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Hey! It’s the Bowery Boys! Today we welcome a podcasting Hall of Famer, 2024 Webby Award Honoree, a history buff to challenge all history buffs, our esteemed ambassador from New York Greg Young! With his co-host Tom Meyers, his podcast The Bowery Boys is now on their 17th year telling the story of New York from Pre-colonization to modern day. We’re lucky enough to have Greg spotlight Mad Men with...

Nathan For Me? Why you shouldn’t have. That’s right, this week we are taking you to the beautiful fictional town of “Los Angeles” where our hero Nathan Fielder (played by the incomparable Nathan Fielder) will take his expert business knowledge from “Canada” and turn these local entrepreneurs to nationwide success. We see the humble beginnings of Fielder’s explosion into the comedy conversation. Of...

I don’t wanna try any pod Other than TV Pilots License All I have to do is give reviews like and subscribe It’s One Tree Hill! With such themes as basketball, questionable parenting and no others. At least for the pilot! The Scott boys are at it again, stealing school busses, reading poetry, shooting hoops, and shitting on their awful dad. This CW staple brought a new crop of teen heartthrobs Jame...

We’re 3 nerdy dudes who got one pod, we love TV and don’t shut up with a Yeti mic and a Riverside Subscription It’s REBA! Starring SNL vet Kenan Thompson (aka Reba McEntire), this show originally started under a different name and premise all together, but became the southern living sitcom to end all southern living sitcoms. With a pilot cast boosted heavily by an appearance from Nell Carter, Reba...

Hold on to your bellybuttons, it’s KYLE XY! Fresh from the gooey forest floor to your living rooms, he’s a deeply confusing teen heartthrob savant! From show runners Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber (Final Destination and The Butterfly Effect) this is ABC Family’s paranormal teen drama with all the action of Seventh Heaven if they all pissed their pants in the first 10 minutes. Starring Matt Dallas...

What do three guys who went to college in the midwest know about Dairy? An awful lot. Derry? Well that’s a new one. This week the guys do Derry Girls! The BBC4 coming-of-age comedy taking place in embattled Northern Ireland. From show runner Lisa McGee comes a smattering of her own high school stories and memories with sharp, hilarious writing. We follow a 16 year old Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson)...

Give us some more, time in a dream, give us a pod, that we can stream. It’s time to go back to school! It’s NBC’s weirdo tentpole comedy, Community! While you can probably take a wild guess that Max, Geoff, and Rich are all big fans and that they will just gush over this show. There are a lot of things to unpack. With tremendous cast and writing comes a complicated legacy and bizarre network choic...

Hold your horses, it’s time to trot on over to HBO for the pilot of LUCK! The ironic named show that was pulled after several animal rights violations. Take a terrific cast, heavy hitting executive and writing team, and gorgeous cinematography and remove those expectations. It’s Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, Nick Nolte, Richard Kind and so much more. From the team that brought you NYPD Blue, Dead...

Hey there [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], you’re probably wondering why the windows are blacked out on this plane. We’re doing Inside Job this week! The first in house Netflix animated series and brainchild of long time animation story creator Shion Takeuchi. What is Inside Job? Well it’s a workplace comedy set at [LOCATION REDACTED] and starring Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Tisha Campbe...

Who likes Big Naturals? Sorry… Supernaturals! We do! And so does returning champion, writer, actor and TV fanatic Korama Danquah! It’s time for the Monster-of-the-week 15 season behemoth Supernatural. Dive into this mix of twilight and X-Files that thrived in the switch from the WB to the CW. Meet the heart throb Winchester brothers as they solve paranormal mysteries to get closer to their estrang...

You ready to listen to three childless dudes talk about working motherhood? Of course not! Well we have a treat for you, this show was brought to us by tremendous comedian, actor, podcast host, and mom Emily Bolt. Straight from the Six it’s Workin’ Moms! The brainchild of Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg, this comedy series is born from the key thesis of “having it all seems impossible” turn...

I know how we can get this secret, with sex! It’s the Americans, the late Cold War spy thriller show based on real life experiences of a CIA agent turned screen writer. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play The Jennings, the average American family, house in the suburbs, two kids, hockey games and report cards and murdering enemies of the Soviet Union. The American Dream! Who better to chat about thi...

We're gonna do podcasts 5evvaaaa. We cover the fantastic comeback of the famous girlgroup Girls5Eva. I mean my god, what is not to like about this show?? Created by Colbert and Kimmy Schmidt writer Meredith Scardino, Executive Produced by Tina Fey, starring Sara Bareilles, Paula Pell, Busy Philipps and Renee Elise Goldsberry?? How could this show not be the greatest 5eva? Come swing by for a m...

Fold down the jumper seats, we've got a full crew as we welcoming back Ilsa Morales and Kyra Navrette from the Relatable Nerds Podcast . With the upcoming release of X-Men '97 ready to rock the nerd world, we take a step back to the very first X-Men animated TV show debuting in 1992. You can join along and watch on Disney+! We get an awesome first televised introduction to Jubilee, Storm,...

Vampires? Teens? History Homework? It must be 2009 babyyyyy! This week is the CW's best performing pilot of all time. It's the Vampire Diaries! The hit show that's not taking advantage of the momentum of Twilight at all. The show is based on the eponymous book series by L.J. Smith and ran for 171 episodes. (That's a lotta blood suckin') The boys cover the banging soundtrack tha...

Cue up ‘Come Fly With Me’ and pour yourself a big ol martini, it’s time for a drama set in the golden age of flight! And just like the golden age of flight it was short lived, messy and taken down by the gears of capitalism. It’s also our first aviation themed show on an aviation themed podcast! Whoa. So this show honestly falls into the category of “should have been great but oh well” Margot Robb...

It's our last week of International Month! We're ending with the immensely popular Spanish thriller, Money Heist! Remember the rules, no names, no injuries, just like how you run a podcast. Jump in for the story of this thrill a minute show and hear how it made the leap across the Atlantic to Netflix. With too many stars to count, too many stories to name, just dive in! Remember subs over...

Look, you’re going to have to level with us here. We didn’t do the original Swedish one, we chose the one with three massive actors in it. Cowardice? Maybe. Is it more popular? Ja, Ja, a million times Ja. Strap on your giggle suit, this show is a barrel of monkeys! If the monkeys set themselves on fire, were sex trafficked by corrupt politicians, and were doing vicious revenge killings all around...

Put your feet up, lean back in your seat and enjoy your in-flight meal because this trip takes us to Botswana! The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a popular book series adapted by the BBC. They took one pass of the book and came to the world with a dream: make the longest pilot in human history. In all seriousness, this show is just straight fun and whimsical with great sincere moments sprinkled...

Want to know something you and I probably have in common? We both watched Squid Game. How do I know? More than HALF of all GLOBAL accounts of Netflix watched it. Do we ever have monoculture like this anymore? Welcome to International Month! Every episode in February will be about show not made in the US, so come along with us for a real no brainer of a pick. We take to South Korea for the brain ch...

This week on TVPL the Pilots discuss the TV show 'You'. Not “you” per se, but maybe all of “us?” Like categorically “you” could be “me?” No, not “you” specifically, “you” in the sense of really anyone, the royal “you?” No, that’s not the right “you.” Actually maybe it’s not “you” like “us” maybe it’s just “you” as the seasonal hyperfixation of “you”. Third base. Anywho, they cover everythi...

Xena?? We xeen the whole damn episode! Apparently the ancient Greeks invented the Spin-Off. The guys tackle this beloved Hercules character that got her very own action thriller series. Lucy Lawless stars as a warrior, hero of the commonfolk, and gay icon! Look, is it Breaking Bad? No. Is it a campy nerdy property with goofy sound effects, you betcha. Come see what's left the guys shaking thei...

What can bring Gen Z TikTok'ers, lawyers-to-be, and fans of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle together? The love of SUITS damnit! The guys pin their pilot wings to their bespoke $10,000 suits and head over to the inexplicably long USA pilot about a top New York City law firm. Tonight is gonna be a movie, because this pilot is as long as one. The show captures the life and career of super lawyer H...

A tribute to Captain Raymond Holt, Mr. Andre Braugher. What more can you say about this show than nearly perfectly written characters and non stop goofy premises? We dive into the FOX darling that should have been NBC darling, Brooklyn 99. We get introduced to almost every member of the full and final cast except for Hitchcock and Sully, so let's get reacquainted with our favorite members of t...

It's the End of Year Spectacular! Thank you all for staying with us as we watched more TV than we did during lockdown. While we objectively LOVED every show we covered this year, unfortunately there were some shows that came out in 2023 that weren't up to snuff! Can you believe it?? BAD television?? Well it's true, and the guys watched three shows that sadly will not see the bright lig...