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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Nov 4, 2019 • 1h 12min
#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 trio of sequels including Sky's Britannia and Channel 4's The End Of The F****** World. We also fall out completely over The Young Offenders and Empire's Chris Hewitt drops by for an impromptu Banshee about Blue Bloods.
Oct 28, 2019 • 1h 27min
#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, we attempt to review all of the shows dropping on the new streaming service this Friday (The Morning Show, See, Dickinson, For All Mankind), while still finding time to wax lyrical about His Dark Materials and Season 2 of Jack Ryan. Brace yourselves, this may take a while.
Oct 20, 2019 • 1h 17min
#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 Murphy's Pose perfectly capping it off as the fizzy dessert. All that and Terri finally watches an episode of 'Fire Escape', which goes about as well as you'd expect.
Oct 14, 2019 • 1h 26min
#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 into the mystery of Sarah Phelps' Dublin Murders, discover the meaning of romance in Amazon's Modern Love, and span continents with English/Japanese gangster drama Giri/Haji. All that and an utterly incoherent Banshee featuring nineties German porn game shows, plus some (blissfully short) Picard-splaining and the joy of Aisling Bea schooling James on why he doesn't understand comedy.
Oct 7, 2019 • 1h 5min
#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 returns for its tenth season - yes, that's right, you've been watching these zombies for a full decade now. Plus Terri makes her triumphant return after a week off and James finally gets to put his oar in concerning Amazon's Carnival Row. Oh and it's worth mentioning that this podcast was recorded *before* the new Picard trailer dropped, making this at least three hours shorter than it otherwise would have been and marking a very lucky escape for all of you.
Sep 30, 2019 • 1h 15min
#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 Great. We also take a detour via Stars Hollow for a brief reappreciation of Gilmore Girls, jump back to the early nineties to recount the story of a little known James Earl Jones series that was subjected to a baffling makeover, and get into the weeds over last week's Emmy results.
Sep 23, 2019 • 56min
#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 The Politician, and put on our dancing shoes for the musical finale of Amazon's Transparent. All that and the staggering revelation that James was in an early nineties sitcom starring Nigel Planer.
Sep 16, 2019 • 1h 32min
#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 Tovey join James, Terri and Boyd as part of the Pilot team, waxing lyrical about Netflix's interrogation procedural Criminal, Boston-set crime drama City On A Hill and baby barrister comedy Defending The Guilty, plus much, much more besides. Come for the lowdown on the latest telly, stay for Russell's brilliantly X-rated anecdotes.
Sep 9, 2019 • 1h 11min
#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 End gangsters for Netflix's Drake-starring thriller Top Boy. Also on the podcast this week we've been beset by gremlins! Not literally, of course, but rather the technical kind that meant guest presenter Amon's microphone decided to misbehave. Thanks to some postproduction tinkering, though, we've managed to make him audible but apologies for the fact that one member of our trio does sound like he's at the bottom of a fish tank.
Sep 2, 2019 • 1h 18min
#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. Specifically, CCTV thriller The Capture, Roger Ailes/Fox News origin story The Loudest Voice, ITV's A Confession, and bite-sized marital strife comedy State Of The Union. Plus we reveal the fate of Funny Or Dyer and Terri goes off on one about the ubiquity of Delbert Wilkins.
