Pilot TV

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 yo...

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.

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 Germa...

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...

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 th...

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.

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...

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...

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 ab...

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 for this week's episode, joining regular incumbents Terri White and Boyd Hilton for an episode that tackles Orlando Bloom-Cara Delevingne fantasy show, Carnival Row; the Ruth Wilson and Joshua Jackson-free fifth season of The Affair; and the r...

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 also delve into the world of Jane Austen with Sanditon and entirely fail to watch the third season of 13 Reasons Why as Netflix didn't show it to us in time. None of that matters, though, as the BBC came through and let us catch up with Tommy...

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 Boyd to chew over everything from Netflix's cancellation of The OA to the twisted genius of The Boys and why This Life was one of the most important shows ever made. Roisin schools James soundly on the essence of comedy during a particularly...

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 eyes upon Aisling Bea's new comedy This Way Up, and get in the ring with the final season of GLOW. Plus, we finally come face-to-face with HBO's Euphoria and its vast collection of erect penises. Enjoy!

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 the pond. Specifically, True crime adaptation I Am The Night, plane-orientated supernatural mystery series Manifest and Emmy-nominated danceathon Fosse/Verdon. Plus we finally get a chance to dissect the Comic-Con reveals (don't panic, James m...

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 Boys and bid adieu to Orange Is The New Black. And yes, Terri finally watched Downton Abbey. The results may well surprise you... Note: This episode was recorded before San Diego Comic-Con, which is why you'll notice a conspicuous lack of re...

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 famousness Boyd had tea with and, lest we forget, what the team thought of this week's trio of (spoiler: very good) shows, specifically: Deadly Class, Better Things and GameFace.

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 marital strife from HBO's Divorce and a look at the more sinister side of Hollywood in the BBC's Dark Money. Plus we have another Banshee face-off and Terri - against her better judgement - makes a binding commitment to watch Downton Abbey.

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, Eleven and the gang in the summer of '85, we also take a look at the third and final season of Noah Hawley's Legion and the long-delayed UK airing of Michael Shannon/Taylor Kitsch miniseries, Waco. All that and someone gets *very* excited a...

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 carrier bags of 'classic' box sets and talks through the contents in excruciating detail. In other Banshee news, the creator of said show, Jonathan Tropper, has a new series out this week in the form of period kung fu action drama Warrior, whic...

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 newbie James could make neither head nor tail of). We also manage to dissect the comedy credentials of Modern Family, play out yet another Banshee segment for your entertainment, and hear all about Terri's past as one of the lesser-known members...

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 is finally announced. More pertinently, though, we lay on some truth about Big Little Lies Season 2, get thoroughly disturbed by The Act and listen to an extended Terri rant about ITV's Wild Bill. Plus a bonus literature lesson as James tries...

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 of The Handmaid's Tale, the long-delayed second season of Killing Eve, and the even more belated continuation of Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City. All that and flying chcolate, James failing to grasp the genius of Rick And Morty, and a f...

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 in Sky's Black Monday. Some shout-outs for Marcella and Red Riding, as well as a show we can't remember the name of. Plus you'll hear what it means to watch a show 'on tick' and learn far more about Terri's lunch order than you ever really ne...

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 of the show's finale (if you haven't seen it then for the love of R'hllor avoid everything between 1:19:11 and 2:07:05). In addition to our final Thronesplaining we welcome Jared Harris to the podcast for some Chernobyl chat (30:48 to 50:43)...

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 and chuckle through Jemaine Clement's What We Do In The Shadows. *Plus* Russell T. Davies himself pops by with some friends for a chat (16:50 to 35:22). *And* the Thronesplaining reaches fever pitch as we bathe in the flames of the show's pen...