB25 years after it became (for quite a spell) the biggest film of all time at the UK box office, The Full Monty is back with an eight-part limited series, streaming now on Disney+. Writer Simon Beaufoy has reassembled the original cast for a show that goes The Full Monty on the current state of the nation, with Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and chums navigating their way through a series of misadventures that shine a spotlight on everything from the education system to the NHS. In this, the latest coll...
#240 Best Interests, The Full Monty, and The Ark
June 12, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBOn this week's show we force Kay to sit down in front of Sky Sci-Fi and make her watch The Ark, despite her protestations. Plus we take a look at Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen drama Best Interests on the Beeb, and return to Sheffield to catch up with Robert Carlyle and the gang for The Full Monty, which picks up 25 years after the classic nineties movie. Plus we bust a few questions out of the Pilot postbag (the triage system has gone berserk), we announce the next Pilot LIVE show and James...
#239 The Crowded Room, Significant Other, and Arnold
June 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBOn this week's show we’re pumping iron with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Netflix’s biographical documentary Arnold, Filling in hospital forms with Youssef Kerkour and Katherine Parkinson in Significant Other on ITVX, and determining whether Tom Holland is a serial killer along with Amanda Seyfried in The Crowded Room on Apple TV+. Plus Kay hasn't been allowed to watch the show about the well-endowed porn star but that's okay because the team share their (oft inadvertent) strip club stories to mak...