On the Pilot TV Podcast this week, we are heading back to Hackney for the return of

Top Boy, which lands on Netflix this time around, taking a trip to the Emerald Isle to

solve a cold case in court with Conleth Hill in holding on ITV and learning how not to

run a business with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway in Weakrash on Apple TV Plus.

I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV Podcast, a show that has publicly derided

season 2 of Picard for its reliance on an old, tried and tested formula, it's penchant

for harking back to the good old days and it's inability to try anything new.

Now, apropos of nothing and not at all related to that, I'm sorry to say that our very

own Beth can't be with us today as she's been struck down with a case of the cove, leaving

Boyd and I to hold down the fort alone. Boyd suggested we review a new ITV series, I

made a scary, elitist comment, he called me a bellend and I said to him, Boyd, if I'm

going to sit here and be called a bellend live on this podcast and god damn it, I want

it done properly, I want it done by a fucking professional, I want it done by someone who

has turned the simple act of insulting me into a fucking art form, so I dropped my microphone,

I climbed to the top floor of the Pilot TV building and I fired up the great big floodlight

on the roof that projects a giant profile of Shane Meadows into the sky. I said to myself,

this is our darkest hour, our time of greatest need and there can only be one person to answer

this call, she is the hero we need and in my case at least 100% the hero we deserve, ladies

and gentlemen, for one night only on her comeback tour, please bow your heads for the one,

the only, the legendary, Terry motherfucking white, hello, you do realise that there will be

some people listening to this, hopefully going, yeah, Terry's back and there will also be

a health and number of people going over, fuck sake, not again, to those people, I apologize,

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