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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#238 The Gallows Pole, White House Plumbers, and Deadloch
May 29, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBOn this week's show we’re fixing leaks in the Nixon administration with Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson in White House Plumbers on Sky, investigating a naked corpse and an aggressive sea mammal in Australian comedy Deadloch on Prime video, and heading back to 18th Century Yorkshire with Shane Meadows for The Gallows Pole on BBC2. Plus the team discuss the (possibly inappropriate) shows they watched as children and James goes full maverick, taking the opportunity to spring all manner of sur...
#237 Poker Face, Maryland, and Platonic. With guests Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall
May 22, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBKay's dream comes true this week when she gets Colin From Accounts star/creators Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in a room (sadly, Colin couldn't make it). Plus we take a look at Apple's Seth Rogen/Rose Byrne relationship comedy Platonic, ITV's Suranne Jones/Eve Best sibling drama Maryland, and Sky's Natasha Lyonne/Assorted Criminals procedural Poker Face, which FINALLY makes its way here to the UK. All that and James confesses to having watched an episode of Naked Attraction, much to Kay's...
#236 Steeltown Murders, No Escape, and High Desert
May 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 82 MBWe have poetry on this week's show (yes, really), plus Kay explains (if explanation were needed) why James is a moron and the team ponder the most memorable TV needle drops in recent years. Elsewhere we get our grim on in true crime drama Steeltown Murders on BBC1, have an eye for Patricia Arquette PI in High Desert on Apple, and see if No Escape floats our boat on Paramount+.
#235 City On Fire, Muppets Mayhem, and Ten Pound Poms. With guest Rebecca Ferguson
May 08, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBRebecca Ferguson joins us this week to discuss sci-fi, AI and Apple's big-budget adaptation of Hugh Howey's book series, Silo. Plus we experience unfettered carnage with Dr Teeth And The Electric Mayhem in Muppets Mayhem on Disney+, return to Oz in Ten Pound Poms on BBC1, and dip our collective toes into another of Apple's lavish literary adaptations with City On Fire. Plus, James surprises everyone by having watched Colin From Accounts, we find out why Kay's animal form is that of an angry f...
#234 Fatal Attraction, Black Ops, and Queen Charlotte. With guests Lizzy Caplan and Joe Russo
May 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBWe chat Fatal Attraction with Lizzy Caplan this week, as she jumps into the Glenn Close role for the Paramount+ adaptation of the classic '80s thriller. Plus Joe Russo stops by to talk all things Citadel. Meanwhile, the BBC busts out some comedy coppers in the excellent Black Ops, and Bridgerton's monarch gets a spinoff in Queen Charlotte on Netflix. Plus one of our listeners delivers wine to the office and James reveals the true extent of his sociopathic telly-watching routine.
#233 Inside No. 9, The Curse, and Sam: A Saxon. With guests Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Tom Davis
April 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBIt's another very hot episode this week: not because of excessive sexy chat but rather because the AC in the studio is broken again. So please put any delirium or rambling (over and above the usual amount) down to that. Other than a large quantity of sweat, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton join us to talk about the new eighth series of Inside No.9 (Inside No. 8?) and Big Tom Davis hangs out with Boyd to chat the new series of The Curse. Plus, we get ChatGPT to review the podcast and try v...
#232 Dead Ringers, Malpractice, and Drops Of God. With guests Melanie Lynskey, Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch
April 17, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBNot only do we have Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch on this week's show to talk all about Prime Video's resurrection of '80s Cronenberg thriller Dead Ringers, but Melanie Lynskey joins us for an update on how Yellowjackets Season 2 is going. Plus the team head off to A&E with Niamh Algar in Malpractice on ITV, and try a little oenology with Apple's manga adaptation Drops Of God. All of which leads to a slightly anarchic discussion of super-tasters, Boyd's tea-making technique, and the time Kay k...
#231 The Last Thing He Told Me, Obsession, and The Hunt For Raoul Moat. With guests Jennifer Garner and Charlie Murphy
April 10, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBJennifer Garner joins us on this week's show to talk about Apple's new mystery thriller, The Last Thing He Told Me, plus Charlie Murphy drops by to fill us in on Netflix's new BDSM-happy erotic thriller, Obsession. Elsewhere, we join The Hunt For Raoul Moat on ITV, get some surprising statistics about podcast listeners in Fiji, and James comes to a final decision on the issue of the cake.
#230 Rain Dogs, Beef, and Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies. With guest Jack Farthing
April 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 93.1 MBDaisy May Cooper and Jack Farthing return to our screens this week with Rain Dogs, a BBC series that has been described as The Last Of Us, except with poverty instead of mushroom zombies. Jack himself drops by the show to tell us if that is indeed the case, and we also find out if Grease is still the word in Paramount's Rise Of The Pink Ladies and tune in to a grudge match for the ages in Netflix's Beef. Kay is on holiday this week so Beth Webb rejoins us (for her sins) and there may (or may...
#229 Succession, The Big Door Prize, and Rabbit Hole. With guests Toni Colette and John Leguizam
March 27, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 99 MBLike Snap! Toni Colette and John Leguizamo have got the power and they're both in the house this week talking all about Prime Video's adaptation of the Naomi Alderman book with James. Meanwhile, Kay and Boyd break out their Team Slime Puppy T-Shirts as Succession makes its return to our screens. We're also exploring our inner potential along with Chris O'Dowd in The Big Door Prize on Apple and running around New York with Kiefer Sutherland in Rabbit Hole on Paramount+. All this, and somehow t...
#228 Great Expectations, Yellowjackets, and The Dry. With guest Daveed Diggs
March 20, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBDaveed Diggs — Jefferson himself! — joins us on this week's show. Plus the whole team is practically giddy (too much sugar, most likely) as we get back to the wilderness for Yellowjackets, sample Ireland's answer to Fleabag (apparently) with ITV's The Dry, and see what Steven Knight does with Dickens in BBC1's Great Expectations. Plus there's a whole to-do about cake and Kay comes perilously close to murdering James on air (fair).
#227 Extrapolations, Ted Lasso, and Redemption. With guests Brett Goldstein, Nick Mohammed and Martha Plimpton
March 13, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe have a veritable hootenanny of guests on this week's show with both Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed on to talk Ted Lasso Season 3, and Martha Plimpton joining us to chat Bermondsey gangsters in A Town Called Malice on Sky. But that's not all, because we also take a look at the near future with star-studded environmental drama Extrapolations on Apple, and head over to Dublin for ITV crime drama Redemption. Plus James apologises for Kay's egregious failure to spot the Robert Kirkman/Brian ...
#226 The Mandalorian, Abbott Elementary, and The Bay. With guest Neil Cross
March 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBLuther is back this week (albeit in film form) and series creator Neil Cross drops by the show to talk all about the big man in the coat. Plus, in an unusually feisty instalment of the pod, we evaluate the return of The Mandalorian, explore the phenomenon that is Abbott Elementary and have a huge, three-way blow up about ITV's The Bay, which involves so many shifting alliances and sudden turns it'll give you whiplash. We also (somehow) find the time to discuss some of the properties we're ner...
#225 Unforgotten, Django, and The Diplomat. With guests Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sam Claflin and Camilla Morrone
February 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBUnforgotten is back! That's reason enough for celebration but even more so is the fact that DI Sunny Khan himself — aka Sanjeev Bhaskar — is on the show to talk all about it. And that's not all as Sam Claflin and Camilla Morrone also drop in to chat Prime Video's Daisy Jones & The Six. Elsewhere, the team feast their eyes upon Catalonian murder mystery The Diplomat over on Alibi and nouveau Western Django on Sky Atlantic, plus mull over all the various TV tropes that give them the 'icks'.
#224 Liaison, Fleishman Is In Trouble, and Desperate Measures. With Billy Crudup and Vincent Cassel
February 20, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBBoth Billy Crudup and Vincent Cassel join us on this week's show, the former to talk about Apple's retro future series Hello Tomorrow, and the latter about international espionage thriller Liaison, also on Apple TV+. But that's not all, because we also hit the dating apps with Jesse Eisenberg in Disney+'s Fleishman Is In Trouble and take on the criminal underworld with Amanda Abbington in Desperate Measures on Channel 5.
#223 Picard, Better, and The Twelve
February 13, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 75 MBWe "Make it so" one last time this week with the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, which Trek newbie Kay takes to like a Ferenghi to money laundering. Plus we dabble in a little jury duty with The Twelve on ITVX and some policing with villaining on the side in Better on BBC1. All that and we not only find time to sort out the seating arrangements at one of our listeners' weddings but manage to sift through the Trillions of spinoffs (see what we did there) announced this week as well.
#222 Consent, Funny Woman, and The Gold. With guest Sarah Michelle Gellar
February 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBSarah Michelle Gellar joins us on the show this week to chat Wolf Pack and, of course, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. And speaking of Buffy, the team tackles a question (prompted by episode 3 of The Last Of Us) on the greatest single episodes of TV. Plus, we talk about the issue of rape culture in schools via Channel 4's hard-hitting one-off drama, Consent, head back to 80s London for BBC's The Gold, and visit 60s Blackpool with Gemma Arterton for Sky's Nick Hornby adaptation, Funny Woman.
#221 Nolly, Dear Edward, and Your Honor. With guests Russell T. Davies and Joe Cornish
January 30, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBTV legend Russell T. Davies joins us on the show this week to talk Nolly, his new three-part drama, which stars Helena Bonham Carter as Crossroads star Noelle Gordon (and there may be a few Doctor Who nuggets in that conversation as well). Plus Joe Cornish is here to chat all things Lockwood & Co, his new supernatural series on Netflix (which we reviewed on Pilot+ last week). All that and we look at Apple's interconnected drama Dear Edward, watch the second series of Paramount's Your Honor, a...
Extraordinary: A Pilot TV/Empire Special, In Association With Disney+
January 25, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBWelcome, folks, to a most extraordinary podcast (in association with Disney+). A podcast in which Team Empire and Team Pilot TV get together to discuss the extraordinary Extraordinary, the brand-new sitcom that is now streaming on Disney+. Created and written by Emma Moran, Extraordinary is set in a world where everyone develops a superpower after they turn 18. Everyone, that is, except for Jen (Mairead Tyers), who is approaching 25 and is still fumbling for direction and meaning and purpose....
#220 Shrinking, Extraordinary, and Wolf Pack
January 23, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBThis week Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence deliver the anti-Ted Lasso in Apple's Shrinking (which stars actual Harrison Ford), plus we find ourselves pleasantly surprised by new Disney+ original series Extraordinary, and swap Lupin for lupine in Paramount+ supernatural series Wolf Pack. Plus the team tackle questions around the tragic demise of physical media and there's a surprising amount of chat about '90s Europopsters Snap
#219 The Last Of Us, Chemistry Of Death, and Maternal. With guests Kumail Nanjiani and Parminder Nagra
January 16, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBKumail Nanjiani joins us on this week's show to explain the nature of comedy to James, plus Parminder Nagra stops by to discuss ITV's now back-to-work series, Maternity with Kay. Elsewhere, we go traipsing through the woods with Harry Treadaway in Chemistry Of Death, and are FINALLY able to talk about The Last Of Us, which James has already declared to be the show of 2023. There's also some Golden Globes chat, some musings on shows we'd like to have our memories erased to re-watch and much e...
#218 Welcome To Chippendales, The Reunion, and Reginald The Vampire
January 09, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBIt may be January but we're stripping off alongside Kumail Nanjiani this week in Welcome To Chippendales on Disney+, watching an early contender for most utterly batshit show of the year with The Reunion on ITVX, and finding the lighter side of undeath with Reginald The Vampire on Sky Sci-Fi. Plus, we talk about some of TV's best character actors, bemoan Netflix's axe-swinging killing spree, and announce the launch of our all-new, very exciting SECOND podcast: the imaginatively named, Pilot T...
Review of The Year 2022. With guests Will Sharpe and Denise Gough
December 26, 2022 08:00 - 2 hours - 139 MB2022 is DONE! Well, nearly. And, in place of our regular show this week we bring you our official postmortem of the year that was, packed with our personal picks, our favourite episodes, a look at what we're excited about in 2023 and a bunch of year-related questions from you, our long-suffering listeners. But that's not all, because we also run though our final, canonical, completely unanimous and in no way divisive list of Pilot TV's best shows of 2022, and welcome a pair of very special gu...
#217 The Witcher: Blood Origin, Happy Valley, and Vardy v Rooney. With guest Laurence O'Fuarain
December 19, 2022 08:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBMerry Christmas one and all! It's our last (regular) show of 2022 and, to celebrate, we have our very own Christmas elf on the show — specifically Fjall from The Witcher: Blood Origin aka Laurence O'Fuarain. And not only do we find said Witcher spinoff in our Christmas stockings this year, but we're also going full Wagatha Christie with Channel 4's Hardy v Rooney, and getting the greatest gift of all: the return of Sally Wainwright's Happy Valley, which comes back after a SEVEN year absence. ...
# 216 Litvinenko, National Treasure: Edge of History, and His Dark Materials. With guest Amir Wilson
December 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBIt's been two years since His Dark Materials last graced our screens but the Philip Pullman adaptation returns this week with the third and final instalment, and we have star Amir Wilson on the show to talk Daemons, dimension-hopping and waging war on heaven. Plus, we see if National Treasure: Edge of History can live up to the movies’ legacy, and watch David Tenant re-enact a political assassination in Litvinenko on ITVX. Oh and it’s Boyd’s birthday as well. All together now: “For he’s a jol...
#215 A Spy Among Friends, Strike, George & Tammy, and Tell Me Everything. With guests Guy Pearce, Holliday Grainger & Tom Burke
December 05, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBStrike is Back! Which is excellent news, but more excellent by far is that both Strike and Robin (street names Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger) are on the show this week to talk about it. Plus Guy Pearce is also around to chat A Spy Among Friends, which marks the launch of ITVX, a streaming service that also brings us Tell Me Everything, enabling us to get in touch with our inner Gen Z. Plus we delight in (or endure) a little country music (depending on taste) in George & Tammy on Paramount+,...
#214 The Patient, Three Pines, The Flatshare, and Slow Horses. With guests Gary Oldman & Saskia Reeves
November 28, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MBYou've got to give Apple's Slow Horses one thing, it's anything but slow. The brilliant espionage drama returns for its second season in one year this week and we have stars Gary Oldman and Saskia Reeves on hand to talk all about it. Elsewhere, we're undertaking some unconventional therapy with Steve Carrel in The Patient, experiencing some even more unconventional living arrangements with Jessica Brown Findlay in The Flatshare, and solving snowy crimes in Canada with Alfred Molina in Three ...
#213 Echo 3, Wednesday, and Ghosts (US). With guest Luke Evans
November 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBLuke Evans is with us on the show this week, talking Echo 3, Apple's new geo-political thriller set in the jungles of Colombia (there may be a little Strictly chat surreptitiously slipped in there by Kay as well). Elsewhere, we're heading back to school with the best member of the Addams Family in Netflix's Wednesday, and taking a look at what our cousins across the pond have done to beloved sitcom Ghosts. Plus, in a ludicrously extended postbag sequence, James stages a spirited defence of TV...
#212 Tulsa King, Tell Me Lies, and 1889. With guest Sylvester Stallone
November 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBWho do we have on this week's show? It's only Sylvester Stallone, who finally, after all these years, makes his scripted TV debut with Tulsa King on Paramount+. But that's not all because we also take a trip on Netflix's spooky ghost ship in polyglot creep show 1899 on Netflix, and discover that the only thing more horrifying than ghouls and ghosts is college-age men in Tell Me Lies on Disney+. All that and yet more cancellations of shows (some with fairies) as the streamers start swinging th...
#211 The English, Mammals, and The Crown. With guests Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer and Hugo Blick
November 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBEmily Blunt, Chaske Spencer and The English creator Hugo Blick join us on this week's show to talk about their rip-roaring rampage of revenge through the Old West. Plus we unpick some marital strife with James Corden in Mammals on Prime and head off to Balmoral for the long-awaited (and Judi Dench-baiting) fifth season of The Crown on Netflix. Plus, James tries to come to terms with a week which not only saw drama come to his beloved Witcher, but also the demise of Fate: The Winx Saga. It's b...
#210 The White Lotus, Reboot, and Dangerous Liaison
October 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBWe're back on holiday at The White Lotus for season 2 of the Mike White's excellent comedy-drama. Plus we're revisiting a bit of saucy 19th century literature in Dangerous Liaisons on Lionsgate+, and getting meta about reboots with, well, Reboot on Disney+. Plus, no halloween episode would be complete without a little haunted house chat (aka what James did on his recent holiday — not to a White Lotus), plus there are some scintillating updates about Beth's recent eye test and the state of Boy...
#209 The Devil's Hour, SAS: Rogue Heroes, and The Bastard Son And The Devil Himself. With guest Nadia Parkes
October 24, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThe excellently titled witch drama The Bastard Son And The Devil Himself is on our watch list this week and star Nadia Parkes joins us to talk all things witchy, as well as turning rats into soup (sort of). Plus we catch up with See creator Steven Knight's latest show, SAS: Rogue Heroes, and discover that what goes bump in the night is actually Peter Capaldi in The Devil's Hour. All that and the usual generous helping of TV ramblings as we catch up with all the latest episodes.
Wedding Season: A Pilot TV And Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
October 22, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBWedding Season is the new thrill-packed, mystery-stuffed rom-com that is now streaming on Disney+. The first-ever UK Original Series on Disney+, it follows the adventures of Stefan (Gavin Drea) and Kate (Rosa Salazar), a couple on the run after Katie's entire wedding party, including her husband, are killed, leaving Katie as the prime suspect, and the cops (and other interested parties) hot on their heels. And in this special crossover episode, brought to you in association with Disney+, the ...
#208 Gangs of London, The Peripheral, and Somewhere Boy. With guest Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
October 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBGangs Of London star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joins us on this week's show, chatting murderisation (and, unexpectedly, Arsenal) with Boyd, plus we look at Gangs' second season and Kay is forced to put her low gore tolerance to the test. Then we head off to a virtual future with Chloe Grace Moretz in Prime Video's The Peripheral, and wonder what it would have been like to miss all of the past 15-odd years in Somewhere Boy on Channel 4. All that, plus a load of listener questions and a riveting account of ...
#207 Shantaram, The Midnight Club, and The Ex-Wife. With guests Sharon Horgan and Celine Buckens
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBIt's the final episode of Apple's excellent Bad Sisters this week and co-creator/star Sharon Horgan stopped by the podcast to talk all about it with Boyd. Plus Celine Buckens, star of last year's Showtrial and this week's The Ex-Wife on Paramount+ also joins us for a lengthy natter. All that and we head to India with Charlie Hunnam for Apple's adaptation of Shantaram, and tell some scary stories with Mike Flanagan in Netflix's The Midnight Club. Plus we get stuck into the pros and cons of tr...
The Bear: A Pilot TV/Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
October 05, 2022 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBHands! Corner! Behind! No, we're not trying to activate The Winter Soldier — these phrases will make sense to you once you've watched the excellent new comedy-drama, The Bear, the first season of which is now streaming on Disney+. It follows Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a highly-rated and extraordinarily-talented chef who swaps being a rising star on the New York fine dining scene for the relentless grind of running a sandwich shop in Chicago, bequeathed to him after the death of his ...
FX's The Bear: A Pilot TV/Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
October 05, 2022 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBHands! Corner! Behind! No, we're not trying to activate The Winter Soldier — these phrases will make sense to you once you've watched the excellent new comedy-drama, FX's The Bear, the first season of which is now streaming on Disney+. It follows Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a highly-rated and extraordinarily-talented chef who swaps being a rising star on the New York fine dining scene for the relentless grind of running a sandwich shop in Chicago, bequeathed to him after the death o...
#206 The Bear, Wreck, and The Walk-In
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBThe Bear there was. The Bear, The Bear. All black and brown and covered in hair. Well, not quite but The Bear is here in the UK at last nonetheless, landing this week on Disney+, and it was definitely worth the wait. We also head out on a murderous cruise (with murderous ducks) in BBC3's Wreck, and go on the hunt for Neo Nazis with Stephen Graham in ITV's The Walk-In. All this and more dreadfully entitled ramblings as Boyd and James bicker about the mechanics of advance screener codenames. Th...
#205 The Old Man, Andor, and Inside Man. With guests Jeff Bridges and Harry Lawtey
September 26, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 115 MBYes, you read that right, the legend himself Mr Jeff Bridges is on the show this week to discuss everything from killing a man with his bare hands to pulling off a successful barre chord. Plus Boyd talks to Industry star Harry Lawtey about Industry series 2. Meanwhile, the team check out Bridges' CIA credentials in The Old Man on Disney+, Diego Luna's rebel credentials in the latest Star Wars series, Andor, and Stanley Tucci's murder credentials when he plays a death row detective in BBC1's I...
#204 Crossfire, Karen Pirie, and Cunk On Earth. With guest Emer Kenny
September 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBOn this week's show we're investigating a cold case with Detective Karen Pirie in ITV's show of the same name, and creator Emer Kenny stops by the show to tell us all about it. Meanwhile, we discover the year's most stressful new series when Keeley Hawes gets caught up in a holiday resort terrorist attack in BBC1's Crossfire, and we follow Diane Morgan as she steps back into the skin of Philomena Cunk in rockumentary series Cunk On Earth on BBC2. All that and we also find the time to chat all...
#203 Bloodlands, Am I Being Unreasonable?, and Vampire Academy. With guest Ophelia Lovibond
September 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBOphelia Lovibond joins us on this week's show to talk Minx and playing Carrie Symonds in the upcoming This England. Meanwhile, James, Boyd and Beth head back on the Norn Iron beat with James Nesbitt in Bloodlands season 2, pull some skeletons out of the closet with Daisy May Cooper in AM I Being Unreasonable?, and engaging in a little YA undead romance with Vampire Academy. Plus we try out the new postbag feature, and the Dyer cut is released! (By which we mean the infamous karaoke video will...
#202 The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, American Gigolo, and Mike. With guests Morfydd Clark, Trevante Rhodes, Russell Hornsby and Laura Harrier
September 05, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBIt's guestapalooza this week with no fewer than FOUR stars dropping by the show. Morfydd Clark, who plays the legendary Galadriel in Amazon's The Lord Of The Rings prequel, The Rings of Power, joins us to talk all things elf-related, and Trevante Rhodes, Russell Hornsby and Laura Harrier also pop by to talk about their respective roles in Mike Tyson bio-series Mike on Disney+. As well as those, we also see Jon Bernthal do his best Richard Gere in Paramount+'s adaptation of classic eighties mo...
#201 The Capture, Ridley, and The Suspect
August 28, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBJames is away for this week's episode, taking a well-earned break after the live 200th show (which may have nearly killed him!). However, fear not because Boyd, Beth and Kay are holding down the fort and exploring the reach of Big Brother (no, not that one) in BBC1's The Capture, cracking a murder with Ted Hastings (sort of) in Ridley on ITV, and seeing if there's foul play afoot beneath Aidan Turner's (magnificent) beard in The Suspect, also on ITV.
#200 (LIVE) House Of The Dragon, She-Hulk, and See. With Guests Matt Berry, Corin Hardy, and Orli Shuka
August 21, 2022 23:00 - 2 hours - 156 MBWe celebrated Two hundred episodes of the podcast with an ALL DAY live event at Kings Place in London, featuring ten hours of content that all culminated in this big 200th show. We kick off with Corin Hardy and Orli Shuka talking us through an explosive action clip from Gangs of London series 2, followed by a chat with Matt Berry, who joined us to celebrate ten years of Toast Of London. Plus we got into Game Of Thrones prequel House Of The Dragon on Sky, and bickered about She-Hulk on Disney...
#199 Red Rose, Marriage, and Bad Sisters. With Guest Kevin Bacon
August 14, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 97.7 MBPilot TV is officially one degree of Kevin Bacon as of this week as the City On A Hill star joins us to talk about the new season of that show which is airing now on Paramount+. Plus James, Boyd and Kay get into the viability of slow-burn shows in this era of peak TV, go round 2 over The Sandman, and catch up on the penultimate episode of Better Call Saul (no spoilers). Elsewhere, we review Sharon Horgan's new show on Apple, Bad Sisters, contemporary app-based horror series Red Rose on BBC3, ...
#198 The Sandman, Five Days At Memorial, and A League of Their Own. With Guests Tom Sturridge and Vivienne Acheampong
August 07, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 92.4 MB** BOOK TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE 200th EPISODE ON 21 AUGUST HERE: https://bit.ly/3A4lXWY** The Sandman stars Tom Sturridge and Vivienne Acheampong join us on the show this week to dream a little dream of Netflix's Neil Gaiman adaptation with Helen O'Hara. Plus we take a look at Apple's hurricane Katrina thriller, Five Days At Memorial, and nineties movie spin-off A League Of Their Own on Prime Video. Elsewhere, there's a quick, spoiler-free confab about the state of Better Call Saul and Boyd and ...
#197 Paper Girls, Uncoupled, and Irma Vep
July 31, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBOn this week’s show we weigh in on Prime Video’s eighties teen time travel drama Paper Girls, watch Neil Patrick Harris enjoy no sex in his city as the star of Netflix’s Uncoupled, and join Alicia Vikanda in HBO’s meta-Hollywood satire Irma Vep. Plus James, who definitely hasn’t been on holiday this week, reveals his true identity as a West Country millennial with a love of workplace comedies.
#196 Surface, Under The Banner Of Heaven, and From
July 25, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThis week's show sees us solving a double murder alongside Andrew Garfield in Under The Banner Of Heaven on Disney+, searching for answers with an amnesiac Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Surface on Apple TV+, and finally getting to find out what's going down in From, the creepy supernatural horror that kicks off the launch of Sky Sci-Fi, formerly Syfy, formerly The Sci-Fi channel. Confused? So are we. Plus we examine the films that really should have been able to luxuriate over a television runtime.
#195 Better Call Saul, Witness No. 3, and Trying
July 17, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBThis week we not only dissect the nominations for this year's EMMYs, but James reveals the extent to which Covid (which, in the mother of all ironies, laid him out immediately after recording last week's show) has allowed him to put a dent in his mammoth watch-list, specifically around a certain Breaking Bad prequel. And speaking of which, in a cryptic review that plays out almost entirely in code, Beth and Boyd review Better Call Saul's home stretch while protecting James' delicate ears fro...
#194 Better Call Saul, Witness No. 3, and Trying
July 17, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBThis week we not only dissect the nominations for this year's EMMYs, but James reveals the extent to which Covid (which, in the mother of all ironies, laid him out immediately after recording last week's show) has allowed him to put a dent in his mammoth watch-list, specifically around a certain Breaking Bad prequel. And speaking of which, in a cryptic review that plays out almost entirely in code, Beth and Boyd review Better Call Saul's home stretch while protecting James' delicate ears fro...