Pilot TV Podcast
By Empire Magazine
From the creators of The Empire Film Podcast, The Pilot TV Podcast is your (spoiler free) guide to the essential new shows dropping each week across terrestrial, satellite, streaming and beyond. Bringing you the latest news and reviews, as well as interviews with the biggest names in TV, we're here to cut through the rubbish and 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, the Pilot TV Podcast 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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#254 Sex Education, Juice, and Still Up
We bid a fond farewell to Laurie Nunn's Sex Education on Netflix this week as Otis, Maeve, Eric and the gang depart Moordale for good. But as some things go, others arrive and Nabhaan and Mawaan Rizwan's Juice launches on the BBC, and insomniac... -
#253 Wilderness, Domina, and Welcome To Wrexham. With Guest Emma Appleton
Emma Appleton joins us on this week's show to talk all about Paramount+'s The Killing Kind, and James gets a potted football primer from Boydy as we dive into the second season of Welcome To Wrexham (though the revelation that it's fine to be... -
#252 The Changeling, The Lovers, and Love & Death. With Rosamund Pike and Johnny Flynn
Rosamund Pike joins us this week (well, several weeks ago in reality, as the interview took place before the strike - but you get the point) to talk The Wheel Of Time Season 2, and Johnny Flynn jumps aboard to discuss The Lover. Meanwhile, Love... -
#251 The Tower, Starstruck, and The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies. With guests Ruth Wilson and Jonathan Tropper
Ruth Wilson is our guest this week, chatting to Boyd about The Woman In The Wall. Plus James gets to geek out to spectacular effect when he talks to Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper, who not only created the show Banshee but does a little 'Banshee… -
#250 (LIVE) The Woman In The Wall, Invasion, and Who Is Erin Carter? With guests Ricky Gervais, Tom Davis, and Mawaan & Nabhaan Rizwan.
For our 250th episode we had a big old party at Kings Place in London, joined by special guests Ricky Gervais, Big Tom Davis and Mawaan and Nabhaan Rizwan, not to mention about 400 of you, our brilliant listeners. The Great Pilot TV Bake-Off saw Boyd… -
#249 Henpocalypse, Sanditon, and... Running Wild With Bear Grylls. With Guest Krish Majumdar
Award-winning TV producer and until recently Chair of BAFTA, Krish Majumdar joins us to look back on his eventful reign at the British Academy, and working with the likes of Kate Winslet and Elliot Page. It’s also our last pod before the live 250th..… -
#248 Only Murders In The Building, Anneke, and Cruel Summer. With Guest Tiffany Haddish
We're celebrating the after-Afterparty this week as Tiffany Haddish joins us (in a pre-strike interview) to chat all things murder as we reach the tail end of Season 2 (don't watch it until you've seen this week's episode, if not, you can skip past i… -
#247 Heartstopper, Wolf, and Vanishing Act. With guest Michael Sheen
The great Michael Sheen joins us on this week's show (recorded prior to the actors’ strike) to discuss Jon Hamm’s bum, forming a double act with David Tennant and the new season of epic fantasy Good Omens. The other big news of the week is that James… -
#246 Ghosts Of Beirut, Dreaming Whilst Black, and The Power Of Parker. With guest Zoe Saldaña
Zoe Saldaña joins us on this week's show (fear not, the interview was recorded prior to the strike) to discuss Taylor Sheridan, assigning animals to all her characters, and Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+. Meanwhile, you all have to sit through an… -
Previewing The Bear S2: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
HANDS! CORNER! BEHIND! Those three words can mean only one thing: one of our favourite shows, The Bear, is back for its second season, and that's an occasion so momentous that the Empire Podcast and Pilot TV Podcast teams have once again joined force…
