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Pilot TV

#198 The Sandman, Five Days At Memorial, and A League of Their Own. With Guests Tom Sturridge and Vivienne Acheampong

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

** BOOK TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE 200th EPISODE ON 21 AUGUST HERE: https://bit.ly/3A4lXWY** The Sandman stars Tom Sturridge and Vivienne Acheampong join us on the show this week to dream a little dream of Netflix's Neil Gaiman adaptation with Helen O'Hara. Plus we take a look at Apple's hurricane Katrina thriller, Five Days At Memorial, and nineties movie spin-off A League Of Their Own on Prime Video. Elsewhere, there's a quick, spoiler-free confab about the state of Better Call Saul and Boyd and James square off for Breedersgate part 2, only this time it's all about the Lord of Dreams.

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0:00.0

On the pilot TV podcast this week, we are battered up with the TV adaptation of a League

0:12.0

of Their Own on Prime Video, weathering the storm inside a hospital with Vera Farmiga

0:16.4

in five days at Memorial on Apple and finally able to tell the difference between our waking

0:22.3

lives and dreams in the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman's hugely influential comic,

0:28.5

the Sandman on Netflix and speaking of which, the Sandman himself Mr. Tom Sturridge and

0:34.0

co-star Vivienne Atchampong join us a little later on the show to dream us a little dream

0:38.7

about that.

0:41.0

I'm James Dyer, the real one this time and welcome to the pilot TV podcast, your weekly guide

0:46.6

to every show that matters and one that is just about recovered from last week's insurgency

0:51.5

during which the rule of law was temporarily suspended in favour of, let's be honest, unfettered

0:57.5

anarchy, with me however, as we straighten the furniture and sweep up the debris and try

1:04.4

and get those suspicious stains out of the carpet are two of the anarchists in question,

1:08.0

specifically Boyd, Breederfile Hilton and Beth The Gilmore Girl Webb.

1:13.1

How are we? Did we have fun without me?

1:15.1

Oh, we had the most fun, we coloured outside the lines, we slapped the tables, we shook

1:21.0

the microphones, we drank about four cans of fizzy pop each into the microphones,

1:25.9

Risky was there, just sort of freestyling at one stage, it was glorious, it was glorious.

1:31.3

I don't remember any of this but yeah, that's what happened.

1:35.1

I was, you know, I listened to it, you know, I must admit, the sound quality was maybe,

1:39.7

no, what I would put up with myself, but fine, you know, could you tell?

1:43.9

Could you tell that there was like a two or three second delay?

1:46.2

Could tell that was a delay actually, that you did sound like you were talking through

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