On The Pilot TV Podcast this week, we are defecting, or are we? Along with Guy Pears

and Damien Lewis in espionage drama A Spy Among Friends, on the newly launched ITVX and

Guy defects to this very podcast later on to discuss just that. Plus, we're going a

little bit country, that's country with an R. With Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon

in Georgian Tammy on Paramount Plus and getting down with our inner gen Zeta in tell me everything

also on ITVX Plus. It's time for celebration, as the BBC drop the new series of strike called

trouble blood and not only does that mean we get to hang out with Cormoran and Robin

before Christmas, but I called both of them up for a little chat as well.

I'm James Dyer and welcome to The Pilot TV Podcast, a show that has now officially put

up its Christmas tree for stewed it with burbles and begun the traditional festive countdown

to that most traditional of Christmas traditions, the arrival of blood origin, the new Witcher

prequel series which lands on Christmas day. Yes, it is Christmas month people, it is the

time of miracles, so be of good cheer and welcome to our first December pod, my two little

Christmas elves, Boyd Hilton and Beth Webb. Hello. Hello. You feel the best bit?

You feel the best bit? Yes, I can make calendar this morning and a little risky for a calendar

as well, obviously, so she's had her, she's had her catnip treat. I love that this is

Christmas few, it's like you give your cat drugs every morning, you have a no-cotic advent

calendar for your cat. It's like if we had little ones with like crack and MDMA in various

little windows and we just don't stop before we went to work. Well, if I didn't give it,

just a little bit of catnip, she would be climbing all over this, mucking up the sound levels,

making it hell for our poor, didn't it? Instead, she's just so stoned and lying on the sofa.

Yeah, she'd like under the Christmas tree, the lights are going off in her eyes, she's

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