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Pilot TV
From the creators of The Empire Film Podcast, Pilot TV is your essential guide to every TV show that matters, providing a weekly rundown of all the new must-see TV shows dropping across streaming, terrestrial, satellite, cable, and beyond. Join Empire's James Dyer, Heat's Boyd Hilton, Steph Seelan, and Kay Ribeiro as they bring you breaking TV news, reviews of the week's major shows, and interviews with some of the biggest names in TV.
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Episodes
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#241 Secret Invasion, The Change, and I'm A Virgo. With guests Annie Murphy and Patrick Gibson
Annie 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…
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The Full Monty: An Empire & Pilot TV Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
25 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…
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#240 Best Interests, The Full Monty, and The Ark
On 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…
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#239 The Crowded Room, Significant Other, and Arnold
On this week's show we’re pumping iron with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Netflix’s biographical documentary Arnold, Filling in hospital forms with Youssef Kerkour…
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#238 The Gallows Pole, White House Plumbers, and Deadloch
On 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…
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#237 Poker Face, Maryland, and Platonic. With guests Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall
Kay'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)…
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#236 Steeltown Murders, No Escape, and High Desert
We 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…
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#235 City On Fire, Muppets Mayhem, and Ten Pound Poms. With guest Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca 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…
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#234 Fatal Attraction, Black Ops, and Queen Charlotte. With guests Lizzy Caplan and Joe Russo
We 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…
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#233 Inside No. 9, The Curse, and Sam: A Saxon. With guests Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Tom Davis
It'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…
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#232 Dead Ringers, Malpractice, and Drops Of God. With guests Melanie Lynskey, Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch
Not 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…
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#231 The Last Thing He Told Me, Obsession, and The Hunt For Raoul Moat. With guests Jennifer Garner and Charlie Murphy
Jennifer 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…
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#230 Rain Dogs, Beef, and Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies. With guest Jack Farthing
Daisy 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…
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#229 Succession, The Big Door Prize, and Rabbit Hole. With guests Toni Colette and John Leguizam
Like 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…
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#228 Great Expectations, Yellowjackets, and The Dry. With guest Daveed Diggs
Daveed 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…
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#227 Extrapolations, Ted Lasso, and Redemption. With guests Brett Goldstein, Nick Mohammed and Martha Plimpton
We 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…
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#226 The Mandalorian, Abbott Elementary, and The Bay. With guest Neil Cross
Luther 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…
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#225 Unforgotten, Django, and The Diplomat. With guests Sanjeev Bhaskar, Sam Claflin and Camilla Morrone
Unforgotten 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…
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#224 Liaison, Fleishman Is In Trouble, and Desperate Measures. With Billy Crudup and Vincent Cassel
Both 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…
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#223 Picard, Better, and The Twelve
We "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…
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#222 Consent, Funny Woman, and The Gold. With guest Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah 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…
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#221 Nolly, Dear Edward, and Your Honor. With guests Russell T. Davies and Joe Cornish
TV 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…
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Extraordinary: A Pilot TV/Empire Special, In Association With Disney+
Welcome, 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…
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#220 Shrinking, Extraordinary, and Wolf Pack
This week Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence deliver the anti-Ted Lasso in Apple's Shrinking (which stars actual Harrison Ford), plus we find ourselves…
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#219 The Last Of Us, Chemistry Of Death, and Maternal. With guests Kumail Nanjiani and Parminder Nagra
Kumail 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…
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#218 Welcome To Chippendales, The Reunion, and Reginald The Vampire
It 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…
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Review of The Year 2022. With guests Will Sharpe and Denise Gough
2022 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…
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#217 The Witcher: Blood Origin, Happy Valley, and Vardy v Rooney. With guest Laurence O'Fuarain
Merry 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…
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# 216 Litvinenko, National Treasure: Edge of History, and His Dark Materials. With guest Amir Wilson
It'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…
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#215 A Spy Among Friends, Strike, George & Tammy, and Tell Me Everything. With guests Guy Pearce, Holliday Grainger & Tom Burke
Strike 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…
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#214 The Patient, Three Pines, The Flatshare, and Slow Horses. With guests Gary Oldman & Saskia Reeves
You'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…
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#213 Echo 3, Wednesday, and Ghosts (US). With guest Luke Evans
Luke 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…
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#212 Tulsa King, Tell Me Lies, and 1889. With guest Sylvester Stallone
Who 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…
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#211 The English, Mammals, and The Crown. With guests Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer and Hugo Blick
Emily 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…
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#210 The White Lotus, Reboot, and Dangerous Liaison
We'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…
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#209 The Devil's Hour, SAS: Rogue Heroes, and The Bastard Son And The Devil Himself. With guest Nadia Parkes
The 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…
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Wedding Season: A Pilot TV And Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
Wedding 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…
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#208 Gangs of London, The Peripheral, and Somewhere Boy. With guest Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Gangs 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…
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#207 Shantaram, The Midnight Club, and The Ex-Wife. With guests Sharon Horgan and Celine Buckens
It'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…
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FX's The Bear: A Pilot TV/Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
Hands! 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…
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#206 The Bear, Wreck, and The Walk-In
The 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…
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#205 The Old Man, Andor, and Inside Man. With guests Jeff Bridges and Harry Lawtey
Yes, 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…
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#204 Crossfire, Karen Pirie, and Cunk On Earth. With guest Emer Kenny
On 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…
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#203 Bloodlands, Am I Being Unreasonable?, and Vampire Academy. With guest Ophelia Lovibond
Ophelia 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…
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#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
It'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…
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#201 The Capture, Ridley, and The Suspect
James 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…
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#200 (LIVE) House Of The Dragon, She-Hulk, and See. With Guests Matt Berry, Corin Hardy, and Orli Shuka
We 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…
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#199 Red Rose, Marriage, and Bad Sisters. With Guest Kevin Bacon
Pilot 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…
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#198 The Sandman, Five Days At Memorial, and A League of Their Own. With Guests Tom Sturridge and Vivienne Acheampong
** 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…
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#197 Paper Girls, Uncoupled, and Irma Vep
On 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…
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#196 Surface, Under The Banner Of Heaven, and From
This 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…
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#195 Better Call Saul, Witness No. 3, and Trying
This 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…
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#194 The Control Room, Breeders, and Sneakerhead. With guest Michelle de Swarte
Michelle de Swarte is our guest on this week's show, chatting demonic offspring with Beth in honour of Sky comedy The Baby. Elsewhere, prompted by a recent…
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#193 Black Bird, The Baby, The Girl From Plainville, and The Terminal List (plus Stranger Things Vol. 2). With guests Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris and Bill Nighy
As promised a couple of weeks back, we welcome The Man Who Fell To Earth stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris and Bill Nighy to the show this week, where they…
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#192 Westworld, The Undeclared War, Atlanta, Queer As Folk, and Only Murders In The Building. With guest Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg joins us on the show this week, to talk about his new Channel 4 cyber security drama, The Undeclared War. Plus we head back to the future for the…
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#191 Halo, The Offer, 1883, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and MANY more. With guest Pablo Schreiber
Want to hear from The Master Chief himself? Of course you do, which is why Pablo Schreiber joins us on this week's show to talk all things Halo. Plus the team…
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#190 Ms Marvel, The Lazarus Project, and Sherwood. With guests Anson Mount, Paapa Essiedu & Anjli Mohindra
Paapa Essiedu and Anjli Mohindra join us on the show this week to talk all things time travel for Joe Barton's new series, The Lazarus Project on Sky. Plus…
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#189 We Own This City, The Boys, and Everything I Know About Love. With guest Murray Bartlett
The legend that is Murray Bartlett is our guest on this week's show, chatting all things Physical Season 2, as well as The Last Of Us and (most importantly)…
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Pistol: An Empire Podcast + Pilot TV Podcast Special ft. Maisie Williams and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, In Association With Disney+
Only a group as seismic as The Sex Pistols could bring the Empire Podcast and the Pilot TV Podcast together once again. Yes, to mark the launch of Danny…
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#188 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Pistol, and The Midwich Cuckoos. With guests Karl Urban and Jensen Ackles
Not only do we have both Karl Urban and Jensen Ackles on this week’s show to talk about the new season of The Boys, but Empire’s Helen O’Hara makes her Pilot…