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, 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.

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*.

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Feb 25, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min
#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 also dive in to Sky Italia's The Miracle, which is not only in Italian but officially featured the most unpleasant masturbation scene we've seen in a good long while. All that and James finally hands in his badge and stops banging on about The Shield, but does find time to proselytise about Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom instead. Meanwhile Terri goes to the mat for Father Dowling Mysteries and Boyd bigs up Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Crashing.
Feb 17, 2019 · 1 hr 4 min
#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 different kind of war as a celebrity publicist in Flack, plus Curfew sees Sean Bean do The Fast And The Furious in London... with zombies. All that and we come up with a new regular (involving James and comedies), lay some love upon Band Of Gold and Family Tree, plus resurrect Jack Thorne's supernatural drama The Fades.
Feb 11, 2019 · 1 hr
#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 Wayne Bobbitt for Amazon's documentary series about the famous dismemberment. And if that hasn't done the trick, we also fire up online dating horror story Dirty John, based on the LA Times true crime podcast about a woman who ends up entangled with a dissembling sociopath. Meanwhile, Boyd and Terri fail to fall in love with The Umbrella Academy and James takes a knee in honour of Friday Night Lights.
Feb 4, 2019 · 55 min
#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 Peterson's 1981 film Das Boot, and going Dutch with soapy hospital drama New Amsterdam. But none of that matters because the first three seasons of The Expanse are landing on Amazon Prime, which Boyd and Terri hear about in forensic detail - much to their eternal delight.
Jan 28, 2019 · 1 hr 10 min
#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 space, Camping shows us the great outdoors, Pure fills our heads with sordid sexual fantasies, Mayans M.C. brings the motorbikes and Russian Doll takes us through it all over and over again. We also give a little love to The Unit and Cold Case, Boyd discovers something called Future Man, plus Terri and Boyd wax lyrical about the Fyre Festival documentary, which James still refuses to watch.
Jan 21, 2019 · 1 hr 8 min
#19 - Stephen Dorff, Star Trek: Discovery, Medici and Tin Star
This week we have our very first guest as Stephen Dorff stops by the pod booth to talk about the new season of True Detective. We also delve deep into the violent world of Sky's Tin Star, take a trip to 15th century Florence for Medici The Magnificent and set phasers to *fun* for the new Season of Star Trek: Discovery, which we're delighted to say we've now seen. Listen now to hear how Terri's very first Star Trek experience unfolded (it didn't go the way you might expect).
Jan 14, 2019 · 55 min
#18 - True Detective, The Punisher and The Passage
This week James is sulking as we weren't able to see Star Trek Discovery in time for the podcast. On the plus side, it does give us the opportunity to bust out some Klingon swear words and we *were* able to watch a trio of excellent other shows to make up for it. Namely, the third season of True Detective (all is forgiven), the second season of The Punisher (gone too soon) and the first season of The Passage, based on the book of the same name, which gets Jamesplained in excruciating detail. Plus Terri recommends a show that doesn't involve prison and we pick through the dumpster fire that was the Golden Globes.
Jan 7, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min
#17 - Catastrophe, Brexit, Sex Education and Charmed
No fewer than *four* shows get the review treatment this week - partially making up for the appalling lack of post-Christmas news. Gorge yourselves on Netflix's Sex Education, the triumphant return of Catastrophe and the reboot of Charmed. Oh and we get all political with a look at Brexit: The Uncivil War - because that's a subject you don't hear enough about at the moment. Plus reminiscences about Christmas TV, an appraisal of Bandersnatch and a some love for Rome, Broad City and... er, Wentworth.
Dec 28, 2018 · 1 hr 11 min
Review Of The Year 2018
What kind of year has it been? We find out in the very first Pilot TV Podcast Special. Flicking through the last twelve months, we pick out the very best (and some of the worst) things to have graced our sets this year, pulling out all the memorable moments and going through Pilot's definitive top 10 shows of the year. Frankly, it's worth listening to for Terri's explanation of what a 'chufty badge' is alone.
Dec 24, 2018 · 1 hr 12 min
#16 - Luther, The ABC Murders, You and Doctor Who New Year's Special
There's a statue of Columbo in Budapest (it's true, look it up) so why isn't there one of John Luther in Hackney? Someone needs to sort that out because LOOFAH is back! On the new Pilot Pod we get into the long-awaited fifth series of Neil Cross' gritty crime show, catch up with a very different kind of detective in John Malkovich's Hercule Poirot via The ABC Murders, and track down Netflix's stalker thriller, You. Not to to mention getting a sneak preview of the Doctor Who New Year's Special. It's a Christmas miracle!
Dec 17, 2018 · 40 min
#15 - Watership Down, The Long Song, Agatha And The Truth Of Murder
Dead rabbits are order of the day on this week's Pilot TV podcast, with the Beeb's Watership Down getting the review treatment. Also in the line-up is colonial era Jamaican drama The Long Song and Channel 5's pseudo fictional Agatha & The Truth Of Murder which contains both Agatha (Christie) and murder but little in the way of actual truth. All this and a celebration of Hell On Wheels, Oz and Terri banging on about The Apprentice, which is entirely against Pilot T&Cs.
Dec 10, 2018 · 50 min
#14 - Castle Rock, The Good Place and The Innocent Man
This week we talk Christmas Specials (one of which Boyd is actually in, albeit doing unspeakable things with women's underwear), Golden Globes and Season 2 of American Gods. The team defuses some of the latest TV bombs to drop, including Stephen King chillfest Castle Rock, comedy-gold sitcom The Good Place and choc-full-of-murder doc The Innocent Man. Plus you get to hear what our Viking names would be, hear James Jamesplain The Picard Manoeuvre to Terri and discover why Jamie Dornan is now a massive fan of the podcast (Jamie mate, this one's for you). PS. Apologies for the slightly mixed audio quality on this one - we basically recorded it in a broom cupboard.
Dec 3, 2018 · 51 min
#13 - Fortitude, Performance Live: LOVE and The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
Three new shows: one unspeakably depressing, one unspeakably cold and one unspeakably funny. So all bases covered, then. We also celebrate some vintage titles from Banshee to The Good Wife via a documentary about drug addiction (thanks Terri). All that and we throw in some fun viking nomenclature to boot.
Nov 26, 2018 · 47 min
#12 - Death & Nightingales, Mrs. Wilson and Kidding
This week on the Pilot TV podcast we treat you to a wealth of pick 'n' mix metaphors, Sex And The City dissection and an inexplicable analogy involving eighties Lenny Henry incarnation Delbert Wilkins (Sponditious!). We also take on some Irish period drama with Jamie Dornan in Death & Nightingales (no nightingales were actually harmed), hear all about Ruth Wilson's nan in Mrs. Wilson (yes, really) and catch up with Eternal Sunshine's Michel Gondry and Jim Carrey for Kidding. Plus we read out some of the more colourful comments from our iTunes reviews page and discover why James has the enunciation of a Disney villain.
Nov 19, 2018 · 40 min
#11 - The Last Kingdom, My Brilliant Friend and Blood
It's Vikings a-go-go on the podcast this week, by which we mean The Last Kingdom has returned to our screens, bringing its Norse shenanigans to Netflix for the first time. And if Netflix is getting Scandinavian, HBO is going Italian thanks to its first foreign language drama, My Brilliant Friend. Meanwhile Channel 5 has created an original drama and... it's actually really good. Who'd have thought? All this and the latest discussion of The Mandalorian, Game Of Thrones' arrival date and a brief interlude where we wax lyrical about the genius of David E. Kelley.
Nov 12, 2018 · 48 min
#10 - Origin, Narcos: Mexico and The Kominsky Method
Acting classes, space horror and mountains of cocaine are the subjects of this week's podcast, as we not only pick up the latest shows to hit your screens but also delve into a few suitably burning topics. We get philosophical about *that* episode of The Walking Dead (there are spoiler warnings beforehand, don't panic), embrace Michael Douglas' collaboration with sitcom god Chuck Lorre and discuss our pick of the worst series finales of all time.
Nov 5, 2018 · 57 min
#9 - The Sinner, Beat and Louis Theroux's Altered States
This week's podcast comes with a strongly worded content warning: we have finally that episode of Sally4Ever and discuss its sordid sexual content in quite forensic details. If you'd rather not have the show's debased delights spoiled then we clearly mark that section with a spoiler warning and you can skip the section between 2:30.30 and 11:37.52 for your own sanity. In equally sexy news, we spread the love around for Louis Theroux's new polyamory episode, jump into the second season of The Sinner and head on down to the Berlin clubbing scene for Amazon Prime's Beat.
Oct 29, 2018 · 48 min
#8 - Homecoming, The First, House Of Cards and Ray Donovan
This week's podcast sees a big old fight break out as Terri and Boyd get up in each other's faces with conflicting views and minor fisticuffs over both Sean Penn's Martian drama The First and Julia Roberts' Amazon Prime show Homecoming. We also get into the sixth seasons of both House Of Cards and Ray Donovan, not to mention uncovering the reasons why Terri won't date anyone under 5'10".
Oct 22, 2018 · 55 min
#7 - Sally4Ever, The Little Drummer Girl and Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
This week the Pilot team dive into the awkward, explicit and downright hilarious sex montage that forms the high point of Julia Davis' Sally4Ever, we tap into our inner emo for Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina and get thoroughly Carré'd away with the BBC adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl. Plus we explore Terri's psyche to find out why rape dramas are her happy place, follow Boyd on a trip to the set of Stranger Things Season 3 and discuss the future of Marvel on Netflix after last week's shock cancellations.
Oct 15, 2018 · 42 min
#6 - Informer, Butterfly and Daredevil
This week the gloves come off as Terri and Boyd start throwing punches over ITV's Butterfly, meanwhile Marvel/Netflix manage to pick themselves off the mat after a string of disappointments with the much improved Daredevil Season 3. Not to mention news that Rob Lowe is joining the Lincolnshire constabulary and James demands the immediate return of all your televisions as apparently you're just not using them properly.