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Pilot TV

#109 - The Undoing, Truth Seekers, and The Sister. Featuring Russell Tovey.

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Russell Tovey makes his triumphant return to the podcast this week, taking about Neil Cross' new show, The Sister on ITV. Plus we find out if Nick Frost is afraid of ghosts in Amazon's Truth Seekers and get an eyeful of Sky's The Undoing, which features Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman and a surprising amount of full frontal nudity. Plus Terri updates us on her West Wing progress and the team has an alternate universe conversation about TV castings that could have been.

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0:00.0

On the pilot TV podcast this week we are not talking about the Mandalorian, which airs on Friday as Disney hasn't allowed

0:16.0

us to see it yet.

0:17.0

Sadly, that is the way.

0:19.0

However, fear not because while we might not have a Mandalorian on this week's

0:23.2

a Russell Tovey who dropped by to talk about I-TVs the sister which we did get to see and

0:29.1

that's not all. We also got see Nick Frost busting ghosts in Amazon's truth seekers and find out what Hugh Grant

0:35.4

and Nicole Kidman have been doing in skies the undoing, which, among other things, features a surprising

0:41.3

amount of full frontal nudity so there's that to

0:43.9

look forward to as well. I'm James Dyer and welcome to the pilot TV

0:48.8

podcast a show I would like to point out that currently has one of my co-host watching the West Wing all the way

0:54.9

through and another enjoying a rewatch of Battle Star Galactica. It's taken 109 episodes to achieve it, but I think I have finally

1:01.7

managed to reshape both of them in my own

1:05.2

image. And so as she plows on through season one of Aaron Sorkin's masterpiece asking

1:10.3

the question that dogs all who first swim in those hallowed waters why is

1:15.0

Mandy it's Terry White how are you?

1:18.0

Hello James I'm good how are you? I'm good how is it going?

1:21.0

Oh let's go we should wait we'll get on to that we'll get on to that. We will get on to that. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let us instead, welcome to us also Boyd, who is with us in body, if not in spirit, a very very sleepy Boyd Hilton who stayed up all night to watch the last

1:36.4

presidential election how did that compare to the West Wing?

1:40.3

No way not quite as good as the West Wing. It was badly scripted, unconvincing

1:46.4

cliche. The acting was terrible.

1:48.4

The acting was absolutely terrible.

1:50.8

Yeah, I don't know why I put myself through it really, yeah.

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