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Pilot TV

#176 The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey, The Witchfinder, and Our House. With guest Martin Compston

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Martin Compston joins us on this week's show, fielding Boyd's questions about his new ITV thriller Our House, bemoaning the state of modern football, and giving an update as to what might be next in store for Line Of Duty. Plus we're on the hunt for Satan's concubines in BBC2 comedy The Witchfinder, and trying to solve a mystery with Samuel L. Jackson in The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey on Apple. All that and the team talk through the things they most would (or wouldn't) want to see adapted, some of their other TV podcast picks and Boyd outlines the plot for the twelve-part miniseries of James' life.

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0:00.0

On the Pilot TV podcast this week, we are aging gracefully alongside Samuel L. Jackson

0:12.5

with the last days of Tollamy Grey on Apple, hunting down heretics with Tim Key in the

0:17.2

witchfinder on BBC 2, and exploring the perils of moving house for the second week running,

0:23.2

along with Tuppent's Middleton and Martin Compton in ITV's R House.

0:28.6

Martin himself joins us on the show a little bit later to tell us more.

0:33.7

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast, a show that is sad to report that as of last week.

0:40.9

Neighbors is no more. Having been unable to find a broadcast partner to replace Channel 5,

0:46.6

the official Twitter account stated that after 37 years and almost 9,000 episodes,

0:53.9

Ramsey Streets is going to be bulldozed. Sometime this summer, how are we feeling guys?

0:58.7

End of an eerie, isn't it? I mean, like I said, it doesn't quite hit us as much as it does with

1:04.0

you, James, weirdly. But yeah, it is a real shame. End of an institution.

1:12.4

I feel embarrassed. Yeah, well, I feel embarrassed because when we discuss it on this very podcast,

1:17.8

I have of course blively said, oh no, it'll be fine. Someone will save it. Someone will also show it.

1:22.8

I can't imagine the ending, but no, it's fucking gone. It's absolutely 100% over. It's really,

1:28.8

it's a difficult quote, poignant about it. Yeah, let's someone actually message in to say, like,

1:33.8

who would we like to see come back for the final episode? I'm saying Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe

1:39.2

would 100% come back for the final episode of Neighbors. Was Natalie and Broodley a Neighbors or

1:44.2

was she home in a way? She was Neighbors. She was Neighbors. How does Margot Robbie? Yeah, Margot can

1:48.8

pop in. It's got to be Kylie and thingy, isn't it? It does, that's being Kylie. Yeah,

1:56.4

Kylie and Jason has to do it. Kylie especially for Kylie and Jason. Yeah. That was a good joke,

2:00.2

that you missed it. No, we heard it. Oh, okay, fine. I had that single. Don't you knock to it. I had

2:07.6

to be on it on vinyl. Oh, I love it. That's very sweet. Oh, yeah, do you like Chandler in the chair,

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