Pilot TV
Empire Magazine
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, 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.Pilot TV is here to 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, Pilot TV 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*.Enjoying the podcast? Sign up to Pilot+ for a bonus episode every Thursday, in-depth spoiler specials, and early, ad-free access to the regular show! Find out more at www.empireonline.com/pilottv
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Oct 10, 2022 • 2h 1min
#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 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 true crime stories, and the correct etiquette for leaving podcast reviews (ideally accompanied by flowers and chocolate).
Oct 5, 2022 • 45min
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 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 of his older brother. And in this latest crossover episode of the Empire Film Podcast and the Pilot TV Podcast, in association with Disney+, Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Beth Webb get their teeth into The Bear, talking about its intensity, its humour, their own relationships with food and fine dining, and much, much more. It's a pod so good we give it three Michelin stars. And that, friends, is definitely a recommendation. Enjoy!
Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 18min
#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 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. They're both dreadful.
Sep 26, 2022 • 2h 6min
#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 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 Inside Man.
Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 49min
#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 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 things Emmys #justiceforsaulgoodman
Sep 12, 2022 • 1h 42min
#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 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 be available on James' instagram - @jamescdyer - for the next 24 hours).
Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 56min
#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 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 movie American Gigolo and leave it up to you to decide whether a certain video of James singing karaoke ever sees the light of day. #releasethedyercut
Aug 28, 2022 • 1h 29min
#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 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.
Aug 21, 2022 • 2h 50min
#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 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+. And of course James couldn't let this milestone event go past without crowbarring the final season of See into the mix as well. There was chaos, there was carnage, there were audience questions, and returning Pilot legend Terri White was on hand to call James a bellend. What more could you possibly ask?
Aug 14, 2022 • 1h 47min
#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 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, and Nicola Walker and Sean Bean's incredibly affecting Marriage on BBC1. And there's still time to book tickets to our live 200th show on the 21st: https://bit.ly/3plL4hW
