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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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#76 - Westworld, Breeders, and Mrs. Fletcher
Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard are our guests this week, stopping by to talk about their parenting comedy Breeders, which features Freeman hurling…
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#75 - Noughts + Crosses, War Of The Worlds, Liar, and The Trip To Greece
This week's show sees us suiting up for yet another War Of The Worlds, this time in a more contemporary London with Gabriel Byrne on the run from Martian…
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#74 - I'm Not Okay With This, Altered Carbon, and Flesh And Blood. Featuring guest host Rufus Jones
The star and creator of Channel 4's Home, Rufus Jones joins us on the podcast this week, stepping in for James while he's on holiday. And speaking of body…
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#73 - Hunters, Intelligence, and This Country
We’re on the lookout for Nazis with Al Pacino this week with Amazon’s Hunters, plus studying the art of incompetent spycraft with David Schwimmer in…
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#72 - Homeland, Castle Rock, and The End
Join us for a very special podcast this week — Terri's last before heading off on maternity leave. To celebrate the occasion Boyd and James provide some…
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#71 - Locke & Key, Home, Baghdad Central, The Pale Horse, and Inside No. 9. Featuring guest host Sarah Phelps
Sarah Phelps joins us as a special celebrity co-host on this week's show to talk everything from her latest Agatha Christie adaptation, The Pale Horse to the…
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#70 - Star Trek: Picard, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Miracle Workers. Featuring Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is our guest on the podcast this week, telling us about his love of Star Trek, the fundamental flaw in Virgin Atlantic, and why he chose to…
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#69 - Avenue 5, Shrill, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Beth Webb stands in for Terri this week as we are prevented from talking about Star Trek: Picard thanks to an inconvenient embargo that we in no way attempt to…
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#68 - The Outsider, Sex Education, and Cobra
Happy new year! Pilot TV’s first show of 2020 marks the triumphant return of Netflix’s Sex Education, the declaration of a national emergency in Sky’s Cobra…
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Review Of The Year 2019, featuring Brian Cox
Another year, another raft of exceptional TV shows. If you were wondering what shows you should be watching over the holiday break, curious as to what you…
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#67 - Dracula, You, and The Witcher
In our final regular show of the year we get bloody with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Sherlockian take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, get caught up with Season 2…
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#66 - A Christmas Carol, Sticks And Stones, and In The Long Run Christmas Special
This week we’re tapping into that Big Dickens Energy with Steven Knight's take on A Christmas Carol, and continuing in the festive spirit with the Christmas…
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#65 - The Expanse, Traces, and Law & Order: SVU
Rupert Grint makes his Pilot TV Podcast debut this week, stopping by to talk all things Servant. Plus we *finally* get the chance to review The Expanse and you…
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#64 - Truth Be Told, Vikings, and Elizabeth Is Missing
On the podcast this week we're heavy on the Norse as Terri and Boyd try (and fail) to make sense of Vikings Season 5, Apple's latest drops in the form of…
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#63 - Servant, 8 Days, and Upright
It's all creepy nannies with M. Night Shyamalan's Servant this week, then a Teutonic apocalypse in Sky's 8 Days and finally a road trip across Australia with…
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#62 - Vienna Blood and Cold Call
After weeks of broken promises, Terri *finally* watches that long-awaited second episode of Farscape this week. And as if that weren't enough, we also sink our…
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#61 - The Crown, The War Of The Worlds, Gold Digger, and The Man In The High Castle
It's Crown time again on the podcast this week as Olivia Colman joins Monarchy: The Next Generation. Plus we see how the Martians are faring in the Beebs new…
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#60 - The End Of The F****** World, Britannia, and The Young Offenders. Featuring Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard
Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard join us this week (26:02-41:16) to talk about feeling their way through Apple's post-apocalyptic epic, See. Plus we get into a…
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#59 - His Dark Materials, Jack Ryan, and Apple TV+. Featuring Hailee Steinfeld
Hailee Steinfeld joins us this week, bringing some Big Dickinson Energy to the podcast as she tells us all about her new show on Apple TV+. Speaking of which…
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#58 - Watchmen, Pose, and The Accident
Damon Lindelof's Watchmen is the main course on this week's menu, with Jack Thorne's The Accident serving as a tasty (if slightly bitter) starter and Ryan…
Pilot TV#57 - Living With Yourself, Dublin Murders, Modern Love, and Giri/Haji. Featuring Aisling Bea
Aisling Bea joins us on this week's podcast to talk about her new show with Paul Rudd, Living With Yourself, which we also review! Not only that but we delve…
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#56 - Motherland, The Terror, and The Walking Dead
It's murder at the school gates this week (not literally) in BBC2's Motherland, more creepy shenanigans from anthology series The Terror, and The Walking Dead…
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#55 - Catherine The Great, Swamp Thing, and Goliath
With Terri across the Atlantic, Beth Webb joins James and Boyd as the team dives into Swamp Thing, peers up at Goliath and kneels down before Catherine The…
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#54 - The Politician, World On Fire, and Transparent
On this week's show we hurl ourselves into the Beeb's lavish WWII series World On Fire, delve into the world of Machiavellian high school politics in Netflix's…
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#53 (Live) - Criminal, Defending The Guilty, and City On A Hill. Featuring guest host Russell Tovey
A very special episode this week, specifically our first ever live show! Recorded at the London Podcast Festival on Friday 13th September, the show saw Russell…
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#52 - Temple, Unbelievable, and Top Boy
This week we take a look at Mark Strong's mob doctor drama Temple, join Toni Collette for true-crime drama Unbelievable, and get in touch with our inner East…
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#51 - The Capture, A Confession, The Loudest Voice, and State Of The Union. Featuring Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom
Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom join us on the podcast this week for a bit of fairy chat (31:00-38:31), plus we get stuck into no less than *four* new shows…
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#50: Carnival Row, The Affair, The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance
With James Dyer off in America (you might have read about his adventures in Newsweek, or The Daily Mail), Ben Travis slides smoothly into James' vacant seat…
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#49 - Peaky Blinders, Brassic, and Sanditon
The dream team is back together this week as Terri returns from her travels just in time to wax lyrical about Joe Gilgun's Lancashire-set comedy, Brassic. We…
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#48 - Succession, NOS4A2, and Deep Water. Featuring guest host Roisin Conaty
With Terri on holiday this week, we're thrilled to welcome comedian Roisin Conaty as our guest co-host. The GameFace creator, writer and star joins James and…
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#47 - Euphoria, This Way Up, and GLOW. Featuring Gemma Chan & Dominic Savage
Gemma Chan and Dominic Savage stop by the podcast this week to chat about I Am Hannah (26:56 - 49:23), which airs on Tuesday night. Meanwhile, we feast our…
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#46 - I Am The Night, Manifest, and Fosse/Verdon
On the podcast this week we're playing catch-up with our American cousins as we finally get the chance to watch three shows that have already debuted across…
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#45 - I Am, The Boys, and Orange Is The New Black
On this week's podcast we not only get bowled over by Dominic Savage's I Am series but also take a look beneath the capes of seedy superheroes in Amazon's The…
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#44 - Deadly Class, Better Things, And GameFace
On the podcast this week find out if Terri did indeed complete the Downton challenge, why James is apparently some kind of smug podcast giraffe, which…
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#43 - Poldark, Divorce, and Dark Money
It's all floppy hair and bare chests this week as we catch up with the latest goings on in 18th century Cornwall in the new series of Poldark. Plus there's…
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#42 - Stranger Things 3, Legion, and Waco
Stranger Things is back! And we are *so* here for it. Not only do we spend a goodly portion of this week's podcast banging on about the return of Mike, Dustin…
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#41 - Warrior, S.W.A.T. and How To Get Away With Murder
We have a very special Pilot TV podcast this week as we celebrate Terri's birthday with a Bumper Birthday Banshee Bonanza! Where James breaks out two whole…
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#40 - Catch-22, Gomorrah, and Dark
The star-studded new adaptation of Catch-22 leads the charge in this week's show, ably backed up by series 2 of Dark and series 4 of Gomorrah (which show…
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#39 - Big Little Lies, Wild Bill, and The Act
What lies in wait for the future of the Banshee segment? Find out this week as the #SaveBanshee and #BollocksToBanshee campaigns go head-to-head and a winner…
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#38 - Killing Eve, The Handmaid's Tale, and Tales Of The City. Featuring Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones stop by the podcast this week to talk about the new series of Black Mirror. Plus we get into the happy-go-lucky third seadon…
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#37 - Good Omens, When They See Us, and Black Monday
Reviewed this week: harrowing drama from Netflix in When They See Us, absurd intellectual comedy from Amazon in Good Omens and capitalist woes on Wall Street…
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#36 - What/If, Summer Of Rockets, Riviera, And The Game Of Thrones Finale. Featuring Jared Harris.
We have a dragon-sized episode for you this week (hope you didn't have plans today) as we say our final farewell to Game Of Thrones with a monster discussion…
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#35 - The Virtues, Years And Years, Gentleman Jack, and What We Do In The Shadows. Featuring Russell T. Davies.
It's all go this week as we marvel at Shane Meadows' The Virtues, delight in Russell T Davies' Year's And Years, delight in Sally Wainwright's Gentleman Jack…
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Line Of Duty Series 5 Spoiler Special
Right you are, fella. Sunday saw the last episode of Line Of Duty's fifth series and we couldn't let such a monumental event pass uncommented. And so, with our…
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#34 - Chernobyl, Deep State, and The Society
Everything's in meltdown this week as we immerse ourselves in Sky Atlantic's gruellingly excellent Chernobyl, delve into the Deep State for Season 2 of Fox's…
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#33 - The Spanish Princess, Knock Down The House, and Game Of Thrones (again)
It's wall-to-wall politics this week as we tackle the Tudors in The Spanish Princess and worship at the altar of AOC in Knock Down The House. Plus we manage…
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#32 - Chambers, The Looming Tower, and Jamestown
We have some post-Easter horror for you this week, thanks to Netflix's excellent new haunted heart thriller, Chambers, some pre-millennial spycraft thanks to…
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#31 - Game Of Thrones, Chimerica, and Back To Life
Podcast is coming! That's right, the final season of Game Of Thrones landed this week and, like the Night King himself, we tore down The Wall and stormed forth…
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The OA Season 2 Spoiler Special
In this special episode of the podcast we delve deep into the plot developments of The OA's incredible second season, speaking to creators Brit Marling and Zal…
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#30 - The Widow, The Victim, And Don't Forget The Driver. Featuring Aidan Gillen
This week we get definitive with the definite article for The Widow (Kate Beckinsale) and The Victim (Kelly MacDonald), then go full Brexit with Toby Jones in…
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#29 - Veep, Barry, and The Case Against Adnan Syed. Featuring Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman
Hanna and The Killing stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman stop by the podcast for a chat this week. Meanwhile, Veep returns to our screens this week for its…
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#28 - Line Of Duty, Dead Pixels, The Good Fight and Hanna. Featuring Vicky McClure & Martin Compston
Line Of Duty is back! And to celebrate, we invited stars Vicky McClure and Martin Compston onto the pod to tell us what's going down at AC-12 this series. As…
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#27 - The OA, Billions, Victoria and Pose
In a surprising twist this week, Terri has been transmogrified into a middle-aged man as we traverse dimensions to discuss The OA Season 2, Cash-in for…
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#26 - American Gods, Turn Up Charlie and Love, Death And Robots
This week we've been subjected to a torrent of animated shorts thanks to David Fincher's Love, Death And Robots, plus we got a chance to spin up the decks for…
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#25 - After Life, Derry Girls, Home, Leaving Neverland and MotherFatherSon
So many shows, so little time. We have an unprecedented *five* new shows to rundown for you this week, including the triumphant return of Derry Girls. Joining…
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#24 - Fleabag, This Time With Alan Partridge and The Miracle
This week we have a double bill of BBC comedy gold as Fleabag and Alan Partridge go head-to-head for our amusement. To balance the unfettered mirth, though, we…
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#23 - Traitors, Flack and Curfew
This week we enter the world of treason and espionage for Channel 4's WWII spy thriller Traitors, join Anna Paquin as she heads to the front lines in a very…
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#22 - The Umbrella Academy, Dirty John and Lorena
We have a Valentine's double bill this week to get you all in the mood for love. There's much knob-lopping talk as we delve into the world of Lorena and John…
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#21 - Surviving R. Kelly, New Amsterdam and Das Boot
This week we're delving into the world of dark and sordid documentaries in Surviving R Kelly, getting down with the Deutsch for the sequel to Wolfgang…
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#20 - Nightflyers, Pure, Russian Doll, Camping and Mayans M.C.
We have a bumper crop of reviews this week, with no less than *five* shows under the magnifying glass. George R.R. Martin's Nightflyers takes us into deep…