On the pilot TV podcast this week it's Christmas or Christmas as we get before bunking off for the festive season. And much like Santa, we are here breaking into your house with a sackful of festive goodies.

And each of your three presents has a distinctly BBC shape to it this year

as we head back to the school gates for a festive episode of Motherland. Join Jemma

Otten and her Himalayan nuns in an adaptation of the novel Black Narcissus

and take a look at the life of hippie murdering serial killer Charles Sobrage in the Serpent.

Plus, Derry Girl Nicola Cocklan stopped by to talk about the new Shondaland Bodice Ripper

Bridgerton. I'm James Dyer and welcome to this final pilot TV podcast of 2020, a year that will live on in infamy as a global shit show of unparalleled

proportions but at least we got to watch some decent telly. So as we head into the festive period

and families across the country prepare to welcoming Christmas

with individual super-spredder events,

let's assemble team pilot one more time. So joining me in the virtual studio as ever are my two co-hosts. Pilots,

very own Mrs. Clause, Terry White and a man who may not be the real father

Christmas but he's almost certainly friends with him Mr Boyd Hilton. How are you

both? Very well. That was quite a labored introduction wasn't it?

Lavered! Wow! labored introduction wasn't it? Lovered?

Wow, I'll have you know it flowed, it flowed naturally and spontaneously.

It was a...

We are here with our giant sack of TV goodies.

I thought you when you were doing the COVID thing about the global disaster.

I thought you were going to make a Mrs Brown's boy's joke but you didn't

I would what would that be you know you could have done a whole elaborate joke about how the

biggest trauma that we all faced was Mrs Brown's boy that's mritts

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